There is evidence to suggest, in fact, that many authors of the humorous sketches were prompted to write them -- or to make them as indelicate as they are -- by way of protesting against the artificial refinements which had come to dominate the polite letters of the South.

The authors insist, however, that these abnormalities in the sense of touch were due absolutely to no organic disorders in that sense faculty but rather to the injuries which the patient had sustained to the sense of sight.

Lincoln denounced the decision, alleging it was the product of a conspiracy of Democrats to support the Slave Power Lincoln argued, " The authors of the Declaration of Independence never intended ' to say all were equal in color, size, intellect, moral developments, or social capacity ', but they ' did consider all men created equal — equal in certain inalienable rights, among which are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness '.

Influenced by psychoanalytic psychologists including Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung, these authors sought to understand the way that individual personalities were shaped by the wider cultural and social forces in which they grew up.

Another possibility, raised in an essay by the Swedish fantasy writer and editor Rickard Berghorn, is that the name Alhazred was influenced by references to two historical authors whose names were Latinized as Alhazen: Alhazen ben Josef, who translated Ptolemy into Arabic ; and Abu ' Ali al-Hasan ibn al-Haytham, who wrote about optics, mathematics and physics.

These authors, the former a medieval historian and the latter an early modernist, quickly became associated with the distinctive Annales approach, which combined geography, history, and the sociological approaches of the Année Sociologique ( many members of which were their colleagues at Strasbourg ) to produce an approach which rejected the predominant emphasis on politics, diplomacy and war of many 19th and early 20th-century historians as spearheaded by historians whom Febvre called Les Sorbonnistes.

In another study of ancient DNA published by the same authors in 2011, both the control and coding regions of mitochondrial DNA ( mtDNA ) recovered from Jomon skeletons excavated from the northernmost island of Japan, Hokkaido, were analyzed in detail, and 54 mtDNAs were confidently assigned to relevant haplogroups.

Ancient authors were almost invariably from an elite background for whom giving poor and uneducated people power over their betters seemed a reversal of the proper, rational order of society.

An example of ancient aesthetics in Greece through poetry is Plato's quote: " For the authors of those great poems which we admire, do not attain to excellence through the rules of any art ; but they utter their beautiful melodies of verse in a state of inspiration, and, as it were, possessed by a spirit not their own.

The libretto was mainly written in early 1927 and the music was finished in the spring of 1929, although both text and music were partly revised by the authors later.

Other authors who used the name were Major John Bernard Arbuthnot MVO, the column's founder, and William Hartston, the current author of its revived form.

According to the authors, " Our analysis clearly reveals for the 3 GMOs new side effects linked with GM maize consumption, which were sex-and often dose-dependent.

The authors of the meta-analysis and a later reviewer noted that the applicability of this meta-analysis is limited because the subjects were taken mostly from withdrawal clinics ; the coexisting drug, alcohol use, and psychiatric disorders were not defined ; and several of the included studies conducted the cognitive measurements during the withdrawal period.

Documented evidence indicates that a significant percentage of the incidents were spurious, inaccurately reported or embellished by later authors.

The authors of the U. S. Army's Area Handbook series said at the time that '.. the Army and Gendarmery ( sic ) were effective forces in being, but the Navy and Air Force were token forces primarily for prestige and with little actual defense value.

It was especially important for preserving in its libraries manuscripts of Greek and Latin authors throughout a period when instability and disorder caused their mass-destruction in western Europe and north Africa: On the city's fall, thousands of these were brought by refugees to Italy, and played a key part in stimulating the Renaissance, and the transition to the modern world.

The popularity and accessibility of strips meant they were often clipped and saved ; authors including John Updike and Ray Bradbury have written about their childhood collections of clipped strips.

The Poor Law Amendment Act 1834 was defended on " scientific or economic principals " while the authors of the Elizabethan Poor Law of 1601 were seen as not having had the benefit of reading Malthus.

Many of the views which directed Leadbeater's understanding of the chakras were influenced by previous theosophist authors, in particular Johann Georg Gichtel, a disciple of Jakob Böhme, and his book Theosophia Practica ( 1696 ), in which Gitchtel directly refers to inner force centers, a concept reminiscent of the chakras.

") Many of Poole's arguments were easily attended to, but both authors emphasize the importance of Cotton Mather's difficult and contradictory view on spectral evidence, as copied in the final pages of Increase Mather's " Cases of Conscience " called " The Return of Several Ministers.

The authors said that this occurs because they were built to local regulations that required specific features, but freed the architect to adapt them to particular situations.

Notwithstanding that tradition, some free / open source software authors ask for voluntary donations, although there is no requirement to do so.

HomeTips. com, established in early 1995, was among the first Web-based sites to deliver free extensive DIY home-improvement content created by expert authors.

During 1938 – 1940, society was still relatively free, but during 1941, most of the free newspapers, magazines, and publishers were shut down, and authors were silenced.

As of September 2011, the IEEE also provides authors for most new journal papers with the option to pay to allow free download of their papers by the public from the IEEE publication website.

In Ecofeminism ( 1993 ) authors Vandana Shiva and Maria Mies critique modern science and its acceptance as a universal and value free system.

Millions of articles are available on Wikipedia, a free online encyclopedia, and almost none of its many authors and editors receive any direct material reward.

They had accepted the teaching of Paul of Samosata, though at a later period the name of Paul was believed to be that of the Apostle ; and they were not quite free from the Dualistic principle of the Gnostics, at a later period too much identified with the teaching of Mani, by Photius, Petrus Siculus, and other authors.

Article 1245 of Civil Code of Russian Federation " Remuneration for free reproduction of phonograms and audiovisual products for private purposes " (" Вознаграждение за свободное воспроизведение фонограмм и аудиовизуальных произведений в личных целях ") mandates a fee, which is to be distributed in the following proportion: 40 % to the authors, 30 % to the singers, 30 % to the manufacturers of the media.

* Alt. Sex. Stories Text Repository -- free, non-profit collection of over 450, 000 works of erotic literature, home to over 4000 authors, and host of the Alt. Sex. Stories. Moderated archive

As proof that authors and publishers will continue to produce without copyrights, he cites the fact that hundreds of thousands of articles are uploaded onto the Internet by their authors every day, available to anyone in the world for free and that nearly all works written before 1900 are in the public domain, yet pre-1900 works are still published, and still sell.

Some authors have taken the view that the words " similar in principle " means that in Canada there must be a parliamentary system of government, acting under the influence of public opinion, of a free press, with free speech.

* The four Science Fiction RoundTables ( the SFRT ), the official online home of the Horror Writers Association and the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America before the Internet became popular ( SFWA members, who were all published authors, received free access to the SF RoundTables )

As a distraction tactic, Columbo regularly asks to get behind the wheel of a suspect's car ; he pesters suspects who are authors to sign copies of their books, and requests actors to arrange for free tickets to their performances.

During this period artists, musicians, and authors such as F. Scott Fitzgerald moved to Westport on account of being free of the commuting demanding experienced by business people.

An analysis of five billion bytes of free / open source code by 31, 999 developers shows that 74 % of the code was written by the most active 10 % of authors.

In 2003, Antoine Moreau organized a session at the EOF space which brought together hundreds of authors to achieve exposure according to the principles of copyleft with this condition: " Free Admission if free work ".

He also manufactured a set group of newspaper quarrels between the various " authors " for and against Mrs. Wenham to get free advertising.

Preparing for Silent Threats release, Interplay held a contest from July 28 to August 25, 1998, in which the submitted fan-designed missions could win their authors prizes such as free copies of Silent Threat, FreeSpace apparel, and gaming hardware.

There are two main forms of open access: open access publishing, in which a whole journal ( or book ) or individual articles are made available free for all on the web by the publisher at the time of publication ( sometimes, but not always, for an extra publication fee paid by the author or the author's institution or funder ); and open access self-archiving, in which authors themselves make a copy of their published articles available free for all on the web.

Among the many popular public events during the school year is the Jack Ridl Visiting Writers Series which regularly brings in prominent authors for free public readings.