The Free City: A Book of NeighborhoodCosimo, Inc., 2007 M03 1 - 324 páginas As the United States endured a lingering economic hangover from the excesses of the Gilded Age and the last wars fought by monarchs was raging in Europe, Bouck White-a Congregationalist minister and champion of the poor and working class in New York CIty-was busy making himself the bane of the elite of Manhattan with his revolutionary, to some, philosophy about God and wealth: namely, that God frowned up it. Here, in this 1919 book, White, a consummate New Yorker as much as he was a dedicated troublemaker, examines the concept of "city" itself throughout history and how the masses have always related to it as an entity. In impassioned, radicalizing language, he examines: . Athenian self-ownership . the patriotism of Jesus . industrial democracies . the city state as a work state . the mysticism of municipality . and more. American minister and author BOUCK WHITE (1874-1951) also wrote Quo Vaditis (1903), The Book of Daniel Drew (1910), The Call of the Carpenter (1911), The Mixing (1913), The Carpenter and the Rich Man (1914), and Letters from Prison (1915). |
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... earth that so needs to enter the valley of a deep humiliation , as the U.S.A. The wholesomest thing that could happen to us would be to sit for a season on the mourners ' bench . More than any other people , we need a penitential office ...
... earth that so needs to enter the valley of a deep humiliation , as the U.S.A. The wholesomest thing that could happen to us would be to sit for a season on the mourners ' bench . More than any other people , we need a penitential office ...
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... earth . The mind of man in that day seems to have been cast in an ampler mold , and his veins flowed richer blood . The thought will protrude that Heaven had but a limited store of good clay ; so that we moderns are compounded of second ...
... earth . The mind of man in that day seems to have been cast in an ampler mold , and his veins flowed richer blood . The thought will protrude that Heaven had but a limited store of good clay ; so that we moderns are compounded of second ...
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... Earth wears the Parthenon as the proudest gem upon her zone , and morning opes with haste her lids to gaze upon the Pyramids ; because they who wrought the parthenons and pyramids were in the youthtime of the race , and so wrought ...
... Earth wears the Parthenon as the proudest gem upon her zone , and morning opes with haste her lids to gaze upon the Pyramids ; because they who wrought the parthenons and pyramids were in the youthtime of the race , and so wrought ...
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... Earth . Yes . And city commonwealths achieve size ; but by the principle of federation , not by consolidation . The thirteen American colonies , federating , triumphed over the British Empire . Thirty - six years later , in the War of ...
... Earth . Yes . And city commonwealths achieve size ; but by the principle of federation , not by consolidation . The thirteen American colonies , federating , triumphed over the British Empire . Thirty - six years later , in the War of ...
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... Earth . Mightiest of the mighty was he , so long as his feet were touching the ground ; in mystic fashion the strength of the soil seeped up into his members like sap into a rooted oak . He had an enemy . In every encounter between the ...
... Earth . Mightiest of the mighty was he , so long as his feet were touching the ground ; in mystic fashion the strength of the soil seeped up into his members like sap into a rooted oak . He had an enemy . In every encounter between the ...
Contenido
1 | |
12 | |
THE CITY SET ON A HILL | 70 |
THE PATRIOTISM OF JESUS | 87 |
WHY AMERICA IS THE LOITERER | 105 |
TWILIGHT AND THE Dark | 120 |
INDUSTRIAL DEMOCRACIES | 131 |
144 | 159 |
NOW IN THE WORLDS REMAKING | 191 |
CARA PATRIA CARIOR LIBERTAS | 207 |
THE MYSTICISM OF MUNICIPALITY | 224 |
THE SOCIAL STATE | 239 |
PERSONALITY | 252 |
THE LAND OF EVERLASTING LIFE | 271 |
A COSMIC COURTSHIP | 282 |
THE REPUBLIC OF COMMON SENSE | 298 |
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The Free City: A Book of Neighborhood (Classic Reprint) Bouck White Sin vista previa disponible - 2015 |
Términos y frases comunes
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Pasajes populares
Página 83 - Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee. Peace be within thy walls, and prosperity within thy palaces. For my brethren and companions' sakes, I will now say, Peace be within thee.
Página 100 - For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it ? Lest haply after he hath laid the foundation, and is not able to finish...
Página 75 - Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep. Blessed shall be thy basket and thy store. Blessed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and blessed shalt thou be when thou goest out.
Página 273 - But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.
Página 87 - BY THE rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof. For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.
Página 104 - Or what king, going to make war against another king, sitteth not down first and consulteth whether he be able with ten thousand to meet him that cometh against him with twenty thousand?
Página 159 - Two are better than one ; because they have a good reward for their labour. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up.
Página 204 - That the property of the United States, has been protected from the confiscations of Britain by the joint exertions of all, and therefore ought to be the common property of all. And he that attempts opposition to this creed is an enemy to equity and justice, and ought to be swept from off the face of the earth.
Página 83 - Jerusalem is builded as a city that is compact together: Whither the tribes go up, the tribes of the Lord, unto the testimony of Israel, to give thanks unto the name of the Lord.
Página 87 - If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth...
Referencias a este libro
Creating a Democratic Public: The Struggle for Urban Participatory Democracy ... Kevin Mattson Vista previa limitada - 2010 |