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Creative Intelligence: Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude

Dewey, John; Bode, Boyd Henry; Brown, Harold Chapman; Kallen, Horace Meyer; Mead, George H.; Moore, Addison Webster; Stuart, Henry Waldgrave; Tufts, James Hayden

The volume is a collaborative collection of essays by seven leading American philosophers, each offering a…

顔氏家訓

顔氏家訓

Zhitui Yan

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Life of Christ

Giovanni Papini

Giovanni Papini’s Life of Christ is a polemical biography that opens with a candid translator’s note,…

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The Deipnosophists; or, Banquet of the Learned of Athenæus, Vol. 2 (of 3)

of Naucratis Athenaeus

The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned, is a sprawling literary banquet in which a group of erudite…

Back to Methuselah: A Metabiological Pentateuch

Back to Methuselah: A Metabiological Pentateuch

Bernard Shaw

Bernard Shaw’s Back to Methuselah is a sprawling dramatic essay that begins with a self‑referential anecdote…

A System of Logic: Ratiocinative and Inductive, 7th Edition, Vol. II

A System of Logic: Ratiocinative and Inductive, 7th Edition, Vol. II

John Stuart Mill

Beantwortung der Frage: Was ist Aufklärung?

Beantwortung der Frage: Was ist Aufklärung?

Immanuel Kant

Immanuel Kants Aufsatz „Beantwortung der Frage: Was ist Aufklärung?“ ist ein philosophisches Manifest aus dem…

A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, or the Causes of Corrupt Eloquence The Works of Cornelius Tacitus, Volume 8 (of 8); With an Essay on His Life and Genius, Notes, Supplements

A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, or the Causes of Corrupt Eloquence The Works of Cornelius Tacitus, Volume 8 (of 8); With an Essay on His Life and Genius, Notes, Supplements

Cornelius Tacitus

This volume presents Tacitus’s “A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, or the Causes of Corrupt Eloquence,” the…

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The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Volume 3

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The work is a posthumous compilation of Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s marginal notes, unpublished reflections and…

Cover of The Academic Questions, Treatise De Finibus, and Tusculan Disputations, of M.T. Cicero, With a Sketch of the Greek Philosophers Mentioned by Cicero

The Academic Questions, Treatise De Finibus, and Tusculan Disputations, of M.T. Cicero, With a Sketch of the Greek Philosophers Mentioned by Cicero

Marcus Tullius Cicero

This volume gathers three of Cicero’s philosophical treatises, Academic Questions, Treatise De Finibus, and…

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Gita and gospel

J. N. Farquhar

The work is a scholarly survey that places the Bhagavad‑gītā within the broad sweep of Indian religious…

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The Mystical Element of Religion, as studied in Saint Catherine of Genoa and her friends, Volume 1 (of 2)

Hügel, Friedrich, Freiherr von

The work is a scholarly meditation that intertwines biography, philosophy, and historical criticism to…

A Modern Utopia

A Modern Utopia

H. G. Wells

A Modern Utopia is H. G. Wells’s final foray into speculative social writing, positioned after his earlier…

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Systematic Theology (Volume 2 of 3)

Augustus Hopkins Strong

Systematic Theology, Volume 2 of 3, is a scholarly treatise by Augustus Hopkins Strong that develops a…

A Letter to a Hindu

A Letter to a Hindu

Leo Tolstoy

The work is a literal translation of Leo Tolstoy’s reply to an inquiry from the editor of Free Hindustan,…

Phänomenologie des Geistes

Phänomenologie des Geistes

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Der erste Band der „Phänomenologie des Geistes“ präsentiert sich als systematischer Versuch, das werdende…

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Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin

The work is a sprawling compilation of Benjamin Franklin’s scientific correspondence and experimental notes,…

大唐新語

大唐新語

Liu, Su, active 806-820

Cover of Harmonies of Political Economy
 Translated from the Third French Edition, with a Notice of the Life and Writings of the Author

Harmonies of Political Economy Translated from the Third French Edition, with a Notice of the Life and Writings of the Author

Frédéric Bastiat

Harmonies of Political Economy presents itself as a comprehensive translation of Frédéric Bastiat’s…

Moral Philosophy: Ethics, Deontology and Natural Law

Moral Philosophy: Ethics, Deontology and Natural Law

Joseph Rickaby

The work is a scholarly treatise that divides moral philosophy into three distinct parts, Ethics, Deontology,…

Cover of The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 4 of 4 The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and Philosophy

The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 4 of 4 The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and Philosophy

H. P. Blavatsky

Elements of Military Art and Science Or, Course Of Instruction In Strategy, Fortification, Tactics Of Battles, &C.; Embracing The Duties Of Staff, Infantry, Cavalry, Artillery, And Engineers; Adapted To The Use Of Volunteers And Militia; Third Edition; With Critical Notes On The Mexican And Crimean Wars.

Elements of Military Art and Science Or, Course Of Instruction In Strategy, Fortification, Tactics Of Battles, &C.; Embracing The Duties Of Staff, Infantry, Cavalry, Artillery, And Engineers; Adapted To The Use Of Volunteers And Militia; Third Edition; With Critical Notes On The Mexican And Crimean Wars.

H. W. Halleck

The work is a practical manual of nineteenth‑century military theory, compiled from a series of winter…

Rhetoric and Poetry in the Renaissance A Study of Rhetorical Terms in English Renaissance Literary Criticism

Rhetoric and Poetry in the Renaissance A Study of Rhetorical Terms in English Renaissance Literary Criticism

Donald Lemen Clark

This scholarly work is a detailed study of how classical rhetorical terminology shaped English literary…

Luck, or Cunning, as the Main Means of Organic Modification

Luck, or Cunning, as the Main Means of Organic Modification

Samuel Butler

Samuel Butler’s Luck, or Cunning, as the Main Means of Organic Modification is a late‑Victorian treatise on…