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Three hundred and forty-eight years, six months, and nineteen days ago to-day, the Parisians awoke to the sound of all the bells in the triple circuit of the city, the university, and the town ringing a full peal. The sixth of January 1482, is not, however, a day of which history has preserved the memory. There was nothing notable in the event, which thus set the bells and the bourgeois of Paris in a ferment from early morning. It was neither an assault...
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This book is part of a series of books following the lives and adventures of a group of cadets at the West Point Naval academy. Follow a group of young men on their adventures to find treasure. The book is mainly an adventure story with themes of mischief and friendship, but it also provides a glimpse into the daily routine and life of those in the navy.
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This work is simply, as the title-page states, an account of the manners and customs of uncivilized races of men in all parts of the world. Many travellers have given accounts, scattered rather at random through their books, of the habits and modes of life exhibited by the various people among whom they have travelled. These notices, however, are distributed through a vast number of books, many of them very scarce, many very expensive, and most of...
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Excerpt: "So 'stands the ease between the sections. If the anti slavery party was based on truth - if the negro, except in color, was a man like ourselves - if social subordination of this negro was wrong, and the four millions of these people at the South entitled to the same liberty as ourselves and if the men who made this government designed it to include them".
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Excerpt: "Socrates, dealing in the Meno with the teachability of virtue, sends for one of Meno's slaves, to prove by him the possibility of absolutely certain a priori knowledge. The slave is to determine the length of a rectangle, the contents of which is twice that of one measuring two feet, but he is to have no previous knowledge of the matter, and is not to be directly coached by Socrates. He is to discover the answer for himself. Actually the...
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This book is written for the world of students. These students are transforming their social thought into helpful living. In this book, any seriously-minded person should find a fundamental background for understanding the central theme of human progress, a substantial basis for attacking the most important problems of the day, and a call to renew his faith in the soundness of human aspirations. In as much as this treatise is written for students,...
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The Goose-step: A Study of American Education is a book, published in 1923, by the American novelist and muckraking journalist Upton Sinclair. It is an investigation into the consequences of plutocratic capitalist control of American colleges and universities. Sinclair writes, "Our educational system is not a public service, but an instrument of special privilege, its purpose is not to further the welfare of mankind, but merely to keep America capitalist."...
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The Universal Kinship is a 1906 book by American zoologist, philosopher, educator and socialist J. Howard Moore. In the book, Moore advocated for a secular sentiocentric philosophy, called the "Universal Kinship", which mandated the ethical consideration and treatment of all sentient beings based on Darwinian principles of shared evolutionary kinship, and a universal application of the Golden Rule; a direct challenge to anthropocentric hierarchies...
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Excerpt: "Judd is an old carpenter who has done odd jobs on our place for the past ten years. Just how old he is I don't know, but he's pretty old, his hands are gnarled and calloused and his finger nails chewed up and broken by hammer blows, there are knotted veins in his forehead and his hair is grey and thin. But he works like a beaver, and don't you ever hint that he should slow up-he will hoot at you, and say that he can lick any young feller...
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Auguste Forel (1848-1931) was a Swiss neuroanatomist, psychiatrist, and entomologist who made significant contributions to various fields, including the study of sexual ethics. While Forel is best known for his work in the natural sciences, his thoughts on sexual ethics are also notable. Auguste Forel, a multifaceted scientist, ventured into the realm of sexual ethics, advocating for informed, consensual, and emotionally fulfilling sexual relationships....
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Excerpt: "Of its eminently conservative and even upward tendency very little doubt can be reasonably entertained. We do fall in love, taking us in the lump, with the young, the beautiful, the strong, and the healthy; we do not fall in love, taking us in the lump, with the aged, the ugly, the feeble, and the sickly. The prohibition of the Church is scarcely, needed to prevent a man from marrying his grandmother. Moralists have always borne a special...
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Originally published in 1897, The Evolution of the Idea of God is a study of humans' belief in God from primitive tribal religions to what Allen considered the more advanced Christian view. The main question explored here is "How did we arrive at our knowledge of God?" Rather than trying to prove or disprove any claims about the divine, Allen's method simply traces the psychological processes that led humans to religious belief, and further, from...
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To certain squeamish readers this useful and well-written volume will prove an unsavoury book; and even to those who have the nerve to witness agony and explore the lurking-places of crime, it will occasion no ordinary sadness and sense of repugnance. Redolent with the unwholesome smell of ill-drained alleys and over-crowded dwellings for the poor, it resounds in every chapter with the cries of violence and the mutterings of woe ... [review of The...
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