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Cover of The journal of Montaigne's travels in Italy by way of Switzerland and Germany in 1580 and 1581, Volume 1 (of 3)

The journal of Montaigne's travels in Italy by way of Switzerland and Germany in 1580 and 1581, Volume 1 (of 3)

Michel de Montaigne

The work is a travel journal that records Michel de Montaigne’s journey through Switzerland, the Holy Roman…

An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 2 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 3 and 4

An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 2 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 3 and 4

John Locke

This volume presents the second part of John Locke’s An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, drawn from the…

Micromegas

Micromegas

Voltaire

Voltaire’s Micromegas is a short, philosophical tale that blends science‑fiction travel with sharp satire.

The Last Harvest

The Last Harvest

John Burroughs

The Last Harvest is John Burroughs’s final, posthumous collection of essays, notes and short studies,…

Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition

Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition

Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

The Summa Theologica, Prima Pars is the first portion of Saint Thomas Aquinas’s systematic theology,…

Darwin and Modern Science

Darwin and Modern Science

A. C. Seward

This volume is a commemorative collection of scholarly essays assembled in 1909 to mark both the centenary of…

Cover of Woman and Socialism

Woman and Socialism

August Bebel

August Bebel’s Woman and Socialism is a polemical treatise that frames the “woman question” as inseparable…

Cover of The Essence of Christianity Translated from the second German edition

The Essence of Christianity Translated from the second German edition

Ludwig Feuerbach

The work is a philosophical treatise that seeks to translate the Christian religion from its symbolic…

Cover of Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies

Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies

Plutarch

The third volume of Plutarch’s Complete Works gathers a series of essays and miscellaneous pieces that read…

Cover of Select works of Porphyry: Containing his four books on abstinence from animal food; his treatise on the Homeric cave of the nymphs; and his Auxiliaries to the perception of intelligible natures. With an appendix, explaining the allegory of the wandering of Ulysses

Select works of Porphyry: Containing his four books on abstinence from animal food; his treatise on the Homeric cave of the nymphs; and his Auxiliaries to the perception of intelligible natures. With an appendix, explaining the allegory of the wandering of Ulysses

Porphyry

This volume gathers four of Porphyry’s surviving treatises, each introduced by a scholarly preface that…

History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science

History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science

John William Draper

John William Draper’s History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science is a sweeping, argumentative study…

Cover of The Sexual Life of Our Time in Its Relations to Modern Civilization
 Translated from the Sixth German Edition

The Sexual Life of Our Time in Its Relations to Modern Civilization Translated from the Sixth German Edition

Iwan Bloch

The work is a scholarly encyclopaedia of the sexual sciences, presented as a single‑volume translation of…

Cover of Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of John Stuart Mill

Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of John Stuart Mill

John Stuart Mill

The work is a systematic catalogue of John Stuart Mill’s extensive writings on logic, scientific method, and…

Modern Painters, Volume 4 (of 5)

Modern Painters, Volume 4 (of 5)

John Ruskin

Modern Painters IV is the fourth installment of John Rus Ruskin’s extensive survey of nineteenth‑century…

Cover of The Introduction to Hegel's Philosophy of Fine Arts Translated from the German with Notes and Prefatory Essay

The Introduction to Hegel's Philosophy of Fine Arts Translated from the German with Notes and Prefatory Essay

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

This volume presents the English translation of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel’s Introduction to his…

Cover of St John Damascene on Holy Images (πρὸς τοὺς διαβάλλοντας τᾶς ἁγίας εἰκόνας). Followed by Three Sermons on the Assumption (κοίμησις)

St John Damascene on Holy Images (πρὸς τοὺς διαβάλλοντας τᾶς ἁγίας εἰκόνας). Followed by Three Sermons on the Assumption (κοίμησις)

Saint John of Damascus

This work is a two‑part collection by Saint John of Damascus, an eighth‑century theologian who defended the…

Cover of Essays of an Americanist
 I. Ethnologic and Archæologic. II. Mythology and Folk Lore. III. Graphic Systems and Literature. IV. Linguistic.

Essays of an Americanist I. Ethnologic and Archæologic. II. Mythology and Folk Lore. III. Graphic Systems and Literature. IV. Linguistic.

Daniel G. Brinton

Daniel G. Brinton’s Essays of an Americanist is a scholarly compilation that tackles the origins, cultures,…

Concerning Christian Liberty; with Letter of Martin Luther to Pope Leo X.

Concerning Christian Liberty; with Letter of Martin Luther to Pope Leo X.

Martin Luther

The work is a polemical treatise by Martin Luther, written in the early sixteenth‑century German Reformation…

Cover of The philosophy of life, and philosophy of language, in a course of lectures

The philosophy of life, and philosophy of language, in a course of lectures

Friedrich von Schlegel

Friedrich von Schlegel’s work is a nineteenth‑century lecture series that sets out to map the “philosophy of…

雞肋編

雞肋編

Chuo Zhuang

Cover of Æsthetic as science of expression and general linguistic

Æsthetic as science of expression and general linguistic

Benedetto Croce

The Freedom of Science

The Freedom of Science

Josef Donat

The work is a scholarly treatise on the relationship between scientific inquiry and Christian faith, written…

Das Unheimliche

Das Unheimliche

Sigmund Freud

Der Text ist ein psychoanalytisches Essay, in dem Freud das Phänomen des „Unheimlichen“ untersucht.

The Evolution of Love

The Evolution of Love

Emil Lucka

The work is a scholarly treatise that sets out to trace love’s “primitive manifestations” and to argue for a…