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The Psychology of Peoples: Its Influence on Their Evolution

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Gustave Le Bon

"It is barely a century and a half ago that certain philosophers, who, it should be remarked, were very ignorant of the primitive histo…

The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind

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Gustave Le Bon

"Civilisations as yet have only been created and directed by a small intellectual aristocracy, never by crowds. Crowds are only powerfu…

Sesame and Lilies

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John Ruskin

Sesame and Lilies proposes and answers the questions, how, what and why to read in the context of how and why to live.About earlier and late…

3.1 Introduction to Division 3 and The Female Husband

In Curiosities of Street Literature

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Various

This is a collection of broadsides from London. Broadsides are short, popular publications, a precursor to today's tabloid journalism. The c…

Chivalry, part 1

In Boy Scouts Handbook

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Boy Scouts of America and Boy Scouts Of America

The Boy Scouts of America was founded over a hundred years ago to serve the young men of the United States of America and give them the same…

Preface: The Last Sketch

In Emma: A Fragment of a Story

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Charlotte Brontë

Miss Mabel Wilcox, the owner of a newly opened girl's boarding school, meets the wealthy Mr. Conway Fitzgibbon, who drops off his frail daug…

31. Cases of Conscience Concerning Witchcrafts, Argument 3

In The Wonders of the Invisible World, and A Farther Account of the Tryals of the …

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Cotton Mather

Here are first hand accounts, published in 1692, of the infamous "Salem Witch Trials". In addition to Mather's interpretation of t…

The Irish Cabin.

In Cottage Poems

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Patrick Brontë

Patrick Brontë (father of the famous Brontë sisters, Charlotte, Emily and Anna) is mainly remembered as a father, reverend and tea…