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Ce qu'est l'homme

Autor: David Szalay , Etienne Gomez

Número de Páginas: 560

Neuf hommes, âgés de 17 à 73 ans, tous à une étape différente de leur vie et dispersés aux quatre coins de l'Europe, essayent de comprendre ce que signifie être vivant. Tels sont les personnages mis en scène par David Szalay à la façon d'un arc de cercle chronologique illustrant tous les âges de la vie. En juxtaposant ces existences singulières au cours d'une seule et même année, l'auteur montre les hommes tels qu'ils sont : tantôt incapables d'exprimer leurs émotions, provocateurs ou méprisables, tantôt hilarants, touchants, riches d'envies et de désirs face au temps qui passe. Et le paysage qu'il nous invite à explorer, multiple et kaléidoscopique, apparaît alors au fil des pages dans sa plus troublante évidence : il déroule le roman de notre vie. Avec ce livre, finaliste du Man Booker Prize, le jeune auteur britannique offre un portrait saisissant des hommes du XXIe siècle et réussit, en disséquant ainsi la masculinité d'aujourd'hui, à dépeindre avec force le désarroi et l'inquiétude qui habitent l'Europe moderne. « La démonstration d'une puissance littéraire hors du commun. Magnifique. » The New York Times

Excursions

Autor: Henry David Thoreau

Número de Páginas: 186

I have met with but one or two persons in the course of my life who understood the art of Walking, that is, of taking walks,-who had a genius, so to speak, for sauntering: which word is beautifully derived "from idle people who roved about the country, in the Middle Ages, and asked charity, under pretence of going à la Sainte Terre" to the Holy Land, till the children exclaimed, "There goes a Sainte-Terrer," a Saunterer,-a Holy-Lander. They who never go to the Holy Land in their walks, as they pretend, are indeed mere idlers and vagabonds; but they who do go there are saunterers in the good sense, such as I mean. Some, however, would derive the word from sans terre, without land or a home, which, therefore, in the good sense, will mean, having no particular home, but equally at home everywhere. For this is the secret of successful sauntering. He who sits still in a house all the time may be the greatest vagrant of all; but the saunterer, in the good sense, is no more vagrant than the meandering river, which is all the while sedulously seeking the shortest course to the sea. But I prefer the first, which, indeed, is the most probable derivation. For every walk is a sort of...

The Syme Papers

Autor: Benjamin Markovits

Número de Páginas: 548

Douglas Pitt is a man obsessed. Laughed at, mocked, and dismissed at every turn, Pitt has dedicated the best part of an unremarkable academic career attempting to prove the genius of Samuel Highgate Syme (b.1794, Baltimore; soldier, geologist, inventor). Pitt's postulation is simple enough: Syme, through some fault, wrong-doing, conspiracy or mischance, has not been credited with the recognition he deserves for hitting upon a key discovery in the advance of modern science - the theory of continental drift.Lacking the crucial last piece of the puzzle to convince his peers and normalize his family life, Pitt's emotional equilibrium is stabilised in a magical stroke of fortune when he uncovers a contemporary manuscript written by a fledgling German scientist, Friedrich Muller, which recounts a year (1821) in the company of the irrepressible Syme.Switching between these beguiling and colourful narratives, The Syme Papers takes the reader on an odyssey into the heart of Maryland and Virginia in the 1820s by way of London and Texas today. An epic stew of intellectual procrastination, early nineteenth-century picaresque and late twentieth-century angst, it is a novel of genius and...

Walking, Wild Apples

Autor: Henry David Thoreau

Número de Páginas: 55

I wish to speak a word for Nature, for absolute freedom and wildness, as contrasted with a freedom and culture merely civil-to regard man as an inhabitant, or a part and parcel of Nature, rather than a member of society. I wish to make an extreme statement, if so I may make an emphatic one, for there are enough champions of civilization: the minister and the school committee and every one of you will take care of that. I have met with but one or two persons in the course of my life who understood the art of Walking, that is, of taking walks-who had a genius, so to speak, for SAUNTERING, which word is beautifully derived "from idle people who roved about the country, in the Middle Ages, and asked charity, under pretense of going a la Sainte Terre," to the Holy Land, till the children exclaimed, "There goes a Sainte-Terrer," a Saunterer, a Holy-Lander. They who never go to the Holy Land in their walks, as they pretend, are indeed mere idlers and vagabonds; but they who do go there are saunterers in the good sense, such as I mean.

Elements of Logick

Autor: Levi Hedge

Número de Páginas: 182

Reprint of the original, first published in 1861.

The Unknown Quantity

Autor: O. Henry

Número de Páginas: 5

Receiving large sums of money is never without its challenges and Dan's situation is no exception. When he inherits an impossible amount of money from his father, he is over the moon, but it soon transpires that the cash is blood money, born from ill intentions. He becomes desperate to right his father's past wrongs, in order to make peace with his own present and inspire hope for the future. Luckily for Dan, when he falls in love the solutions to his problems start to become clear. In this raw tale of humanity, O Henry reminds us that no misdeed goes unpunished. William Sidney Porter (1862-1919), known simply as O. Henry, was a prolific American author of humorous literary pieces. His fame came exceptionally quickly and he became a bestselling author of short story collections. The most notable of which being "Cabbages and Kings", "The Voice of the City", and "Strictly Business." In fact, his legacy was so great that the ‘O. Henry Award’ was established to celebrate the best short stories. His vivid storytelling is perfect for fans of Roald Dahl.

Kilo

Autor: Ellis Parker Butler

Número de Páginas: 162

Reproduction of the original: Kilo by Ellis Parker Butler

The Green Flag And Other Stories of War and Sport

Autor: Arthur Conan Doyle

Número de Páginas: 169

A Happy Boy

Autor: Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson

Número de Páginas: 215

An early recipient of the Nobel Prize in literature, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson is considered one of the masters of Norwegian fiction. The short novel A Happy Boy recounts the life of Øyvind, a perpetually jolly child who is able to rise above his family's lack of material wealth and bring true contentment and joy into the lives of many. As part of our mission to publish great works of literary fiction and nonfiction, Sheba Blake Publishing Corp. is extremely dedicated to bringing to the forefront the amazing works of long dead and truly talented authors.

Tipperary Tango

Autor: Fergal Anton

Número de Páginas: 276

Fionn Mac Tubaiste is a university lecturer, whose life is complicated by frustrating women and his part-time job as the field man of the Irish Secret Service, ASR. ASR is run by Malachy Mulligan ("M"), the least civil and least principled Principal Officer in the Civil Service. It has a surprising number of jobs to do, and Fionn is supposed to do them all. His methods are nothing like James Bond's. The period is the early eighties. The world's finest secret service operates in Ireland, as it does everywhere else, but it finds conditions unusually trying. When Fionn comes to the Russians' attention, things rapidly begin to come unstuck.

An Anthropologist on Mars

Autor: Oliver Sacks

Número de Páginas: 336

As with his previous bestseller, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, in An Anthropologist on Mars Oliver Sacks uses case studies to illustrate the myriad ways in which neurological conditions can affect our sense of self, our experience of the world, and how we relate to those around us. Writing with his trademark blend of scientific rigour and human compassion, he describes patients such as the colour-blind painter or the surgeon with compulsive tics that disappear in the operating theatre; patients for whom disorientation and alienation – but also adaptation – are inescapable facts of life. 'An inexhaustible tourist at the farther reaches of the mind, Sacks presents, in sparse, unsentimental prose, the stories of seven of his patients. The result is as rich, vivid and compelling as any collection of short fictional stories' – Independent on Sunday

Answer as a Man

Autor: Taylor Caldwell

Número de Páginas: 465

New York Times Bestseller: In early 1900s Pennsylvania, the ambitious son of Irish immigrants pursues the American Dream in the face of injustice and intolerance. Fourteen-year-old Jason Aloysius Garrity is now of age to work full-time in a Pennsylvania coal factory, earning four dollars a week. His family left their hardscrabble life in Ireland to create a better one in America. But their shanty-like home on a street filled with outhouses, horse manure, and the ever-present odor of noxious gas is a hell all its own. Yet Jason possesses the passion and principles that will lift him out of the abject poverty surrounding his widowed mother, fanatically religious younger brother, and manipulative crippled sister. With World War I looming on the horizon, Jason begins to make his way in Belleville’s burgeoning business world. He marries beautiful, wealthy Patricia Mulligan, unaware that their union is built on a deception that will have far-reaching consequences not only in his life but in the lives of his three children. Filled with unforgettable characters, this masterful retelling of the Book of Job depicts one man’s will to succeed amidst the slings and arrows of fortune.

Shifting for Himself

Autor: Horatio Alger

Número de Páginas: 194

Reproduction of the original: Shifting for Himself by Horatio Alger

The Barrowfields

Autor: Phillip Lewis

Número de Páginas: 0

"Just before Henry Aster's birth, his father -- outsized literary ambition and pregnant wife in tow -- reluctantly returns to the small Appalachian town in which he was raised and installs his young family in an immense house of iron and glass perched high on the side of a mountain. There, Henry grows up under the writing desk of this fiercely brilliant man. But when tragedy tips his father toward a fearsome unraveling, what was once a young son's reverence is poisoned and Henry flees, not to return until years later when he, too, must go home again" --

The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared

Autor: Jonas Jonasson

Número de Páginas: 400

THE GLOBAL BESTSELLER Sitting quietly in his room in an old people's home, Allan Karlsson is waiting for a party he doesn't want to begin. His one-hundredth birthday party to be precise. The Mayor will be there. The press will be there. But, as it turns out, Allan will not . . . Escaping (in his slippers) through his bedroom window, into the flowerbed, Allan makes his getaway. And so begins his picaresque and unlikely journey involving criminals, several murders, a suitcase full of cash, and incompetent police. As his escapades unfold, Allan's earlier life is revealed. A life in which - remarkably - he played a key role behind the scenes in some of the momentous events of the twentieth century. Translated by Roy Bradbury.

Frank and Fearless

Autor: Horatio Alger

Número de Páginas: 182

Reproduction of the original: Frank and Fearless by Horatio Alger

Rich Man, Poor Man

Autor: Maximilian Foster

Número de Páginas: 179

"Rich Man, Poor Man" is a book by Maximilian Foster which is based on the story of a girl, Barbara Wynne, who after the death of her mother became the drudge of the boarding house. The story changed after one of her friends discovered who her grandfather was. What will happen next to Bab (as most of her friends fondly call her)?

Le vrai gagnant

Autor: Charise Neugebauer

Número de Páginas: 24

Hippolyte emmène Victor à la pêche. Mais celui-ci n'a qu'une idée en tête : gagner, toujours gagner. Et s'il n'est pas le meilleur, il pleure. Leur promenade se transforme ainsi en course à pied, leur baignade en compétition et la pêche en concours. Hippolyte joue le jeu, mais lorsqu'en plein élan, il découvre quelqu'un en difficulté, il n'hésite pas à s'arrêter : aider les autres est pour lui plus important que de sortir vainqueur. En le voyant agir ainsi tout au long de la journée, Victor, le mauvais perdant, comprend peu à peu que gagner n'est pas tout dans la vie...

Cox - The Man; 1-125

Autor: Roger W. Babson

Número de Páginas: 144

Hemingway's Chair

Autor: Michael Palin

Número de Páginas: 296

Debut novel by the t̀elevision explorer' and ex-Monty Python member. Assistant postmaster Martin Wells is obsessed with Ernest Hemingway, prizing a chair his hero once sat in. Irritated by the newly-appointed postmaster Martin plots his revenge.

Columbo

Autor: Christyne Berzsenyi

Número de Páginas: 312

This book presents an analysis of Lieutenant Columbo's investigative method of rhetorical inquiry as seen in the television police procedural Columbo (1968-2003). With a barrage of questions about minute details and feigned ignorance, the iconic detective enacts a persona of ‘antipotency’ (counter authoritativeness) to affect the villains' underestimation of his attention to inconsistencies, abductive reasoning, and rhetorical efficacy. In a predominantly dialogue-based investigation, Columbo exhausts his suspects by asking a battery of questions concerning all minor details of the case, which evolves into an aggravating tedious provocation for the killer trying to maintain innocence. Based on the Ancient Greek ideal of Sophrosyne (temperance, restraint) and the Socratic method of questioning to discover truths, the Lieutenant models effective rhetorical inquiry with resistant responders: shy, secretive, anxious, emotionally-disconnected, angry, arrogant, jealous, and, in this case, murderous conversants. While designed to be critical and theoretical, this text strives to be accessible to interdisciplinary readers, practical in application, and amusing for Columbo buffs.

The Cost (Classic Reprint)

Autor: David Graham Phillips

Número de Páginas: 426

Excerpt from The Cost About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Took His Breath Away

Autor: Nicholis Ellison

Número de Páginas: 90

Quarter Davenport returns to small town Jemison, Alabama for his father’s funeral. With his wife and mother by his side, watching as his father took his last breath, he knows his life is changing forever. During this one week journey, he learns more about his father, more about himself as a son, and even more about what it is to become a father, and a friend, than he ever thought possible. Through his father’s friends, his memories, dreams, mother, and even complete strangers; Quarter learns that sometimes, it takes the death of a parent, for us to truly learn what they were trying to teach us all along.

Three Dramas

Autor: Bjornstjerne Bjornson

Número de Páginas: 290

Raspberry Pi® a fondo para desarrolladores

Autor: Derek Molloy

Número de Páginas: 696

Económico y versátil, Raspberry Pi puede adaptarse a miles de desarrollos. Este libro le permite explorar todas sus posibilidades mediante la aplicación de principios de ingeniería junto con las técnicas de programación en Linux, y desarrollar las habilidades que necesita para diseñar y construir un sinfín de proyectos. Raspberry Pi a fondo para desarrolladores cubre los conceptos básicos y avanzados de la plataforma de hardware, accesorios recomendados, software, sistemas Linux integrados y técnicas de programación en Linux. También profundiza en la interfaz, el control y de comunicaciones, con información detallada sobre Raspberry Pi GPIOs, buses, dispositivos UART y periféricos USB. Aprenderá a configurar un entorno de compilación cruzada para construir aplicaciones de software a gran escala, así como la forma de combinar hardware y software para permitir que el Raspberry Pi interactúe eficazmente con su entorno físico. Por último, descubrirá cómo utilizar el Raspberry Pi para aplicaciones avanzadas de interfaz e interacción como Internet de las Cosas (IoT, por sus siglas en inglés); comunicación y control inalámbricos; interfaces de usuario;...

First & Last

Autor: Michael Frayn

Número de Páginas: 96

"One of theatre's subtlest, most sophisticated minds" (The Times) One spring morning a quiet, shy man in his sixties sets out from Land's End to walk the length of his native land. He has never walked more than a dozen miles in his life before, his health is uncertain, his boots are new, and he is too diffident to talk to anyone he meets along the way. His slow, solitary progress up the spine of Britain is watched by an unseen audience - his family and friends at home. How far will he get before he is forced to give up? Is he being heroic or merely selfish? As the days of his absence go by the old alliances and quarrels inside the family shift and alter. What emerges is a story about the arbitrariness of human endeavour and about the tenacious complexity of human relationships; about one man's glimpse of the country he lives in; about courage and about love. First and Last was directed by Alan Dossor in a production for BBC television, with Joss Ackland as the walker.

The Man Without a Country

Autor: Edward E. Hale

Número de Páginas: 60

The Man Without a Country is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1891. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.

His Own People

Autor: Newton Booth Tarkington

Número de Páginas: 40

The glass-domed "palm-room" of the Grand Continental Hotel Magnifique in Rome is of vasty heights and distances, filled with a mellow green light which filters down languidly through the upper foliage of tall palms, so that the two hundred people who may be refreshing or displaying themselves there at the tea-hour have something the look of under-water creatures playing upon the sea-bed. They appear, however, to be unaware of their condition; even the ladies, most like anemones of that gay assembly, do not seem to know it; and when the Hungarian band (crustacean-like in costume, and therefore well within the picture) has sheathed its flying tentacles and withdrawn by dim processes, the tea-drinkers all float out through the doors, instead of bubbling up and away through the filmy roof. In truth, some such exit as that was imagined for them by a young man who remained in the aquarium after they had all gone, late one afternoon of last winter. They had been marvelous enough, and to him could have seemed little more so had they made such a departure. He could almost have gone that way himself, so charged was he with the uplift of his belief that, in spite of the brilliant strangeness ...

He

Autor: John Connolly

Número de Páginas: 0

John Connolly conjures the Golden Age of Hollywood in this moving, literary portrait of Laurel & Hardy--two men who found their true selves in a comedic partnership. "AMBITIOUS . . . EVOKES THE STYLE OF SAMUEL BECKETT." --NEW YORK TIMES "BRILLIANT." --SEATTLE BOOK REVIEW "EXTRAORDINARY." --LIBRARY JOURNAL (STARRED REVIEW) An unforgettable testament to the redemptive power of love, as experienced by one of the twentieth century's greatest performers. When Stan Laurel is paired with Oliver Hardy, affectionately known as Babe, the history of comedy--not to mention their personal and professional lives--is altered forever. Yet Laurel's simple screen persona masks a complex human being, one who endures rejection and intense loss; who struggles to build a character from the dying stages of vaudeville to the seedy and often volatile movie studios of Los Angeles in the early years of cinema; and who is haunted by the figure of another comic genius, the brilliant, driven, and cruel Charlie Chaplin. Eventually, Laurel becomes one of the greatest screen comedians the world has ever known: a man who enjoys both adoration and humiliation; who loves, and is loved in turn; who betrays, and is...

The Happy Choice

Autor: Caleb Kimball

Número de Páginas: 120

Bentham's Theory of Fictions

Autor: Jeremy Bentham , Charles Kay Ogden

Número de Páginas: 326

Work and Win

Autor: Oliver Optic

Número de Páginas: 94

"Here, Noddy Newman! you haven't washed out the boat-house yet," said Ben, the boatman, as the young gentleman thus addressed was ambling down towards the river. "Hang the boat-house!" exclaimed Noddy, impatiently, as he stopped short in his walk, and seemed to be in doubt whether he should return or continue on his way. "You know what Miss Bertha says-don't you?" "Yes, I know what she says," added Noddy, rubbing his head, as though he were trying to reconcile his present purpose, whatever it was, with the loyalty he owed to Bertha. "I suppose it don't make much difference to her whether I wash out the boat-house now or by and by." "I don't know anything about that, my boy," said the old man. "Miss Bertha told me to find some regular work for you to do every day. I found it, and she say you must wash out the boat-house every morning before nine o'clock. If you don't do it, I shall report you to her. That's all I've got to say about it." "I calculate to wash out the boat-house." "You've only half an hour to do it in, then. You've not only got to wash it out every morning, but you have got to do it before nine o'clock. Them's the orders. I always obey orders. If Miss Bertha should...

Desarrollo de aplicaciones IoT en la nube para Arduino y ESP8266

Autor: Tomás Domínguez Mínguez

Número de Páginas: 338

Internet de las cosas (IoT) ha llegado para quedarse. Su presencia se hace notar en campos como la medicina, la industria, el transporte, la energia, la agricultura, las ciudades inteligentes y, especialmente, en los hogares, ambito en el que se centra este libro. Si quiere conocer todo lo necesario para crear sus proyectos de IoT con dispositivos Arduino y ESP8266, este es el libro indicado. Sus explicaciones parten de un nivel basico en Arduino y aumentan su dificultad de forma gradual. Ademas, los conceptos teoricos para conocer los protocolos (HTTP y MQTT) y las arquitecturas utilizadas (cliente]servidor, publicacionsuscripcion y REST) se acompanan con multiples ejercicios practicos en los que se comenta, paso a paso, el codigo de cada programa y la configuracion de los servicios en la nube empleados. Con este libro, desarrollara multitud de aplicaciones IoT y empleara servicios en la nube como Ubidots, Beebotte, Pushbullet o IFTTT, con los que podra interactuar desde cualquier parte del mundo a traves de un navegador web, un telefono movil o los asistentes de voz de Google o Alexa: . Enchufe domotico que permite controlar el encendido o apagado de dispositivos electricos. ....

Ends & Means

Autor: D. B. Lewis

Número de Páginas: 412

This novel is set in the University sector. It explores two themes of major importance in education and research. The first addresses what is proper and acceptable behaviour between academic staff and the students in their care. What seems at first a matter of indiscipline in examination marking becomes a moral issue of 'marks for sexual favours' with racial overtones that culminates in the finding of a foetus in the ladies' toilet and the more serious consequences of that. The expression of power by pharmaceutical companies when they contract out research to individuals and University Departments is also explored as is the question of who is responsible for the outcome of that research if it has consequences for the human population at large. How moral is a single researcher required to be when faced with the power of a large company? How far does his responsibility extend? These two themes are drawn together and shown to have much to do with the exercise of power and the exploitation of privilege at the individual and Corporate levels.

The Adventures of a Happy Man (with More Adventures)

Autor: Channing Pollock

Número de Páginas: 216

Who Goes There! - The Original Classic Edition

Autor: Robert W. (robert William) Chambers

Número de Páginas: 162

Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of Who Goes There!. It was previously published by other bona fide publishers, and is now, after many years, back in print. This is a new and freshly published edition of this culturally important work by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers, which is now, at last, again available to you. Get the PDF and EPUB NOW as well. Included in your purchase you have Who Goes There! in EPUB AND PDF format to read on any tablet, eReader, desktop, laptop or smartphone simultaneous - Get it NOW. Enjoy this classic work today. These selected paragraphs distill the contents and give you a quick look inside Who Goes There!: Look inside the book: At the Burgomaster's dictation I was writing out a proclamation warning the inhabitants of Yslemont not to commit any act of violence against the German soldiery and explaining that we were held as hostages for their good behaviour and that a shot fired pg 11 at a German meant a dead wall and a squad of execution for us and the destruction of Yslemont for them—' He flushed, hesitated. ...If you say you'll do it I'll free the Burgomaster and the others in there—' he jerked his bony...

Happiness

Autor: Frederick Pollack

Número de Páginas: 168

On X-day the universe turns inside-out, leaving an extensive "Zone" to the controls of a leftist cabal. An able-bodied Stephen Hawking--the mastermind--lurks in the margins. His henchman heads a posse of enforcers who dispense Dante-esque rewards and punishments. This novel in verse introduces science fiction to narrative poetry. Frederick Pollack's short, syncopated lines read as easily as prose, but with powerful poetic reverberations.

The Dread of Responsibility

Autor: Émile Faguet , Emily James Putnam

Número de Páginas: 254

Trieste Publishing has a massive catalogue of classic book titles. Our aim is to provide readers with the highest quality reproductions of fiction and non-fiction literature that has stood the test of time. The many thousands of books in our collection have been sourced from libraries and private collections around the world.The titles that Trieste Publishing has chosen to be part of the collection have been scanned to simulate the original. Our readers see the books the same way that their first readers did decades or a hundred or more years ago. Books from that period are often spoiled by imperfections that did not exist in the original. Imperfections could be in the form of blurred text, photographs, or missing pages. It is highly unlikely that this would occur with one of our books. Our extensive quality control ensures that the readers of Trieste Publishing's books will be delighted with their purchase. Our staff has thoroughly reviewed every page of all the books in the collection, repairing, or if necessary, rejecting titles that are not of the highest quality. This process ensures that the reader of one of Trieste Publishing's titles receives a volume that faithfully...

The Foundations of Character

Autor: Alexander Faulkner Shand

Número de Páginas: 512

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE FOUNDATIONS OF CHARACTER INTRODUCTION Whoever will consider the treatises on the science of Mind that have appeared up to recent times, will be able to judge how much or how little they have accomplished toward the foundation of a science of Character. The processes of perception and thought, of feeling and will, have been detached from the forces of character at their base. We have what purports to be a science of these processes; while that which alone directs and organises them is left out of account as if it had no importance. Yet we find in the text-books a small and subordinate place allotted to the emotions which, rightly conceived, are among these forces; but too often, as William James complained in his time, they are treated in such a way as to deprive them of the living interest which they have in the drama and the novel. If we are to have a complete science of the mind, this will include a science of character as the most important part of it; and if we are to make any approach to such ...