Contents 1
Unit Eleven History 1
Daniel J．Boorstin，The Asking Animal 1
Benedetto Croce，History as Human Self-Knowledge 19
G．W．F．Hegel，History as the Self-Realization of Spirit 28
Barbara Tuchman，When Does History Happen？ 38
Unit Twelve Education 47
Alfred North Whitehead，The Aims of Education 47
John Henry Newman，The Idea of a University 57
William Zinsser，College Pressures 64
William Golding，Thinking as a Hobby 72
Confucius，The Great Learning 79
Morton W．Bloomfield and Leonard Newmark，Language and the History of Language 82
Unit Thirteen Language 82
W．Somerset Maugham，Lucidity，Simplicity，Euphony 94
F．L．Lucas，What Is Style？ 103
LeRoi Jones，Expressive Language 112
George Orwell，Politics and the English Language 116
Unit Fourteen Man Woman 127
Cheryl Merser，Men，Women，Equality，and Love 127
Susan Faludi，Blame It on Feminism 135
Mervyn Cadwallader，Marriage as a Wretched Institution 143
Sarah Orne Jewett，Tom's Husband 150
Maxine Hong Kingston，No Name Woman 161
Unit Fifteen Politics 172
Nancy Gibbs，Twin Perils of Love War 172
John Taylor，Are You Politically Correct？ 178
Shelby Steele，Affirmative Action：The Price of Preference 193
Lewis H．Van Dusen，Jr．，Civil Disobedience：Destroyer of Democracy 202
Unit Sixteen Environmental Protection ( 210
Gwynne Dyer，A Cruel Universe，but the Only One Where Humans Could Exist 210
Maryann Bird，Hanging Out on a Limb 214
James Corbett，Why Tigers Become Man-Eaters 220
Edward Hoagland，The Courage of Turtles 226
Edward Abbey，Eco-Defense 233
Unit Seventeen Media 237
John Merrill，Freedom of the Press Must Be Limited 237
Mario Cuomo，Freedom of the Press Must Be Unlimited 243
Garrison Keillor，The Tip-Top Club 250
Beth Austin，Pretty Worthless 260
Unit Eighteen Biography 269
Frederic Golden，Albert Einstein 269
Paul Gray，James Joyce 274
Robert Hughes，Pablo Picasso 279
Johanna McGeary，Mohandas Gandhi 283
Unit Nineteen Religion 290
Walter T．Stace，What Religion Is 290
Bertrand Russell，Why I Am Not a Christian 295
Huston Smith，Buddhism 304
Wallace Stevens，Sunday Morning 322
Unit Twenty Death 327
John Donne，Death Be Not Proud 327
John Gunther，Death Be Not Proud 328
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross，Stages of Dying 340
William Cullen Bryant，Thanatopsis 346
Robert Kastenbaum，The Kingdom Where Nobody Dies 349
Key to Exercises 360