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Americans by Choice. E-book. Formato PDF John Palmer Gavit - Ionlineshopping.Com, 2019 -
The material in this volume was gathered by the Division of Health Standards and Care of Studies in Methods of Americanization. Americanization in this study has been considered as the union of native and foreign born in all the most fundamental relationships and activities of our national life. For Americanization is the uniting of new with native-born Americans in fuller common understanding and appreciation to secure by means of self-government the highest welfare of all. Such Americanization should perpetuate no unchangeable political, domestic, and economic regime delivered once for all to the fathers, but a growing and broadening national life, inclusive of the best wherever found. With all our rich heritages, Americanism will develop best through a mutual giving and taking of contributions from both newer and older Americans in the interest of the commonweal. This study has followed such an understanding of Americanization. This volume is the result of studies in methods of Americanization prepared through funds furnished by the Carnegie Corporation of New York. It arose out of the fact that constant applications were being made to the Corporation for contributions to the work of numerous agencies engaged in various forms of social activity intended to extend among the people of the United States the knowledge of their government and their obligations to it. The trustees felt that a study which should set forth, not theories of social betterment, but a description of the methods of the various agencies engaged in such work, would be of distinct value to the cause itself and to the public. The outcome of the study is contained in eleven volumes on the following subjects: Schooling of the Immigrant; The Press; Adjustment of Homes and Family Life; Legal Protection and Correction; Health Standards and Care; Naturalization and Political Life; Industrial and Economic Amalgamation; Treatment of Immigrant Heritages; Neighborhood Agencies and Organization; Rural Developments; and Summary. The entire study has been carried out under the general direction of Mr. Allen T. Burns. Each volume appears in the name of the author who had immediate charge of the particular field it is intended to cover.
Comedy. E-book. Formato PDF John Palmer - Forgotten Books, 2017 -
Of comic figures we must meet — Rosalind and Mrs. Pinchwife, Falstaff and Harpagon, Xan thias and Lady F roth. Let us begin where the light is clearest. Let us begin with Moliere. There was a short period in' the history of Europe when everybody talked like a French man. It was largely owing to Voltaire. Cather ine of Russia read Voltaire upon taxation. Frederick of Prussia corresponded with the man himself. Bolingbroke made him free of English society. The advantage of French as a civilised language is that it enables almost anybody to explain the universe in a quarter of an hour. Under the clarifying in?uence of the Gallic idiom even an Englishman can settle problems with an epigram, bringing to a decisive end the squabbles of ten centuries in a statement as clear as a sum in simple practice. Among the many English people of the eighteenth century who realised the advantages of thinking in French was Horace Walpole and among the many clear things his habit of thinking in French enabled him to say was a celebrated and well-worn aphorism concerning comedy and tragedy.
The Comedy of Manners. E-book. Formato PDF John Palmer - Forgotten Books, 2017 -
The present volume is an attempt to fill a gap in English dramatic criticism and, if it be possible, to reform our point of view as to the drama of the Restoration. It would be impudently ungracious to claim that this is pioneer work of the backwoods. Mr. George Street, Mr. Edmund Gosse and other critical essayists upon the period in general, and the Restoration dramatists in particular, have already prepared the way for an estimate of these men and their work, viewed in perspective with their period, measured by standards of morality and taste which they themselves would have ac cepted. But this is the first attempt by a writer who has an 5106 digested the historical evidence to put right the injustice of over two centuries. Since Jeremy Collier discovered that the Restoration dramatists were profane, wicked, and subversive of good manners, nearly every printed opinion, with, one or two celebrated and conspicuous exceptions, leaves the impression that these writers have been! Measured by standards they would neither have'