Philosophy & Ethics

A Body of Divinity, Vol. 4 (of 4) Wherein the doctrines of the Christian religion are explained and defended, being the substance of several lectures on the Assembly's Larger Catechism

Thomas Ridgley

The Life of the Bee

Maurice Maeterlinck

Maurice Maeterlinck’s The Life of the Bee is not a practical manual for beekeepers nor a scientific monograph…

The Rosicrucian Mysteries: An Elementary Exposition of Their Secret Teachings

Max Heindel

The work is an exposition of the Rosicrucian teachings as presented by Max Heindel, a nineteenth‑century…

Kritik der reinen Vernunft (Erste Fassung 1781)

Immanuel Kant

Immanuel Kant eröffnet seine erste Fassung der Kritik der reinen Vernunft (1781) mit einer feierlichen…

The Perfect Wagnerite: A Commentary on the Niblung's Ring

Bernard Shaw

The Perfect Wagnerite is a scholarly commentary that situates Wagner’s Ring cycle within the turbulent…

The doctor, &c., vol. 7 (of 7)

Robert Southey

The work is a voluminous miscellany assembled by Robert Southey under the title The Doctor, &c., the seventh…

Plotinos: Complete Works, v. 3 In Chronological Order, Grouped in Four Periods

Plotinus

The work is a scholarly edition of Plotinus’s complete writings, arranged chronologically and divided into…

Popular scientific lectures

Ernst Mach

The work is a collection of Ernst Mach’s popular scientific lectures, assembled between 1864 and 1898 and…

The Law

Frédéric Bastiat

Frédéric Bastiat’s The Law is a polemical essay that frames the protection of life, liberty and property as…

Dimasalang Kalendariong Tagalog (1922)

Honorio López

The work is a 1922 Tagalog calendar compiled by Honorio Lopez, a former revolutionary officer, agronomist,…

Physiologie du goût

Brillat-Savarin

Ce volume est une méditation gastronomique signée Antoine‑Bonaventure Brillat‑Savarin, juriste et magistrat…

Plotinos: Complete Works, v. 1 In Chronological Order, Grouped in Four Periods

Plotinus

The volume presents the entire corpus of Plotinus, arranged chronologically and divided into four…

The Philosophy of Natural Theology An Essay in confutation of the scepticism of the present day

William Jackson

William Jackson’s work is a scholarly defence of natural theology, aimed at countering the scepticism that…

Slavery: Letters and Speeches

Horace Mann

Horace Mann’s Slavery: Letters and Speeches is a polemical collection that frames the abolitionist cause as a…

Fruits of Philosophy: A Treatise on the Population Question

Charles Knowlton

The work is a nineteenth‑century pamphlet that treats birth control as a social and scientific solution to…

Intelligence in Plants and Animals Being a New Edition of the Author's Privately Issued "Soul and Immortality."

Thomas G. Gentry

Thomas G. Gentry’s work is a sweeping synthesis of natural history, psychology, and theology, presented as a…

"About My Father's Business": Work Amidst the Sick, the Sad, and the Sorrowing

Thomas Archer

Thomas Archer’s work is a sustained meditation on the nature of Christian charity, framed as a series of…

The Mesnevi

Maulana Jalal al-Din Rumi

The Mesnevi presented here is a sprawling collection of anecdotes that trace the life and lineage of Jalāl…

The Japanese Spirit

Yoshisaburo Okakura

The work is an essay‑like survey of Japanese civilization, ethics and religion, written by Yoshisaburo…

Evolution and Ethics, and Other Essays

Thomas Henry Huxley

The work is a collection of essays by Thomas Henry Huxley, assembled around his 1893 Oxford lecture…

Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Bertrand Russell

Bertrand Russell

The work is a scholarly index that gathers together the many philosophical essays and lectures of Bertrand…

John Stuart Mill; His Life and Works Twelve Sketches by Herbert Spencer, Henry Fawcett, Frederic Harrison, and Other Distinguished Authors

The work is a collective tribute to John Stuart Mill, assembled by Herbert Spencer, Henry Fawcett, Frederic…

The Philosophy of Fine Art, volume 2 (of 4) Hegel's Aesthetik

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

The Intellectual Life

Philip Gilbert Hamerton

Philip Gilbert Hamerton’s The Intellectual Life is a reflective treatise that sets out, in the form of…