Lecture XIISovereigntyThe historical theories commonly received among Englishlawyers have done so much harm not only to the study of law butto the study of history, that an account of the origin and growthof our legal system, founded on the examination of new materialsand the re-examination of old ones, is perhaps the most urgentlyneeded of all additions to English knowledge. But next to a newhistory of law, what we most require is a new philosophy of law....
Modern Custom and Ancient Laws of Russiaby Maxime Kovalevsky1891Lecture IIIThe Past and Present of the Russian Village CommunityFew questions of history are debated in our days as that ofthe origin of village communities. French, English, and Germanscholars, to say nothing of Russians and Americans, havepublished whole volumes in order to prove either the existence ornon-existence of village communities in that period of evolutionwhich is generally known as patriarchal....
┌───────┐└───────┘在市场中发现巨大商机:长尾理论 作者:[美]克里斯·安德森 第一部分 编者导读(1) 丰饶时代的领先之道——长尾理论 长尾理论由《连线》主编克里斯·安德森提出,近两年来可谓风靡全球,掀起了新一轮的商业理念革新。长尾理论荣获了2005年《商业周刊》评选的“best idea of 2005”奖项,并被《GQ》杂志称为“2006年最重要的创见”。 安德森一直醉心于研究行业和技术趋势,在和Ecast的CEO范·阿迪布的一席谈话后,安德斯发现了一个有关数字时代新娱乐经济学的真理。在对话中,阿迪布问安德森收录在该公司点唱机上的一万张专辑中有多少能达到每一季度至少被点播一次的频率。在数字产业中浸淫多年,安德森冒险说出了一个明显违背80/20法则的比例:50%(他的胆子的确比较大)。但事实上安德森的答案却差的太远太远,正确的答案是——98%。并且阿迪布发现公司新添的曲目越多、销量...
Literary Boston As I Knew Itby William Dean HowellsAmong my fellow-passengers on the train from New York to Boston, when Iwent to begin my work there in 1866, as the assistant editor of theAtlantic Monthly, was the late Samuel Bowles, of the SpringfieldRepublican, who created in a subordinate city a journal of metropolitanimportance. I had met him in Venice several years earlier, when he wassuffering from the cruel insomnia which had followed his overwork on that...
Rivers to the Seaby Sara TeasdaleToERNSTCONTENTSPART ISPRING NIGHTTHE FLIGHTNEW LOVE AND OLDTHE LOOKSPRINGTHE LIGHTED WINDOWTHE KISSSWANSTHE OLD MAIDFROM THE WOOLWORTH TOWERAT NIGHTTHE YEARSPEACEAPRILCOMEMOODSAPRIL SONGMAY DAYCROWNEDTO A CASTILIAN SONGBROADWAYA WINTER BLUEJAYIN A RESTAURANTJOYIN A RAILROAD STATIONIN THE TRAIN...
宋长玉上的是夜班,人们睡觉时,他正在井下用火药和铁器采伐煤炭。他不是夸父,却追赶着太阳,跟太阳走的是同一条路线。傍晚,当太阳落入地下,他便披挂整齐,下井去了。清晨,太阳刚从东边的山梁冒出来,他也乘坐罐笼从井口升了出来。在井下干活,宋长玉是个惜命不惜力的人。身体发肤,受之父母,不敢毁伤,孝之始也。至于力气,一个二十郎当岁的年轻人,最不缺的就是力气,最不怕挥霍的也是力气。太阳落下还会出,年轻人的力气,头天用出去的越多,第二天生出来的也会越多。把力气藏着掖着,会被工友看不起,对自己的力气资源也是一种浪费。力气不用白不用,别的东西用多了可能会造成浪费,力气不用才是浪费。每天从井下出来,宋长玉习惯性地朝东天仰望,看太阳出来没有。因在煤层洒下了足够多的汗水,他是带着繁重劳动后的轻松和大量付出后的满足仰望太阳的。在朝霞的烘托下,一轮红日冉冉升起,使以黑色格调为主的矿山霎变得亮...
Lucastaby Richard LovelaceTOWILLIAM HAZLITT, ESQ., OF THE MIDDLE TEMPLE, A REGISTRAR OFTHE COURT OF BANKRUPTCY IN LONDON,This Little VolumeIS INSCRIBED AS A SLIGHT TESTIMONY OF THE GREATEST RESPECT,BY HIS AFFECTIONATE SON, THE EDITOR.CONTENTS.PART I.PAGEDedication 3Verses addressed to the Author 5...
The Darwinian Hypothesisby Thomas H. HuxleyDARWIN ON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES.THERE is a growing immensity in the speculations of science to which nohuman thing or thought at this day is comparable. Apart from theresults which science brings us home and securely harvests, there is anexpansive force and latitude in its tentative efforts, which lifts usout of ourselves and transfigures our mortality. We may have apreference for moral themes, like the Homeric sage, who had seen and...