a study in scarlet by sir arthur conan doyle summary

... used against the new astronomy, and Galileo had actually to recant. It was used against Galvani and electricity. It was used against Darwin, who would certainly have been burned had he lived a ... fate or that of our friends. The departed all agree that passing is usually both easy and painless, and followed by an enormous reaction of peace and ease. The individual finds himself in a ... steps in Spiritualism. I was still a sceptic, but at least I was an inquirer, and when I heard some old-fashioned critic saying that there was nothing to explain, and that it was all fraud,...

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... we may shoot the Kaffir for outraging a white woman, the inexpiable outrage remains. () By charging the African man with rape, Stead again avoids discussing British male sexuality as potentially ... to make such charges against British soldiers, resorting, again, to rape by proxy as a charge against Britain: But, for the sake of argument, I am willing to admit that every British soldier in the ... publication, War Against War in South Africa, printed a translation of the ‘‘War Hymn of the Boers,’’ ‘‘sung by the Boers in their camps during the Majuba campaign’’ (Majuba was the scene of the infamous...

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... cause cascading failure across many nodes. De-localisation means that there are many more places and events that can transmit failure, and major structural stresses can build at a global scale. ... financial failure, a fast and powerful positive 8 enabled the more than doubling of the human population, each individual on average consuming more year-on-year, and habituating to that. ... the principal ways of gaining overall efficiency is by letting individual parts of the system share the costs of transactions by sharing common infrastructure platforms (information and transport...

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... national emergency, generally war.  e principal direct tax was the land tax, ori- ginally a tax on real and personal property and incomes 20 but it became a tax purely on land in the nature ... tax administration, particularly since the statutes invariably provided their determination was  nal, 134 and in many instances made no provi- sion for appeal to the regular courts of law ... that everyone was paying their due taxes and promoted public co-operation. To use a traditional means of tax administration which was famil- iar and understood by all taxpayers and sympathetic...

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... so in finance, we have many masters acting under a very dim and inoperative accountability. Of course under such ministration our financial policy has always been unstable, and has often strayed ... constitutional balances and administrative arrangements are many years behind the actual practices of the government at Washington, and that we are farther than most of us realize from the times and ... President's cabinet have always been prominent in administration; and certainly the early cabinets were no less strong in political influence than are the cabinets of our own day; but they...

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... bear some of the archaic markings common on the rock faces both in Scotland and in Central Australia: on large rocks they are painted, in Australia, in Scotland they are incised. I maintain that ... circles, a cupped stone, and a large quartz crystal of the kind which Apaches in North America, and the Euahlayi tribe in New South Wales, use in crystal gazing. In early ages, after the metals had ... pattern. In Australia, in Portugal, in Russia, in France, in North America, in Scotland, as we shall see, such stones may be unmarked, may bear no inscription or pattern. {81} These are plain...

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