Category： Short Stories Author：novel
THE subject of this Essay is not the so-called Liberty of the Will, so unfortunately opposed to the misnamed doctrine of Philosophical Necessity; but Civil, or Social Liberty: the nature and limits of the power which can be legitimately exercised by society over the individual.
Category： Short Stories Author：novel
It’s twenty years ago now since we settled on the Creek. Twenty years! I remember well the day we came from Stanthorpe, on Jerome’s dray — eight of us, and all the things — beds, tubs, a bucket, the two cedar chairs with the pine bottoms and backs that Dad put in them, some pint-pots and old Crib. It was a scorching hot day, too — talk...
Category： Short Stories Author：novel
The necessary beginning to our inquiry is a statement of the difficulties about these points. For it is not clear whether in animals and plants universally it is a single or diverse cause that makes some to be long-lived, others short-lived. Plants too have in some cases a long life, while in others it lasts but for a year.
Category： Short Stories Author：novel
WE have now to consider the parts which are useful to animals for movement in place (locomotion); first, why each part is such as it is and to what end they possess them; and second, the differences between these parts both in one and the same creature, and again by comparison of the parts of creatures of different species with one ano...
Category： Short Stories Author：Rudyard Kipling
There was a strife ‘twixt man and maid — Oh that was at the birth o’ time! But what befell ‘twixt man and maid, Oh that’s beyond the grip o’ rhyme. ’Twas: ‘Sweet, I must not bide wi’ you,’ And: ‘Love, I canna bide alone’; For baith were young, and baith were true, And baith were hard as the nether stone.
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