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 Report on the Investigation of the Chicago Telephone Company Submitted to the Committee on Gas Oil and Electric Light $16.98 This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library's preservation reformatting program. The Library seeks to preserve the intellectual content of items in a manner that facilitates and promotes a variety of uses. The digital reformatting process results in an electronic version of the text that can both be accessed online and used to create new print copies. This book and thousands of others can be found in the digital collections of the University of Michigan Library. The University Library also understands and values the utility of print, and makes reprints available through its Scholarly Publishing Office.  Knock Knock Sticky Notes: Humbly Submitted (Pack of 8) $23.92 Your basic sticky note has been translated into stylishly utilitarian mini-pads, equipped with the repositionable adhesive that changed the way humans jot notes. Profiled by Newsweek and the Wall Street Journal and plugged in such venerable outlets as Lucky, Los Angeles Magazine (presented as a ¸¢ÄBest of Los Angeles¸¢Ä), the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the Today Show, Metropolitan Home, and Real Simple  A Letter Concerning Toleration: Humbly Submitted $9.95 This short work written in 1689 is absolutely essential reading for anyone who supports modern democracies - and perhaps even more for people who don't. I wonder what would happen if, instead of dropping bombs on non-democratic countries, the West paraphrased Locke's "Letter" into a modern context, translated it into different languages, and dropped it in intolerant places around the world. A fantasy, I know. But words are more powerful than force, and the "Letter Concerning Toleration" is one of the prime examples of that. It's an important foundation stone for free societies today, and it's a pity that so many people haven't read it. The most important point of the book is the separation of church and state. It argues that they are two different domains that, if confused with one another, lead to various abuses and the loss both of justice and honest religion. They need to be separated in order to protect both. Religion should always appeal to voluntary choice; the state makes laws and has to force people to comply. The realm of religion is mercy; the realm of the law is justice. Religion ought to forgive even the greatest criminals if they repent; the state, on the other hand, needs to punish where laws have been transgressed. Religion should turn the other cheek; the state has to protect its citizens by defending the country. Of course, there are several issues in our own time that are not directly mentioned by Locke, such as the difference between religion and science, but overall the work has not lost its applicability. The dated language might throw some readers off, but reading it is still well worth the effort. |
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