Philosophy
A Year Amongst the Persians
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Edward Granville Browne
Edward Granville Browne, born in Stouts Hill, Uley, Gloucestershire, England, was a British orientalist who published numerous articles and …
Quiet Talks about Jesus
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S. D. Gordon
So far as I can find out, I have no theory about Jesus to make these talks fit into. I have tried to find out for myself what the old Book o…
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
Philip Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, was at one time Ambassador to the Hague, negotiated the second Treaty of Vienna, was a founding gover…
Herland
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Herland is a utopian novel from 1915, written by feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The book describes an isolated society comprised entirel…
Essays on Some Unsettled Questions of Political Economy
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John Stuart Mill
This is Mill’s first work on economics. It foreshadows his Political Economy which was the standard Anglo-American Economics textbook of the…
The Faith of Our Fathers
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James Gibbons
The Faith of Our Fathers: A Plain Exposition and Vindication of the Church Founded by Our Lord Jesus Christ is a book published in 1876 by a…
Selections from the Principles of Philosophy
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René Descartes
The Principles of Philosophy, originally published in Latin in 1644, and translated to French in 1647, sets forth the principles of nature--…
On the Future of our Educational Institutions
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Friedrich Nietzsche
Nietzsche gives a series of lectures in Bale, Germany on the subject of German educational institutions, and what the best way forward. Sum…
The Jew of Malta
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Christopher Marlowe
Christopher “Kit” Marlowe (baptised 26 February 1564 – 30 May 1593) was an English dramatist, poet, and translator of the Elizabethan era. T…
The Life of Apollonius of Tyana
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Flavius Philostratus
Apollonius of Tyana (ca. 40-120 AD) was a Greek Pythagorean philosopher and teacher. He hailed from the town of Tyana in the Roman province …
The Essence of Christianity
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Ludwig Feuerbach
Taking issue with Hegel's sense that God, as Logos, is somehow central to all that is, Feuerbach explores his own notion that Christianity, …
A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge
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George Berkeley
A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge (Commonly called "Treatise" when referring to Berkeley's works) is a 1710 …
Essay on the Creative Imagination
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Théodule-Armand Ribot
"It is quite generally recognized that psychology has remained in the semi-mythological, semi-scholastic period longer than most attemp…
Union and Communion - or Thoughts on the Song of Solomon
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J. Hudson Taylor
This little book, whose design is to lead the devout Bible student into the Green Pastures of the Good Shepherd, thence to the Banqueting Ho…
Kindness
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Frederick William Faber
Father Frederick William Faber was a beloved spiritual writer, preacher, and superior of the Oratory of St. Philip Neri in London. An Oxford…
The Phenomenology of Mind, Volume 2
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Phänomenologie des Geistes (1807) is Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel's most important and widely discussed philosophical work. Hegel's fi…
An Essay on the Principle of Population
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Thomas Malthus
The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man. Population, when unchecked, incr…
Essays book 3
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Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne is one of the most influential writers of the French Renaissance, known for popularising the essay as a literary …
In Defense of Women
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H. L. Mencken
In Defense of Women is H. L. Mencken's 1918 book on women and the relationship between the sexes. Some laud the book as progressive while ot…