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 I didn't mean to be unjust. I am glad you didn't invite him. It will be better for me to do it, so I can overcome any scruples he might have. He is quite shy, you know. Oh, quite, I assure you. Artistic temperament, you understand: so spiritual” “Yes,” agreed Mr. Talliaferro, covertly watching the niece who had ceased her spinning and got her seemingly boneless body into an undimensional angular flatness pure as an Egyptian carving.

“So I shall attend to it myself. I shall call him to-night: we sail at noon to-morrow, you know. That will allow him sufficient time, don't you think? He's one of these artists who never have much, lucky people.” Mrs. Maurier looked at her watch. “Heavens above! seven thirty. We must fly. Come, darling. Can't we drop you somewhere, Mr. Talliaferro?”’

“Thank you, no. I must take Gordon’s milk to him, and then I am engaged for the evening.”

“Ah, Mr. Talliaferro! It's a woman, I know.” She rolled her eyes roguishly. “What a terrible man you are.” She lowered her voice and tapped him on the sleeve. “Do be careful what you say before this child. My instincts are all bohemian, but she unsophisticated” Her voice her eyes bathed him warmly and Mr. Talliaferro bridled: had he had a mustache he would have stroked it. Mrs. Maurier jangled and glittered again: her expression became one of pure delight. “But, of course! We will drive you to Mr. Gordon's and then I can run in and invite him for the party. The very thing! How fortunate to have thought of it. Come, darling.”

Without stooping the niece angled her leg upward and outward from the knee, scratching her ankle. Mr. Talliaferro recalled the milk bottle and assented gratefully, falling in on the curbside with meticulous thoughtfulness. A short distance

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 == I. THE CREATION OF THE WORLD (pp. 3–46)==

$undefined$ Tehillim 90, 391.For further details relating to the pre-existent things, see Excursus I.  $undefined$ The Torah is conceived as having emanated from God’s wisdom.Comp. Excursus I.  $undefined$ PRE 3.As to God’s taking counsel with the angels and the Torah, comp. also vol. I, pp. 51 and 55.Similarly both Talmudim and the Midrashim frequently speak of God’s court of justice, consisting of the angels as members.Comp. Yerushalmi Berakot 9, 14b; Sanhedrin 1, 18a, and Babli 38b; WR 24.2; BaR 3.4; BR 51.2; ShR 6.1 and 12.4; Shir 1.9; PR 42, 175b; Tan. Wa-Era 16; Tan. B. I, 96, 106; II, 36, 51; Tehillim 119, 497; Yerushalmi Rosh ha-Shanah 2, 58b; ShR 30.18.Tertullian, Adversus Praxean, 16, clearly points to the fact that the legend that the angels were consulted by God with regard to the creation is due to an anti-Christian tendency.Its purpose is to exclude the possibility of assuming that the Trinity is implied wherever the Bible employs the plural in connection with the deity.Comp. notes 10 and 12 on vol. I, pp. 51–53.  $undefined$ Raziel 20b and Sode Raza in Yalkut Reubeni on Gen. 1.3, excerpted from an unknown but late midrashic source, since it is a further development of the Haggadot cited in notes 1 and 3 from Tehillim and PRE; comp. Luria on PRE 3, note 25, and vol. I, pp. 51–52.  $undefined$ BR 3.7 and 9.2; Koheleth 3.11; Tehillim 34, 245.This is a faint reflection of the view that God formed the world out of eternal chaos, since the legend could not question the doctrine of creatio ex nihilo.Comp. Excursus I.The legend about the nine hundred and seventy-four generations which existed prior to the creation of the world (or cautiously expressed, the generations that God had intended to create), originally presupposed a pre-existent chaos; comp. BR. 28.4; Koheleth 1.15 and 4.3; Shir 4.4; Tehillim 90, 392, and 105, 459; Hagigah 13b; ARN 31, 91; Tan. Lek 11 and Yitro 9; ER


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 up the street Mrs. Maurier's car squatted expensively. The negro driver descended and opened the door and Mr. Talliaferro sank into gracious upholstery, nursing his milk bottle, smelling flowers cut and delicately vased, promising himself a car next year.

They rolled smoothly, passing between spaced lights and around narrow corners, while Mrs. Maurier talked steadily of hers and Mr. Talliaferro's and Gordon's souls. The niece sat quietly. Mr. Talliaferro was conscious of the clean young odor of her, like that of young trees; and when they passed beneath lights he could see her slim shape and the impersonal revelation of her legs and her bare sexless knees. Mr. Talliaferro luxuriated, clutching his bottle of milk, wishing the ride need not end. But the car drew up to the curb again, and he must get out, no matter with what reluctance.

“I'll run up and bring him down to you,” he suggested with premonitory tact.

“No, no: let's all go up,” Mrs. Maurier objected. “I want Patricia to see how genius looks at home.”

“Gee, Aunty, I've seen these dives before,” the niece said. “They're everywhere. I'll wait for you.” She jackknifed her body effortlessly, scratching her ankles with her brown hands.

“It’s so interesting to see how they live, darling. You'll simply love it.” Mr. Talliaferro demurred again, but Mrs. Maurier overrode him with sheer words. So against his better judgment he struck matches for them, leading the way up the dark tortuous stairs while their three shadows aped them, rising and falling monstrously upon the ancient wall. Long before they reached the final stage Mrs. Maurier was puffing

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 this Chapter, [the National Judicial Appointments Commission on a reference made to it by the Chief Justice of a High Court for any State, may with the previous consent of the President], request any person who has held the office of a Judge of that Court or of any other High Court to sit and act as a Judge of the High Court for that State, and every such person so requested shall, while so sitting and acting, be entitled to such allowances as the President may by order determine and have all the jurisdiction, powers and privileges of, but shall not otherwise be deemed to be, a Judge of that High Court:

 * Provided that nothing in this article shall be deemed to require any such person as aforesaid to sit and act as a Judge of that High Court unless he consents so to do.]

225. Jurisdiction of existing High Courts.—Subject to the provisions of this Constitution and to the provisions of any law of the appropriate Legislature made by virtue of powers conferred on that Legislature by this Constitution, the jurisdiction of, and the law administered in, any existing High Court, and the respective powers of the Judges thereof in relation to the administration of justice in the Court, including any power to make rules of Court and to regulate the sittings of the Court and of members thereof sitting alone or in Division Courts, shall be the same as immediately before the commencement of this Constitution:

[Provided that any restriction to which the exercise of original jurisdiction by any of the High Courts with respect to any matter concerning the revenue or concerning any act ordered or done in the collection thereof was subject immediately before the commencement of this Constitution shall no longer apply to the exercise of such jurisdiction.]

[226. Power of High Courts to issue certain writs.—(1) Notwithstanding anything in article 32 ***, every High Court shall have power, throughout the territories in relation to which it exercises jurisdiction, to issue to any person or authority, including in appropriate cases, any Government, within those territories directions, orders or [writs, including writs in the nature of habeas corpus, mandamus, prohibition, quo warranto and certiorari, or any of them, for the enforcement of any of the rights conferred by Part III and for any other purpose.]

 * (2) The power conferred by clause (1) to issue directions, orders or writs to any Government, authority or person may also be exercised by any High Court exercising jurisdiction in relation to the territories within which the cause of action, wholly or in part, arises for the exercise of such power, notwithstanding that the seat of such Government or authority or the residence of such person is not within those territories.

 * [(3) Where any party against whom an interim order, whether by way of injunction or stay or in any other manner, is made on, or in any proceedings relating to, a petition under clause (1), without—
 * (a) furnishing to such party copies of such petition and all documents in support of the plea for such interim order; and
 * (b) giving such party an opportunity of being heard,
 * makes an application to the High Court for the vacation of such order and furnishes a copy of such application to the party in whose favour such order has been made or the counsel of such party, the High Court shall


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 :dispose of the application within a period of two weeks from the date on which it is received or from the date on which the copy of such application is so furnished, whichever is later, or where the High Court is closed on the last day of that period, before the expiry of the next day afterwards on which the High Court is open; and if the application is not so disposed of, the interim order shall, on the expiry of that period, or, as the case may be, the expiry of the said next day, stand vacated.]

 * [(4)] The power conferred on a High Court by this article shall not be in derogation of the power conferred on the Supreme Court by clause (2) of article 32.]

[226A. Constitutional validity of Central laws not to be considered in proceedings under article 226.]

227. Power of superintendence over all courts by the High Court.— [(1) Every High Court shall have superintendence over all courts and tribunals throughout the territories in relation to which it exercises jurisdiction.]

 * (2) Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing provision, the High Court may—
 * (a) call for returns from such courts;
 * (b) make and issue general rules and prescribe forms for regulating the practice and proceedings of such courts; and
 * (c) prescribe forms in which books, entries and accounts shall be kept by the officers of any such courts.

 * (3) The High Court may also settle tables of fees to be allowed to the sheriff and all clerks and officers of such courts and to attorneys, advocates and pleaders practising therein:
 * Provided that any rules made, forms prescribed or tables settled under clause (2) or clause (3) shall not be inconsistent with the provision of any law for the time being in force, and shall require the previous approval of the Governor.

 * (4) Nothing in this article shall be deemed to confer on a High Court powers of superintendence over any court or tribunal constituted by or under any law relating to the Armed Forces.

 * (5)*****

228. Transfer of certain cases to High Court.—If the High Court is satisfied that a case pending in a court subordinate to it involves a substantial question of law as to the interpretation of this Constitution the determination of which is necessary for the disposal of the case, [it shall withdraw the case and *** may—]
 * (a) either dispose of the case itself, or
 * (b) determine the said question of law and return the case to the court from which the case has been so withdrawn together with a copy of its judgment on such question, and the said court shall on receipt thereof proceed to dispose of the case in conformity with such judgment.


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106 perfect article of all—Virtue personified. Who wants to be the only man who knows everything?

Cust. What do you mean?

Merc. I mean that here you have the only wise man, the only handsome man, the only righteous man, the true and only king, general, orator, legislator, and everything else there is.

Cust. The true and only cook then, I conclude, and cobbler, and carpenter, and so forth?

Merc. I conclude so too.

Cust. Come then, my good fellow—if I'm to purchase you, tell me all about yourself; and first let me ask, with all these wonderful qualifications, are you not mortified at being put up for sale here as a slave?

Chrysippus. Not at all: such things are external to ourselves, and whatever is external to ourselves, it follows must he matters of indifference to us.

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Rh ment. His great accomplishment lies, as he himself professes, in the skilful handling of sophisms—"word-nets," as he calls them—in which he entangles his opponents, stops their mouths, and reduces them to silence. He gives an example of his art, which is a curious specimen of the kind of folly to which the wisdom of the ancients occasionally condescended. A crocodile is supposed to have seized a boy in crossing a river, and promises to restore him to his father if this latter can guess correctly what he intends to do with him. If he guesses that the crocodile means to give him back, he has guessed wrong, because the crocodile's real intention is to eat him. If he guesses that the crocodile means to eat him, why then, if the crocodile gives him back after all, the guess would plainly be proved wrong by the result; so that there seems no chance for the father, guess which he will. The philosopher assures his listener that this is but one out of many choice examples of the sophistical art with which he is prepared to furnish him; and when the other retorts upon him somewhat in his own style, the Stoic threatens to knock him down with an "indemonstrable syllogism," the effect of which, he warns him, will be to plunge him into "eternal doubt, everlasting silence, and distraction of mind." In the end, however, he is purchased by his interrogator for "self and company." The next who is put up for sale is "the Peripatetic," by wham Aristotle is clearly intended. With him the satirist deals briefly and lightly, as though he had some tenderness for that particular school. "You will


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108 find him," says the auctioneer, "moderate, upright, consistent in his life—and what makes him yet more valuable is that in him you are really buying two men." "How do you make that out?" asks the customer. "Because," explains Mercury, "he appears to be one person outside and another inside; and remember, if you buy him, you must call one esoteric and the other 'exoteric. With such recommendations, the Peripatetic finds a ready purchaser for the large sum of twenty minæ. Last comes the Sceptic, Pyrrho, who figures, by a slight change of name, as Pyrrhia, a common appellation for a barbarian slave. The intending purchaser asks him a few questions.]

Cust. Tell me, now, what do you know?

Pyrrhia. Nothing.

Cust. What do you mean?

Pyrrh. That nothing seems to me certain.

Cust. Are we ourselves nothing?

Pyrrh. Well, that is what I am not sure of.

Cust. Don't you know whether you are anything yourself?

Pyrrh. That is what I am still more in doubt about.

Cust. What a creature of doubts it is! And what are those scales for, pray?

Pyrrh. I weigh arguments in them, and balance them one against another; and then, when I find them precisely equal and of the same weight, why, I find it impossible to tell which of them is true.

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Rh Pyrrh. Anything, except catch a runaway slave.

Cust. And why can't you do that?

Pyrrh. Because, you see, I've no faculty of apprehension.

Cust. So I should think—you seem to me quite slow and stupid. And now, what do you consider the main end of knowledge?

Pyrrh. Ignorance—to hear nothing and see nothing.

Cust. You confess yourself blind and deaf then?

Pyrrh. Yea, and void of sense and perception, and in no wise differing from a worm.

Cust. I must buy you. (To Mercury.) What shall we say for him?

Merc. An Attic mina.

Cust. Here 'tis, Now, fellow, have I bought you or not—tell me?

Pyrrh. Well, it's a doubtful question.

Cust. Not at all—at least I've paid for you.

Pyrrh. I reserve my opinion on that point; it requires consideration.

Cust. Follow me, at all events—that's a servant's duty.

Pyrrh. Are you sure you're stating a fact?

Cust. (impatiently). There's the auctioneer, and there's the money, and there are the bystanders to witness.

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110 Cust. I'll have you off to the grinding-house, sir, and make you feel I'm your master by very tangible proofs.

Pyrrh. Stay—I should like to argue that point a little.

[The doubting philosopher is hurried off, still unconvinced, by Mercury and his new owner, and the sale is adjourned to the next day, when Mercury promises the public that he shall have some cheaper bargains to offer. The whole scene reads like a passage from the old Arislophanic comedy; and though some of the allusions must necessarily lose much of their pungency from our comparative ignorance of the popular philosophy of Lucian's day, the humour of it is still sufficiently entertaining.]

The professors of the various Schools of Philosophy may well be supposed to have been loud in their indignation at this caricature, and in their denunciation of the author. Or at least it suited Lucian's purpose to assume that they were so, and to make the wrath of the solemn fraternity, real or imagined, the subject of a Dialogue which follows by way of sequel to the first. Possibly, also, he desired to guard against any misconception of his purpose in the satire, and to make it clear that it was not against true philosophy or sound science that he directed his wit, but against shallow and conceited pretenders. This second Dialogue—"The Resuscitated Professors"—presents the author flying for his life, pursued by a body of irate philosophers of all sects,


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WHEREAS, New Jersey is among the most racially diverse states in the nation, as the 2020 Census demonstrated that over 48% of New Jersey’s nearly 9.3 million residents are people of color; and

WHEREAS, New Jersey is estimated to have approximately 1.2 million residents who identify as Black or African American, and approximately 2 million residents who identify as Hispanic or Latino; and

WHEREAS, our diversity is one of New Jersey’s greatest strengths, but there remain substantial disparities in the State that put Black and Hispanic or Latino families at a significant disadvantage in building and maintaining wealth across generations; and

WHEREAS, in order to rectify these disparities, we must grapple with our own history, including that New Jersey was the last northern state to eliminate slavery, and that the State Legislature initially voted against ratification of the 13th Amendment in 1865; and

WHEREAS, as we now seek to reaffirm our commitment to equality and justice, we recognize that there is a legacy of lingering and continuing impact from policies and practices that created and perpetuated systemic inequities; and

WHEREAS, significant wealth gaps exist in New Jersey, as the median net worth for white families in New Jersey is $352,000, while for Black families in the State that number is $6,100, and for Latino families the number is $7,300; and

WHEREAS, these severe wealth disparities predominantly harm Black and Hispanic or Latino families, limit their access to fundamental and essential resources, severely limit socioeconomic upward mobility, and separate our communities; and


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 WHEREAS, there are significant disparities in race and ethnicity with respect to households that are unbanked or underbanked, and a lack of access to or use of banking services stands in the way of building wealth; and

WHEREAS, good credit is critical to building wealth, but statistics around credit scores and debt starkly reflect and perpetuate wealth disparities in the State, as a study of Newark by the Urban Institute found that while the median credit score in white areas was 615, the median credit score in areas that were predominantly nonwhite was 567, and, as of 2018, the share of people in communities of color in New Jersey with debt in collections was 37%, while the share of people in majority-white communities with debt in collections was 18%; and

WHEREAS, homeownership both reflects and contributes to a household’s wealth, but homeownership rates further reflect deeprooted disparities based on race and ethnicity in New Jersey and are the product of policies like redlining and restrictive covenants, as nearly 77% of white families in the State own their homes, while the same can be said for only 41% of Black families and 37% of Latino families; and

WHEREAS, entrenched disparities in the criminal justice system substantially limit the abilities of Black and Hispanic or Latino families and individuals to achieve financial success and build wealth, and as of 2016, Black people were incarcerated in New Jersey State prisons at a rate 12 times higher than white people, and Hispanic people were incarcerated at twice the rate of white people; and

WHEREAS, the possibility of racial and ethnic disparities, among other challenges, in New Jersey K-12 educational achievement and in obtaining college degrees potentially limit the ability to achieve future financial success; and


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1910] So sunlight and shadow have chased each other across our scene. To-night there is little or no swell—the ship is on an even keel, steady, save for the occasional shocks on striking ice.

It is difficult to express the sense of relief this steadiness gives after our storm-tossed passage. One can only imagine the relief and comfort afforded to the ponies, but the dogs are visibly cheered and the human element is full of gaiety. The voyage seems full of promise in spite of the imminence of delay.

If the pack becomes thick I shall certainly put the fires out and wait for it to open. I do not think it ought to remain close for long in this meridian. To-night we must be beyond the 66th parallel.

Saturday, December 10.—Dead Reckoning 66° 38′. Long. 178° 47′. Made good S. 17 W. 94. C. Crozier 688′. Stayed on deck till midnight. The sun just dipped below the southern horizon. The scene was incomparable. The northern sky was gloriously rosy and reflected in the calm sea between the ice, which varied from burnished copper to salmon pink; bergs and pack to the north had a pale greenish hue with deep purple shadows, the sky shaded to saffron and pale green. We gazed long at these beautiful effects. The ship made through leads during the night; morning found us pretty well at the end of the open water. We stopped to water ship from a nice hummocky floe. We made about 8 tons of water. Rennick took a sounding, 1960 fathoms; the tube brought up two small lumps of volcanic lava with the usual globigerina ooze.


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 WHEREAS, wealth is inextricably intertwined with health and access to health care, but the percentage of white New Jerseyans with health insurance outpaces the percentage of Black and Hispanic New Jerseyans with health insurance, and the lack of health insurance contributes directly to an increased likelihood of incurring medical debt and insurmountable expenses related to health care, creating another barrier to building wealth; and

WHEREAS, the Coronavirus disease 2019 (“COVID-19”) pandemic exposed and exacerbated both the wealth and health gaps based on race and ethnicity, and for that reason earlier this year I signed Assembly Bill No. 4004 (Fifth Reprint), creating the COVID-19 Pandemic Task Force on Racial and Health Disparities, which will, among other things, study how and why the COVID-19 pandemic “has disproportionately affected the State’s minority and vulnerable communities, and the short-term and long-term consequences of the pandemic on these communities,” as well as make recommendations for reducing and eliminating disparities “among the various racial and ethnic populations within the State’s minority and vulnerable communities with respect to health status, access to high-quality health care, and utilization of health care services”; and

WHEREAS, despite the State’s complex history and the many causes of wealth gaps in New Jersey, there have always been activists, advocates, community leaders, faith leaders, scholars, students, and professionals, as well as elected officials at the State and local level, who have worked tirelessly to lay bare and counteract all of the contributors to the wealth gaps that have been in place for far too long; and

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272 Other details as to the carbide consumed in making acetylene gas may be briefly quoted. The first tin was opened on February 1, the second on March 26. The seventh on May 20, the next eight at the average interval of 9½ days.]

Sunday, May 14.—Grey and dull in the morning.

Exercised the ponies and held the usual service. This morning I gave Wright some notes containing speculations on the amount of ice on the Antarctic continent and on the effects of winter movements in the sea ice. I want to get into his head the larger bearing of the problems which our physical investigations involve. He needs two years here to fully realise these things, and with all his intelligence and energy will produce little unless he has that extended experience.

The sky cleared at noon, and this afternoon I walked over the North Bay to the ice cliffs—such a very beautiful afternoon and evening—the scene bathed in moonlight, so bright and pure as to be almost golden, a very wonderful scene. At such times the Bay seems strangely homely, especially when the eye rests on our camp with the hut and lighted windows.

I am very much impressed with the extraordinary and general cordiality of the relations which exist amongst our people. I do not suppose that a statement of the real truth, namely, that there is no friction at all, will be credited—it is so generally thought that the many rubs of such a life as this are quietly and purposely sunk in oblivion. With me there is no need to draw a veil; there is nothing to cover. There are no strained relations in


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 WHEREAS, it will require sustained, collective action on the part of all of these leaders as well as the rest of the State to close these wealth gaps once and for all; and

WHEREAS, on June 18, 2021, I announced that I intended to create a task force focused on wealth disparities;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, PHILIP D. MURPHY, Governor of the State of New Jersey, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and by the Statutes of this State, do hereby ORDER and DIRECT:

1. There is hereby established the Wealth Disparity Task Force (the “Task Force”) to examine the causes of and remedies for the long-standing wealth disparities that affect Black and Hispanic or Latino New Jerseyans. The Task Force will be divided into five Working Groups, which collectively are charged with reviewing research, data, and analysis in order to provide a report and evidence-based recommendations to the Governor for remedying these long-standing wealth disparities, which may include recommendations for one or more future disparity studies.

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3. The Task Force shall be led by four chairpersons, who shall be the Lieutenant Governor in her capacity as Commissioner of the Department of Community Affairs, the Commissioner of the Department of Banking and Insurance, the President of Rutgers University, and the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Council of New Jersey Grantmakers. The four chairpersons shall participate on a steering committee which shall also include the Commissioner of the Department of Health, the Commissioner of the Department of Labor and Workforce Development, the Commissioner of the Department of Education, the Attorney General, the Secretary of Higher Education, the Chief Executive Officer of the Economic Development Authority, the Director of the Division on Civil Rights, the Chief Policy Advisor to the Governor, or their designees, and any additional members who shall be appointed by and serve at the pleasure of the Governor, and who may include additional government officials, academic researchers, and faith and community leaders.


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 4. The Governor shall designate at least two co-leads of each Working Group, who shall be selected from among the members of the steering committee.

5. The Governor may, as determined to be appropriate, appoint additional members, and may designate these additional members to serve on any of the Working Groups or as generalists to serve as members of the Task Force as a whole. These additional members shall also serve at the pleasure of the Governor. All members of the Task Force shall serve without compensation.

6. The Task Force shall organize as soon as practicable after the appointment of its members, and the Working Groups shall convene at least as often as requested by the Governor or chairpersons.

7. Each Working Group shall issue a report with its recommendations to the Task Force on a date to be determined by the co-chairs. The co-chairs shall then submit a final comprehensive report to the Governor no later than 18 months after the effective date of this Order. The report shall be made available to the Legislature and the public at the same time.

8. The Task Force shall expire upon submission of its final report.

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10. For purposes of this Order, “Executive Branch departments and agencies” shall mean any of the principal departments in the Executive Branch of State government and any agency, authority, board, bureau, commission, division, institution, office, or other instrumentality within or created by any such department, and any independent State authority, commission, instrumentality, or agency over which the Governor exercises executive authority, as determined by the Attorney General.

11. The Task Force may elicit public input from individuals, including those associated with institutions of higher education, organizations, community groups, and other interested parties.

12. The Task Force shall be purely advisory in nature and shall provide advice to the Governor and other Executive Branch departments and agencies as requested.

13. This Order shall take effect immediately.

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A Boy of about Thirteen years of age, had a great and ugly swelling on his Leg, which yielded great quantities of an Ichorous Sanies from the Bone. He had some marks of Ulcers remaining about his Eyes, which shew'd him to be scrophulous, or troubled with the Kings-Evil. He had been flux'd in several hot Houses, and proceeded with after several Methods, by several Physicians, who ordered the matter so that this Tumour had been almost cur'd several times, but by neglect it return'd. He found great relief in washing and bathing in salt-water. I ordered him to be well purged thrice a week, with ''Pil. Coch. Min. and Merc. Dulc. Sometimes I chang'd this for a Vomit of Infus. Croc. Metal. and gave him a Diet-Drink, made of the Woods, Roots, Sarfa, &c.'' boil'd in Lime-water. He put to the Ulcer some Basilicon with Precipitate, and sometimes without, with which he grew much better. I left the Island before he was quite well, but order'd them to prosecute the cure the same way.

The Negros and Indians of Plantations usually have Fires near the places where they and their Children sleep. They make these Fires both for their Healths sake, and to keep themselves from Gnats, Mosquitos, or Flies, which would be troublesom, were they not kill'd by the smoak. The Slaves are usually so well wrought in the day, and sleep so fast at night, that they do not easily awake. Several of their young ones fall into these Fires, whereby their Arms or Legs are sometimes burnt off. I always found a Cataplasm of Onions, Salt, and white Soap beaten together, to do very great matters in the cure of such Accidents, and these ingredients are almost every where to be had.

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By Senator Book

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Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

Section 1. Section 900.06, Florida Statutes, is created to read:

900.06 Use of gay and transgender panic legal defenses prohibited.—

(1) SHORT TITLE.—This act may be cited as the “Gay and Transgender Panic Legal Defenses Prohibition Act.”

(2) LEGISLATIVE FINDINGS.—The Legislature finds that gay and transgender panic legal defenses raised in criminal proceedings characterize sexual orientation and gender expression or gender identity as objectively reasonable excuses for a perpetrator’s loss of self-control, and that these defenses thereby illegitimately attempt to mitigate the responsibility of the perpetrator for harm done to lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender individuals.

(3) DEFINITIONS.—As used in this section, the term:


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35-00526-23 (a) “Gay and transgender panic legal defense” means a legal strategy that asks a judge or a jury to find that a victim’s sexual orientation or gender identity is the cause of the defendant’s reaction and commission of a criminal offense.

(b) “Gender expression” or “gender identity” means gender-related identity, appearance, or behavior, regardless of whether such gender-related identity, appearance, or behavior is different from that traditionally associated with a person’s physiology or assigned sex at birth.

(c) “Sexual orientation” means an individual’s actual or perceived heterosexuality, homosexuality, or bisexuality.

(4) PROHIBITION ON GAY AND TRANSGENDER PANIC LEGAL DEFENSES.—A nonviolent sexual advance or the perception or belief, even if inaccurate, of the sex, sexual orientation, gender expression, or gender identity of an individual may not be used as a defense to a criminal offense, to excuse or to justify the conduct of an individual who commits a criminal offense, or to mitigate the severity of a criminal offense during sentencing.

Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2023.


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 "Yes, I am guilty, and wish to God, I had no other crimes on my conscience than that which I stand accused of. The sluggish gluttonous monks, who in honor of an image of stone, have ruined, and expelled from their own country a whole innocent family to beg their bread in the streets; these vile villains are far greater felons than myself, and I rejoice at having been an instrument in the hand of providence to avenge the wrongs of the hapless objects of their rapacity, and to restore to those innocent sufferers their property. If this action deserves punishment, you may tear my old limbs asunder, break these withered bones, and reduce to dust and ashes my poor out-worn frame, I will not complain, nor utter a groan."

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 683–92] gained the victory. An amnesty was called; but from it all who had taken part against Al-Ḥosein were shut out. These including,—besides Shamir, ʿOmar and other leading actors in the tragedy,—no fewer than 284 citizens of lesser note, were ruthlessly put to death. And so Al-Mukhtār at once achieved the ostensible object of his mission, and avenged himself by horrid cruelties upon his enemies. The heads of ʿOmar and his son, slain after he had given them quarter, were sent to Moḥammad Ibn al-Ḥanefīya, with this message,—"I have destroyed every man within my reach concerned in the attack upon Al-Ḥosein, thy martyred brother; and I will yet slay the remainder, if the Lord will." Only a few escaped to Al-Baṣra.

While émeute and slaughter were thus going on, ʿObeidallah had taken Mosul, and was advancing on Al-ʿIrāḳ. Al-Mukhtār, now that he was rid of his foes at home, hurried off the army under Ibn al-Ashtar to meet his arch-enemy. He himself accompanied it a short way, when a scene, worthy of the unprincipled pretender, was enacted to stir the fanatic zeal of the troops. A party of his followers drew near with a worn-out chair borne upon a mule. "The chair of ʿAlī!" cried Al-Mukhtār; "a messenger from heaven sent to slay thousands upon thousands of the wicked ones; even as the ark brought victory unto. the children of Israel!" "Nay!" cried the pious Ibn al-Ashtar, as the crowds with uplifted arms shouted around the chair—"Call it rather the golden calf which led the Israelites astray." The wretched scandal thus countenanced by Al-Mukhtār tended to lower him in the eyes of all the thinking citizens. Meanwhile, with an immense force, ʿObeidallah was advancing from Mosul, and the Kūfan army hurried on to anticipate him before he should invade Al-ʿIrāḳ. The two armies met on the banks of the Zāb at the beginning of the year 67 But there


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 324 was treachery in the Syrian camp. The Beni Ḳeis had not forgotten the field of Merj Rāhiṭ, and they carried the left wing in a body over to the enemy. Beaten at first by the other wing, Ibn al-Ashtar recovered his position; and in a furious charge, nerved by the cry of "vengeance on the tyrant ʿObeidallah and the murderers of Al-Ḥosein!" routed the Syrian force, of which the most that escaped the sword perished in the swift waters of the Zāb. ʿObeidallah and Ḥoṣein ibn Numeir were among the slain. The head of ʿObeidallah was carried to Al-Kūfa, and cast before Al-Mukhtār on the very spot where, six years before, as governor of Al-Kūfa he had so roughly handled the gory head of the Prophet's grandson. Thus early was the tragedy of Kerbalā avenged in the blood of its chief actor, and of almost all who had taken part in it.

The victory of Ibn al-Ashtar revived the hopes of the Ḳeis tribes; it also made Al-Mukhtār for the moment undisputed master of Mesopotamia. His fortune, however, built up on a sand-bed of false pretences, was but of short duration. He tried to hold with Ibn az-Zubeir; but Ibn az-Zubeir had no faith in him; and to test his profession of loyalty summoned him to Mecca. Al-Mukhtār, refusing, assumed a hostile attitude, and sent a force to succour Ibn al-Ḥanefīya, whose life Ibn az-Zubeir had threatened unless he would do him homage. He also despatched an army to Medīna with the ostensible object of defending it from Syrian attack; but Ibn az-Zubeir, divining his ambitious designs, sent a force in the same direction which cut it to pieces.

Muṣʿab, brother of Ibn az-Zubeir, was still governor of Al-Baṣra. Fortunately for ʿAbd al-Melik his hands were full. The Kūfans who had escaped thither from the tyranny of Al-Mukhtār, now besought Muṣʿab to rid them of their adversary. Nothing loth, he summoned the brave Muhallab from Fars, where he was still fighting against the Khawārij; and, thus supported, some little time after the battle of the


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now, though not quite in the order of time, to the noblest of all these enthusiasms, namely, my devotion for the writings of Lyof Tolstoy, I should wish to speak of him with his own incomparable truth, yet I do not know how to give a notion of his influence without the effect of exaggeration. As much as one merely human being can help another I believe that he has helped me; he has not influenced me in sthetics only, but in ethics, too, so that I can never again see life in the way I saw it before I knew him. Tolstoy awakens in his reader the will to be a man; not effectively, not spectacularly, but simply, really. He leads you back to the only true ideal, away from that false standard of the gentleman, to the Man who sought not to be distinguished from other men, but identified with them, to that Presence in which the


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 finest gentleman shows his alloy of vanity, and the greatest genius shrinks to the measure of his miserable egotism. I learned from Tolstoy to try character and motive by no other test, and though I am perpetually false to that sublime ideal myself, still the ideal remains with me, to make me ashamed that I am not true to it. Tolstoy gave me heart to hope that the world may yet be made over in the image of Him who died for it, when all Csar's things shall be finally rendered unto Csar, and men shall come into their own, into the right to labor and the right to enjoy the fruits of their labor, each one master of himself and servant to every other. He taught me to see life not as a chase of a forever impossible personal happiness, but as a field for endeavor toward the happiness of the whole human family; and I can never lose this vision, however I close my eyes, and strive to see my own interest as the highest good. He gave me new criterions, new principles, which, after all, were those that are taught us in our earliest childhood, before we have come to the evil wisdom of the world. As I read his different ethical books, What to Do, My Confession, and My Religion, I recognized their truth with a rapture such as I have known in no other reading, and I rendered them my allegiance, heart and soul, with


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 whatever sickness of the one and despair of the other. They have it yet, and I believe they will have it while I live. It is with inexpressible astonishment that I hear them attainted of pessimism, as if the teaching of a man whose ideal was simple goodness must mean the prevalence of evil. The way he showed me seemed indeed impossible to my will, but to my conscience it was and is the only possible way. If there is any point on which he has not convinced my reason it is that of our ability to walk this narrow way alone. Even there he is logical, but as Zola subtly distinguishes in speaking of Tolstoy's essay on Money, he is not reasonable. Solitude enfeebles and palsies, and it is as comrades and brothers that men must save the world from itself, rather than themselves from the world. It was so the earliest Christians, who had all things common, understood the life of Christ, and I believe that the latest will understand it so.

I have spoken first of the ethical works of Tolstoy, because they are of the first importance to me, but I think that his sthetical works are as prefect. To my thinking they transcend in truth, which is the highest beauty, all other works of fiction that have been written, and I believe that they do this because they obey the law of the author's own life. His conscience


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 is one ethically and one sthetically; with his will to be true to himself he cannot be false to his knowledge of others. I thought the last word in literary art had been said to me by the novels of Tourguenief, but it seemed like the first, merely, when I began to acquaint myself with the simpler method of Tolstoy. I came to it by accident, and without any manner of preoccupation in The Cossacks, one of his early books, which had been on my shelves unread for five or six years. I did not know even Tolstoy's name when I opened it, and it was with a kind of amaze that I read it, and felt word by word, and line by line, the truth of a new art in it.

I do not know how it is that the great Russians have the secret of simplicity. Some say it is because they have not a long literary past and are not conventionalized by the usage of many generations of other writers, but this will hardly account for the brotherly directness of their dealing with human nature; the absence of experience elsewhere characterizes the artist with crudeness, and simplicity is the last effect of knowledge, Tolstoy is, of course, the first of them in this supreme grace. He has not only Tourguenief's transparency of style, unclouded by any mist of the personality which we mistakenly value in style, and


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 which ought no more to be there than the artist's personality should be in a portrait; but he has a method which not only seems without artifice, but is so. I can get at the manner of most writers, and tell what it is, but I should be baffled to tell what Tolstoy's manner is; perhaps he has no manner,. This appears to me true of his novels, which, with their vast variety of character and incident, are alike in their single endeavor to get the persons living before you, both in their action and in the peculiarly dramatic interpretation of their emotion and cogitation. There are plenty of novelists to tell you that their characters felt and thought so and so, but you have to take it on trust; Tolstoy alone makes you know how and why it was so with them and not otherwise. If there is anything in him which can be copied or burlesqued it is this ability of his to show men inwardly as well as outwardly; it is the only trait of his which I can put my hand on.

After the Cossacks I read Anna Karenina with a deepening sense of the author's unrivaled greatness. I thought that I saw through his eyes a human affair of that most sorrowful sort as it must appear to the Infinite Compassion; the book is a sort of revelation of human nature in circumstances that have been so perpetually lied about that we have almost lost the faculty


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 of perceiving the truth concerning an illicit love. When you have once read Anna Karenina you know how fatally miserable and essentially unhappy such a love must be. But the character of Karenin himself is quite as important as the intrigue of Anna and Vronsky. It is wonderful how such a man, cold, Philistine and even mean in certain ways, towers into a sublimity unknown (to me, at least,) in fiction when he forgives, and yet knows that he cannot forgive with dignity. There is something crucial, and something triumphant, not beyond the power, but hitherto beyond the imagination of men in this effect, which is not solicited, not forced, not in the least romantic, but comes naturally, almost inevitably from the make of man.

The vast prospects, the far-reaching perspectives of War and Peace made it as great a surprise for me in the historical novel as Anna Karenina had been in the study of contemporary life; and its people and interests did not seem more remote, since they are of a civilization always as strange and of a humanity always as known.

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 683–92] Zāb, Muṣʿab set out for Al-Kūfa with a fully equipped army. He was met on the way by the troops of Al-Mukhtār, whom he totally discomfited. Al-Mukhtār then rallied his adherents in Al-Kūfa, and himself at their head encountered the enemy just outside the walls; but he was driven back, and with some 8000 followers, mostly Persians, forced to take refuge in the Fort. For several months they held out, but with little sympathy from the citizens at large. At last, driven by hunger and thirst, Al-Mukhtār called on the garrison to go forth with him and fight either for victory or a hero's death. He was followed but by nineteen, and with them met his fate. The rest surrendered at discretion. There was much discussion as to whether these should be spared, or at least those amongst them of Arab blood, who numbered 700. But the army was incensed, and the citizens of Al-Kūfa had no favour for them; and so Muṣʿab gave command, and the whole seven or eight thousand were beheaded. It was a deed of enormous ferocity, and brought Muṣʿab into well-merited disfavour with his brother Ibn az-Zubeir. The hand of the pretender was nailed to the wall of the Mosque, where it remained till taken down by Al-Ḥajjāj; and the cruelties were crowned by putting to death one of the widows of Al-Mukhtār, who refused to speak otherwise than well of her husband's memory. Thus ended the short-lived triumph of Al-Mukhtār, but a year and a half after his seizure of the city. The cause which he championed—that of the Mawāli—seemed lost, but the fire quenched in blood in Al-Kūfa, where the Arabs were strong, broke out again in Khorāsān sixty years later; and this time it was not put out.

During the next two years there was little change in the relations subsisting between the several provinces. ʿAbd al-Melik looked quietly on while Muṣʿab made an end of Al-Mukhtār. The Khawārij kept the East in constant alarm. They scoured the country, made cruel


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 perseverance,—and that, above all, he must seek elevation of character, without which capacity is worthless and worldly success is naught. If the author has not succeeded in illustrating these lessons, he can only say that he has failed in his object.

Among the new passages introduced in the present edition may be mentioned the following: Illustrious Foreigners of Humble Origin (pp. ), French Generals and Marshals risen from the Ranks, De Tocqueville and Mutual Help , William Lee, M.A., and the Stocking-loom , John Heathcoat, M.P., and the Bobbin-net Machine , Jacquard and his Loom , Vaucanson , Joshua Heilmann and the Combing-machine , Bernard Palissy and his Struggles , Böttgher, Discoverer of Hard Porcelain , Comte de Buffon as Student , Cuvier , Ambrose Paré , Claude Lorraine , Jacques Callot , Benvenuto Cellini , Nicolas Poussin , Ary Scheffer , the Strutts of Belper , Francis Xavier , Napoleon as a Man of Business , Intrepidity of Deal Boatmen , besides numerous other passages which it is unnecessary to specify.


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 326 attacks on the unoffending people, took Ar-Reiy, besieged Ispahān for months, overran Al-Ahwāz and Kirmān, and even threatened Al-Kūfa. Al-Muhallab, the only general able to cope with these savage fanatics, had been unwisely withdrawn from the field for the government of Mosul. Muṣʿab now again sent him against the Khāriji bands; and after eight months of unceasing warfare he succeeded in dispersing them for the time. The temporary quiet which, apart from these Khāriji outrages, at this period prevailed throughout the Empire is signalised by the singular spectacle chronicled by tradition, that whereas the Meccan solemnities were always headed by the Sovereign himself or by his Lieutenant, there were in the year 68 A.H., four leaders who, without any breach of harmony, presided at the Pilgrimage, each over his own adherents,—namely Ibn az-Zubeir, Ibn al-Ḥanefīya, the Khāriji Najda, who held the south of Arabia, and the representative of the Umeiyads. Yet no act of violence took place.

Now that the power of Al-Mukhtār and of the Khawārij had been broken for him, ʿAbd al-Melik had for some time been contemplating operations against Ibn az-Zubeir, and had in fact started on more than one occasion for a campaign to commence in the north of Syria, and sweep down upon Al-ʿIrāḳ and Arabia; but a severe famine paralysed his efforts for a time. At last, in the summer of 689 (69–70 ) he set out against the Ḳeis in Ḳirḳīsiyā, but was recalled by a danger which threatened his throne, and led to an act which has left an indelible stigma on his name. At the time of Merwān's accession, it was stipulated that the minor son of Yezīd should have the next claim. A similar expectation was held out, either then or afterwards, to ʿAmr ibn Saʿīd, cousin of the Caliph and governor of Damascus. Both expectations were defeated by the succession of ‘Abd al-Melik, and the injury rankled in the mind of ʿAmr ibn Saʿīd. Accordingly, on the Caliph's camp nearing Aleppo, he left it secretly by night, re-entered Damascus, and set up for himself as Caliph. ʿAbd al-Melik


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 reputation he achieved was such that his works at Burslem, and subsequently those at Etruria, which he founded and built, became a point of attraction. to distinguished visitors from all parts of Europe.

The result of Wedgwood's labours was, that the manufacture of pottery, which he found in the very lowest condition, became one of the staples of England; and instead of importing what we needed for home use from abroad, we became large exporters to other countries, supplying them with earthenware even in the face of enormous prohibitory duties on articles of British produce. Wedgwood gave evidence as to his manufactures. before Parliament in, only some thirty years after he had begun his operations; from which it appeared, that instead of providing only casual employment to a small number of inefficient and badly remunerated workmen, about persons then derived their bread directly from the manufacture of earthenware, without taking into account the increased numbers to which it gave employment in coal-mines, and in the carrying trade by land and sea, and the stimulus which it gave to employment in many ways in various parts of the country. Yet, important as had been the advances made in his time, Mr. Wedgwood was of opinion that the manufacture was but in its infancy, and that the improvements which he had effected were of but small account compared with those to which the art was capable of attaining, through the continued industry and growing intelligence of the manufacturers, and the natural facilities and political advantages enjoyed by Great Britain; an opinion which has been fully borne out by the progress which has since been affected in this


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 683–92] hurried back, and after some inconclusive engagements offered an amnesty, on which the fighting ceased, and a deed of pardon was given to ʿAmr. A few days after, the Caliph, who had resolved on his death, summoned him to his presence. He went against the advice of his friends, clad in armour below his dress, and with a large following, which, however, were shut out at the palace gates. Accosting him in friendly accents, ʿAbd al-Melik bade him sit down by him, and after indifferent conversation, signified that he wished to fulfil an oath he made on first hearing of ʿAmr's rebellion, namely, that he would bind him hand and foot; but that having fulfilled his oath he would afterwards unloose him. ʿAmr submitted, but no sooner was he bound than the Caliph smote him violently, and having bid his brother ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz put him to death, went forth to evening prayers. Returning shortly, he was startled to find his victim still alive; and, taunting his brother, who said he had not the heart to do the deed, with cowardice, himself stabbed ʿAmr to death, and then cast his head with a heavy largess to the crowd without. ʿAmr's followers were put to flight; his sons and adherents, with difficulty spared, were banished, and peace restored. The Caliph then sent to the widow for the deed of amnesty;—"It is in the grave with my husband," she replied, "that he may arraign thee before his Lord thereby." ʿAbd al-Melik was not otherwise a cruel or hard-hearted man; but this act of refined and ruthless treachery created a widespread impression against him at the moment.

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 328 advantage of the divisions in the Muslim Empire, pressed heavily at this time on the Syrian frontier; and ʿAbd al-Melik, to be free for his enterprise, had to make a truce with them at the weekly tribute of 1000 golden pieces. It was the year 71 before ʿAbd al-Melik again broke ground. Having sown disaffection widely in Al-Kūfa and Al-Baṣra by missives promising pardon and rewards, he laid siege to Ḳirḳīsiyā, where Ibn az-Zubeir's governor ere long accepted the offer of amnesty, and with the Ḳeis tribes joined the Caliph's army. Muṣʿab, now thoroughly alarmed, sought the help of Al-Muhallab, but that general was at the moment hotly engaged with the Khawārij, who were close upon the walls of Al-Baṣra. So he had to meet the Caliph on the Syrian frontier with only Ibn al-Ashtar, who, though tempted with the promise of Al-ʿIrāḳ, stood fast by Muṣʿab. When the two armies met, it was soon seen that the Caliph's missives had taken effect, and that treachery was rife in Muṣʿab's camp. Ibn al-Ashtar, the only loyal friend he had, was one of the first to fall; and Muṣʿab, deserted by his troops, and having seen his son slain before his eyes, refusing quarter, was slain by one of his own Kūfaites, a hero to the last. His head, with the nose cut off, was sent round by ʿAbd al-Melik to Egypt and Damascus. It was then to have been shown over the cities of Syria, when the Caliph's wife, with better feeling, had it washed and buried. Muṣʿab died aged thirty-six. He was handsome and brave; but his memory is stained by the butchery perpetrated by his command at the death of Al-Mukhtār.

On Muṣʿab's death, the Kūfan army swore allegiance to ʿAbd al-Melik, as did also the Arab tribes of the Syrian desert. Advancing on Al-Kūfa, he encamped by the city forty days. There, one of the citizens made him a great feast at the ancient palace of the Khawarnaḳ, open to all. ʿAbd al-Melik was delighted:—"If it would only last!" he said, "but as the poet sang" (and he quoted some verses), "all is transitory here." Then he was taken over the palace, and being told of the ancient princes of Al-Ḥīra who lived there, extemporised a couplet (for he was himself a poet),


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 in the Chinese and European Calendars.

The Chinese have from a very early date composed nearly all their cycles only of two elementary cycles, one of ten, and the other of twelve members. The names of the decimal-cycle or the ten stems are :


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 In fine, human character is moulded by a thousand subtle influences; by example and precept; by life and literature; by friends and neighbours; by the world we live in as well as by the spirits of our forefathers, whose legacy of good words and deeds we inherit. But great, unquestionably, though these influences are acknowledged to be, it is nevertheless equally clear that men must necessarily be the active agents of their own well-being and well-doing; and that, however much the wise and the good may owe to others, they themselves must in the very nature of things be their own best helpers.


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Notwithstanding De Tocqueville's decided views as to the necessity of exercising individual energy and self-dependence, no one could be more ready than he was to recognize the value of that help and support for which all men are indebted to others in a greater or less degree. Thus, he often acknowledged, with gratitude, his obligations to his friends De Kergorlay and Stofells,—to the former for intellectual assistance, and to the latter for moral support and sympathy. To De Kergorlay he wrote—"Thine is the only soul in which I have confidence, and whose influence exercises a genuine effect upon my own. Many others have influence upon the details of my actions, but no one has so much influence as thou on the origination of fundamental ideas, and of those principles which are the rule of conduct." De Tocqueville was not less ready to confess the great obligations which he owed to his wife, Marie, for the preservation of that temper and frame of mind which enabled. him to prosecute his studies with success. He believed that a noble-minded woman insensibly elevated the character of her husband, while one of a grovelling nature as certainly tended to degrade it.


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 active help. Perhaps the most they can do is to leave him free to develop himself and improve his individual condition. But in all times men have been prone to believe that their happiness and well-being were to be secured by means of institutions rather than by their own conduct. Hence the value of legislation as an agent in human advancement has usually been much over-estimated. To constitute the millionth part of a Legislature, by voting for one or two men once in three or five years, however conscientiously this duty may be performed, can exercise but little active influence. upon any man's life and character. Moreover, it is every day becoming more clearly understood, that the function of Government is negative and restrictive, rather than positive and active; being resolvable principally into protection—protection of life, liberty, and property. Laws, wisely administered, will secure men in the enjoyment of the fruits of their labour, whether of mind or body, at a comparatively small personal sacrifice; but no laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober. Such reforms can only be effected by means of individual action, economy, and self-denial; by better habits, rather than by greater rights.

The Government of a nation itself is usually found to be but the reflex of the individuals composing it. The Government that is ahead of the people will inevitably be dragged down to their level, as the Government that is behind them will in the long run be dragged up. In the order of nature, the collective character of a nation will as surely find its befitting results in its law and


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 government, as water finds its own level. The noble people will be nobly ruled, and the ignorant and corrupt ignobly. Indeed, all experience serves to prove that the worth and strength of a State depend far less upon the form of its institutions than upon the character of its men. For the nation is only an aggregate of individual conditions, and civilization itself is but a question of the personal improvement of the men, women, and children of whom society is composed.

National progress is the sum of individual industry, energy, and uprightness, as national decay is of individual idleness, selfishness, and vice. What we are accustomed to decry as great social evils, will, for the most part, be found to be but the outgrowth of man's own perverted life; and though we may endeavour to cut them down and extirpate them by means of Law, they will only spring up again with fresh luxuriance in some other form, unless the conditions of personal life and character are radically improved. If this view be correct, then it follows that the highest patriotism and philanthropy consist, not so much in altering laws and modifying institutions, as in helping and stimulating men to elevate and improve themselves by their own free and independent individual action.

It may be of comparatively little consequence how a man is governed from without, whilst everything depends upon how he governs himself from within. The greatest slave is not he who is ruled by a despot, great though that evil be, but he who is the thrall of his own moral ignorance, selfishness, and vice. Nations who are thus enslaved at heart cannot be freed by any mere


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Hon. Mrs. Derek Kettering lived in Curzon Street. The butler who opened the door recognized Rufus Van Aldin at once and permitted himself a discreet smile of greeting. He led the way upstairs to the big double drawing-room on the first floor.

A woman who was sitting by the window started up with a cry.

"Why, Dad, if that isn't too good for anything! I've been telephoning Major Knighton all day to try and get hold of you, but he couldn't say for sure when you were expected back."

Ruth Kettering was twenty-eight years of age. Without being beautiful, or in the real sense of the word even pretty, she was striking looking because of her colouring. Van Aldin had been called Carrots and Ginger in his time, and Ruth's hair was almost pure auburn. With it went dark eyes and very black lashes—the effect somewhat enhanced by art. She was tall and slender, and moved well. At a careless glance it was the face of a Raphael Madonna. Only if one looked closely did one perceive the same line of jaw and chin as in Van Aldin's face, bespeaking the same hardness and determination. It suited the man, but suited the woman less well. From her childhood upward Ruth Van Aldin had been accustomed to having her own way, and any


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Europeans in civil life and in their Calendar reckon the mean solar day from midnight to midnight and divide it into 24 equal parts, called hours. The hours after noon are 1h P.M., 2h P.M,…12h P.M. or midnight and the hours after midnight are 1h A.M., 2h A.M,…12h A.M. or noon. Every hour is divided into 60 minutes and every minute into 60 seconds. European astronomers begin the day with noon and count the hours uninterruptedly from 0 till 24, adding to the hour the letter „h“. The European astronomical date therefore is the same as the European civil date during the afternoon (from noon until midnight), whilst during the morning (from midnight until noon) the civil date is greater by one than the astronomical.

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In the European Calendar we have a period of seven days, which we call a week. The days bear in English the names of Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday. The Egyptians were the first people, who probably regarded the week as sacred to the heavenly bodies: the Sun, the Moon, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus and Saturn.

Although this period of seven days is not used in China, it is mentioned in the Chinese Calendar and the days are designated by help of the characters of the 28 Moon-stations (Su _), the meaning of which we will explain below [cf. table (7)]. 星 e mao 5B sing Sunday has the charactersfanghi sin wei "/ chang B Po pi Monday " " wei The Etui ve y Tuesday 11 ப Wednesday Khi " ten + kuli #tring # Kio Thursday nieu & len Kang Kuci Friday " niü & wei ti lieu D 氐 Saturday
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It is not known, when this cycle in Chinese chronology is first mentioned. Confucius has called it t'sih (seven) and said, that it had existed since the beginning of the dynasty of Chow (1122 B.C.).

The period of time, properly deserving the name of the Chinese week, is that of 60 days, designated by the above mentioned 60 characters of the sexagesimal cycle Kiah-Tsze. In the Shu-king and Chun-tsieu we already find every important event stated not only by the indication of the emperor's name and year and the month and day of the month, but also by the name of the day in this sexagesimal cycle.

And therefore, as the days of the sexagesimal cycle are counted uninterruptedly through all centuries and do not depend upon complicated calculations, the Chinese historical data possess a high degree of exactitude and certainty, that is often wanting in the ancient records of other countries. In Section 11. we append a table, by help of which it is easy to find the day of the Chinese sexagesimal week, corresponding with the first of January in the Julian Calendar.


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Rh one who had ever stood up against her soon realized that Rufus Van Aldin’s daughter never gave in.

"Knighton told me you'd 'phoned him," said Van Aldin. "I only got back from Paris half an hour ago. What's all this about Derek?"

Ruth Kettering flushed angrily.

"It's unspeakable. It's beyond all limits," she cried. "He—he doesn't seem to listen to anything I say."

There was bewilderment as well as anger in her voice.

"He'll listen to me," said the millionaire grimly.

Ruth went on.

"I've hardly seen him for the last month. He goes about everywhere with that woman."

"With what woman?"

"Mirelle. She dances at the Parthenon, you know."

Van Aldin nodded.

"I was down at Leconbury last week. I—I spoke to Lord Leconbury. He was awfully sweet to me, sympathized entirely. He said he'd give Derek a good talking to."

"Ah!" said Van Aldin.

"What do you mean by 'Ah!', Dad?"

"Just what you think I mean, Ruthie. Poor old Leconbury is a wash-out. Of course he sympathized with you, of course he tried to soothe you down. Having got his son and heir married to the daughter of one of the richest men in the States, he naturally doesn't want to mess the thing up. But he's got one foot in the grave already, every one knows that, and anything he may say will cut darned little ice with Derek."

"Can't you do anything, Dad?" urged Ruth, after a minute or two.


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IX An adjective must follow its substantive, as orang brani, a brave man; orang badas, a good man.

Degrees of comparison are expressed by the addition of adverbs as agi, lebih, bendar, pemadu, korang, nadai. Thus: brani, brave; brani agi (or lebih brani), braver ; brani bendar (or pemadu brani), bravest ; korang brani, less brave ; nadai brani, least brave.

Adverbs are placed either before or after their verbs, as, iya bejalai dras, or iya dras bejalai, he walks fast; iya landik bejako, or iya bejako landik, he talks fluently.

There are no articles in Dyak which correspond with our definite article the and indefinite articles a, an. Ukui, dog, manok, fowl, signify equally the dog and the fowl.

The possessive pronouns are expressed by the words empu and enggi. Thus aku empu, or enggi aku, mine. Nuan empu, or enggi nuan, yours. Iya empu, or enggi iya, his, or hers. Similarly also with the plural.

There is only one relative pronoun ti (the other forms are ki and kai), who, which, that. Burong ti siga. A bird that is wild. Raja ti lurus. A king who is just. Utai ti iya empu. The things which belong to him.

The demonstrative pronouns are tu, this, and nya, that. Tu anak aku. This is my child. Nya anak iya. That is her child.

In giving examples of the use and meaning of the Dyak words we have drawn upon the undermentioned sources: (I) published Dyak works, (11) well-known sayings or proverbs (ensumbar jako), (III) incantations, or, as in the majority of the examples given, have (IV) composed sentences in which we have endeavoured to shew how a word is commonly used or its meaning by the context.


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(2) The Speaker shall not exercise the functions of his office and no member of the Legislative Assembly shall take part in the proceedings thereof after the coming into operation of this Constitution (other than proceedings necessary for the purposes of this clause) until he has taken and subscribed before the Legislative Assembly an oath of allegiance in the form set out in the First Schedule to this Constitution.

97. The Standing Orders of the Legislative Assembly established by the Singapore (Constitution) Order in Council, 1958, which are in force immediately before the coming into operation of this Constitution shall, subject to amendment or revocation under Article 36 of the Constitution, be the Standing Orders of the Legislative Assembly established by this Constitution, but shall be construed with such modifications, adaptations, qualifications and exceptions as may be necessary to bring them into conformity with the provisions of this Constitution.

98. (1) The Cabinet established by the Singapore (Constitution) Order in Council, 1958, shall remain in being and shall be deemed to be the Cabinet established by this Constitution, and accordingly the persons who immediately before the coming into operation of this Constitution hold the office of Prime Minister and other Ministers shall on the coming into operation of this Constitution continue to hold those offices in accordance with the provisions of this Constitution.

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99. The persons who, immediately before the coming into operation of this Constitution, were the Chairman and other members of the Public Service Commission established by the Singapore (Constitution) Order in Council, 1958, shall on the coming into operation of this Constitution be deemed to have been appointed as Chairman and members of the Commission under Article 71 of this Constitution and shall hold their offices in accordance with the provisions of this Constitution and in relation to any such person, the reference in Clause (1) of Article 73 of this Constitution to the date of his appointment shall be construed as a reference to the date of his appointment to the Public Service Commission established by the Singapore (Constitution) Order in Council, 1958.

100. Subject to the provisions of this Constitution and the Federal Constitution, every person who immediately before the coming into operation of this Constitution holds a public office shall on its coming into operation continue to hold the like office in the public service.


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 changes of masters or of institutions; and so long as the fatal delusion prevails, that liberty solely depends upon and consists in government, so long will such changes, no matter at what cost they may be effected, have as little practical and lasting result as the shifting of the figures in a phantasmagoria. The solid foundations of liberty must rest upon individual character; which is also the only sure guarantee for social security and national progress. John Stuart Mill truly observes that "even despotism does not produce its worst effects so long as individuality exists under it; and whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it be called."

Old fallacies as to human progress are constantly turning up. Some call for Cæsars, others for Nationalities, and others for Acts of Parliament. We are to wait for Cæsars, and when they are found, "happy the people who recognize and follow them." This doctrine shortly means, everything for the people, nothing by them,—a doctrine which, if taken as a guide, must, by destroying the free conscience of a community, speedily prepare the way for any form of despotism. Cæsarism is human idolatry in its worst form—a worship of mere power, as degrading in its effects as the worship of mere wealth would be. A far healthier doctrine to inculcate among the nations would be that of Self-Help; and so soon. as it is thoroughly understood and carried into action, Cæsarism will be no more. The two principles are directly antagonistic; and what Victor Hugo said of the Pen and the Sword alike applies to them, "Ceci tuera cela." [This will kill that.]


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 The power of Nationalities and Acts of Parliament is also a prevalent superstition. What William Dargan, one of Ireland's truest patriots, said at the closing of the first Dublin Industrial Exhibition, may well be quoted now. "To tell the truth," he said, "I never heard the word independence mentioned that my own country and my own fellow townsmen did not occur to my mind. I have heard a great deal about the independence that we were to get from this, that, and the other place, and of the great expectations we were to have from persons from other countries coming amongst us. Whilst I value as much as any man the great advantages that must result to us from that intercourse, I have always been deeply impressed with the feeling that our industrial independence is dependent upon ourselves. I believe that with simple industry and careful exactness in the utilization of our energies, we never had a fairer chance nor a brighter prospect than the present. We have made a step, but perseverance is the great agent of success; and if we but go on zealously, I believe in my conscience that in a short period we shall arrive at a position of equal comfort, of equal happiness, and of equal independence, with that of any other people."

All nations have been made what they are by the thinking and the working of many generations of men. Patient and persevering labourers in all ranks and conditions of life, cultivators of the soil and explorers of the mine, inventors and discoverers, manufacturers, mechanics and artisans, poets, philosophers, and politicians, all have contributed towards the grand result, one generation building upon another's labours, and carrying them


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318 where he will await the arrival of the coffin. The empress and ladies will move by the same secluded roads to the same destination; and it will be the duty of the princes, ministers, and officials to accompany the bier on horseback. On reaching the end of the first stage, the coffin will be placed in the centre of the hall of the "travelling-palace." In front of it will be put a sacrificial stand and a table, and on the left and right the posthumous tablet and the seal. At sunset the emperor will bow before the coffin, and will pour out libations. He will then retire, and the door will be shut.

As the distances traversed each day are but short, probably three or four days will be spent on the road, and on each the same ceremonial will be observed, not forgetting the adoration of the local officials, who, at every hundred Chinese miles, will salute the coffin on their knees on the right-hand side of the road. On arriving at the tombs the emperor will pay his respects to the graves of his ancestors, while the empress and the concubines will take up their places at the mausoleum. He will then receive the coffin on his knees, and will personally superintend its removal to the "Hall of Felicity," where it will be deposited with much solemnity in company with the tablet and seal and abundance of viands, together with ninety thousand paper bills, and the baskets containing the cap and clothes of the late monarch. Certain rites will then be performed by the emperor, and the viands and paper bills and the baskets containing the cap and clothes will be burned with fire. And now the closing scene approaches, and officers will be appointed to announce to heaven and earth, the ancestral temple, and the god of the soil, that yet another ruler of the "Eighteen Provinces" is to be laid with his forefathers in the wooded valley among the Eastern Hills.

Outside the gate of the "Square City," and adjoining it, the Board of Works will erect a wicker hall in which the "dragon hearse" will stand, and a lacquered bridge from the "Square City" to the gate of the mausoleum. On this a wooden tramway will be placed leading directly to the dais in the "original palace," or the sepulchre. With due ceremony and with many prostrations the coffin will then be removed to the "dragon hearse" in the wicker hall. On the following day, amid the sound of woe and in the presence of kneeling crowds of all the great and noble of the land, the dragon hearse will pass along the tramway into the "original palace," and the Imperial remains will be placed in "eternal repose" on the dais. And now the "stone door" of the sepulchre will close on the dead. The spirits hovering round the other tombs and the god of the soil will be informed that the last ceremony has been completed. The wearied emperor will perform the last sacrificial rites, and will then return to the capital to go through the daily routine of official business and wearying ceremonies until it shall be his turn to find eternal repose within the stone door of a sepulchre in the Eastern Hills.

 From The Spectator.

will be inclined to quarrel with the latest pronunciamiento of the Italian patriot. Clerical and Liberal may alike welcome his exchange of the sword for the pruning-hook. From time immemorial the Tiber has defied the efforts of senate and people, of pagan emperor and of Christian pontiff, but at length it seems that modern science must prevail, and sentence of divorce be pronounced against the "uxorius amnis." For such a work — the diversion of the river at a point thirty miles from its mouth — the enthusiasm of the Italians must be awakened, and for this task Garibaldi is of all men the most fitted. But enthusiasm unaided will hardly dig through the Campagna, and the navvy requires more solid sustenance than patriotic fervour. Capital is the one thing needful, and at the same time, perhaps, the thing most difficult to obtain in Italy itself. It is to England, therefore, that the general looks for material as well as moral support. In England, the progress of such an enterprise must surely be watched with interest. Without doubt, many a disappointed tourist has condemned the Tiber as an insignificant and muddy stream, and looked with contempt on "the noble river that rolls by the towers of Rome." But on the other hand, many Englishmen, though knowing Italy from books alone, could trace the windings of the Tiber from the beech forest in which it rises to the marshy shore where its turbid current mingles with the blue waters of the Mediterranean. In view, however, of the important works now about to be commenced, the sympathy of the scholar will