House
House names 2 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
House a civilized dwelling
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
a civilized dwelling. In point of law, the common expression, "a man's house is his castle," is in most instances true. Except where there has been a criminal al offense , a man, in England and in the United States , can hold his house against all comers. In the United States a court can give a messenger permission to force a door, and arrest or distrain as may be wished. In astrology the word "house" denotes the station of a planet in the heavens; a 12th part of the heavens as divided by great circles drawn through the north and south poles of the horizon, in the same way as meridians pass through the earth's poles. The heavens, visible and invisible, were thus divided into 12 equal parts, six being above and six below the horizon. These divisions, or "houses," were numbered from 1 to 12, beginning with that which lay in the last immediately below the horizon. The first "house" was the "house" of life; the second, of fortune or riches; the third, of brethren; the fourth, of relations; the fifth, of children; the sixth, of health; the seventh, of marriage; the eighth, of death, or the upper portal; the ninth, of religion; the tenth, of dignities; the eleventh, of benefactors; and the twelfth, of enemies or captivity. See HOUSING.
House EDWARD MANDELL, an American statesman
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
EDWARD MANDELL, an American statesman; born at Houston, Texas, in 1858, and graduated from Cornell University in 1881. He took an active part in Democratic party affairs in Texas and used all his influence to EDWARD MANDELL HOUSE bring about the nomination and election of President Wilson, being his close friend and advisor. During the World War President Wilson frequently sent him on important missions to the various belligerent powers and he became the "eyes and ears" of the President as far as European affairs were concerned. Appointed by the President a member of the United States Commission to negotiate peace with Germany, Col. House spent 1918 and 1919 in Europe. In the spring of 1920 ho returned to the United States, but soon again set out on an important diplomatic mission to Europe.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Collier's assured readers in 1921 that "a man's house is his castle" and that he "can hold his house against all comers"; American courts have since carved that up in detail, with the Fourth Amendment warrant rules of the mid-20th century on one side and, on the other, the spread of "castle doctrine" and stand-your-ground statutes from Florida's 2005 law onward, which extend the old maxim from resisting entry to using deadly force. The astrological section still describes the twelve houses much as practitioners use them today, though the meanings are now read psychologically rather than as fixed decrees, and no general encyclopedia would present the scheme so neutrally. The second entry catches Edward Mandell House in mid-career, "soon again set out on an important diplomatic mission to Europe"; in fact his intimacy with Woodrow Wilson had already broken down at the Paris peace conference in 1919, and he never regained influence, dying in New York in 1938. His reputation now rests on the papers published as The Intimate Papers of Colonel House in the 1920s, a key source for how Wilson's diplomacy was actually run.
Written for this edition, 2026.