... ruling unifying idea in men's minds. The impulse of the empire had failed until the Emperor was no more than one of a number of competing princes, and the dream of Christendom also was a fading dream. The developing "powers" jostled one another throughout the world; but for a time it seemed that they might jostle one another indefinitely without any great catastrophe to mankind ... the decrease of population, is the happy consequence of the progress of arts and agriculture. Instead of some rude villages, thinly scattered among its woods and morasses, Germany now produces a list of two t...

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... Earth Charter principles that its members must follow to sustain life on earth in the future. Though the principles are being formulated, however, every individual is obliged to develop virtuous character solely to accomplish the desired goals. The Earth Charter is the fundamental ethical principles declaration in the 21st century for the purpose of developing a sustainable, peaceful and a just society. ... Charter correlates with the theory of virtue ethics on the notion that the Earth Charter radically encompasses a solution to avoid environmental degradation by "asking for a change ...

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... Earth Charter principles that its members must follow to sustain life on earth in the future. Though the principles are being formulated, however, every individual is obliged to develop virtuous character solely to accomplish the desired goals. The Earth Charter is the fundamental ethical principles declaration in the 21st century for the purpose of developing a sustainable, peaceful and a just society. ... Charter correlates with the theory of virtue ethics on the notion that the Earth Charter radically encompasses a solution to avoid environmental degradation by "asking for a change ...

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... life of society that form the subject matter of a work, the hero's inner world, and the sum of his individual traits which we call character are examined and described by the realist writer as the product of numerous, but typical circumstances, which are in a casual relationship with the personal ... expected to divine the hero's inner life from his actions, for it was not so much personal as universal traits that were stressed in the character's psychology. The characters" spiritual life had not yet been submitted to deep, let alone many-sided, analysis in the realist prose of the ... to...

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... in the games perform implausible acts of heroism, and a sense of touch through the buttons and joystick on a controller that not only controls the actions of a character in the game, but also vibrates when one's character is under duress. While "our sight or vision presents us optimally with surfaces," "sound gives a perception of interiors as interiors without their being ... ...

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... realized through their understanding and dependency in their traditional physical connection to the land. The unity between people, nature, and the divine is a prominent theme of Japanese religion. The religious character of the family is also an important theme, considering the home is the center of religious devotion, and the family is the most important social and religious institution. The family ... connection is significant for maintaining the practice of rituals honoring ancestral spirits and providing solidity for religious activity. If religious devotion is dependent on the fam...

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... shopped with a penny-pinching dreadful exhaustiveness -- but that was Leeuwenhoek's university, for six years!" De Kruif never shies away from detailing the egotism, hypocrisy, vanity, contentiousness, religious mania, and other character flaws of the microbe hunters -- which effectively makes the point that science, like many other forms of modern human achievement, may be as much the product of neurosis as of ... ...

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... restriction the real meaning of freedom, from this aspect, is a freedom with regulations rather than absolute free choice. From the aspect of individual, every one want to express his own character, develop his own ability, and find out his own potency without being disturbed or forbidden by others, so it is necessary to give out a regulation on other people's behavior in ... ...

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