DR WILLIAM BOERICKE`S PREFACE [English Translator of the Sixth Edition from Germany] The sixth edition of the “Organon” as left by Hahnemann ready for publication, was found to be an interleaved copy […]
PHILOSOPHIÆ NATURALIS PRINCIPIA MATHEMATICA: Isaac Newton
Extract from Principia : 1726 Edition Published on 1687 AXIOMATA, SIVE LEGES MOTUS [Leges solæ descripta sunt, commentariis prætermissis.] Lex I Corpus omne perseverare in statu suo quiescendi vel movendi uniformiter in directum, nisi […]
OF ELOQUENCE
Those who consider the periods and revolutions of humankind, as represented in history, are entertained with a spectacle full of pleasure and variety, and see with surprise the manners, customs, and opinions […]
OF THE FIRST PRINCIPLES OF GOVERNMENT: David Hume
Nothing appears more surprising to those who consider human affairs with a philosophical eye, than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few; and the implicit submission, with which […]
OF THE LIBERTY OF THE PRESS: David Hume
Nothing is more apt to surprise a foreigner, than the extreme liberty which we enjoy in this country of communicating whatever we please to the public and of openly censuring every measure […]
SYMBOLS AND SACRAMENTS
SYLLABUS: Before any worthy architecture can arise in the modern world the soul must be aroused. Architecture is the concrete presentment in space of the soul of a people. If that soul […]
Plato`s Social Thought: Search of Ideal State
Republic D. The Elite [Book III, Socrates and Glaucon, p. 681] SOCRATES: And not only their [guardians] education, but their habitations, and all that belongs to them, should be such as will […]
Mozart on religion
243. “I hope that with the help of God, Miss Martha will get well again. If not, you should not grieve too deeply, for God’s will is always the best. God will […]
Beethoven’s Letters to Pastor Amenda
TO PASTOR AMENDA. 2nd January 1800. MY DEAR, MY GOOD AMENDA, MY WARM-HEARTED FRIEND,– I received and read your last letter with deep emotion, and with mingled pain and pleasure. To what […]
ABOUT LONDON
LONDON, SEPTEMBER 28, 1872. Reported by Moncure D. Conway in the Cincinnati Commercial. It affords me sincere pleasure to meet this distinguished club, a club which has extended its hospitalities and its […]
JUDGMENT: THE INTERPRETATION OF FACTS [BY JOHN DEWEY]
§ 1. The Three Factors of Judging Good judgment A man of good judgment in a given set of affairs is a man in so far educated, trained, whatever may be his […]
THE DEVELOPMENT OF DOCTRINAL CHRISTIANITY
Selective reading from : HISTORY OF THE WORLD BY H. G. WELLS IN the four gospels we find the personality and teachings of Jesus but very little of the dogmas of the […]
Beauty as per Khalil Gibran from The Prophet
BEAUTY And a poet said, Speak to us of Beauty. And he answered: Where shall you seek beauty, and how shall you find her unless she herself be your way and your […]
The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran [Selective Reading]
Freedom And an orator said, Speak to us of Freedom. And he answered: At the city gate and by your fireside I have seen you prostrate yourself and worship your own freedom, […]
LAWS OF ENGLAND by WILLIAM BLACKSTONE [Selective reading]
PARLIAMENT There is also no doubt but these great councils were held regularly under the first princes of the Norman line. Glanvil, who wrote in the reign of Henry the second, speaking […]
THE ENGLISH CONSTITUTION By Walter Bagehot [Selective reading]
The second period of the British Constitution begins with the accession of the House of Tudor, and goes down to 1688; it is in substance the history of the growth, development, and […]
Reading List For A Lawyer
Law Library Syllabus 2018 1. A Know Nothing (Anonymous) 2. An Address Delivered Before the National Colored Teachers’ Association 3. Arsenal of Democracy 4. Axis of Evil (Terrorism: Essential Primary Sources) 5. […]
