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# The Koran (Rodwell)/IV

First published in 1861; second edition 1876; this edition first issued March 1909; this 4th printing issued September 1915.
[IV.]
SURA XCIII.—THE BRIGHTNESS
Mecca.—11 Verses.
In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
By the noon-day BRIGHTNESS, And by the night when it darkeneth! ​Thy Lord hath not forsaken thee, neither hath he been displeased. And surely the Future shall be better for thee than the Past, And in the end shall thy Lord be bounteous to thee and thou be satisfied. Did he not find thee an orphan and gave thee a home? And found thee erring and guided thee, And found thee needy and enriched thee, As to the orphan therefore wrong him not,
10And as to him that asketh of thee, chide him not away; And as for the favours of thy Lord tell them abroad.
* ↑ This and the six following Suras are expressions of a state of deep mental anxiety and depression, in which Muhammad seeks to reassure himself by calling to mind the past favours of God, and by fixing his mind steadfastly on the Divine Unity. They belong to a period either before the public commencement of his ministry or when his success was very dubious, and his future career by no means clearly marked out.
* ↑ The charge of the orphaned Muhammad was undertaken by Abd-al-Mutalib, his grandfather, A.D. 576. Hishami, p. 35; Kitab al Wakidi, p. 22, have preserved traditions of the fondness with which the old man of fourscore years treated the child, spreading a rug for him under the shadow of the Kaaba, protecting him from the rudeness of his own sons, etc.
* ↑ Up to his 40th year Muhammad followed the religion of his countrymen. Waq. Tabari says that when he first entered on his office of Prophet, even his wife Chadijah had read the Scriptures, and was acquainted with the History of the Prophets. Spreng. p. 100. But his conformity can only have been partial.
# The Kobzar of the Ukraine/To the Makers of Sentimental Idyls

This poem was written in 1850 and published under the original Ukrainian title of "Якби ви знали, паничі" (Jakby vy znaly, panyči, "If only you knew, masters").
To the Makers of Sentimental Idyls.
DID you but know, fine dandy, The people's life of misery You would not use such pretty phrases, Nor give to God such empty praises. At our tears you're laughing, And our sorrows chaffing, Slave's cot in a shady spot— You call it heaven! Rot! I lived once in such a shanty, Of childhood's tears I shed a plenty, In bitter sorrows we were wise, Home that you call paradise.
No paradise I call thee, Little cottage in the wood, With the water pure beside thee Close by the village rude! There my mother bore me, Singing she tended me; My child's heart drank in her pain.
Cottage in the shady dell, Heaven outside, inside hell:
But slavery there, with labor weary, Nor time for prayer in life so dreary.
My mother good to her early grave Was hurled by sorrows wave on wave.
The father weeping o'er his young, (little and naked were we), Sank 'neath the weight of fated wrong And died in slavery. The children, we, of home bereft Like little mice 'mong neigbors crept.
Water drawer was I at school, My brothers toiled 'neath landlord's rule.
For my sisters an evil fate must be, Though little doves they seemed to me; Into life as serfs they're born, And die they must in that lot forlorn.
I shudder yet, where'er I roam, When I think of life in that village home.
Evil-doers, Oh God, are we, An earthly heaven we had from Thee, Turned it into hell have we, And a second heaven is now our plea.
Gently we live with our brothers now, With their lives our fields we plough; Fields that with their tears are wet, And yet— What do we know? yet it seems as if Thou! (For without Thy will Should we suffer ill?) Dost Thou, Oh Father in heaven holy Laugh at us the poor and lowly? Advise with them of noble birth How so cleverly, to rule the earth?
For see the woods their branches waving, And there beyond, the white pool gleaming And willows o'er the water bending, Garden of Eden it is in sooth, But of its deeds enquire the truth.
This wondrous earth should tell a story Of endless joy, and praise, and glory To Thee, Oh God, unique and holy. Unhallowed spot, Whence praise comes not! A world of tears where curses rise, To heaven above the hopeless skies.
# The Koran (Rodwell)/Addenda

First published in 1861; second edition 1876; this edition first issued March 1909; this 4th printing issued September 1915.
ADDENDA
Page 32, note 3. — The symbol nun may possibly refer to this letter as forming the Rhyme in most of the verses of this Sura.
Page 125, note 2. — This is the usual interpretation. Lit. Lord of, or, possessor of stakes (comp. li. 39 in Ar.), i.e., Forces. Dr. Sprenger ingeniously suggests that Muhammad's Jewish informant may have described Pharaoh as rich in neçyb, i.e., fortresses; whereas, in Ar., naçyb, means an erection, pillar, etc., for which Muhammad substituted the word for tent stakes. Vol. i. (470).
Page 391, verse 45. — Lit. who my helpers unto God? i.e., helpers of his religion (Beidh). If Muhammad had become, by any means, acquainted with the use of the Æth. radeh, helper or disciple, we have herein a probable interpretation of this passage, as well as of the word Ansar.
# The Great Condition

* "The Great Condition" in The Anglo-Saxon Review 1 (June 1899): 7–38.
    — First publication in any form
* "The Great Condition" in The Soft Side (London: Methuen & Co., 1900): 104–157.
    — First English book edition
* "The Great Condition" in The Soft Side (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1900): 87–131.
    — First American book edition
* "The Great Condition" in Lord Beaupré, The Visits, The Wheel of Time and Other Tales (London: Macmillan & Co., 1923): 257–310.
    — Volume 27 of The Novels and Stories of Henry James, the first posthumous collection of James' works; uses the first book edition text.
# The Great Carbuncle

* "The Great Carbuncle" in Twice-Told Tales (1837)
* "The Great Carbuncle" in Tales of the White Hills, and sketches (1889)
# The Great Congresses of Europe

Serialized article, as published in Once a Week in 1860.
* Part 1
* Part 2
# The Labor Laws of Soviet Russia/Appendix 2

APPENDIX TO SECTION 80
Rules Concerning Labor Booklets
1. Every citizen of the Russian Socialist Federated Soviet Republic, upon assignment to a definite group and category (Section 62 of the present Code), shall receive, free of charge, a labor booklet.
Note. The form of the labor booklets shall be worked out by the People's Commissariat of Labor.
2. Each wage earner, on entering the employment of an enterprise, establishment or institution employing paid labor, shall present his labor booklet to the management thereof, and on entering the employment of a private individual—to the latter.
Note. A copy of the labor booklet shall be kept by the management of the enterprise, establishment, institution or by the private individual by whom the wage earner is employed.
3. All work performed by a wage earner during the normal working day as well as piece work or overtime work, and all payments received by him as a wage earner (remuneration in money or in kind, subsidies from the unemployment and hospital funds), must be entered in his labor booklet.
Note. In the labor booklet must also be entered the leaves of absence and sick leave of the wage earner, as well as the fines imposed on him during and on account of his work.
4. Each entry in the labor booklet must be dated and signed by the person making the entry, and also by the wage earner (if the latter is literate), who thereby certifies the correctness of the entry.
5. The labor booklet shall contain:
(a) The name, surname and date of birth of the wage earner;
(b) The name and address of the trade union of which the wage earner is a member;
(c) The group and category to which the wage earner has been assigned by the valuation commission.
6. Upon the discharge of a wage earner, his labor booklet shall under no circumstances be withheld from him. Whenever an old booklet is replaced by a new one, the former shall be left in possession of the wage earner.
7. In case a wage earner loses his labor booklet, he shall be provided with a new one into which shall be copied all the entries of the lost booklet; in such a case a fee determined by the rules of internal management may be charged to the wage earner for the new booklet.
8. A wage earner must present his labor booklet upon the request:
(a) Of the managers of the enterprise, establishment or institution where he is employed;
(b) Of the Department of Labor Distribution;
(c) Of the trade unions;
(d) Of the officials of workmen's control and of labor protection;
(e) Of the insurance offices or institutions acting as such.
# The Laboring Classes of England

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THE
LABORING CLASSES
OF
ENGLAND,
ESPECIALLY THOSE ENGAGED IN
AGRICULTURE AND MANUFACTURES;
IN A SERIES OF LETTERS.
By an Englishman.
ALSO,
A Voice from the Factories,
A POEM,
IN SERIOUS VERSE.
BOSTON: PUBLISHED BY JOHN PUTNAM, 81 CORNHILL, AND SOLD BY THE AUTHOR, 8 Mount Vernon Avenue. 1847.
Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1847, BY JOHN PUTNAM, In the Clerk's office of the District Court of Massachusetts.
CONTENTS :
| Letter I. ||
| Introduction, | 5 |
| Letter II. ||
| Incidents in the Life of the Author, | 13 |
| Letter III. ||
| General Condition of the Laboring Classes, | 26 |
| Letter IV. ||
| Agricultural Laborers of Wilts, Dorset, Devon, and Somerset, | 34 |
| Letter V. ||
| Agricultural Laborers of Kent, Surrey, and Sussex, | 39 |
| Letter VI. ||
| Ignorance and Superstition in Kent, | 44 |
| Letter VII. ||
| Agricultural Laborers of Suffolk, Norfolk, Lincoln, Yorkshire, and Northumberland, | 52 |
| Letter VIII. ||
| The English Factory System—its Early History, | 60 ​ |
| Letter IX. ||
| History of an Orphan Boy, | 65 |
| Letter X. ||
| The Lace-Makers of Nottingham, | 84 |
| Letter XI. ||
| Flax Spinners, | 88 |
| Letter XII. ||
| A Factory conducted on Christian Principles, | 94 |
| Letter XIII. ||
| The Contrast, | 100 |
| Letter XIV. ||
| Condition of Female Operatives, | 105 |
| Letter XV. ||
| Value of Human Life in English Factories, | 111 |
| Letter XVI. ||
| Statistical Facts—Increase of Machinery—Ditto of Individual Labor, and of early Superannuation of Operatives, | 128 |
| Letter XVII. ||
| Wages, Strikes, and Turn-outs for Wages—Means used by the manufacturers to prevent them—Ten-hour System—Conclusion, | 128 |
| A Voice from the Factories—A Poem, | 149 |
This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.
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# The Labor Laws of Soviet Russia/Editorial

(An Editorial in Soviet Russia, April 3, 1920)
COMPULSORY in certain labor appears to be considered circles outside of Soviet Russia as a most deplorable invasion of the rights of the individual. Aside from the fact that in all countries economic necessity drives men very effectively to seek such forms of wage-slavery as may be accessible to them regardless of whether they are to their taste or not—it is surprising that anyone with any pretence to even liberal tendencies should feel in any way shocked at this inevitable development in the new society. Even very moderate thinkers, such as Edward Bellamy and William James, had thought of compulsory labor as a reasonable curefor the chaos in which some men were working themselves to death and others loafing away their time in fruitless, even dangerous idleness and dissipation.
What will the furious commentators on Soviet Russia's Labor Laws (concerning which we have an article in this issue of Soviet Russia) have to say when they read this unmistakable statement in Bellamy's "Looking Backward" (1887), a reply to a question as to whether labor service in the new commonwealth is obligatory for all?
"It is rather a matter of course than of compulsion," replied Dr. Leete. "It is regarded as so absolutely natural and reasonable that the idea of its being compulsory has ceased to be thought of. He would be thought to be an incredibly contemptible person who should need compulsion in such a case. Nevertheless, to speak of service being ​compulsory would be a weak way to state its absolute inevitableness. Our entire social order is so wholly based upon and deducted from it that if it were conceivable that a man could escape it, he would be left with no possible way to provide for his existence. He would have excluded himself from the world, cut himself off from his kind, in a word, committed suicide."
And can it be that liberals have entirely forgotten one of William James' most brilliant and convincing essays, "The Moral Equivalent of War," published in February, 1910, as a pamphlet of the American Association for International Conciliation?
# The Green Bay Tree (Bromfield, Frederick A. Stokes Company, printing 11)/Chapter 26

INSIDE the old house, Irene went to her room, and Lily, instead of seeking out her mother for their usual chat, went quietly upstairs. She ignored even the preparations for the ball. After she had taken off her clothes, she lay for a long time in a hot bath scented with verbena salts, drowsing languidly until the hot water had eliminated every soiling trace of the Mills. Returning to her room, she sat clad in a thin satin wrapper for a long time before the mirror of her dressing table, polishing her pink nails, examining the tiny lines at the corners of her lips,—lines which came from smiling too much. Then she powdered herself all over with scented powder and did up her red hair, fastening it with the pin set in brilliants. And presently, the depression having passed away, she began to sing in her low warm voice, Je sais que vous êtes gentil. It was a full-throated joyous song. At times her voice rose in a crescendo that penetrated the walls of fe room where Irene lay in the darkness on her narrow white bed.
As she dressed for dinner, she continued to sing one song after another, most of them piquant and racy, songs of the French cuirassiers. She sang Sur la route à Montauban, Toute la longe de la Tamise and Auprés de ma Blonde. The dressing was the languid performance which required an hour or more, for she took the most minute care with every detail. The chemise must not have a wrinkle; the peacock blue stockings must fit as if they were the skin itself; the corsets were drawn until the result, examined for many minutes before the glass, was absolutely perfect. At the last she put on a gown of peacock blue satin with a long train that swept about her ankles, and rang for one of the black servants to hook it. Before the slavey arrived, Lily had discovered a wrinkle beneath the satin and began all over again the process of dressing, ​until at the end of the second attempt she stood before the mirror soignée and perfect in the soft glow from the open fire by her bed. The tight-fitting gown of peacock blue followed the curves of her figure flawlessly. Then she hung about her fine throat a chain of diamonds set in a necklace of laurel leaves wrought delicately in silver, lighted a cigarette and stood regarding her tall figure by the light of the lamps. Among the old furniture of the dark room she stood superbly dressed, elegant, mondaine. A touch to the hair that covered her small head like a burnished helmet, and she smiled with satisfaction, the face in the mirror smiling back with a curious look of elation, of abundant health, of joy; yet there was in it something too of secrecy and triumph.
# The Family Kitchen Gardener (1856)/Vegetable Marrow

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VEGETABLE MARROW.
Cucúrbita ovífera, var.—Patiron, Fr.
We have been frequently greatly amused by some of our friends kindly presenting us with seeds purporting to be the marrow of all the vegetables, or “Vegetable Marrow.” It is a species of Gourd introduced from Persia several years ago, and has been found useful for culinary purposes in every stage of its growth. When young, it is cut in slices and fried with butter; when more mature, it is cut in quarters, stewed in rich gravy, and seasoned to taste; in this way it is very agreeable, and said to be both wholesome and nutritious.
Culture.—This vegetable is characteristically situated between the Pumpkin and the Squash, consequently its habits and mode of growth are very similar to those plants. Plant the seeds in hills, about the first of May, six feet apart, and manage them as directed for the above. It has an oval fruit inside, very fleshy. In saving the seed, keep the plants distant from any of the family.
# The Family Kitchen Gardener (1856)/Water Cress

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WATER CRESS.
Sisy’mbrium Nastùrtium.—Cresson de Fontaine, Fr.—Brünnenkresse, Ger.
The many virtues that were attributed to the Water Cress in days of old, if at all applicable then, are equally valuable at the present day. Its botanical name alludes to its warm and cordial qualities, which were considered to infuse life into persons of low and dull spirits. The Cress is also famed for its antiscorbutic qualities, and may be safely eaten at all seasons of the year, but is particularly in request in Spring. It should be found in our markets in profusion, being peculiarly adapted to the constitutions of those who live chiefly on animal food. Water Cresses are found growing in clear runs of water and springs throughout this country and Europe. There is about an acre of them at Spring-Mill, near this city. It is a plant that has winged leaves, like the Rose, or like half-grown leaves of the Ash tree, of a roundish heart-like shape, with few indentures on the edges; the upper part of which, after more mature growth, is of a reddish-brown color, and forms roots in the water at every joint.
Culture. Wherever there is a running stream and a gravelly soil, they may be cultivated to advantage. In fact every spring house in the country should have attached to it a bed of Water Cresses. They may be obtained by the simple process of throwing the plants on the water; the seeds will ripen and soon propagate in abundance. They can also be cultivated in low, moist, loamy soil, that can be irrigated and drained at pleasure. Give it a deep diging with the spade in March or April; make beds four feet wide, and set the plants therein at about six inches apart. Water them abundantly; they will soon establish themselves, and the only culture they require is to keep them moist, and destroy carefully every weed. In the ​absence of moisture the plants will be destroyed by the heat and drought. There are also the
# The Family Kitchen Gardener (1856)/Truffle

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TRUFFLE.
Tùbera Terra’a. —Truffe, Fr.—Trüffel, Ger.
The Truffle is a subterraneous fungus, growing naturally some inches below the surface, in some parts of Italy, France, and even Great Britain. We do not suppose that its cultivation has been attempted in this country, neither are we intimately acquainted with the process of its culture. It has been successfully grown by several individuals in England, who procured the Truffle from where it was found growing, laying it in a somewhat similar situation, either in the vicinity of woods or in the open field. It is a very singular production, combining (in the opinion of naturalists) a flavor of both flesh and vegetable. It is of a globular formation, about the size of a hen’s egg, without any roots or fibres. It is sometimes seen of a dark brown color, while at other times it is of a whitish appearance. The surface is uneven and rough, the flesh firm—white when young, but as it becomes old, it approaches ​black, with light brown veins. Dogs and swine have been trained to search for the Truffle. In Italy it is called Swine’s Bread, as these animals are exceedingly fond of them. The Italians tie a cord to the hog’s foot and drive him, observing where he roots. The French and English have dogs called Truffle-dogs, trained to scent it out. These dogs point out the spot, by scraping and barking; and the Truffles, which are generally found in clusters, are dug up with a spade. They are used, like the mushroom, in stuffings, gravies, and other high-seasoned preparations, and will keep perfectly sound for several months.
Culture.—They have been successfully cultivated in Germany, France, and England, on which there is a large pamphlet published, to which we refer those who wish information on the subject. We are not acquainted with the manner of their growth, and it is not our habit to detail to others what we do not practically know.
# The Family Kitchen Gardener (1856)/Wormwood

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WORMWOOD.
Artemísia absínthium.—Absinthe, Fr.—Wermuth, Ger.
It is a hardy perennial, and may be propagated by slips, in March or October, or raised from seeds sown after they are ripe. The leaves have a strong, offensive smell, and a very bitter, nauseous taste; the flower equally bitter, but less nauseous. Wormwood is a moderately warm stomachic and corroborant, and for these purposes it was formerly in common use, but it has now given place to bitters of a less ungrateful kind. Wormwood was formerly much used by brewers instead of Hops, to give the bitter taste to their malt liquors, and to preserve them. This plant very powerfully resists putrefaction, and is made a principal ingredient in antiseptic fomentations.
# The Family Kitchen Gardener (1856)/Turnip-rooted Celery

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Turnip-Rooted Celery
​Celeriac, or Turnip-Rooted Celery, is occasionally cultivated for its seasoning qualities, and when well boiled is used at the table. Culture, same as Cabbage. When the roots have acquired a tolerable size, draw the earth to each side of the row, three or four inches high, which will render them white and tender, particularly so in moist weather (the whole of this family being partial to moisture). In from four to six weeks after being earthed up, they will be in good order for use.
# The Family Kitchen Gardener (1856)/Winter Cress

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WINTER CRESS,
Ery’simum Barbarèa,—Cresson de Terre, Fr.—Winter Kresse, Ger.;
But both of these are subordinate to the Water Cress in every character, and our pages may be occupied with more useful subjects.
# The Improvement of the Mind/Advertisment

"Few books have been perused by me with greater pleasure than his 'Improvement of the Mind'; of which the radical principles may indeed be found in 'Locke's 'Conduct of The Understanding'; but they are so expanded and ramified by Watts, as to confer on him the merit of a work in the highest degree useful and pleasing. Whoever has the care of instructing others may be charged with deficiency in his duty if this book is not recommended."
# The Improvisatore

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