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 these feelings are absurd, and therefore I try to hide them, but they only sting the deeper for concealment."

Compare this state of mind with the gentle resignation with which she had submitted to be put aside as useless, or told of her ugliness by her schoolfellows, only three years before.

"My life since I saw you has passed as monotonously and unbroken as ever; nothing but teach, teach, teach, from morning till night. The greatest variety I ever have is afforded by a letter from you, or by meeting with a pleasant new book. The 'Life of Oberlin,' and 'Legh Richmond's Domestic Portraiture,' are the last of this description. The latter work strongly attracted and strangely fascinated my attention. Beg, borrow, or steal it without delay; and read the 'Memoir of Wilberforce,'—that short record of a brief uneventful life; I shall never forget it; it is beautiful, not on account of the language in which it is written, not on account of the incidents it details, but because of the simple narrative it gives of a young talented sincere Christian."

About this time Miss Wooler removed her school from the fine, open, breezy situation of Roe Head, to Dewsbury Moor, only two or three miles distant. Her new residence was a much lower site, and the air much less pure and exhilarating to one bred at the wild hill-village of Haworth. Charlotte felt the change extremely, and regretted it not merely on her own account, but for the sake of her sister Anne. Moreover, Emily had gone as teacher to a school at Halifax, where there were nearly forty pupils.


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 "I have had one letter from her since her departure," writes Charlotte, on October 2nd, 1836: "it gives an appalling account of her duties; hard labour from six in the morning to eleven at night, with only one half-hour of exercise between. This is slavery. I fear she can never stand it."

When the sisters met at home in the Christmas holidays, they talked over their lives, and the prospect which they afforded of occupation and remuneration. They felt that it was a duty to relieve their father of the burden of their support, if not entirely, or that of all three, at least that of one or two; and, naturally, the lot devolved upon the elder ones to find some remunerative occupation. They knew that they were never likely to inherit much money. Mr. Brontë had but a small stipend, and was both charitable and liberal. Their aunt had an annuity of 50l., but it reverted to others at her death, and her nieces had no right, and were the last persons in the world, to reckon upon her savings. What could they do? Charlotte and Emily were trying teaching, and, as it seemed, without much success. The former, it is true, had the happiness of having a friend for her employer, and of being surrounded by those who knew her and loved her; but her salary was too small for her to save out of it; and her education did not entitle her to a larger. The sedentary and monotonous nature of the life, too, was preying upon her health and spirits, although, with necessity "as her mistress," she might hardly like to acknowledge this even to herself. But Emily—that free, wild, untameable spirit,

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Rh of Mount Varcrobis. Nobody in the village down below cared much for Mr. and Mrs. Ikkisfield, as they were called; and they had decided to go elsewhere and see if they could find some friends. The Eigleens took pity on them, and at last persuaded them to live in the brown cottage in the woods, and to let the Eigleens themselves go to the house of friends of theirs, the Wraspanes. It was the Wraspanes' rhododendron field that Eepersip had thought so beautiful.

The Eigleens, being exceedingly kind people, gladly gave up their cottage and their beautiful garden to Mr. and Mrs. Ikkisfield. Indeed, these things were no joy to them, now that they had lost Eepersip, for whose sake they had made the garden. The old couple were delighted, and, thanking the Eigleens very kindly, they moved in that same evening, the Eigleens leaving some of their belongings with them.

Eepersip stayed for many days with the doe and her fawn, and then, her feet having become tough, she crossed the brooklet and went on up Eiki-ennern Peak. Near the top, in a small sheltered place, she found a dear little pool surrounded with moss and ferns, amongst which some iris bloomed. It had a sandy bottom, over which swam tiny silver minnows. When they turned over and the sun shone on

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 never happy nor well but on the sweeping moors that gathered round her home—that hater of strangers, doomed to live amongst them, and not merely to live but to slave in their service—what Charlotte could have borne patiently for herself, she could not bear for her sister. And yet what to do? She had once hoped that she herself might become an artist, and so earn her livelihood; but her eyes had failed her in the minute and useless labour which she had imposed upon herself with a view to this end.

It was the household custom among these girls to sew till nine o'clock at night. At that hour, Miss Branwell generally went to bed, and her nieces' duties for the day were accounted done. They put away their work, and began to pace the room backwards and forwards, up and down,—as often with the candles extinguished, for economy's sake, as not,—their figures glancing into the fire-light, and out into the shadow, perpetually. At this time, they talked over past cares, and troubles; they planned for the future, and consulted each other as to their plans. In after years, this was the time for discussing together the plots of their novels. And again, still later, this was the time for the last surviving sister to walk alone, from old accustomed habit, round and round the desolate room, thinking sadly upon the "days that were no more." But this Christmas of 1836 was not without its hopes, and daring aspirations. They had tried their hands at story-writing, in their miniature magazine, long ago; they all of them "made out" perpetually. They had likewise attempted to write


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 poetry; and had a modest confidence that they had achieved a tolerable success. But they knew that they might deceive themselves, and that sisters' judgments of each other's productions were likely to be too partial to be depended upon. So Charlotte, as the eldest, resolved to write to Southey. I believe (from an expression in a letter to be noticed hereafter), that she also consulted Coleridge; but I have not met with any part of that correspondence.

On December 29th, her letter to Southey was despatched; and from an excitement not unnatural in a girl who has worked herself up to the pitch of writing to a Poet Laureate and asking his opinion of her poems, she used some high-flown expressions, which, probably, gave him the idea that she was a romantic young lady, unacquainted with the realities of life.

This, most likely, was the first of those adventurous letters that passed through the little post-office of Haworth. Morning after morning of the holidays slipped away, and there was no answer; the sisters had to leave home, and Emily to return to her distasteful duties, without knowing even whether Charlotte's letter had ever reached its destination.

Not dispirited, however, by the delay, Branwell determined to try a similar venture, and addressed the following remarkable letter to Wordsworth. It was given by the poet to Mr. Quillinan in 1850, after the name of Brontë had become known and famous. I have no means of ascertaining what answer was returned by Mr. Wordsworth; but that he considered the letter


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10 their bellies Eepersip saw a streak of silver. At last, when she got to the top, she saw that on one side it was a vast daisied slope, down, down; and on another it was wooded to the foot. From where she stood, range after range spread out before her, lake after lake beneath her, with the crimson of the now setting sun gloriously reflected in them. It was like fairyland. And when Eepersip turned southward, she beheld the almighty ocean with the exquisite sunset colours reflected in it as in the lakes. That night she slept on a soft bed of moss in a hollow down near the pool.

The next morning, after she had made a good breakfast on the juicy root of a plant which she found, she lay down by the pool and gazed at the sky, the way she had done on the second day of her wildness. And as she lay there it grew so quiet that a chipmunk stole out of a tiny hole that he had dug between the roots of a tree. He came to her, sniffed at a cracker she was munching, and tickled her cheek with his nose; whereupon she cautiously put out her hand with a piece of the cracker on it. The chipmunk was frightened and ran away. But the piece of cracker looked very tempting, and before long he lost his fear and ventured close again. Step by step he crept along, until, with a frightened squeal, he seized the piece and disappeared. Eepersip

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Rh waited, laughing. In a few minutes he came back again, and this time he took the piece that she held out to him, running only a few steps. The third time he took it calmly and deliberately and ate it without running at all, evidently convinced that Eepersip was a friend. And the fourth time he was even more bold, going so far as to sit on her stomach while he ate. But by that time, between them, they had licked the platter cleanthe cracker was gone.

“Just like the doe and her fawn,” Eepersip thought. How fearless he was, the fuzzy brown little creature! It seemed to happy Eepersip that all the wild was ready to make friends, as if nothing were afraid of her. She felt more than ever that she could never leave these entrancing forests. She could never, never go back, she mused. How wonderful it was to lie there watching the things that were happening, and actually to have one of the inhabitants of these woodsa timid one that was usually afraidcome up to her and eat from her hand! This adventure had certainly tightened in her heart the desire to stay always and become acquainted with more and more creatureswith the swallows she loved so well, and with the little fairy butterflies.

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 remarkable may, I think, be inferred both from its preservation, and its recurrence to his memory when the real name of Currer Bell was made known to the public.

Haworth, near Bradford, Yorkshire, January 19, 1837. ",—I most earnestly entreat you to read and pass your judgment upon what I have sent you, because from the day of birth to this the nineteenth year of my life, I have lived among secluded hills, where I could neither know what I was, or what I could do. I read for the same reason that I ate or drank; because it was a real craving of nature. I wrote on the same principle as I spoke—out of the impulse and feelings of the mind; nor could I help it, for what came, came out, and there was the end of it. For as to self-conceit, that could not receive food from flattery, since to this hour, not half a dozen people in the world know that I have ever penned a line.

"But a change has taken place now, sir: and I am arrived at an age wherein I must do something for myself: the powers I possess must be exercised to a definite end, and as I don't know them myself I must ask of others what they are worth. Yet there is not one here to tell me; and still, if they are worthless, time will henceforth be too precious to be wasted on them.

"Do pardon me, sir, that I have ventured to come before one whose works I have most loved in our literature, and who most has been with me a divinity of the mind,—laying before him one of my writings,


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is a country of which the outer barbarian world as yet knows little. By slow degrees, however, the great wave of progress is making inroads even in that jealously guarded group of islands; but as yet it is but in three places, not in themselves of much importance that the country is open to foreign commerce. The capital is only accessible to diplomatic agents, and the excursions which have been made into the interior have been of an imperfect kind.

Yeddo, with the great volcanic cone of Fusiyama prominent in all the views of the city: Yokohama, Kanagawa, Kagosima, the Central Sea,—these names bring before us almost all that we really know about Japan. There are maps of the empire to be found, which show the divisions and towns of the great island of Nippon, and also of the smaller islands of the group; but we know little of them except their names and their relative position. The day is yet to come when the physical geography of this fine group of islands will be laid bare to the researches of Western men of science. The latitude of the islands, together with the influence of that warm ocean current which may be called the Pacific Gulf Stream, ensures for them a mild climate; and rice, cotton, and silk are among the varied productions of this favoured country. At the same time, it must not be forgotten that earthquakes are not unusual, that the volcanic fires are not yet extinct in Japan, and that the shores are sometimes visited by the fierce typhoons which desolate the neighbouring seas.

The people themselves, however, their religion and government, their houses, their manners and customs, have been subject to observation in the different towns open to foreigners; and several accounts have been laid before the public. Of these, none is more interesting than the narrative of his life in Japan which has been given to the world by M. Aimé Humbert, the Swiss minister in Japan, who arrived there in the year 1863, and who has prepared a narrative of his sojourn in Yokohama and Yeddo, and his excursions in the neighbourhood of these places, which is extremely lively and interesting. M. Humbert's observations are chiefly upon the people; and his remarks and the number of illustrations with which the descriptions in his two magnificent volumes are enriched, bring before us the Japanese, at least of the cities, with very great vividness. They live and move before our eyes: we see them in their temples, in their court dresses, in their everyday life, in their amusements, in the pursuit of their trades and professions in the exercise of justice, in the celebration of their annual fêtes.

The Japanese, M. Humbert thinks, are of diverse origin. Some possibly came from China, some were Mongols from the neighbouring Corea; but doubtless many derive their descent from ancestors whose frail boats were drifted from the Malaysian Archipelago far to the south. The Japanese are not a tall race: the head and chest are generally large, the legs short, the hands small and often beautiful, the hair long, smooth, and black, the nose well-defined, the eyes more prominent than those of Europeans, the dominant colour of the skin an olive brown, though the colour varies from an almost copper brown to a dull white. The women are lighter in colour than the men, and in the higher classes they are often perfectly white.

In their domestic relations the Japanese are kindly, especially to their children, for whom they have intense affection, and for whose pleasure they will make any sacrifice. The Japanese takes but one wife; but he has it in his power to take secondary spouses, and not unfrequently avails himself of the privilege. The Japanese women are in a state of extreme subjection to their lords.

The religion of the vast mass of the people is Buddhism, with a vast array of bonzes or priests, and great temples, colossal idols, and a complicated system of worship. One of the grandest of the idols is well described by M. Humbert; it is the image of Diaboudhs, the great Buddha:—"The road to the temple is distant from all habitations; it winds between tall hedges, then a straight road mounts up between foliage and flowers, then a sudden turn follows, and all at once, at the end of an avenue, is seen a gigantic divinity of copper, seated in a squatting attitude, with the hands joined and in the attitude of contemplative ecstasy." The acceptance of the Buddhist doctrine of the ultimate passing of man into annihilation produces, it is said, in the Japanese, that wonderful disregard of human life which is one of their most remarkable characteristics. But besides the Buddhist theology, there is also a worship of the Kamis, or ancestral divinities, which prevails in Japan. The Kamis are not always the ancestors of separate families: the greatest of them, indeed, are the fabled ancestors of the whole Japanese race. But the belief in these ancestral deities leads to a vast amount of reverence being paid to the memory of the dead, and to annual visits to the tombs of the departed. These visits to the hills of the dead which surround the towns are distinguished by much illumination of torches, and terminate with a setting afloat of little boats, each with lights, which drift down the river at night, and of which the lights are one by one extinguished. There is, besides, a belief in a number of tutelary deities, some of whom are half-mystic heroes—gods who preside over the events of life, whose fêtes are occasions of much national rejoicing, and whose influence contributes to counteract the sombre effects which an exclusively Buddhist belief would produce. Of one of these, Hoteï, the accompanying illustration gives a representation, the fac-simile of a Japanese drawing. Hoteï is the personification of contentment in the midst of poverty. He is the sage who possesses no worldly goods—the Diogenes of the great Nippon. His sole belongings are a scrap of coarse hempen cloth, a wallet, and a fan. When his wallet is empty, he only laughs at it, and lends it to the children in the street, who use it for their games. For his part, he converts it by turns into a mattrass, a pillow, a mosquito-net: he seats himself on it as on an inflated skin to cross a current of water. Hoteï leads a somewhat vagabond life. He is sometimes met mounted on the buffalo belonging to a cultivator

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 and asking of him a judgment of its contents. I must come before some one from whose sentence there is no appeal; and such a one is he who has developed the theory of poetry as well as its practice, and both in such a way as to claim a place in the memory of a thousand years to come.

"My aim, sir, is to push out into the open world, and for this I trust not poetry alone—that might launch the vessel, but could not bear her on; sensible and scientific prose, bold and vigorous efforts in my walk in life, would give a farther title to the notice of the world; and then again poetry ought to brighten and crown that name with glory; but nothing of all this can be ever begun without means, and as I don't possess these, I must in every shape strive to gain them. Surely, in this day, when there is not a writing poet worth a sixpence, the field must be open, if a better man can step forward.

"What I send you is the Prefatory Scene of a much longer subject, in which I have striven to develope strong passions and weak principles struggling with a high imagination and acute feelings, till, as youth hardens towards age, evil deeds and short enjoyments end in mental misery and bodily ruin. Now, to send you the whole of this would be a mock upon your patience; what you see, does not even pretend to be more than the description of an imaginative child. But read it, sir; and, as you would hold a light to one in utter darkness—as you value your own kind-heartedness—return me an answer, if but one word,


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12 by the pool, she saw so many beautiful things here and there that she never knew what to do in her delight. Iris blossomed in gold and blue; butterflies danced overhead like yellow rose-petals flying in the breeze. Once, running over to the pool, she found a tiny beach, about fifteen inches long and half a foot wideno more than a handful of sand completely hidden in a forest of ferns. Across it ran the chipmunk's footprints, and the marks of his wee claws could be plainly seen in the damp sand. That little beach was the earth's dear treasure, so it seemed to Eepersip, alone in that wild place. In the fields all around, thousands of buttercups blossomed, and great beds of daisies whitened the earth's brown surface.

In one place, among dark ferns, grew columbine, gay little gypsies curtseying in the breeze. Their colours spoke to her of dawn, gold sunset and white clouds, snow-banks fringed with icicles, night sky entwined with moonbeams, black clouds and radiant sun, or orange, yellow, and scarlet leavesautumn leaves. She gathered some, and made a rainbow wreath of blossoms; and curling about her hair, they danced again.

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(3) A person (the first person) commits an offence if:

 * (a) the first person makes a threat to another person (the second person) to take a reprisal against the second person or a third person; and

 * (b) the first person:

 * (i) intends the second person to fear that the threat will be carried out; or

 * (ii) is reckless as to the second person fearing that the threat will be carried out.

Penalty: Imprisonment for 2 years.

(4) For the purposes of subsection (3), the threat may be:

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 but its possessor now disengaged it and turned away, briefly presenting a meditative back. He was soon reestablished none the less in his chair with his fresh cigar and every preparation, it would seem, for the issue. Yet he smoked another moment. "And is the other person you?"

"That's what I count him; though for certainty one should be able to ask him—which one isn't. It's he himself only who can know; and I've enough," said Ralph, "with my own side of the matter. But the whole affair," he continued, "was that we should exchange identities; an arrangement all the more easy that he bears an extraordinary resemblance to me and that on my first meeting him I even made the mistake of taking him for a wondrous reflection—in a glass or wherever—of my own shape."

The Ambassador was slow; yet as Ralph, once launched, panted a little, he had the effect of breaking in. "And did he take you for a reflection of his? You're sure," he asked, "that you know which of you is which?"

Ralph waited a little; then very gently and reasonably, "Be as patient as you can with me," he returned. "You shall have it all, and as clear as possible. But be very kind." His host, as to correct the idea of anything else, made a quick expressive movement, which was, however, checked by our friend's manner. "It's a most extraordinary thing, you see, to have befallen a 96


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 telling me whether I should write on, or write no more. Forgive undue warmth, because my feelings in this matter cannot be cool; and believe me, sir, with deep respect, "Your really humble servant, "P. B. ."

The poetry enclosed seems to me by no means equal to parts of the letter; but, as everyone likes to judge for himself, I copy the six opening stanzas—about a third of the whole, and certainly not the worst.


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Rh she thought, “bringing her flower-clouds and clasping them with pearl seeds.”

Eepersip was anxious to know what was on the southern slope of this highest peak of Mt. Varcrobis. So one day along she went, happily singing, until she came to it. Then she was surprised to find that this slope, instead of being a rocky precipice as the one had been at the foot of Eiki-ennern Peak, went down steeply for a little way and then broadened out into an enormous field, on the farther side of which was a herd of deer. Away, away, Eepersip could just see to the edge of this plain-like field. With a shout, down she dashed; and, dancing as she had never danced before, she sang like a nightingale for joy of her discovery. And yet, she thought to herself, what if it should be a dream? She was quite sure that it was not, though, for she had felt decidedly awake when she started off. But, because she had started before anyone else was up or even awake, she thought that she might be asleep herself. Anyhow, if it was a dream, it was a lovely one, and she need not worry

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Application

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 * (i) to another person who works in a professional capacity as a journalist; and

 * (ii) the information is given in the normal course of the journalist's work as a journalist; and

 * (b) the journalist reasonably believes that the informant has provided the information on the express or implied understanding that the informant's identity would not be disclosed.

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Ghose - 1922.djvu"] = { year = 1922, cover = 5, title = "Essays On The Gita", author = "Aurobindo Ghose", flag = "India", subject = {"Hinduism"}, status = { initial = "not proofread", }           },            ["The Necromancer, or, The Tale of the Black Forest Vol. 2.djvu"] = { year = 1794, cover = 7, title = "The Necromancer, Or, the Tale of the Black Forest (volume 2)", author = "Karl Friedrich Kahlert", flag = "Germany", subject = {"Requested texts"}, status = { initial = "not proofread", final = "proofread" }           },            ["Across the Zodiac (Volume 2).djvu"] = { year = 1880, cover = 7, title = "Across the Zodiac (Volume 2)", author = "Percy Greg", flag = "UK", subject = {"Sci-Fi"}, status = { initial = "not proofread" }           },            ["At the Earth's Core.djvu"] = { year = 1922, cover = 7, title = "At the Earth's Core", author = "Edgar Rice Burroughs", flag = "US", subject = {"Novels"}, status = { initial = "not proofread" }           },            ["Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire vol 2 (1896).djvu"] = { year = 1897, title = "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (vol 2)", author = "Edward Gibbon", subject = "History", cover = 9, flag = "UK", status = { initial = "not proofread" }           },            ["The Missing Chums.djvu"] = { year = 1928, title = "The Missing Chums", author = "Franklin W. Dixon", subject = {"Public domain", "Adventure"}, cover = 3, flag = "US", status = { initial = "not proofread" }           },            ["The three musketeers (IA threemusketeers1800duma).pdf"] = { year = 1844, title = "The Three Musketeers", author = "Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870)", subject = {"Novels"}, cover = 11, flag = "France", status = { initial = "tofix" }           },            ["Waverley novels (IA cu31924057392452).pdf"] = { year = 1818, title = "The Heart of Midlothian", author = "Walter Scott", subject = {"Novels"}, cover = 11, flag = "Scotland", status = { initial = "not proofread" }           },            ["Pioneersorsource02cooprich.djvu"] = { year = 1823, title = "The Pioneers (volume 2)", author = "James Fenimore Cooper", subject = {"Novels"}, cover = 7, flag = "US", status = { initial = "not proofread" }           },            ["Emma Goldman - Anarchism and Other Essays (2nd Rev. ed.) - 1911.djvu"] = { year = 1911, title = "Anarchism and Other Essays", author = "Emma Goldman", subject = {"Essays", "Feminism"}, cover = 6, flag = "US", status = { initial = "not proofread" }           },            ["Tirukural - tr. Pope - 1886.djvu"] = { year = 1886, title = "Tirukural", author = "Thiruvalluvar", subject = {"Tamil literature"}, cover = 5, flag = "India", status = { initial = "not proofread" }           },            ["Vivian Grey, Volume 3.djvu"] = { year = 1827, cover = 7, title = "Vivian Grey (vol 3)", author = "Benjamin Disraeli", flag = "United Kingdom", subject = {"Novels"}, status = { initial = "not proofread", }           },        },        [1] = {        	['Tristan and Iseult (Belloc 1914).djvu' ] = { year = 1900, title = 'Tristan and Iseult', author = {"Joseph Bédier"}, flag = 'France', cover = 1, subject = { 'Requested Texts' }, status = { initial = 'proofread', }           },            ["Works of Jules Verne - Parke - Vol 8.djvu"] = { cover = 15, year = 1911, author = 'Jules Verne', title = 'Works of Jules Verne (vol 8)', flag = 'France', subject = {'Novels', 'Adventure'}, status = { initial = 'not proofread', final = 'proofread', }           },            ['The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy (Volume 8).pdf' ] = { cover = 8, year = 1760, author = 'Laurence Sterne', title = 'The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy (Volume 8)', flag = 'UK', subject = {'Fiction'}, status = { initial = 'not proofread', }   	    },         ['West African Studies.djvu' ] = { year = 1899, title = 'West African Studies', author = {"Mary Henrietta Kingsley"}, flag = 'UK', cover = 12, subject = { 'Travelogue', 'Africa' }, status = { initial = 'not proofread', }           },         ['The Mystery of the Blue Train.pdf'] = { year = 1928, title = 'The Mystery of the Blue Train', author = {"Agatha Christie"}, flag = 'UK', cover = 9, subject = {'Public Domain', 'Mystery'}, status = { initial = 'not proofread', final = "proofread" }           },            ['Satyagraha in South Africa.pdf'] = { year = 1928, title = 'Satyagraha in South Africa', author = {"Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi", "Valji Govindji Desai"}, flag = 'India', cover = 7, subject = {'Public Domain'}, status = { initial = 'not proofread', final = "proofread" }           },            ['Margaret Mead - Coming of age in Samoa; a psychological study of primitive youth for western civilisation.pdf'] = { year = 1928, title = 'Coming of age in Samoa', author = {"Margaret Mead"}, flag = 'US', cover = 7, subject = {'Public Domain', "Anthropology"}, status = { initial = 'not proofread', }           },            ['How and what to grow in a kitchen garden of one acre (IA howwhattogrowin00darl).pdf'] = { year = 1898, title = 'How and what to grow in a kitchen garden of one acre', author = {"E. D. Darlington"}, flag = 'US', cover = 1, subject = {"Requested Texts"}, status = { initial = 'not proofread', final = "proofread" }           },            ["Lady Chatterley's Lover by DH Lawrence.djvu"] = { year = 1928, title = "Lady Chatterley's Lover", author = {"D. H. Lawrence"}, flag = 'UK', cover = 7, subject = {"Public Domain", "Banned Books"}, status = { initial = 'not proofread', }           },            ['Kalevala (Kirby 1907) v2.djvu'] = { year = 1907, title = 'Kalevala, the Land of Heroes (Volume 2)', author = {"Elias Lönnrot"}, flag = 'Finland', cover = 9, subject = {"National Epics"}, status = { initial = 'not proofread', final = "proofread" }           },            ['Kalevala (Kirby 1907) v1.djvu'] = { year = 1907, title = 'Kalevala, the Land of Heroes (Volume 1)', author = {"Elias Lönnrot"}, flag = 'Finland', cover = 9, subject = {"National Epics"}, status = { initial = 'proofread', }           },            ["John Brown\'s body by Stephen Vincent Benét.djvu"] = { year = 1928, title = 'John Brown\'s Body', author = {"Stephen Vincent Benét"}, flag = 'US', cover = 7, subject = {"Public domain", "Poetry", "Pulitzer Prize"}, status = { initial = 'not proofread', }           },            ["Poems for Workers - ed. Manuel Gomez (1925).djvu"] = { year = 1925, title = 'Poems for Workers', author = {"Various"}, flag = 'US', cover = 3, subject = {"Public domain", "Poetry",}, status = { initial = 'not proofread', final = "validated" }           },            ["The Reshaping of British Railways (Beeching Report).pdf"] = { year = 1963, title = 'The Reshaping of British Railways', author = {"Richard Beeching"}, flag = 'UK', cover = 1, subject = {"Railways", "British history"}, status = { initial = 'not proofread', }           },            ["Scc-reedley-report-11.15.pdf"] = { year = 2023, title = 'Investigation into the Reedly Biolab', author = {"Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party"}, flag = 'US', cover = 1, subject = {"United States Congress", "CCP"}, status = { initial = 'not proofread', }           },            ["Johnsonian Miscellanies I.djvu"] = { year = 1897, title = 'Johnsonian Miscellanies (volume 1)', author = {"George Birkbeck Norman Hill"}, flag = 'UK', cover = 5, subject = {"Biography"}, status = { initial = 'not proofread', }           },            ["Copyright, Its History And Its Law (1912).djvu"] = { year = 1912, title = 'Copyright, Its History and its Law', author = {"Richard Rogers Bowker"}, flag = 'US', cover = 11, subject = {"Copyright", "Law"}, status = { initial = 'not proofread', }           },            ["Self-help with illustrations of conduct and perseverance (IA selfhelpwithillu00smiliala).pdf"] = { year = 1905, title = 'Self-Help; with Illustrations of Character and Conduct', author = {"Samuel Smiles"}, flag = 'UK', cover = 11, subject = {"Self-help"}, status = { initial = 'not proofread', }           },            [ 'CTRL0000034609 - Transcribed Interview of Kashyap Pramod Patel, (December 9, 2021).pdf' ] = { year = 2021, flag = 'United States', author = 'Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol', title = 'Transcribed Interview of Kashyap Pramod Patel, (December 9, 2021)', subject = 'United States Congress', cover = 1, status = { initial= 'not proofread', }			},           [ 'Peter Pan (1928).pdf' ] = { year = 1928, flag = 'UK', author = 'James Matthew Barrie', title = 'Peter Pan; or, the Boy Who Would Not Grow Up', subject = {"Public domain", "Plays", "Children"}, cover = 9, status = { initial= 'not proofread', }			},			["Cicero (Collins 1871).djvu"] = { year = 1871, cover = 7, author = "William Lucas Collins", title = "Cicero", flag = "Rome", subject = {"Classics"}, status = { initial = "not proofread", },           },        },        [2] = {            ["Brinkley - China - Volume 1.djvu"] = { year = 1902, cover = 15, title = "China: Its History, Arts and Literature (Volume 1)", author = "Francis Brinkley", flag = "China", subject = {"Chinese Culture"}, status = { initial = "not proofread", }           },        	[ 'CTRL0000034608 - Deposition of John Eastman, (Dec. 9, 2021).pdf' ] = { year = 2021, flag = 'United States', author = 'Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol', title = 'Deposition of John Eastman, (Dec. 9, 2021)', subject = 'United States Congress', short = "yes", cover = 1, status = { initial = 'proofread', final = "validated" }			},             ['The Grey Fairy Book.djvu' ] = { year = 1900, title = 'The Grey Fairy Book', author = {"Andrew Lang"}, flag = 'Scotland', cover = 7, subject = { 'Children\'s' }, status = { initial = 'not proofread', }           },	            ["The Works of H G Wells Volume 10.pdf"] = { cover = 13, year = 1925, author = "H. G. Wells", title = "The Works of H.G. Wells (Volume 10)", flag = "UK", subject = {"Fiction"}, status = { initial = "not proofread", final = "tofix" }           },            ["The Count of Monte-Cristo (1887 Volume 3).djvu"] = { year = 1888, title = "The Count of Monte-Cristo (volume 3)", author = {"Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870)"}, subject = { "Novels" }, cover = 9, flag = "France", status = { initial = "proofread", }           },            ["The Count of Monte-Cristo (1887 Volume 4).djvu"] = { year = 1888, title = "The Count of Monte-Cristo (volume 4)", author = {"Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870)"}, subject = { "Novels" }, cover = 7, flag = "France", status = { initial = "proofread", }           },            ["The Count of Monte-Cristo (1887 Volume 5).djvu"] = { year = 1888, title = "The Count of Monte-Cristo (volume 5)", author = {"Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870)"}, subject = { "Novels" }, cover = 9, flag = "France", status = { initial = "not proofread", final = "proofread" }           },            ["Tristram.djvu"] = { year = 1927, title = "Tristram", author = {"Edwin Arlington Robinson"}, subject = { "Poetry", "Pulitzers" }, cover = 9, flag = "United States", status = { initial = "proofread", }           },            ["The return of the soldier (IA returnofsoldier00west2).pdf"] = { year = 1918, title = "The Return of the Soldier", author = {"Rebecca West"}, subject = { "Novella" }, cover = 1, flag = "UK", status = { initial = "proofread", }           },            ["The New Centurion - Eastwick - 1895.pdf"] = { year = 1895, title = "The New Centurion", author = {"James Eastwick"}, subject = { "Novels", "Requested texts" }, cover = 6, flag = "UK", status = { initial = "not proofread" }           },            ["The Next Naval War - Eardley-Wilmot - 1894.djvu"] = { year = 1894, title = "The Next Naval War", author = {"Sydney Marow Eardley-Wilmot"}, subject = { "Military history", "Requested texts" }, cover = 7, flag = "UK", status = { initial = "proofread", }           },            ["Vivian Grey, Volume 2.djvu"] = { year = 1826, cover = 7, title = "Vivian Grey (vol 2)", author = "Benjamin Disraeli", flag = "United Kingdom", subject = {"Novels"}, status = { initial = "not proofread", final = "proofread" }           },            ["The records of the Virginia company of London - Volume 1.djvu"] = { year = 1906, cover = 11, title = "The records of the Virginia company of London (vol 1)", flag = "US", subject = {"American history", "Requested texts"}, status = { initial = "not proofread", }           },            ["Horrid Mysteries Volume 3.djvu"] = { year = 1796, cover = 5, title = "Horrid Mysteries (vol 3)", author = "Carl Friedrich August Grosse", flag = "Germany", subject = {"Gothics", "Requested texts"}, status = { initial = "not proofread", }           },            ["The Celtic twilight. Men and women (IA celtictwilightme00yeat).pdf"] = { year = 1894, cover = 5, title = "The Celtic Twilight", author = "William Butler Yeats", flag = "Ireland", subject = {"Poetry"}, status = { initial = "not proofread", }           },            ["Following the Equator (Mark Twain).djvu"] = { year = 1897, cover = 9, title = "Following the Equator", author = "Mark Twain", flag = "US", subject = {"Novels"}, status = { initial = "not proofread", }           },            ["The Black Moth.pdf"] = { year = 1921, cover = 7, title = "The Black Moth", author = "Georgette Heyer", flag = "US", subject = {"Novels", "Requested texts"}, status = { initial = "not proofread", }           },            ["Illustrations of the history of medieval thought and learning.djvu"] = { year = 1920, cover = 7, title = "Illustrations of the History of Medieval Thought and Learning", author = "Reginald Lane Poole", flag = "UK", subject = {"Medieval history"}, status = { initial = "not proofread", }           },            ["Unclos e.djvu"] = { year = 1982, cover = 1, title = "United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea", flag = "United Nations", subject = {"Treaties"}, status = { initial = "not proofread", }           },            ["A chambermaid's diary.djvu"] = { year = 1900, cover = 7, title = "A Chambermaid's Diary", author = "Octave Mirbeau", flag = "France", subject = {"Novels"}, status = { initial = "not proofread", final = "proofread" }           },            ["A history of Hungarian literature.djvu"] = { year = 1906, cover = 7, title = "A History of Hungarian Literature", author = "Frigyes Riedl", flag = "Hungary", subject = {"Literature", "History"}, status = { initial = "not proofread", }           },            			["Chapters on Jewish literature (IA chaptersonjewish00abra).pdf"] = { year = 1899, title = "Chapters on Jewish Literature", author = "Israel Abrahams", subject = "Jewish literature", cover = 7, flag = "United Kingdom", status = { initial = "not proofread" }           },            ["The Innocents Abroad (1869).djvu"] = { year = 1869, cover = 15, title = "The Innocents Abroad", author = "Mark Twain", flag = "USA", subject = {"Travel", "Humor"}, status = { initial = "not proofread", final = "proofread" }           },	            ["Henryk Sienkiewicz - Quo Vadis (1897 Curtin translation).djvu"] = { year = 1897, title = "Quo Vadis: A Narrative of the Time of Nero", author = "Henryk Sienkiewicz", subject = "Novels, Christianity", cover = 11, flag = "Poland", status = { initial = "not proofread" }           },            -- extensions ["Works of Jules Verne - Parke - Vol 2.djvu"] = { cover = 15, year = 1911, author = 'Jules Verne', title = 'Works of Jules Verne (vol 2)', flag = 'France', subject = {'Novels', 'Adventure'}, status = { initial = 'not proofread', final = "proofread" }           },    	    ['Mosquitos (Faulkner).pdf' ] = { cover = 7, year = 1927, author = 'William Faulkner', title = 'Mosquitos', flag = 'USA', subject = {'Fiction', "Celebrating the Public Domain"}, status = { initial = 'not proofread', final = "proofread" }   	    },			["The last of the Mohicans (1826 Volume 3).djvu"] = { cover = 5, year = 1826, author = "James Fenimore Cooper", title = "The Last of the Mohicans (Volume 3)", flag = "USA", subject = {"Novel"}, status = { initial = "not proofread", final = "proofread" }       	},            ["The Music of the Spheres.djvu"] = { year = 1926, cover = 3, title = "The Music of the Spheres", author = "Beatrice Hart Slaight", flag = "United States", subject = {"Celebrating the Public Domain", "Astronomy"}, status = { initial = "not proofread" }           },			[ 'History of Woman Suffrage Volume 4.djvu' ] = { year = 1888, title = 'History of Woman Suffrage (Volume 4)', author = 'Elizabeth Cady Stanton', flag = 'USA', cover = 7, subject = { 'Women\'s Rights'}, status = { initial = "not proofread" }           },

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title: Module:Monthly Challenge/data/2024-02


text: Wikisource:Community collaboration/Monthly Challenge/February 2024


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Module:Monthly Challenge category stats/data/2024-02

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14 At last Mrs: Eigleen said: "Something very queer has happened to our child. She must have seen something of other that has made her want to go off. But I will tell you what we can do. We'll take the Wraspanes’ big tent, and, fetching the Ikkisfields, we can camp near where one of us sees Eepersip; for I’m sure that she wouldn’t leave Mount Varcrobis unless absolutely compelled to. We can learn what habits Eepersip has got into, and perhaps we can catch her by some plan. My husband and you, Mr. Wraspane, are the spry ones, and perhaps you can hide behind trees and catch her when she goes past."

"What a grand idea!" cried everybody else in one voice; and without further ado they decided to carry it out.

So the very next day Mr. Eigleen and Mr. Wraspane set off to explore, on the chance of finding Eepersip or discovering where she was living. They reasoned out that Eepersip must have gone through the Wraspanes’ land when running off; because on the western side of the Eigleens’ little cottage there was a dense wood, of which Eepersip had always been rather afraid, it was so dark and mysterious. They went through the field of rhododendrons, on the selfsame path, and at last came out in the same small glade in which Eepersip had

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Soon after Charlotte returned to Dewsbury Moor, she was distressed by hearing that her friend E. was likely to leave the neighbourhood for a considerable length of time.

"Feb. 20th. "What shall I do without you? How long are we likely to be separated? Why are we to be denied each other's society? It is an inscrutable fatality. I long to be with you, because it seems as if two or three days, or weeks, spent in your company would beyond measure strengthen me in the enjoyment of those feelings which I have so lately begun to cherish. You first pointed out to me that way in which I am so feebly endeavouring to travel, and now I cannot keep you by my side, I must proceed sorrowfully alone. Why are we to be divided? Surely, it must be because we are in danger of loving each other too well—of losing sight of the Creator in idolatry of the creature. At first, I could not say 'Thy will be done!' I felt rebellious, but I knew it was wrong to feel so. Being left a moment alone this morning, I prayed fervently to be enabled to resign myself to every decree of God's will, though it should be dealt forth by a far severer hand than the present disappointment; since then I have felt calmer and humbler, and


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Rh seen the deer, with the same brooklet running across it. They hunted all over it, but no trace of Eepersip could they find. They began to feel foolish. They decided to go back and tell the waiting folks that they had not seen a glimpse of her, when a glorious burst of singing reached their ears. Immediately they turned and ran in the direction of the voice. But still they didn’t see her, for they never dreamed that she had gone up the steep slope of Eiki-ennern Peak. And they began to feel still more foolish.

At last, after a lot of aimless wandering through forests, glades, and fields, they decided to give it up for just then and tell the folks that they had heard her, but couldn’t find her. So back they went, feeling very foolish indeed.

"We were looking for her everywhere," said Mr. Eigleen, "and after we had searched for a long time we heard this excellent singing, better than I thought she could utter, and we went in its direction, but couldn't find her. So I am beginning to think that 'twasn't she at all--either she or a fairy."

"Fairy!" exclaimed Mrs. Eigleen, indignantly "fairy! There is no such thing as 'fairy' stupid!"

Mr. Eigleen cast a wink at his partner hunter,

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16 Mr. Wraspane. "Anyhow," said he, "fairy or none, we heard the singing."

Again Mrs. Eigleen burst out with: "But why didn't you go right to the sound?"

"Dear wife," said Mr. Eigleen, "we couldn't, because directly in front of that sound there was a very steep rocky slopeyou know very well the slope of Eiki-ennern Peak."

"Well," said Mrs. Eigleen, "if the voice came from behind behind that slope, Eepersip must have got to the top of Eiki-ennern Peak somehow, and if she did, you can. Wait with us a while and have lunch, and then go and try to find her again, and I will come with you."

"All right," said Mr. Eigleen.

Accordingly, after lunch all three started off on a fresh quest. They searched the little glade high and low once more, but with the same ill luck. Really Eepersip saw them all the time, but while they were here she was there, and while they were there she was here, all the time keeping out of sight behind bushes and trees: And when she rustled the leaves and they heard her, they thought that it was just the breezes making commotion in the leaves and grass.

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Rh it looked; yet she didn’t give it up, for her greatest hope was to have Eepersip back again. At length Eepersip lost sight of them and, thinking that they had gone, she began to sing. They all started, and began to run in the direction of the voice. This time they didn't hesitate to go right up the steep slope of Eiki-ennern Peak. Mrs. Eigleen leading, they all three dashed up, with not a thought of the brambles that they were getting into.

When they got to the top, what a sight met their puzzled eyes! There was Eepersip dancing to her own singing, and ever and again she looked up at a little butterfly which fluttered over her head, and curtseyed before it. Great waves of happiness were flowing through her all the time. They made no effort to call her, but only stood enchanted until she danced off to the field. Then they quickly walked away. First they went back to their own little cottage and collected some of the important belongings which they had left there. Next they went on to the Wraspanes’ house and got the tent and other necessary things. Then, with the Ikkisfields and the Wraspanes, they started off for the top of Eiki-ennern Peak.

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Dec. 16, 1869] of the rice-fields. All the country-folk are his friends. He sleeps under the trees; and the children awake him. Then he takes them in his arms, tells them stories of the sky, the moon, the stars, all the magnificence of nature, treasures which no one knows better than himself how to enjoy.

The government of Japan is a species of feudal confederation, with a theocratic head. The Mikado, the son of the gods, and hereditary emperor, is the representative of the sacred power; but the civil and military administration rested until very recently in the hands of his lieutenant-general, the Tycoon, whose headquarters were in Yeddo. The great princes, or Daimios, are in many instances almost independent, and they are only held in subjection by being obliged to have a double residence; one on their own estates, and the other in Yeddo, where their families are kept as hostages for their good behaviour. The Yaconins, or military following of the Daimios, constitute a turbulent class of the population, bound solely to their feudal lords, and ready for any fray that may happen. It is among the Japanese of the upper classes that the act of hara-kiri is practised. This is a suicide, nominally accomplished by plunging a knife into the bowels, but really, in cases of punishment, by the assistance of the person who stands prepared to strike off the head of the victim at the moment when the knife is placed for the fatal blow.

The Japanese are a cultivated people, with letters and literature partly of Chinese origin, but modified in order to adapt them to Japanese use. They have also a distinct national history: and their literature, though not rich in philosophical disquisitions, abounds in legends, in fables, in satirical descriptions. The Japanese have also highly developed artistic tastes; and painting, drawing, and sculpture are followed as distinct professions. The Japanese drawing does not always satisfy European exigencies with regard to perspective; but the colouring is brilliant, and in Japanese sketches, whether of plants or animals, people or landscape, there is a breadth, life, and truth, which many European artists of much higher pretensions might envy. In fact, the best notions that we can obtain of Japanese life and its surroundings are to be derived from the numerous sketches by Japanese artists which exist, and which represent the people pursuing their daily occupations. M. Humbert has profusely illustrated his work with pictures—partly facsimiles of native work, partly drawn after sketches made by Japanese artists. The Japanese have what the Chinese seem to be deficient in a strong sense of humour; and this they exhibit in a very striking manner in their sketches, in which human beings are represented by typical animals. Thus, sketches may be seen in which an old bonze is represented as a wolf, a group of Buddhist nuns as weasels, and a company of rats acting as rice-merchants.

The artistic tastes of the people and their love of Nature are both illustrated by their passion for flowers, and by the skill with which they are cultivated. No feast is considered perfect without flowers, and flower-shows meet with as much approbation in Japan as in England. The Japanese gardeners exhibit great skill in the arts of raising new varieties of flowers, of grafting plants, so that different flowers and leaves grow in what appear to be branches of the same plant: and they are, above all, learned in the manufacture of dwarfed plants, which are in great request as house ornaments. The Japanese delight in gardens, and they lay out small pieces of ground with wonderful skill, contriving to "give ample space to narrow bounds" with much ingenuity. The vast enceinte of Yeddo encloses much garden ground, and the people make at least three definite excursions to the suburbs at different times of the year, to see with their own eyes how the seasons progress. These excursions are often made as picnics, in which merry family groups take part. The Japanese have also a great fondness for aquaria; every house possesses one, and an aquarium, with small fish in it, is a very common object to be seen in houses.

The Japanese common people, both the bourgeoisie and the lower orders, take life with as much enjoyment as possible. The fêtes of various gods, who are patrons of one or other of the numerous industries exercised, afford occasion for long processions, with great displays of banners and symbols, for much merriment, and a not always dignified or moderate consumption of saki. Nor are the pilgrimages made to the sacred, snow-covered Fusi-yama and to the various habitations of holy hermits altogether without alleviations. The events of domestic life—births, marriages, deaths, presentations of children in the temple, the coming-of-age of boys, when they have completed their fifteenth year, visits to the burial-places of ancestors—all afford occasion for friendly meetings, and for much ceremonial.

Theatrical entertainments, and the performances of wrestlers, acrobats, jugglers, and ballet dancers are among the public amusements to which the Japanese are passionately attached. The theatres at Yeddo to which foreigners have had access are chiefly those patronised by the bourgeoisie; but among the audience are to be found nobles who assume a dress intended to show that they pay their visit incognito. Wrestlers are under special imperial patronage, and are much favoured by the people. The contests consist chiefly of struggles as to which of two competitors shall by mere weight push the other out of a circle marked off by bags filled with straw. Japanese wrestling is utterly unlike what is understood in England by the same term: and the men engaged in it are generally in a fleshy condition which, among ourselves, would be considered utterly incompatible with a state of "training." The feats of performers who execute wonderful

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 Within each country the task is not so much to support an organization that has outlived itself, as to bring together the genuinely aggressive revolutionary elements of the proletariat, who are already, in the struggle against Imperialism, gravitating into the front ranks. On the international field, the task is not to coalesce and "conciliate" government-Socialists at diplomatic conferences (as at Stockholm!), but to secure a union of the revolutionary internationalists of all countries and the pursuit of a common course of action in the Social Revolution within each country.

To be sure, the revolutionary internationalists at the head of the working class at present constitute, throughout Europe, an insignificant minority. But we Russians ought to be the last to take fright at such a state of affairs. We know how quickly, in revolutionary moments, the minority may become a majority. As soon as the accumulating resentment of the working class finally breaks through the crust of government discipline, the group of Liebknecht, Luxemburg, Mehring, and their adherents will immediately assume a leading position at the head of the German working class. Only a social-revolutionary policy can justify a division in the organization,—but at the same time, it makes such a division inevitable.

The Menshevik internationalists, those who are of like mind with Comrade Martov, in opposition to us, deny the social-revolutionary character of the political task. Russia, they declare in their platform, is not yet ready for Socialism, and our function is necessarily limited to the founding of a democratic bourgeois republic. This whole attitude is based on a complete rejection of the international problems of the proletariat. If Russia were alone in the world, Martov's reasoning would be correct. But we are engaged in carrying out a world revolution, in a struggle with world Imperialism, with the tasks of the world proletariat, which includes the Russian proletariat. Instead of explaining to the Russian workers that the destinies of Russia are at present inextricably bound up with the destinies of Europe, that the success of the European proletariat will assure us a swifter realization of a Socialist society, that on the other hand, a defeat of the European proletariat will hurl us back into a condition of imperialistic dictatorship and monarchy, and finally into the status of mere colonies of England and the United States, instead of subordinating all our tactics to the general aims and objects of the European proletariat. Comrade Martov looks upon the Russian Revolution from a narrow nationalistic standpoint and reduces the task of the Revolution to that of


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 creating a bourgeois democratic republic. This formulation of the question is fundamentally false, for over it there hovers the curse of narrow-minded nationalism, which led to the downfall of the Second International.

By limiting himself, in practice, to a national outlook, Comrade Martov secures the possibility of living in the same camp with the social-patriots. He hopes, with Dan and Tseretelli, to pass through the "miasma" of nationalism unharmed, for the latter will disappear with the war, and then he intends to come back, together with them, into the "regular" channels of the class struggle. Martov is bound to the social-patriots, not by a mere empty party tradition, but by their profoundly opportunistic attitude on the Social Revolution, for they regard it as a remote goal, which should have no share in the formulation of the problems of today. And that is what separates them from us.

The struggle for obtaining power it not, for us, merely the next step of a national democratic revolution. No, it is the fulfillment of our international duty, the conquest of one of the most important positions on the whole front of the struggle against world Imperialism. And it is this standpoint that determines our relation to the so-called question of defending the fatherland. A temporary shifting of the front to one side or the other cannot halt and cannot turn aside our struggle, which is directed against the very foundations of Capitalism, which seems bent on the mutual imperialistic destruction of the peoples of all nations.

An unceasing revolution against this unceasing slaughter! That is our fight; and the stakes are the destinies of humanity.


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The openly counter-revolutionary character of the Moscov Conference, emphasized by the reactionary proposals of Kaledine, Kornilov, Guchkov & Co., created a revulsion of feeling among the revolutionary masses. The re-appearance upon the stage of the extreme reactionary forces pushed the Soviets into the extreme Left, and made inescapable a repudiation of its moderate policy. The Soviets could no longer play the role of the centre. The assertions of the Bolsheviki, that the Coalition Government was an instrument of reaction, were confirmed by the openly organizing forces of the counter-revolution. The events of September and October accelerated the acceptance of a revolutionary policy by the masses, and led inexorably to the Bolshevik Revolution in November and the assumption of all power by the Soviets.

On September 2 the German troops launched an offensive on the Dvina front and on September 3 Riga was captured. All the evidence shows that the fall of Riga was maneuvred by General Kornilov and his staff in order to strike terror in the heart of Russia. By means of contradictory orders and the desertion of the staffs the Riga front was opened to the Germans, who poured through; it was only the activity of the soldiers' committees that prevented a fuller disaster. The documents published by the Bolsheviki offer conclusive procf of the conspiracy and deliberate treachery: General Kornilov's covert threat made at the Moscow Conference had become a reality.

It appeared for a time as if the Germans would press the offensive, and by means of army and fleet capture Petrograd. Ap-


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106 Iqámat, terms which will be explained afterwards.

The regular form of prayer begins with the Niyyat, which is said standing, with the hands on either side:—

"I have purposed to offer up to God only, with a sincere heart this morning (or, as the case may be), with my face Qibla-wards, two (or, as the case may be) rakʾat prayers Farz (Sunnat, or Nafl)."

"Holiness to Thee, O God!"

"And praise be to Thee!"

"Great is Thy name!"


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Ramazán is the ninth month of the Muhammadan year, which is observed as a strict fast from the dawn of day to sunset of each day in the month. The excellence of this month was much extolled by Muhammad, who said that during Ramazán "the gates of Paradise are open, and the gates of hell are shut, and the devils are chained by the leg"; and that "only those who observe it will be permitted to enter by the gate of heaven called Rayyán." Those who keep the fast ‘"will be pardoned all their past venial sins." In the


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 120 month of Ramazán, Muhammad said, the Qurán began to be revealed from heaven.

The fast does not commence until some Musalman is able to state that he has seen the new moon. If the sky be over-clouded and the moon cannot be seen, the fast begins upon the completion of thirty days from the beginning of the previous month.

The Ramazán must be kept by every Musalman, except the sick, the infirm, and pregnant women, or women who are nursing their children. Young children, who have not reached the age of puberty, are exempt, and also travellers on a journey. In the case of a sick person or a traveller, the month's fast must be kept as soon as they are able to perform it. This is called Qazá, or expiation.

The fast is extremely rigorous and mortifying, and when the Ramazán happens to fall in the summer and the days are long, the prohibition even to drink a drop of water to slake the thirst is a very great hardship. Muhammad speaks of this religious exercise as "easy," as most probably it was when com-


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Rh pared with the ascetic spirit of the times. Sir Wilham Muir thinks Muhammad did not foresee that, when he changed the Jewish intercalary year for the lunar year, that the fast would become a grievous burden instead of an easy one; but Muhammadan lexicographers say, the fast was established when the month occurred in the hot season (see note, p. 119).

During the month of Ramazán twenty additional rakʾats, or forms of prayer, are repeated after the night prayer. These are called Taráwíh.

Devout Muslims seclude themselves for some time in the Mosque curing this month, and abstain from all worldly conversation and engage themselves in the reading of the Qurán. This seclusion is called ʾItiqáf. Muhammad is said to have usually observed this custom for the last ten days of Ramazán.

The Laylut-ul-Qadr, or the "night of power," is said by Muhammad to be either on the twenty-first, twenty-third, or twenty-fifth, or twenty-seventh, or twenty-ninth. The exact date of this solemn night has not been dis-


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 122 covered by any but the Prophet himself, and some of the Companions, although the learned doctors believe it to be on the twenty-seventh. Of this night Muhammad says in the Qurán (Surat-ul-Qadr):—

"Verily we have caused it (the Qurán) to descend on the night of power.

"And who shall teach thee what the night of power is?

"The night of power excelleth a thousand months;

"Therein descend the angels and the spirit by permission

"Of their Lord in every matter;

"And all is peace till the breaking of the morn."

By these verses commentators understand that on this night the Qurán came down entire in one volume to the lowest heaven, from whence it was revealed by Gabriel in portions as the occasion required. The excellences of this night are said to be innumerable, and it is believed that during it the whole animal and vegetable kingdom bow in humble adoration


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 Rh to the Almighty, and the waters of the sea become sweet in a moment of time! This night is frequently confounded with the Shab-i-Barát; but even the Qurán itself does not appear to be quite clear on the subject, for in the Surat-i-Dukhán we read, "By this clear book. See, on a blessed night have we sent it down, for we would warn mankind, on the night wherein all things are disposed in wisdom." In which it appears that the blessed night, or the Laylut-ul-Mubarak, is both the night of record and the night upon which the Qurán came down from heaven, although the one is supposed to be the twenty-seventh day of Ramazán, and the other the fifteenth of Shabán.

M. Geiger identifies the Ramazán with the fast of the tenth (Leviticus xxiii. 27); it is, however, far more likely that the fast of the Tenth is identical with the ʾId-i-Ashura, not only because the Hebrew ʾAsúr, ten, is retained in the title of that Muhammadan fast; but also because there is a Jewish tradition (vide Adam Clark), that creation began upon the


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 124 Jewish fast of the Tenth, which coincides with the Muhammadan day ʾAshura, being regarded as the day of creation. Moreover, the Jewish ʾAsur and the Muslim ʾAshura are both fasts and days of affliction. It is far more probable that Muhammad got his idea of a thirty days' fast from the Christian Lent. The observance of Lent in the Eastern Church was exceedingly strict both with regard to the nights as well as the days of that season of abstinence; but Muhammad entirely relaxed the rules with regard to the night, and from sunset till the dawn of day the Muslim is permitted to indulge in any lawful pleasures and to feast with his friends; consequently large evening dinner-parties are usual in the nights of the Ramazán amongst the better classes. This would be what Muhammad meant when he said, "God would make the fast an ease and not a difficulty," for notwithstanding its rigour in the day-time, it must be an easier observance than the strict fast observed during Lent by the Eastern Christians of Muhammad's day.


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(lit. "purification"), the legal alms, or poor rate, is the fourth of the five foundations of practice. Zakát should be given annually of five descriptions of property, provided they have been in possession a whole year; namely, money, cattle, grain, fruit, and merchandise. There are several minor differences amongst the various sects as to the precise explanation of the law with reference to these legal alms; but the following are the general rules observed by Sunni Musulmáns:—

(1.) Money. If he is a Sáhib-i-Nissáb (i. e. one who has had forty rupees in his possession for a year), he must give alms at the rate of one rupee in every forty, or two and a half per cent.

(2.) Cattle. Should his property consist of sheep or goats, he is not obliged to give alms


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180 Naozane came riding along a narrow path onto the beach, with the intention of intercepting one of their great captains. Just then his eye fell on a single horseman who was attempting to reach one of the ships in the offing. The horse he rode was dappled-gray, and its saddle glittered with gold mounting. Not doubting that he was one of the chief captains, Kumagai beckoned to him with his war fan, crying out: “Shameful! to show an enemy your back. Return! Return!”

The warrior turned his horse and rode back to the beach, where Kumagai at once engaged him in mortal combat. Quickly hurling him to the ground, he sprang upon him and tore off his helmet to cut off his head, when he beheld the face of a youth of sixteen or seventeen, delicately powdered and with blackened teeth, just about the age of his own son and with features of great beauty. “Who are you?” he asked. “Tell me your name, for I would spare your life.”

Nay, first say who you are,” replied the young man.

“I am Kumagai Naozane of Musashi, a person of no particular importance.”

“Then you have made a good capture,” said the youth. “Take my head and show it to some of my side, and they will tell you who I am.”

“Though he is one of their leaders,” mused Kumagai, “if I slay him it will not turn victory into defeat, and if I spare him, it will not turn defeat into victory. When my son Kojirō was but slightly wounded at Ichi no tani this morning, did it not pain me? How this young man’s father would grieve to hear that he had been killed! I will spare him.”

Just then, looking behind him, he saw Doi and Kajiwara coming up with fifty horsemen. “Alas! look there,” he exclaimed, the tears running down his face, “though I would spare your life, the whole countryside swarms with our men, and you cannot escape them. If you must die, let it be by my hand, and I will see that prayers are said for your rebirth in Paradise.”

“Indeed it must be so,” said the young warrior. “Cut off my head at once.”

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'''Exodus 14:7  And on that day you are to explain to your son, ‘This is because of what the LORD did for me when I came out of Egypt.’ It shall be a sign for you on your hand and a reminder on your forehead that the Law of the LORD is to be on your lips. For with a mighty hand the LORD brought you out of Egypt. Therefore you shall keep this statute at the appointed time year after year.

And after the LORD brings you into the land of the Canaanites and gives it to you, as He swore to you and your fathers, you are to present to the LORD the firstborn male of every womb. All the firstborn males of your livestock belong to the LORD. You must redeem every firstborn donkey with a lamb, and if you do not redeem it, you are to break its neck. And every firstborn of your sons you must redeem.

In the future, when your son asks you, ‘What does this mean?’ you are to tell him, ‘With a mighty hand the LORD brought us out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. And when Pharaoh stubbornly refused to let us go, the LORD killed every firstborn in the land of Egypt, both of man and beast. This is why I sacrifice to the LORD the firstborn male of every womb, but I redeem all the firstborn of my sons.’ So it shall serve as a sign on your hand and a symbol on your forehead, for with a mighty hand the LORD brought us out of Egypt.”

The Pillars of Cloud and Fire

When Pharaoh let the people go, God did not lead them along the road through the land of the Philistines, though it was shorter. For God said, “If the people face war, they might change their minds and return to Egypt.” So God led the people around by the way of the wilderness toward the Red Sea. And the Israelites left the land of Egypt arrayed for battle.

Moses took the bones of Joseph with him because Joseph had made the sons of Israel swear a solemn oath when he said, “God will surely attend to you, and then you must carry my bones with you from this place.”

They set out from Succoth and camped at Etham on the edge of the wilderness. And the LORD went before them in a pillar of cloud to guide their way by day, and in a pillar of fire to give them light by night, so that they could travel by day or night. Neither the pillar of cloud by day nor the pillar of fire by night left its place before the people. Pharaoh Pursues the Israelites

Then the LORD said to Moses, “Tell the Israelites to turn back and encamp before Pi-hahiroth, between Migdol and the sea. You are to encamp by the sea, directly opposite Baal-zephon.

For Pharaoh will say of the Israelites, ‘They are wandering the land in confusion; the wilderness has boxed them in.’ And I will harden Pharaoh’s heart so that he will pursue them. But I will gain honor by means of Pharaoh and all his army, and the Egyptians will know that I am the LORD.”

So this is what the Israelites did.

When the king of Egypt was told that the people had fled, Pharaoh and his officials changed their minds about them and said, “What have we done? We have released Israel from serving us.”

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'''84 chariots, and all the other chariots of Egypt, with officers over all of them.

And the LORD hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt so that he pursued the Israelites, who were marching out defiantly. The Egyptians—all Pharaoh’s horses and chariots, horsemen and troops—pursued the Israelites and overtook them as they camped by the sea near Pi-hahiroth, opposite Baal-zephon.

As Pharaoh approached, the Israelites looked up and saw the Egyptians marching after them, and they were terrified and cried out to the LORD. They said to Moses, “Was it because there were no graves in Egypt that you brought us into the wilderness to die? What have you done to us by bringing us out of Egypt? Did we not say to you in Egypt, ‘Leave us alone so that we may serve the Egyptians’? For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness.”

But Moses told the people, “Do not be afraid. Stand firm and you will see the LORD’s salvation, which He will accomplish for you today; for the Egyptians you see today, you will never see again. The LORD will fight for you; you need only to be still.”

Parting the Red Sea

Then the LORD said to Moses, “Why are you crying out to Me? Tell the Israelites to go forward. And as for you, lift up your staff and stretch out your hand over the sea and divide it, so that the Israelites can go through the sea on dry ground. And I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians so that they will go in after them. Then I will gain honor by means of Pharaoh and all his army and chariots and horsemen. The Egyptians will know that I am the LORD when I am honored through Pharaoh, his chariots, and his horsemen.”

And the angel of God, who had gone before the camp of Israel, withdrew and went behind them. The pillar of cloud also moved from before them and stood behind them, so that it came between the camps of Egypt and Israel. The cloud was there in the darkness, but it lit up the night. So all night long neither camp went near the other.

Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and all that night the LORD drove back the sea with a strong east wind that turned it into dry land. So the waters were divided, and the Israelites went through the sea on dry ground, with walls of water on their right and on their left.

And the Egyptians chased after them—all Pharaoh’s horses, chariots, and horsemen—and followed them into the sea. At morning watch, however, the LORD looked down on the army of the Egyptians from the pillar of fire and cloud, and He threw their camp into confusion. He caused their chariot wheels to wobble, so that they had difficulty driving. “Let us flee from the Israelites,” said the Egyptians, “for the LORD is fighting for them against Egypt!”

Then the LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand over the sea, so that the waters may flow back over the Egyptians and their chariots and horsemen.” So Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and at daybreak the sea returned to its normal state. As the Egyptians were retreating, the LORD swept them into the sea. The waters flowed back and covered the chariots and horsemen—the entire army of Pharaoh that had chased the Israelites into the sea. Not one of them survived.

But the Israelites had walked through the sea on dry ground, with walls of water on their


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'''Exodus 15:17 right and on their left. That day the LORD saved Israel from the hand of the Egyptians, and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the shore. When Israel saw the great power that the LORD had exercised over the Egyptians, the people feared the LORD and believed in Him and in His servant Moses. The Song at the Sea (Judges 5:1–31)

Then Moses and the Israelites sang this song to the LORD:

“I will sing to the LORD, for He is highly exalted. The horse and rider He has thrown into the sea. The LORD is my strength and my song, and He has become my salvation. He is my God, and I will praise Him, my father’s God, and I will exalt Him.

The LORD is a warrior, the LORD is His name. Pharaoh’s chariots and army He has cast into the sea; the finest of his officers are drowned in the Red Sea. The depths have covered them; they sank there like a stone.

Your right hand, O LORD, is majestic in power; Your right hand, O LORD, has shattered the enemy. You overthrew Your adversaries by Your great majesty. You unleashed Your burning wrath; it consumed them like stubble. At the blast of Your nostrils the waters piled up; like a wall the currents stood firm; the depths congealed in the heart of the sea.

The enemy declared, ‘I will pursue, I will overtake. I will divide the spoils; I will gorge myself on them. I will draw my sword; my hand will destroy them.’ But You blew with Your breath, and the sea covered them. They sank like lead in the mighty waters.

Who among the gods is like You, O LORD? Who is like You—majestic in holiness, revered with praises, performing wonders? You stretched out Your right hand, and the earth swallowed them up. With loving devotion You will lead the people You have redeemed; with Your strength You will guide them to Your holy dwelling.

The nations will hear and tremble; anguish will grip the dwellers of Philistia. Then the chiefs of Edom will be dismayed; trembling will seize the leaders of Moab; those who dwell in Canaan will melt away, and terror and dread will fall on them. By the power of Your arm they will be as still as a stone until Your people pass by, O LORD, until the people You have bought pass by.

You will bring them in and plant them on the mountain of Your inheritance—


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