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...English (1894) in which he outlined principles of non-violent resistance in the face of violence. Mohandas Gandhi was deeply moved by reading this work and corresponded directly with Tolstoy on the principles of non-violent resistance as a means for transforming India into an independent nation (Murthy 1987). Searching for heaven within an individual has also served to...

...English Christmas for hundreds of years. But if we cannot expect the full-blooded mirth of an old-fashioned Dickens Christmas, we may still anticipate a time of quiet cheerfulness, seasoned with the hope that before the advent of another Yuletide the peace so ardently desired by the whole world will at length have dawned and the period of wholesale slaughter and wholesale...

...English and the music scores of four of the song settings, on the home page of the course. You are not expected to be able to read the music, but even if you are not very familiar with musical notation, you may well find the scores useful in identifying what is happening in the songs...This free course, Schubert's Lieder: Settings of Goethe's poems, looks at the short...

...Englishness and patriotism had reached breaking point. They contain traces of the experiences in the trenches that marked both Milne and Shepard, whose illustrations of carnage at the Somme and Paschendale were the subject of a separate recent exhibition. The pastoral paradise of Hundred Acre Wood was one that Milne, who wrote passionately in favour of pacifism, conjured...