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The following is an edited version of a presentation made to the Mobility and Independence Specialists in Education (MISE) Conference in Coventry on 7 March 2000.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One BUILDING THE ARCHIVE -- 1 "The Cord that bindes up all": Richard Ligon and the Natural History of Barbados -- 2 "A very perverse Generation of People": Natural History in the Service of the Planters -- 3 "Negroes, cattle, mules, and horses": The Plantation in Theory and in Practice -- 4 "The purchase of slaves, teeth and dust": Natural Histories of the African Slave Trade -- Part Two DEPLOYING THE ARCHIVE -- 5 "The groans, the dying groans, of this deeply afflicted and oppressed people": Anthony Benezet and the Natural History of Atlantic Slavery -- 6 "An unnatural state of oppression": Environmental Writing in the Abolitionist Essay -- 7 "But say, whence first th'unnatural trade arose?" Abolitionism's Environmental Poetics -- Conclusion: "An inexhaustible mine of wealth" -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

Front Cover -- About Island Press -- Subscribe -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction: Creve Coeur -- Chapter 1: Getting Dirty -- Chapter 2: Railroad Avenue -- Chapter 3: Making a Case -- Chapter 4: Joining Forces -- Chapter 5: Going After Goliath -- Chapter 6: In the Interests of Justice -- Chapter 7: Corporate Secrets -- Chapter 8: A Risky Plan -- Chapter 9: Just Past Midnight -- Chapter 10: Lizard Man -- Chapter 11: A Question of Science -- Chapter 12: San Francisco Showdown -- Chapter 13: The Cavalry -- Chapter 14: Staying Alive -- Chapter 15: The Trial Begins -- Chapter 16: For the Defense -- Chapter 17: An Unusual Case -- Chapter 18: Fighting until the Last Breath -- Chapter 19: The Last Word -- Chapter 20: Verdict -- Epilogue: A Leaf That Doesn't Die -- A Note on Sources -- Acknowledgments -- Index.

Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 First Thoughts -- 2 Very Often, We Do Things with Words -- 3 A Preview of Six Chapters -- 4 Words and History -- 1 Old Words -- 1 Rural Life -- 2 A Village Doles Out Punishments -- 3 Cooking and Eating -- 4 Remnants of Feudalism -- 5 Hunting -- 6 Proverbs -- 7 Magic -- 2 New Words and the Middle Class -- 1 New Words and Cultural Change -- 2 The Invention of Comfort -- 3 A 'Conversable World' -- 3 The Enlightenment -- 1 Orderliness, Organization, and Modernity -- 2 A Gradual Spread of Democratic Values -- 3 Weights and Measures -- 4 Science and the English Language -- 1 The Royal Society -- 2 Artificial Languages and Prose Style -- 3 Scientific Words -- 4 Anna Wierzbicka and Empirical Science -- 5 Words, Cultural Change, and History -- 1 Old Words in Dictionaries -- 2 Local Words -- 3 New Words – Party and Fun -- 4 Language and Culture and History -- 5 The Politicization of English -- 6 New Words in the Enlightenment -- 1 Individuality and Self-Consciousness -- 2 Bluestocking -- 3 'Public' Words and the Public Sphere -- 4 Sympathy -- 5 Commercial -- 6 Classification -- 7 Critique and Cosmopolitan -- 8 Conclusion -- Party and Fun – Texts -- More Old Words -- New Words -- Works Cited -- Index.

Intro -- PREFACE -- CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 2: THE COMPLAINT -- CHAPTER 3: EMPLOYMENT LAW -- CHAPTER 4: DISCOVERY -- CHAPTER 5: THE PROTECTIVE ORDER -- CHAPTER 6: MOTION FOR ENLARGEMENT -- CHAPTER 7: DISCOVERY II -- CHAPTER 8: INSIDE IBM -- CHAPTER 9: THE IBM PRODUCTS -- CHAPTER 10: THE TERMINATION -- CHAPTER 11: THE PRETRIAL ORDER -- CHAPTER 12: FRAUD AND EXTORTION -- CHAPTER 13: JURY TRIAL DENIAL -- CHAPTER 14: WRIT OF MANDAMUS -- CHAPTER 15: JUDICIAL BIAS -- CHAPTER 16: JUDICIAL MISCONDUCT -- CHAPTER 17: PLEASE MR. POSTMAN -- CHAPTER 18: SUMMARY JUDGMENT -- CHAPTER 19: CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- CHAPTER 20: JUDICIAL MISCONDUCT II -- CHAPTER 21: CONGRESSMAN KYL AND SENATORS DeCONCINI AND McCAIN -- CHAPTER 22: THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE -- CHAPTER 23: JUDICIAL HITMAN -- CHAPTER 24: APPEAL FROM SUMMARY JUDGMENT -- CHAPTER 25: SENATORS DANFORTH AND BOND, AND CONGRESSMAN CLAY -- CHAPTER 26: THE COMPLAINT II -- CHAPTER 27: THE GROUND RULES -- CHAPTER 28: THE TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER -- CHAPTER 29: KANGAROO COURT -- CHAPTER 30: JUDICIAL MISCONDUCT III -- CHAPTER 31: JUDICIAL BIAS II -- CHAPTER 32: CASE DISMISSED AND JUDGMENT AFFIRMED -- CHAPTER 33: THE UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON -- CHAPTER 34: UNIVERSAL CORRUPTION -- CHAPTER 35: SENATORS DANFORTH AND BOND II -- CHAPTER 36: ABSOLUTE IMMUNITY TO MEDIA SCRUTINY -- CHAPTER 37: HONOR AMONG THIEVES -- CHAPTER 38: IBM UPDATE -- CHAPTER 39: TYRANNY IN AMERICA -- CHAPTER 40: THE SECOND AMERICAN REVOLUTION -- APPENDIX.

pt. 1The Teleology of Natural Reason --ch. 1Preliminary Considerations --Section aThe Theological Context --Section bNatural Reason --Section cPrudence, Judgment, and Synderesis --Section dLaw and the Ends of Human Action --ch. 2The Case for Natural Law --Section aThe First Principle of Practical Reason --Section bThe Precepts of Natural Law --i.The order of natural inclinations --ii.Primary and secondary precepts --iii.Self-evidence --iv.Love of one's neighbor --v.Natural law and the moral precepts of the Decalogue --vi.Application of the precepts of natural law --Section cObligation Explicated --i.Freedom of choice --ii.Is and Ought --iii.Conditional obligations --iv.Unconditional obligations --ch. 3Reason Commanding --Section aNatural Law and Roman Catholicism --Section bThe New Natural Law Theory --Section cThomas Aquinas and Kant --Section dThe Bonum Rationis --pt. 2Straussian Criticisms --ch. 4Criticisms Advanced by Leo Strauss --Section aMedieval Philosophy vs. Christian Scholasticism --Section bThe Criticisms in Natural Right and History --Section cThe Criticisms in "On Natural Law" --ch. 5Criticisms Advanced by Harry Jaffa --Section aThomas's Departures from Aristotle --Section bThe Natural Desire for a Supernatural End --Section cNatural Law and the American Founding --ch. 6Criticisms Advanced by Ernest Fortin --Section aProvidence and Natural Law --Section bThe Promulgation of Natural Law --Section cThe Question of Punishment --ch. 7Criticisms Advanced by Michael Zuckert --ch. 8The Precept Commanding the Love and Worship of God --ch. 9The Scope of Synderesis --Section aSynderesis as Natural --Section bSynderesis as Universal --i.Seth Benardete on obligation in Greek antiquity --ii.Douglas Kries on the acquisition of synderesis --iii.The feeling of right and wrong --iv.Synderesis in moral education --Section cSynderesis as Inerrant -- Moral Absolutes --ch. 10Rational Sociability --Section aExotericism --Section bThe Good of Others --Section cPhilosophy and the Catholic Faith --pt. 3Beyond Natural Law --ch. 11Inconsistencies and Other Aberrations --Section aThe Denial of Universal Rules --Section bCircumventing the Practical Syllogism --Section cCompetence and Conscientiousness --Section dScience and Values --ch. 12Philosophizing in the Shadow of Heidegger --Section aNature and World --Section bStrauss's Struggle with Heidegger --i.Choice of ends --ii.Historicism --iii.The Struggle with Heidegger in Natural Right and History --iv.The Struggle with Heidegger in "Introduction to Existentialism" --Section cToward a Thomistic Response to Heidegger --i.Problems in the Husserlian background --ii.The ontological difference between Being and beings --iii.Metaphysics and mysticism --iv.Logic, ontology, and theoria --v.Conscience phenomenologically considered --ch. 13Natural Teleology Revalidated --ch. 14Objections and Replies.