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Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson - Greek View of Life

“With the Greek civilisation beauty perished from the world. Never again has it been possible for man to believe that harmony is in fact the truth of all existence.” This elegantly-written work provides a...

Martin Geeson 10 hours 56 minutes

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Charles F. Dole - Coming People

Dole briefly sketches the history of life, and shows how it has a definite direction — toward the survival of the kind and gentle people. It's a challenging, and quite persuasive argument, and also a much needed one...

Max Cusimano 3 hours 6 minutes

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Bertrand Russell - Proposed Roads to Freedom

Bertrand Russell, 3rd Earl Russell (1872 – 1970) was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, political activist and Nobel laureate. He led the British «revolt against idealism» in the early 1900s and is...

Todd Garrison and 4 more 5 hours 51 minutes

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William James - Pragmatism

'Pragmatism' contains a series of public lectures held by William James in Boston 1906–7. James provides a popularizing outline of his view of philosophical pragmatism while making highly rhetorical and entertaining...

Fredrik Karlsson 6 hours 32 minutes

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Bahá'u'lláh - Persian Hidden Words

Kalimát-i-Maknúnih (کلمات مکنونه) or The Hidden Words is a book written in Baghdad around 1857 by Bahá'u'lláh, the founder of the Bahá'í Faith. This work is written partly in Arabic and partly in Persian. The Hidden...

Nicholas James Bridgewater 59 minutes

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Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman

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Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield - Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman

Philip Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, was at one time Ambassador to the Hague, negotiated the second Treaty of Vienna, was a founding governor of London’s Foundling Hospital, Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, and Secretary...

Sibella Denton 28 hours 37 minutes

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Aristotle - Nicomachean Ethics

The work consists of ten books, originally separate scrolls, and is understood to be based on notes said to be from his lectures at the Lyceum which were either edited by or dedicated to Aristotle's son, Nicomachus....

Geoffrey Edwards 10 hours

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George Edward Moore - Principia Ethica

George Edward Moore, usually known as G. E. Moore, (1873 – 1958) was a distinguished and influential English philosopher. He was, with Bertrand Russell, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and (before them) Gottlob Frege, one of the...

Fredrik Karlsson 10 hours 2 minutes

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Lysander Spooner - Vices are not Crimes

Lysander Spooner (1808 – 1887) was an American individualist anarchist, entrepreneur, political philosopher, abolitionist, supporter of the labour movement, and legal theorist of the nineteenth century. Here he gives...

Annise 1 hour 16 minutes

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Ralph Waldo Emerson - Nature

Nature is a short essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson published anonymously in 1836. It is in this essay that the foundation of transcendentalism is put forth, a belief system that espouses a non-traditional appreciation of...

David Lawrence and 4 more 1 hour 52 minutes

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Art of Controversy (or: The Art of Being Right)

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Arthur Schopenhauer - Art of Controversy (or: The Art of Being Right)

The Art of Controversy (or The Art of Being Right ) ( Die Kunst, Recht zu Behalten ) is a short treatise written in 1831 by the German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer in which he presents thirty-eight methods of...

Carl Manchester 3 hours 13 minutes

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Thomas Malthus - Essay on the Principle of Population

The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man. Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio. Subsistence increases only in an arithmetical...

Geoffrey Edwards 5 hours 32 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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