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Plato (Πλάτων) - Apology (version 2)

The Apology is Plato's version of the speech given by Socrates as he defended himself in 399 BC[2] against the charges of «corrupting the young, and by not believing in the gods in whom the city believes, but in other...

Phil Chenevert 1 hour 16 minutes

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David Starr Jordan - Life's Enthusiasms

The words in this essay on positive thought sing like those in Whitman's «Leaves of Grass.» The author praises joyous living and recommends certain routes to its attainment. He explores schooling (public secondary and...

Bill Boerst 38 minutes

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Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity)

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Plato (Πλάτων) - Critias

This is an incomplete dialogue from the late period of Plato's life. Plato most likely created it after Republic and it contains the famous story of Atlantis, that Plato tells with such skill that many have believed...

Kevin Johnson 1 hour 6 minutes

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William Blake - Marriage of Heaven and Hell

The work was composed between 1790 and 1793, in the period of radical foment and political conflict immediately after the French Revolution. The title is an ironic reference to Emanuel Swedenborg's theological work...

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Lucius Annaeus Seneca - Of the Shortness of Life

Seneca the Younger wrote the moral essay «De Brevitate Vitae» — «On the Shortness of Life» — to his friend Paulinus. The philosopher brings up many Stoic principles on the nature of time, namely that men waste much of...

Jonathan Hockey 1 hour 4 minutes

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Poetry

Omar Khayyám - Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (Le Gallienne)

Richard le Gallienne was an English poet and critic, who, although unfamiliar with the Persian language, had a profound interest in the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. In 1897 he published a collection of 211 quatrains,...

Algy Pug 1 hour 14 minutes

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William Kingdon Clifford - Ethics of Belief

This is an essay on decision biases and a critique on prejudices, neatly written and thought provoking. (Summary by sidhu177)

shana and 2 more 1 hour 5 minutes

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On the Duty of Civil Disobedience (Version 2)

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Henry David Thoreau - On the Duty of Civil Disobedience (Version 2)

ivil Disobedience (Resistance to Civil Government) is an essay by American transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau that was first published in 1849. In it, Thoreau argues that individuals should not permit governments...

Bob Neufeld 1 hour 2 minutes

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Nautical & Marine Fiction

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John Masefield - Selected Public Domain Poems

Maritime and metaphysical verse by John Masefield, English poet and author, Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1930 until his death. (Summary by Liam Neely)

Liam Neely 27 minutes

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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz - Monadology

The Monadology ( La Monadologie , 1714) is one of Gottfried Leibniz’s best known works representing his later philosophy. It is a short text which sketches in some 90 paragraphs a metaphysics of simple substances,...

Gary Geck 52 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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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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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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