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H. G. Wells - Discovery Of The Future

The Discovery of the Future is a 1902 philosophical lecture by H. G. Wells that argues for the knowability of the future. It was originally delivered to the Royal Institution on January 24, 1902. Wells begins by...

David Wales 1 hour 2 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

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Johann Gottlieb Fichte - Vocation of the Scholar

Johann Gottlieb Fichte (German: [ˈjoːhan ˈɡɔtliːp ˈfɪçtə]; May 19, 1762 – January 27, 1814) was a German philosopher. He was one of the founding figures of the philosophical movement known as German idealism, which...

Craig Campbell and 2 more 2 hours 40 minutes

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Perpetual Peace, A Philosophic Essay (Trueblood Translation)

Political Science

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Immanuel Kant - Perpetual Peace, A Philosophic Essay (Trueblood Translation)

This essay, written in 1795, puts forth a plan for a lasting peace between nations and peoples. Kant puts forth necessary means to any peace, and argues that nations can be brought into federation with one another...

D.E. Wittkower 2 hours 2 minutes

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William Walker Atkinson - Your Mind and How to Use It

William Walker Atkinson was one of the most prominent contributors to the literature of the New Thought movement, a non-denomination spiritual philosophy which developed in the late Nineteenth Century. Although he...

Algy Pug 5 hours 18 minutes

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James Allen - As a Man Thinketh (version 3)

The burgeoning conflict between science and organized religion in the Nineteenth Century had many cultural offshoots, one of the most significant of which was the New Thought movement. New Thought exponents sought to...

Algy Pug 53 minutes

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Winds of Doctrine: Studies in Contemporary Opinion

Essays & Short Works

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George Santayana - Winds of Doctrine: Studies in Contemporary Opinion

Even before the Great War turned the world upside down, Western civilization was being revolutionized at all levels: intellectually, philosophically, artistically. Noted positivist philosopher George Santayana...

Expatriate 6 hours 43 minutes

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Robert G. Ingersoll - Mistakes of Moses

Robert G. Ingersoll was an extremely popular humanist orator in the late nineteenth century, and he wrote Mistakes of Moses after many bootlegged versions of his speeches had been published and circulated. In Mistakes...

Margaret Espaillat 5 hours 58 minutes

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Edmund Burke - Philosophical Enquiry

Burke's A Philosophical Enquiry is an important treatise in the history of philosophical aesthetics, putting forth a theory of two concepts of central, perennial importance to the field of aesthetics, namely, the...

ej 6 hours 33 minutes

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Psychology

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Orison Swett Marden - Pushing to the Front

Published in 1894, this is the first book by the renowned inspirational author, Dr. Orison Swett Marden. Pushing to the Front is the product of many years of hard work, and marks a turning point in the life of...

Luke Sartor 33 hours 18 minutes

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Bertrand Russell - Analysis of Mind

A neat work on philosophy of mind by the 20th century analytic philosopher Bertrand Russell. (Summary by sidhu177)

Bob Neufeld and 11 more 9 hours 37 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

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Matthew Arnold - Culture and Anarchy

Culture and Anarchy is a series of periodical essays by Matthew Arnold, first published in Cornhill Magazine 1867-68 and collected as a book in 1869. The preface was added in 1875. Arnold's famous piece of writing on...

Nicole Lee 6 hours 1 minute

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Inquiry into the Human Mind on the Principles of Common Sense

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Thomas Reid - Inquiry into the Human Mind on the Principles of Common Sense

«That excellent book by Thomas Reid, the Inquiry into the Human Mind (first edition, 1764; 6th edition, 1810), as a negative proof of the Kantian truths, affords us a very thorough conviction of the inadequacy of...

Steven Reynolds and 1 more 10 hours 3 minutes

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Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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