GEORGE ELIOT,
The Lifted Veil
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD,
The Diamond as Big as the Ritz
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT,
The Legend of St. Julian the Hospitaller
JOHN GALSWORTHY,
The Apple-Tree
NIKOLAI GOGOL,
The Overcoat
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE,
Rappaccini's Daughter
ERNEST HEMINGWAY,
The Killers
VICTOR HUGO,
"The Battle with the Cannon" (from Ninety-Three) HENRIK IBSEN,.
An Enemy of the People
HENRY JAMES,
The Pupil
RUDYARD KIPLING,
Mowgli's Brothers
D. H. LAWRENCE,
The Rocking-Horse Winner
THOMAS MANN,
Mario and the Magician
GUY DE MAUPASSANT,
Two Friends
HERMAN MELVILLE,
Billy Budd
MOLIERE ,
The Misanthrope,
The Doctor in Spite of Himself
EUGENE O'NEILL,
The Emperor Jones
EDGAR ALLAN POE,
The Tell-Tale Heart,
The Masque of the Red Death
ALEXANDER PUSHKIN,
The Queen of Spades
SIR WALTER SCOTT,
The Two Drovers
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW,
The Man of Destiny
RICHARD SHERIDAN,
The School for Scandal
ISAAC SINGER,
The Spinoza of Market Street
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON,
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
JOHN M. SYNGE,
Riders to the Sea
LEO TOLSTOY,
The Death of Ivan Ilyitch,
The Three Hermits,
What Men Live By
IVAN TURGENEV,
First Love
MARK TWAIN,
The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg
VOLTAIRE,
Micromegas
OSCAR WILDE,
The Happy Prince
CRITICAL ESSAYS
MATTHEW ARNOLD,
The Study of Poetry,
Sweetness and Light
SIR FRANCIS BACON,
Of Beauty,
Of Discourse,
Of Studies
THOMAS DE QUINCEY,
Literature of Knowledge and Literature of Power,
On the Knocking at the Gate in "Macbeth"
THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT,
Dante,
Tradition and the Individual Talent
WILLIAM HAZLITT ,
My First Acquaintance with Poets,
On Swift,
Of Persons One Would Wish to Have Seen
DAVID HUME,
Of the Standard of Taste
SAMUEL JOHNSON,
Preface to Shakespeare
CHARLES LAMB ,
My First Play;
Dream Children, a Reverie;
Sanity of True Genius
SAINTE - BEUVE ,
What Is a Classic?, Montaigne
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER,
On Simple and Sentimental Poetry
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER,
On Style,
On Some Forms of Literature,
On the Comparative Place of Interest and Beauty in Works of Art PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY,
A Defence of Poetry
WALT WHITMAN,
Preface to Leaves of Grass
VIRGINIA WOOLF,
How Should One Read a Book?
MAN AND SOCIETY
HENRY ADAMS,
"The United States in 1800" (from History of the United States of America) SIR FRANCIS BACON ,
Of Youth and Age,
Of Parents and Children,
Of Marriage and Single Life,
Of Great Place,
Of Seditions and Troubles,
Of Custom and Education,
Of Followers and Friends,
Of Usury,
Of Riches
EDMUND BURKE,
Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol
JOHN BAGNELL BURY,
Herodotus
JOHN C. CALHOUN,
"The Concurrent Majority" (from A Disquisition on Government) THOMAS CARLYLE ,
The Hero as King
KARL VON CLAUSEWITZ,
"What Is War?" (from On War)
JEAN DE CREVECOEUR,
"The Making of Americans" (from Letters from an American Farmer) DANTE ALIGHIERI,
"On World Government" (from De Monarchia)
RALPH WALDO EMERSON,
Thoreau
MICHAEL FARADAY ,
Observations on Mental Education
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN ,
Proposal for Promoting Useful Knowledge Among the British Plantations in America, Proposals Relating to the Education of Youth in Pennsylvania GREAT DOCUMENTS ,
The English Bill of Rights,
Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen,
The Virginia Declaration of Rights,
The Declaration of Independence,
Charter of the United Nations,
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
FRANCOIS GUIZOT,
"Civilization" (from History of Civilization in Europe) NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE,
Sketch of Abraham Lincoln
DAVID HUME ,
Of Refinement in the Arts,
Of Money,
Of the Balance of Trade,
Of Taxes,
Of the Study of History
WILLIAM JAMES ,
On a Certain Blindness in Human Beings,
The Energies of Men, Great Men and Their Environment
THOMAS JEFFERSON,
"The Virginia Constitution" (from Notes on Virginia), First Inaugural Address,
Biographical Sketches
IMMANUEL KANT,
Perpetual Peace
LA BRUYERE,
Characters
ABRAHAM LINCOLN,
Address at Cooper Institute,
First "Inaugural Address,
Letter to Horace Greeley,
Meditation on the Divine Will,
The Gettysburg Address,
Second Inaugural Address,
Last Public Address
HANIEL LONG,
The P,ower Within Us
LUCIAN,
The Way to Write History
THRMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY,
Machiavelli
THOMAS ROBERT MALTHUS,
"The Principle of Population" (from Population: The First Essay) JOHN STUART MILL,
"Childhood and Youth" (from Autobiography)
THOMAS PAINE,
"A Call to Patriots—December 23, 1776" ( from The Crisis) PLINY THE YOUNGER,
"The Eruption of Vesuvius" (from Letters)
PLUTARCH,
Of Bashfulness
WILLIAM H. PRESCOTT,
"The Land of Montezuma" (from The Conquest of Mexico) JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU,
A Lasting Peace Through the Federation of Europe
JOHN RUSKIN,
An Idealist's Arraignment of the Age
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER,
On Education
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON,
The Lantern-Bearers
JONATHAN SWIFT ,
Resolutions When I Come to Be Old,
An Essay on Modern Education,
A Meditation Upon a Broomstick,
A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Ireland from Being a Burden to Their Parents or Country
CORNELIUS TACITUS,
The Life of Gnaeus Julius Ag-ricola
HENRY DAVID THOREAU,
Civil Disobedience,
A Plea for Captain John Brown
ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE,
"Observations on American Life and Government" (from Democracy in America) MARK TWAIN,
"Learning the River" (from Life on the
Mississippi) VOLTAIRE,
"English Men and Ideas" (from Letters on the English) GEORGE WASHINGTON ,
Circular Letter to the Governors of All the States on Disbanding the Army, The Farewell Address
WALT WHITMAN,
Death of Abraham Lincoln
VIRGINIA WOOLF,
The Art of Biography
XENOPHON,
"The March to the Sea" (from The Persian Expedition),
"The Character of Socrates" (from Memorabilia) NATURAL SCIENCE
SIR FRANCIS BACON,
The Sphinx
CLAUDE BERNARD,
Experimental Considerations Common to Living Things and Inorganic Bodies KEES BOEK.E,
Cosmic View
TOMMASO CAMPANELLA,
"Arguments For and Against Galileo" (from The Defense of Galileo) RACHEL L. CARSON,
"The Sunless Sea" (from The Sea Around Us)
EVE CURIE,
The Discovery of Radium
CHARLES ROBERT DARWIN,
Autobiography
SIR ARTHUR EDDINGTON,
The Running-Down of the Universe
ALBERT EINSTEIN and LEOPOLD INFELD,
"The Rise and Decline of Classical Physics" (from The Evolution of Physics) LOREN EISELEY,
"On Time" (from The Immense Journey)
JEAN HENRI FABRE,
A Laboratory of the Open Fields, The Sacred Beetle
MICHAEL FARADAY,
The Chemical History of a Candle
GALILEO GALILEI,
The Starry Messenger
SIR FRANCIS GALTON,
"The Classification of Human Ability" (from Hereditary Genius') B. S. HALDANE,
On Being the Right Size
H. L. F. VON HELMHOLTZ,
On the Conservation of Force
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY,
On the Relations of Man to the Lower Animals, On a Piece of Chalk SIR JAMES JEANS,
Beginnings and Endings
SIR CHARLES LYELL,
"Geological Evolution" (from The Principles of Geology) DMITRI MENDELEEV,
"The Genesis of a Law of Nature" (from The Periodic Law of the Chemical Elements) IVAN PETROVICH PAVLOV,
Scientific Study of the So-called Psychical Processes in the Higher Animals JOHN TYNDALL,
"Michael Faraday" (from Faraday as a Discoverer) FRIED RICH WOHLER,
On the Artificial Production of Urea
MATHEMATICS
NORMAN ROBERT CAMPBELL ,
Measurement, Numerical Laws and the Use of Mathematics in Science WILLIAM KINGDON CLIFFORD, The Postulates of the Science of Space TOBIAS DANTZIG ,
Fingerprints,
The Empty Column
LEONHARD EULER,
The Seven Bridges of Konigsberg
ANDREW RUSSELL FORSYTH,
Mathematics, in Life and Thought
LANCELOT HOGBEN ,
Mathematics, the Mirror of Civilization
EDWARD KASNER and JAMES R. NEWMAN,
New Names for Old, Beyond the Googol
PIERRE SIMON DE LAPLACE,
"Probability" (from A Philosophical Essay on Probabilities) CHARLES SANDERS PEIRCE,
The Red and the Black
HENRI POINCARE ,
Space,
Mathematical Creation,
Chance
BERTRAND RUSSELL ,
The Study of Mathematics,
Mathematics and the Metaphysicians,
Definition of Number
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD,
"On Mathematical Method" (from An Introduction to Mathematics), On the Nature of a Calculus
PHILOSOPHICAL ESSAYS
HENRY ADAMS,
St. Thomas Aquinas
SIR FRANCIS BACON ,
Of Truth, Of Death,
Of Adversity,
Of Love,
Of Friendship,
Of Anger
SIR THOMAS BROWNE,
"Immortality" (from Urn-Burial)
CICERO,
On Friendship,
On Old Age
WILLIAM KINGDON CLIFFORD,
The Ethics of Belief
JOHN DEWEY,
"The Process of Thought" (from How We Think RALPH WALDO EMERSON,
Nature,
Self-Reliance,
Montaigne;
or, the Skeptic
EPICTETUS ,
The Enchiridion
EPICURUS ,
Letter to Herodotus,
Letter to Menoeceus
JOHN ERSKINE ,
The Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent
WILLIAM HAZLITT ,
On the Feeling of Immortality in Youth
WILLIAM JAMES,
The Will to Believe,
The Sentiment of Rationality
JOHN STUART MILL,
Nature
WALTER HORATIO PATER,
"The Art of Life" (from The Renaissance) PLUTARCH ,
Contentment
GEORGE SANTAYANA,
Lucretius,
Goethe's Faust
VOLTAIRE,
"The Philosophy of Common Sense" (from Philosophical Dictionary)
Mind Map
INDEX
Adams, John
Adonais (Shelley)
Aeneid (Virgil)
Aeschylus
American Council on Education
American Doctor's Odyssey, An (Heiser)
American Library Association
Anthology of English and American Poetry, An (Van Doren) Antiquity of Man (Lyell)
Antoninus, Marcus Aurelius
Apollonius
Areopagitica (Milton)
Aristophanes
Aristotle
Arnold, Matthew
Art of the Novel, The (James)
Art of Thinking, The (Dimnet)
Aspects of the Novel (Forster)
Atlantic Monthly, The
Augustine, Saint
Autobiography (Franklin)
Autobiography (Mill)
Bacon, Francis
Balzac, Honore de
Barr, President
Barzun, Jacques
Bateson, William
Being and Essence (Thomas Aquinas)
Ben-Hur (Wallace)
Bernard, Claude
Bible
Boas, Franz
Boyle, Robert
Buchanan, Scott
Burke, Edmund
Butler. Nicholas Murray
Calhoun, John C
California, University of
Cambridge University
Canterbury Tales (Chaucer)
Cantor, Georg
Capital (Marx)
Carlyle, Thomas
Carnegie Foundation
Caxton, William
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de
Chamberlain, Neville
Chase, Stuart
Chaucer, Geoffrey
Chicago, University of
Cicero, Marcus Tullius
City of God, The (St. Augustine),
Classics of the Western World
Clausewitz, Karl von,
Clifford, William K.,
Cohen, Morris
Collier, Jeremy
Columbia University
Common Prayer, Book of,
Common Sense of the Exact Sciences (Clifford)
Communist Manifesto, The (Marx),
Comte, Auguste
Confederation, Articles of
Constitution of the United States
Copland, Aaron, quoted
Craft of Fiction, The (Lubbock)
Cratylus (Plato)
Crime and Punishment (Dostoevsky)
Critical Essays (Poe)
Critique of Practical Reason (Kant),
Critique of Pure Reason, The (Kant)
Dalton, John
Dante, Alighieri
Dantzig, Tobias
Darwin, Charles
Declaration of Independence
"Defeat of the Schools, The" (Mursell)
&n
bsp; Defoe, Daniel
Degrees of Knowledge (Maritain)
Democracy and Education (Dewey)
Democracy in America (de Tocqueville)
Descartes, Rene
Dewey, John
Dialectic (Adier)
Dialogue of the Common Laws (Hobbes)
Dickens, Charles
Diederich, Professor
Discourse on Inequality (Rousseau)
Disquisition on Government (Calhoun)
Divine Comedy, The (Dante)
Don Quixote (Cervantes)
dos Passes, John
Dostoevsky, Fyodor
Duhem, Pierre Maurice
Eddington, Sir Arthur
Education of the Founding Fathers of the Republic (Lippmann) Einstein, Albert
Elements of Geometry (Euclid)
Elements of Law (Hobbes)
Eliot, Charles William
Eliot, T. S.
Empson, William
Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (Hume)
Erasmus, Desiderius
Erskine, John
Essay Concerning Human Understanding, An (Locke)
Essay Concerning the Origin, Extent, and End of Civil Government, An (Locke) Essay on Liberty (Mill)
Essays in Criticism (Arnold)
Ethics (Aristotle)
Ethics (Spinoza)
Euclid
Euripides
Evolution of Physics, The (Einstein and Infeld)
Experimental Researches into Electricity (Faraday) Fadiman, Clifton
Faraday, Michael
Faust (Goethe)
Federalist, The
Fielding, Henry
Flaubert, Gustave
Form in Modern Poetry (Read),
Forster, E. M.
Forsyth, Andrew Russell
Foundations of Science (Poincare),
Franklin, Benjamin
Freud, Sigmund
Galen, Claudius
Galileo Galilei
Gargantua and Pantagruel (Rabelais)
Gateway to the Great Books
Geometry (Descartes)
Gerould, Gordon
Gibbon, Edward
Gilby, Thomas
Gilson, Etienne
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
Gorgias (Plato)
Governance of Princes, The (Thomas Aquinas) Grapes of Wrath, The (Steinbeck)
Great Books of the Western World
Guizot, Francois
Gulick, Luther
Gulliver's Travels (Swift)
Gunther, John
Haldane, J. B. S.
Hamilton, Alexander
Hannibal
Hardy, Thomas
Harper's Magazine
Harvard Classics
Harvard University
Harvey, William
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
Heiser, Victor
Hemingway, Ernest
Henry VI (Shakespeare)
Herodotus
Herrick, Robert
Higher Learning in America, The (Hutchins)
Hilbert, David
Hippocrates
History of the Peloponnesian War (Thucydides)
Hitler, Adolf
Hobbes, Thomas
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