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20th Century	The Analysis of Mind — 20th Century
The Analysis of Mind “Mind and Matter. Consciousness. By Bertrand Russell.…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
20th Century	The Problems of Philosophy — 20th Century
The Problems of Philosophy “IN this chapter we have to ask ourselves whether, in any sense at all, there is such a thing as matter. Is there a table which has a certain intrinsic nature, and continues to exis…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
20th Century	Anthem — 20th Century
Anthem “It is a sin to write this. It is a sin to think words no others think and to put them down upon a paper no others are to see. It is base and evil. It is as if we were speaking alon…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
20th Century	Political Ideals — Bertrand Russell
Political Ideals Bertrand Russell “Yet law and order are always hostile to innovations, and innovators are almost always, to some extent, anarchists. Those whose minds are dominated by fear of a relapse towards barb…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Abnormal Psychology	AN ACT OF EVERYDAY LIFE TREATED AS A PRETENDED DREAM AND INTERPRETED BY PSYCHOANALYSIS — Abnormal Psychology
AN ACT OF EVERYDAY LIFE TREATED AS A PRETENDED DREAM AND INTERPRETED BY PSYCHOANALYSIS “Analysis. In attempting to analyze this (so-called) dream, I was amazed to find with how many past longings and emotionally-colored experiences it was associated. I first took up t…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Abnormal Psychology	ANGER AS A PRIMARY EMOTION — G. STANLEY HALL
ANGER AS A PRIMARY EMOTION G. STANLEY HALL “Full title: ANGER AS A PRIMARY EMOTION, AND THE APPLICATION OF FREUDIAN MECHANISMS TO ITS PHENOMENA…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Abnormal Psychology	THE ANALYSIS OF A NIGHTMARE — RAYMOND BELLAMY
THE ANALYSIS OF A NIGHTMARE RAYMOND BELLAMY “Parts of the dream seem to analyze very nicely, but there are parts which seem to resist analysis; I did not try to force the analysis but gave only the part which came spontaneous…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Abnormal Psychology	ANALYSIS OF A SINGLE DREAM — MEYER SOLOMON, MD
ANALYSIS OF A SINGLE DREAM MEYER SOLOMON, MD “Full title: ANALYSIS OF A SINGLE DREAM AS A MEANS OF UNEARTHING THE GENESIS OF PSYCHOPATHIC AFFECTIONS…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Abnormal Psychology	THE NECESSITY OF METAPHYSICS — JAMES J. PUTNAM, M. D.
THE NECESSITY OF METAPHYSICS JAMES J. PUTNAM, M. D. “I presume that just as, and just because men have minds AND bodies, an evolutional history in the ordinary sense and a mental history in a sense not commonly considered, so there w…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Abnormal Psychology	CONSTRUCTIVE DELUSIONS — JOHN T. MACCURDY, M. D. and WALTER L. TREADWAY, M. D.
CONSTRUCTIVE DELUSIONS JOHN T. MACCURDY, M. D. and WALTER L. TREADWAY, M. D. “No one who has ever argued with a paranoic will forget how keen a sense of reality he may retain, how logical his arguments are, and how reasonable his delusions appear, if only so…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Abnormal Psychology	FREUD AND HIS SCHOOL: NEW PATHS OF PSYCHOLOGY — A. W. VAN RENTERGHEM M.D.
FREUD AND HIS SCHOOL: NEW PATHS OF PSYCHOLOGY A. W. VAN RENTERGHEM M.D. “An entirely different light was now thrown upon the theory. The trauma question was solved, and thrown aside. Next in order came the study of the question of the erotic conflict. I…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Abnormal Psychology	HYSTERIA AS A WEAPON IN MARITAL CONFLICTS — A. MYERSON, M.D.
HYSTERIA AS A WEAPON IN MARITAL CONFLICTS A. MYERSON, M.D. “From her fifteenth year the patient has been subject to fainting spells. By all accounts they come on usually after quarrels, disagreements or disappointments. They are not accompa…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Abnormal Psychology	PSYCHONEUROSES AMONG PRIMITIVE TRIBES — ISADOR H. CORIAT, M. D.
PSYCHONEUROSES AMONG PRIMITIVE TRIBES ISADOR H. CORIAT, M. D. “It is not an infrequent occurence for individuals among both the Yahgans and Onas to be subject to sudden outbursts of furor and violence. At such times the individual will general…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Abnormal Psychology	THE ORIGIN OF SUPERNATURAL EXPLANATIONS — TOM A. WILLIAMS, M. B., C. M.
THE ORIGIN OF SUPERNATURAL EXPLANATIONS TOM A. WILLIAMS, M. B., C. M. “It is by these social and physical phenomena that the greatest appeal is made to the states of feeling termed emotions and sentiments. So that it became the custom to invoke, conce…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Abnormal Psychology	A PSYCHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF STUTTERING — WALTER B. SWIFT
A PSYCHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF STUTTERING WALTER B. SWIFT “The slump, then, in personality which I showed last year as the main thing in stuttering as its cause and condition, is thus found by further psychological analysis, to be a slump …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Abnormal Psychology	SOCRATES IN THE LIGHT OF MODERN PSYCHOPATHOLOGY — MORRIS J. KARPAS, M. D.
SOCRATES IN THE LIGHT OF MODERN PSYCHOPATHOLOGY MORRIS J. KARPAS, M. D. “In a word, the Socratic method presents two striking tendencies; one destructive, the other constructive; the former annihilates erroneous conceptions, and the latter aids the buil…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Abnormal Psychology	TWO INTERESTING CASES OF ILLUSION OF PERCEPTION — GEORGE F. ARPS
TWO INTERESTING CASES OF ILLUSION OF PERCEPTION GEORGE F. ARPS “The child upon retiring and usually while still wide awake uttered wild screams of terror. Upon inquiry the child complained of falling and clutched vigorously to the bed clothes a…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Abnormal Psychology	The Foundations of Personality — Abraham Myerson
The Foundations of Personality Abraham Myerson “Courage is one of these systems. It is not merely the absence of fear that constitutes courage, though we interchange "fearless" with "courageous." Frequently it is the conquest of…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Abnormal Psychology	The Misuse of Mind — Karin Stephen
The Misuse of Mind Karin Stephen “COMMON sense starts out with the assumption that what we know directly is such things as trees, grass, anger, hope and so on, and that these things have qualities such as solidity,…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Anarchism	SUMMARY OF PRINCIPLES — William Godwin
SUMMARY OF PRINCIPLES William Godwin “Government was intended to suppress injustice, but its effect has been to embody and perpetuate it.…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Anarchism	A DEFENCE OF THE ROCKINGHAM PARTY — William Godwin
A DEFENCE OF THE ROCKINGHAM PARTY William Godwin “In what I have now said, I do not much fear to be contradicted. It was not with a view to such as are attached to any of these parties, that I have taken up the pen. Those who come…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Anarchism	Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions and Discoveries — -William Godwin
Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions and Discoveries -William Godwin “Subtitled: Interspersed with Some Particulars Respecting the Author…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Anarchism	The Necessity of Atheism — Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Necessity of Atheism Percy Bysshe Shelley “If we wish to explain our ideas of the Divinity we shall be obliged to admit that, by the word God, man has never been able to designate but the most hidden, the most distant and t…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Anarchism	Anarchism and American Traditions — Voltairine de Cleyre
Anarchism and American Traditions Voltairine de Cleyre “This then was the American tradition, that private enterprise manages better all that to which it is equal. Anarchism declares that private enterprise, whether individual or co-ope…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Anarchism	The Politics of Obedience — Etienne de la Boetie
The Politics of Obedience Etienne de la Boetie “Full title: The Politics of Obedience: The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Anarchism	What is Real Blasphemy — Robert Ingersoll
What is Real Blasphemy Robert Ingersoll “"To enslave the minds of men, to put manacles upon the brain, padlocks upon the lips--that is blasphemy.…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Anarchism	Relations Between Parents and Children — Clara Dixon Davidson
Relations Between Parents and Children Clara Dixon Davidson “Children, because of their ignorance, are elements of inharmony, hindrances to equal freedom. To quicken the progress of their growth is toward the equilibrization of social forces…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Anarchism	They Who Marry Do Ill — Voltairine de Cleyre
They Who Marry Do Ill Voltairine de Cleyre “In the old days to which I have alluded, I contended, warmly and sincerely, for the exclusive union of one man and one woman as long as they were held together by love, and for the…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Emma Goldman	ANARCHISM: WHAT IT REALLY STANDS FOR — Emma Goldman
ANARCHISM: WHAT IT REALLY STANDS FOR “Anarchism urges man to think, to investigate, to analyze every proposition; but that the brain capacity of the average reader be not taxed too much, I also shall begin with a defin…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Emma Goldman	THE HYPOCRISY OF PURITANISM — Emma Goldman
THE HYPOCRISY OF PURITANISM “Puritanism celebrated its reign of terror in England during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, destroying and crushing every manifestation of art and culture. It was the spir…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Emma Goldman	MARRIAGE AND LOVE — Emma Goldman
MARRIAGE AND LOVE “That marriage is a failure none but the very stupid will deny. One has but to glance over the statistics of divorce to realize how bitter a failure marriage really is. Nor will the…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Emma Goldman	MINORITIES VERSUS MAJORITIES — Emma Goldman
MINORITIES VERSUS MAJORITIES “The individual educator imbued with honesty of purpose, the artist or writer of original ideas, the independent scientist or explorer, the non-compromising pioneers of social chang…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Emma Goldman	PATRIOTISM: A MENACE TO LIBERTY — Emma Goldman
PATRIOTISM: A MENACE TO LIBERTY “If that were patriotism, few American men of today could be called upon to be patriotic, since the place of play has been turned into factory, mill, and mine, while deafening sound…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Emma Goldman	PRISONS: A SOCIAL CRIME AND FAILURE — Emma Goldman
PRISONS: A SOCIAL CRIME AND FAILURE “The most horrible aspect is that our national crime is murder, not robbery, embezzlement, or rape, as in the South. London is five times as large as Chicago, yet there are one hund…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Emma Goldman	THE PSYCHOLOGY OF POLITICAL VIOLENCE — Emma Goldman
THE PSYCHOLOGY OF POLITICAL VIOLENCE “"There is a truism that the man in the street seems always to forget, when he is abusing the Anarchists, or whatever party happens to be his bete noire for the moment, as the cause…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Emma Goldman	THE MODERN DRAMA — Emma Goldman
THE MODERN DRAMA “Intellectual Germany had to take refuge in the literature of other countries, in the works of Ibsen, Zola, Dalldet, Maupassant, and especially in the great works of Dostoyevsky, To…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Emma Goldman	THE TRAFFIC IN WOMEN — Emma Goldman
THE TRAFFIC IN WOMEN “It is significant that whenever the public mind is to be diverted from a great social wrong, a crusade is inaugurated against indecency, gambling, saloons, etc. And what is the res…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Emma Goldman	THE TRAGEDY OF WOMAN'S EMANCIPATION — Emma Goldman
THE TRAGEDY OF WOMAN'S EMANCIPATION “But the results so far achieved have isolated woman and have robbed her of the fountain springs of that happiness which is so essential to her. Merely external emancipation has mad…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Emma Goldman	WOMAN SUFFRAGE — Emma Goldman
WOMAN SUFFRAGE “Woman, even more than man, is a fetich worshipper, and though her idols may change, she is ever on her knees, ever holding up her hands, ever blind to the fact that her god has fee…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Emma Goldman	My Disillusionment in Russia — Emma Goldman
My Disillusionment in Russia “The story told me by the bakers of their election experiences had the quality of our own Wild West during its pioneer days. Tchekists with loaded guns were in the habit of attendin…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Emma Goldman	FRANCISCO FERRER AND THE MODERN SCHOOL — Emma Goldman
FRANCISCO FERRER AND THE MODERN SCHOOL “The Spanish republican rebels were subdued. It takes more than one brave effort to split the rock of ages, to cut off the head of that hydra monster, the Catholic Church and the Sp…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Mikhail Bakunin	Appeal to my Russian Brothers — Mikhail Bakunin
Appeal to my Russian Brothers “By a cruel, systematic repression, as well as by infamous means, the Russian government seems to want to provoke insurrection in Poland; for this reason, it will be just as useful …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Mikhail Bakunin	THE CLASS WAR — Mikhail Bakunin
THE CLASS WAR “Why this silence about June? Is it because the criminals of June are bourgeois republicans of whom the above named writers have been, morally, more or less accomplices? Accomplices…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Mikhail Bakunin	THE COMMUNE, THE CHURCH &THE STATE — Mikhail Bakunin
THE COMMUNE, THE CHURCH &THE STATE “I am a follower of the Paris Commune, which, though dastardly murdered and drowned in blood by the assassins of the clerical and monarchial reaction, yet lives, more than ever, in …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Mikhail Bakunin	THE GERMAN CRISIS — Mikhail Bakunin
THE GERMAN CRISIS “In order to convince oneself that this preposterous delusion expresses entirely the spirit and tendency of the German Social Democratic Party-i.e.,their program, not the natural as…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Mikhail Bakunin	GOD OR LABOR — Mikhail Bakunin
GOD OR LABOR “Whom do we find under God's banner! Emperors, kings, the official and the officious world; our lords and our nobles; all the privileged persons of Europe whose names are recorded i…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Mikhail Bakunin	God and the State — Mikhail Bakunin
God and the State “Who are right, the idealists or the materialists? The question once stated in this way hesitation becomes impossible. Undoubtedly the idealists are wrong and the materialists right…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Mikhail Bakunin	The Immorality of the State — Mikhail Bakunin
The Immorality of the State “A tacit contract! That is to say, a wordless, and consequently a thoughtless and will-less contract: a revolting nonsense! An absurd fiction, and what is more, a wicked fiction! An…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Mikhail Bakunin	Integral Education — Mikhail Bakunin
Integral Education “Now we see why the bourgeois socialists demand only a little education for the people, a soupcon more than they currently receive; whereas we socialist democrats demand, on the peo…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Mikhail Bakunin	Marxism, Freedom and the State — Mikhail Bakunin
Marxism, Freedom and the State “Its principal point is the conquest of political power by the working class. One can understand that men as indispensable as Marx and Engels should be the partisans of a programme …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Mikhail Bakunin	On Rousseau's Theory of the State — Mikhail Bakunin
On Rousseau's Theory of the State “The distinction between good and evil, according to this system, commences only with the conclusion of the social contract. Thereafter, what was recognised as constituting the comm…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Mikhail Bakunin	The Paris Commune and the Idea of the State — Mikhail Bakunin
The Paris Commune and the Idea of the State “The difference is only that the communists imagine they can attain their goal by the development and organization of the political power of the working classes, and chiefly of the …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Mikhail Bakunin	THE POLICY OF THE COUNCIL — Mikhail Bakunin
THE POLICY OF THE COUNCIL “Do you not see that, in order to become a power, you must unite-not with the bourgeoisie, which would be a folly and a crime, since all the bourgeoisie, so far as they belong to th…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Mikhail Bakunin	THE POLICY OF THE INTERNATIONAL — Mikhail Bakunin
THE POLICY OF THE INTERNATIONAL “This tolerance, we repeat, is prompted by a far-seeing wisdom. The International knows full well that every earnest worker is socialist because of all the wants intrinsic to his wr…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Mikhail Bakunin	Politics and the State — Mikhail Bakunin
Politics and the State “These critics greatly deceive themselves and, "consciously or unconsciously," endeavour to deceive the public concerning us. We love liberty much more than they do. We love it to t…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Mikhail Bakunin	Power Corrupts The Best — Mikhail Bakunin
Power Corrupts The Best “Nothing is more dangerous for man's private morality than the habit of command. The best man, the most intelligent, disinterested, generous, pure, will infallibly and always be spo…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Mikhail Bakunin	Rebuke of Nechayev — Mikhail Bakunin
Rebuke of Nechayev “"Which, then, should be this direction? What would be the main purpose and task of the organization? To help the people achieve self-determination on a basis of complete and compre…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Mikhail Bakunin	Revolutionary Catechism — Mikhail Bakunin
Revolutionary Catechism “II. Replacing the cult of God by respect and love of humanity, we proclaim human reason as the only criterion of truth; human conscience as the basis of justice; individual and col…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Mikhail Bakunin	ON THE SOCIAL UPHEAVAL — Mikhail Bakunin
ON THE SOCIAL UPHEAVAL “What we assert is, that, universal suffrage in itself, based as it is on economic and social inequality, will never be for the people anything but a bait, and that from the side of…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Mikhail Bakunin	SOLIDARITY IN LIBERTY — Mikhail Bakunin
SOLIDARITY IN LIBERTY “The inherent principles of human existence are summed up in the single law of solidarity. This is the golden rule of humanity, and may be formulated thus: no person can recognise o…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Mikhail Bakunin	Stateless Socialism: Anarchism — Mikhail Bakunin
Stateless Socialism: Anarchism “It is necessary to abolish completely, both in principle and in fact, all that which is called political power; for, so long as political power exists, there will be ruler and rule…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Mikhail Bakunin	WHERE I STAND — Mikhail Bakunin
WHERE I STAND “We are on the contrary of the conviction that humankind has allowed itself too long enough to be governed and legislated for and that the origin of its misery is not to be looked f…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Mikhail Bakunin	THE WORKERS AND THE SPHINX — Mikhail Bakunin
THE WORKERS AND THE SPHINX “4. The Council of Action declares that the record of pastcenturies, the class legacy of exploitation, as well as contemporary experience, should have convinced the workers that the…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Mikhail Bakunin	From Correspondance de Michel Bakounine — Mikhail Bakunin
From Correspondance de Michel Bakounine “In the name of God, tell me what is going on in your life; give me orders for useful foreign work. Let me unite with you more harmoniously, and therefore more intimately. Our work …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Mikhail Bakunin	THE CAPITALIST SYSTEM — Mikhail Bakunin
THE CAPITALIST SYSTEM “In the presence of these powerful and respectable authorities I cannot even permit myself to ask whether this mode of life is legitimate from the point of view of human justice, li…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Mikhail Bakunin	An Essay Published in Egalite — Mikhail Bakunin
An Essay Published in Egalite “Even within the bourgeois class, as we know only too well, the degree of learning imparted to each individual is not the same. There, too, there is a scale which is determined, not…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Mikhail Bakunin	Founding of the Worker's International — Mikhail Bakunin
Founding of the Worker's International “Only individuals, and a small number of them at that, can be carried away by an abstract and "pure" idea. The millions, the masses, not only of the proletariat but also of the enli…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Anthropology	The Golden Bough — Anthropology
The Golden Bough “Unfortunately, the abridged version, but hey, turned out the unabridged one I picked up was still under copyright--by Sir James George Frazer.…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Anthropology	Pagan and Christian Creeds: Their Origin and Meaning — Anthropology
Pagan and Christian Creeds: Their Origin and Meaning “Observations of this kind were naturally made by the ablest members of the tribe--who were in all probability the medicine-men and wizards--and brought in consequence power into th…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Anthropology	Wild Wales: Its People, Language and Scenery — Anthropology
Wild Wales: Its People, Language and Scenery “"I will not be hushed," said the woman, speaking English. "The man is a good man, and he will do us no harm. We are tinkers, sir; but we do many things besides tinkering, many sinf…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Anthropology	Aboriginal America — Jacob Abbott
Aboriginal America Jacob Abbott “The bark used for the covering of the huts and lodges was commonly birch bark, a kind which peels off the tree in large thin sheets, and is of a substance, too, which is completely…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Anthropology	The Euahlayi Tribe — A Study of Aboriginal Life in Australia--Langloh Parker
The Euahlayi Tribe A Study of Aboriginal Life in Australia--Langloh Parker “But what is supposed to strengthen them more than anything, both mentally and physically, is a small piece of the flesh of a dead person, or before a body is put in a bark coffin a…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Anthropology	MODERN SUPERSTITION — Lafcadio Hearn
MODERN SUPERSTITION Lafcadio Hearn “One unfortunate result of superstitious fear is that it actually invites the calamity dreaded; and the arrival of the calamity itself is an example that begets superstition. The ev…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Anthropology	NEW ORLEANS SUPERSTITIONS — Lafcadio Hearn
NEW ORLEANS SUPERSTITIONS Lafcadio Hearn “Pillow magic alone, however, is far from being the only recognized form of maleficent negro witchcraft. Placing charms before the entrance of a house or room, or throwing them over…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Anthropology	A STRANGE TALE OF CANNIBALISM — Lafcadio Hearn
A STRANGE TALE OF CANNIBALISM Lafcadio Hearn “For days subsequently that little band of human skeletons struggle vainly to leave the well--compelled by infernal thirst and heat to return after having marched a few miles under …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Anthropology	ANIMISM — GEORGE WILLIAM GILMORE
ANIMISM GEORGE WILLIAM GILMORE “First there is the avenue of cult, where definite acts of devotion or gift (sacrifice) unfailingly indicate belief in the sentient and potent capabilities of the object addressed. …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Anthropology	Shamanism in Siberia — M. A. CZAPLICKA
Shamanism in Siberia M. A. CZAPLICKA “IN everyday life the shaman is not distinguishable from other people except by an occasionally haughty manner, but when he is engaged in communicating with spirits he has to make u…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Anthropology	SHAMAN, SAIVA AND SUFI — R. O. WINSTEDT
SHAMAN, SAIVA AND SUFI R. O. WINSTEDT “THE Mantra, a Proto-Malay tribe, claim to be descended from Mertang, the first magician, who was the child of two persons called Drop of Water and Clod of Earth. In the Moluccas th…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Anthropology	Laughter — Henri Bergson
Laughter Henri Bergson “Full title: Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Anthropology	The Aran Islands — John M. Synge
The Aran Islands John M. Synge “A few of the younger men looked doubtful, but the older people, who have watched the rye turning into oats, seemed to accept the magic frankly, and did not show any surprise that '…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Anthropology	The Malay Archipelago, Volume 1 — Alfred R. Wallace
The Malay Archipelago, Volume 1 Alfred R. Wallace “But the difficulty was how to get this census. He could not go himself into every village and every house, and count all the people; and if he ordered it to be done by the regular …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Anthropology	The Malay Archipelago, Volume 2 — Alfred R. Wallace
The Malay Archipelago, Volume 2 Alfred R. Wallace “In the afternoon succeeding my arrival, the Secretary accompanied me to visit the Sultan. We were kept waiting a few minutes in an outer gate-house, and then ushered to the door of…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Anthropology	California and the Californians — David Starr Jordan
California and the Californians David Starr Jordan “Inland rises the great Sierra, with spreading ridge and foothill, like some huge, sprawling centipede, its granite back unbroken for a thousand miles. Frost-torn peaks, of every he…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Anthropology	The Customs and Traditions of the Aboriginal Natives of North Western Australia — JOHN G. WITHNELL
The Customs and Traditions of the Aboriginal Natives of North Western Australia JOHN G. WITHNELL “The natives have enormous appetites. Many of the stronger men boast they can eat a kangaroo--usually weighing about 30 lbs.--in three meals, and from personal observation I quite b…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Anthropology	The Aborigines of Western Australia — ALBERT F. CALVERT
The Aborigines of Western Australia ALBERT F. CALVERT “Many of our habits, doubtless, they refuse to imitate. They will cook their food on the embers, but object to boiling or steaming; most kinds of work they rather object to, but smo…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Anthropology	The Chinese Boy and Girl — Isaac Taylor Headland
The Chinese Boy and Girl Isaac Taylor Headland “The first illustration the child constructed for me, for I desired him to teach me how it was done, was a dragon horse, and when I asked him to explain it, he said that it represen…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Anthropology	MYTHS OF CRETE AND PRE-HELLENIC EUROPE — DONALD A. MACKENZIE
MYTHS OF CRETE AND PRE-HELLENIC EUROPE DONALD A. MACKENZIE “In Crete there were three outstanding forms of the mother-goddess-the snake-goddess, the dove-goddess, and the "lady of wild creatures". These may have been different forms of an o…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Anthropology	EGYPTIAN IDEAS OF THE FUTURE LIFE — Sir Wallis Budge
EGYPTIAN IDEAS OF THE FUTURE LIFE Sir Wallis Budge “The gods of Egypt whose names are known to us do not represent all those that have been conceived by the Egyptian imagination, for with them as with much else, the law of the survi…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Anthropology	EGYPTIAN MYTH AND LEGEND — Donald Mackenzie
EGYPTIAN MYTH AND LEGEND Donald Mackenzie “The Egyptian ghosts, the enemies of the living, like the archaic deities, were of repulsive aspect. They came from tombs in mummy bandages with cheeks of decaying flesh, flat noses…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Anthropology	Oceanic Mythology — Roland B. Dixon
Oceanic Mythology Roland B. Dixon “The theme of the swan-maiden, which perhaps occurs in parts of Polynesia and widely in Indonesia, seems quite well developed in the New Hebrides. According to the version told in L…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Anthropology	VOODOOS AND OBEAHS — JOSEPH J. WILLIAMS, S.J.
VOODOOS AND OBEAHS JOSEPH J. WILLIAMS, S.J. “Full title: VOODOOS AND OBEAHS: Phases of West India Witchcraft…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Anthropology	Social Relations in our Southern States — Daniel Robinson Hundley
Social Relations in our Southern States Daniel Robinson Hundley “By the term Cotton, used to designate the class of Snobs peculiar to the South, do not understand us to mean a person who must of necessity hail from the cotton-growing States. By …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Anthropology	An Introduction To The Mortuary Customs Of The North American Indians — C.H. Yarrow
An Introduction To The Mortuary Customs Of The North American Indians C.H. Yarrow “"Two such mounds have been described already in the county of Perry. Others have been found in various parts of the country. There is one at least in the vicinity of Licking River,…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Anthropology	Social life in old Virginia before the war — Thomas Nelson Page
Social life in old Virginia before the war Thomas Nelson Page “There were the little girls in their great sunbonnets, often sewed on to preserve the wonderful peach-blossom complexions, with their small female companions playing about the yard…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Anthropology	People of Africa — Edith A. How
People of Africa Edith A. How “Now we will think about the other two tribes who live in this country, but who are of quite a different race from the others. These little red and black Pigmy peoples do not have v…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Anthropology	Woman on the American Frontier — William Worthington Fowler
Woman on the American Frontier William Worthington Fowler “Of all the tens of thousands of devoted women who have accompanied the grand army of pioneers into the wilderness, not one but that has been either a soldier to fight, or a laborer…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Anthropology	THE ENGLISH GOVERNESS AT THE SIAMESE COURT — ANNA HARRIETTE LEONOWENS
THE ENGLISH GOVERNESS AT THE SIAMESE COURT ANNA HARRIETTE LEONOWENS “Such was Chow Phya Sri Sury Wongse when I was first presented to him: a natural king among the dusky forms that surrounded him, the actual ruler of that semi- barbarous realm, and …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Anthropology	Indian Games — Andrew McFarland Davis
Indian Games Andrew McFarland Davis “"When the sides are equal the players will occupy an entire afternoon without either side gaining any advantage; at other times one of the two will gain the two games that they nee…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Anthropology	Judaism — Israel Abrahams
Judaism Israel Abrahams “The historical consciousness of Israel was vitalised by a unique adaptability to present conditions. This is shown in the fidelity with which a number of ancient festivals have bee…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Anthropology	A Study in Tinguian Folk-Lore — Fay-Cooper Cole
A Study in Tinguian Folk-Lore Fay-Cooper Cole “The Ipogau who are trying to celebrate Sayang make errors. The spirit Kadaklan and his wife instruct them to go and watch the Sayang at Sayau. They do as bidden and after learning …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Anthropology	Mankind in the Making — H. G. Wells
Mankind in the Making H. G. Wells “There are in Great Britain three main interdependent systems of home tradition undergoing modification and readjustment. They date from the days before mechanism and science began …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Charles Darwin	The Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection — Charles Darwin
The Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection “From the most remote period in the history of the world organic beings have been found to resemble each other in descending degrees, so that they can be classed in groups under gro…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Charles Darwin	The Descent of Man — Charles Darwin
The Descent of Man “In the discussion on Sexual Selection in my 'Descent of Man,' no case interested and perplexed me so much as the brightly-coloured hinder ends and adjoining parts of certain monkey…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Charles Darwin	The Voyage of the Beagle — Charles Darwin
The Voyage of the Beagle “SEPTEMBER 18th. -- I hired a Gaucho to accompany me on my ride to Buenos Ayres, though with some difficulty, as the father of one man was afraid to let him go, and another, who see…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Charles Darwin	The Expression of Emotion in Man and Animals — Charles Darwin
The Expression of Emotion in Man and Animals “Let us now look at a cat in a directly opposite frame of mind, whilst feeling affectionate and caressing her master; and mark how opposite is her attitude in every respect. She now…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Charles Darwin	The Structure And Distribution Of Coral Reefs — Charles Darwin
The Structure And Distribution Of Coral Reefs “Where the channel is narrow, the agency, which on unprotected coasts is most productive of sediment, namely the force of the breakers, is here entirely excluded, and the reef being…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Charles Darwin	The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication Volume 2 — Charles Darwin
The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication Volume 2 “With animals, the jackal is prepotent over the dog, as is stated by Flourens, who made many crosses between these animals; and this was likewise the case with a hybrid which I once…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Charles Darwin	The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication Volume 1 — Charles Darwin
The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication Volume 1 “The wild Sus scrofa has a wide range, namely, Europe, North Africa, as identified by osteological characters by Rutimeyer, and Hindostan, as similarly identified by Nathusius. But …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Charles Darwin	Geological Observations On Volcanic Islands — Charles Darwin
Geological Observations On Volcanic Islands “The overlying basaltic lava is in some parts extremely vesicular, in others little so; it is of a black colour, but sometimes contains crystals of glassy feldspar, and seldom much …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Charles Darwin	The Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants — Charles Darwin
The Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants “A revolving tendril, though inclined during the greater part of its course at an angle of about 45 degrees (in one case of only 37 degrees) above the horizon, stiffened and straigh…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Charles Darwin	The Effects of Cross &Self-Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom — Charles Darwin
The Effects of Cross &Self-Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom “A plant of Ipomoea purpurea, or as it is often called in England the convolvulus major, a native of South America, grew in my greenhouse. Ten flowers on this plant were fertilised …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Charles Darwin	On The Reception Of The 'Origin Of Species' — Thomas Henry Huxley
On The Reception Of The 'Origin Of Species' Thomas Henry Huxley “To any one who studies the signs of the times, the emergence of the philosophy of Evolution, in the attitude of claimant to the throne of the world of thought, from the limbo of ha…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Charles Darwin	Darwiniana — Asa Gray
Darwiniana Asa Gray “Full title: Darwiniana: Essays and Reviews Pertaining to Darwinism. Electronic formatting dedicated, as always, to the Kansas State Board of Education.…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Charles Darwin	The Power of Movement in Plants — Charles Darwin
The Power of Movement in Plants “between the sleep of animals and that of plants,* whether of leaves or flowers. It seems therefore, advisable to give a distinct name to the so-called sleep-movements of plants. Th…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Charles Darwin	Insectivorous Plants — Charles Darwin
Insectivorous Plants “It follows from these few facts that different kinds of seeds excite the leaves in very different degrees; whether this is solely due to the nature of their coats is not clear. In …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Charles Darwin	The Evolution of Man, V.1. — Ernst Haeckel
The Evolution of Man, V.1. Ernst Haeckel “There are many difficulties in the way of understanding this partial segmentation and the gastrula that arises from it. We have only recently succeeded, by means of comparative res…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Charles Darwin	Facts and Arguments for Darwin — Fritz Muller
Facts and Arguments for Darwin Fritz Muller “To the question, how far the development of Ligia is repeated in the other Isopoda, I can only give an unsatisfactory answer. The curvature of the embryo upwards instead of downwar…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Economics	The Higher Learning In America — Economics
The Higher Learning In America “College has always been rough on a guy. By Thorstein Veblen.…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Economics	The Theory of Business Enterprise — Economics
The Theory of Business Enterprise “Further insight from Veblen: The Last Man who knew everything (I believe that's how Mencken put it.)…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Economics	An Inquiry Into The Nature And Causes Of The Wealth Of Nations — Economics
An Inquiry Into The Nature And Causes Of The Wealth Of Nations “THE annual labour of every nation is the fund which originally supplies it with all the necessaries and conveniences of life which it annually consumes, and which consist always ei…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Economics	The Theory of the Leisure Class — Economics
The Theory of the Leisure Class “Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure. As wealth accumulates on his hands, his own unaided effort will not avail to suffi…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Economics	The Theory of Moral Sentiments — Economics
The Theory of Moral Sentiments “What can he added to the happiness of the man who is in health, who is out of debt, and has a clear conscience? To one in this situation, all accessions of fortune may properly be …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Economics	Historical Materialism and the Economics of Karl Marx — Economics
Historical Materialism and the Economics of Karl Marx “The economic axiom is a very general and purely a formal principle of conduct. It is inconceivable that anyone should act without applying, well or ill, the very principle of every…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Economics	POST-INDUSTRIALISM — Economics
POST-INDUSTRIALISM “WE have seen that the Socialist ideal of reconstructing society on some co-operative or communal basis had its origin in the fact that the unrestricted use of machinery was found t…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Economics	The Engineers and The Price System — Economics
The Engineers and The Price System “The Guardians of the Vested Interests...have allowed their own knowledge of this sinister state of things to unseat their common sense....they have gone in for a headlong policy of…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Economics	My Disillusionment in Russia — Economics
My Disillusionment in Russia “The story told me by the bakers of their election experiences had the quality of our own Wild West during its pioneer days. Tchekists with loaded guns were in the habit of attendin…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Economics	Effects of the Corn Laws — Malthus
Effects of the Corn Laws Malthus “A revision of the corn laws, it is understood, is immediately to come under the consideration of the legislature. That the decision on such a subject, should be founded on a correc…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Economics	Importation of Foreign Corn — Thomas Malthus
Importation of Foreign Corn Thomas Malthus “From the vicinity of France, and the cheapness of its corn in all years of common abundance, it is scarcely possible that our main imports should not come from that quarter as long…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Economics	Nature and Progress of Rent — Thomas Malthus
Nature and Progress of Rent Thomas Malthus “If, for instance, the soil of the earth had been such, that, however well directed might have been the industry of man, he could not have produced from it more than was barely suff…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Economics	Lombard Street — Walter Bagehot
Lombard Street Walter Bagehot “With so many advantages over all competitors, it is quite natural that the Bank of England should have far outstripped them all. Inevitably it became the bank in London; all the ot…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Economics	National Wealth and Public Indebtedness — Economics
National Wealth and Public Indebtedness “The total federal debt in 1910 was $2,916,205,000, of which amount $967,366,000 was represented by bonds, $375,682,000 by non-interest-bearing debt (principally United States notes…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Economics	Increasing Human Efficiency In Business — Walter Dill Scott
Increasing Human Efficiency In Business Walter Dill Scott “He had found his remedy for the summer slump. Within a week he had installed a system of large overhead fans and an exhaust blower and saw his production figures mount to the winte…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Economics	REPRESENTATIONS ON THE SUBJECT OF MONEY — ISAAC NEWTON
REPRESENTATIONS ON THE SUBJECT OF MONEY ISAAC NEWTON “I am humbly of Opinion therefore, that the Gold Coins should be of the Weight and Fineness expressed in the Paper hereunto annexed*, and the Silver ones, all in the printed Proclam…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Economics	An Essay on the Principle of Population — Thomas Malthus
An Essay on the Principle of Population Thomas Malthus “The principal objects which human punishments have in view are undoubtedly restraint and example; restraint, or removal, of an individual member whose vicious habits are likely to …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Economics	The Theory of the Leisure Class — Thorstein Veblen
The Theory of the Leisure Class Thorstein Veblen “Improved text, supersedes earlier version.…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Economics	Wage Labour and Capital — KARL MARX
Wage Labour and Capital KARL MARX “The interests of the capitalist and those of the worker are, therefore, one and the same, assert the bourgeois and their economists. Indeed! The worker perishes if capital does not…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Economics	Unto This Last — John Ruskin
Unto This Last John Ruskin “This "robbing the poor because he is poor," is especially the mercantile form of theft, consisting in talking advantage of a man's necessities in order to obtain his labour or prop…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Economics	Shop Management — Frederick Winslow Taylor
Shop Management Frederick Winslow Taylor “It is, however, under piece work that the art of systematic soldiering is thoroughly developed. After a workman has had the price per piece of the work he is doing lowered two or t…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Economics	White Slaves — Louis A Banks
White Slaves Louis A Banks “Full title: WHITE SLAVES OR THE OPPRESSIONS OF THE WORTHY POOR…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Economics	Fiat Money Inflation in France — Andrew Dickson White
Fiat Money Inflation in France Andrew Dickson White “The question will naturally be asked, On whom did this vast depreciation mainly fall at last? When this currency had sunk to about one three-hundredth part of its nominal value and…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Economics	My Life and Work — Henry Ford
My Life and Work Henry Ford “Unduly high prices are always a sign of unsound business, because they are always due to some abnormal condition. A healthy patient has a normal temperature; a healthy market has n…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Economics	The Consumer Viewpoint — Mildred Maddocks
The Consumer Viewpoint Mildred Maddocks “Full title: The Consumer Viewpoint covering vital phases of manufacturing and selling household devices by Mildred Maddocks, Director GOOD HOUSEKEEPING INSTITUTE Department of Hous…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Economics: Thorstein Veblen	The Barbarian Status of Women — Economics: Thorstein Veblen
The Barbarian Status of Women “All the women in the group will share in the class repression and depreciation that belongs to them as women, but the status of women taken from hostile groups has an additional fe…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Economics: Thorstein Veblen	Bohm-Bawerk's Definition of Capital and the Source of Wages — Economics: Thorstein Veblen
Bohm-Bawerk's Definition of Capital and the Source of Wages “Now, as to the theory of the source of wages, in the light of Professor Böhm-Bawerk's definition of capital. It is not too much to say that the controversy has owed much of its bit…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Economics: Thorstein Veblen	Why is Economics Not an Evolutionary Science — Economics: Thorstein Veblen
Why is Economics Not an Evolutionary Science “For the earlier natural scientists, as for the classical economists, this ground of cause and effect is not definitive. Their sense of truth and substantiality is not satisfied wit…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Economics: Thorstein Veblen	The Instinct of Workmanship and the Irksomeness of Labor — Economics: Thorstein Veblen
The Instinct of Workmanship and the Irksomeness of Labor “Yet there is a considerable body of evidence, both from cultural history and from the present-day phenomena of human life, which traverses this conventionally accepted view that ma…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Economics: Thorstein Veblen	The Limitations of Marginal Utility — Economics: Thorstein Veblen
The Limitations of Marginal Utility “These cultural products are, for the purpose of the theory, conceived to be given a priori in unmitigated force. They are part of the nature of things; so that there is no need of …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Economics: Thorstein Veblen	The Socialist Economics of Karl Marx and His Followers — Economics: Thorstein Veblen
The Socialist Economics of Karl Marx and His Followers “The disparity between Marxism and Darwinism, as well as the disparity within the Marxian system between the range of material facts that are conceived to be the fundamental forces …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Economics: Thorstein Veblen	The Beginning of Ownership — Economics: Thorstein Veblen
The Beginning of Ownership “Some writers who have taken up the question from the ethnological side hold that the institution is to be traced to the customary use of weapons and ornaments by individuals. Other…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Economics: Thorstein Veblen	Fisher's Capital and Income — Thorstein B. Veblen
Fisher's Capital and Income Thorstein B. Veblen “The concept has sufficient stability and precision to serve their needs; and, if the economist is to deal with the phenomena of modern life in which this concept serves a use of fi…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Economics: Thorstein Veblen	The Vested Interests and the Common Man — Economics: Thorstein Veblen
The Vested Interests and the Common Man “It would also be extremely difficult to make allowance for this deduction, since much of it is not recognised as such by the men in charge and does not appear on their books under …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Economics: Thorstein Veblen	The Later Marxism — Economics: Thorstein Veblen
The Later Marxism “So, again, the Marxian doctrine of progressive proletarian distress, the so-called Verelendungstheorie, which stands pat on the romantic ground of the original Marxism, has fallen …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Economics: Thorstein Veblen	The Preconceptions of Economic Science — Economics: Thorstein Veblen
The Preconceptions of Economic Science “However, these and other like filial expressions of a devout optimism need, perhaps, not be taken as integral features of Adam Smith's economic theory, or as seriously affecting th…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Economics: Thorstein Veblen	THE INSTINCT OF WORKMANSHIP AND THE STATE OF THE INDUSTRIAL ARTS — Economics: Thorstein Veblen
THE INSTINCT OF WORKMANSHIP AND THE STATE OF THE INDUSTRIAL ARTS “In the ordinary course, it should seem, such an advance in the industrial arts as will result in an accumulation of wealth, a considerable and efficient industrial equipment, or in…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Economics: Thorstein Veblen	Inquiry into the Nature of Peace — Economics: Thorstein Veblen
Inquiry into the Nature of Peace “Full title: An Inquiry into the Nature of Peace and the Terms of its Perpetuation…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Friedrich Nietzche	On the Use and Abuse of History for Life — Friedrich Nietzche
On the Use and Abuse of History for Life “A recent translation, entered into the public domain, by a guy in Northern British Columbia.…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Friedrich Nietzche	Thus Spake Zarathustra — Friedrich Nietzche
Thus Spake Zarathustra “I used to have a copy of the Portable Nietzche from Penguin or whoever. Most of part three from Zarathustra was gone, replaced by a repeated big chunk from part II, then went strai…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Friedrich Nietzche	The Antichrist — Friedrich Nietzche
The Antichrist “Mankind surely does not represent an evolution toward a better or stronger or higher level, as progress is now understood. This "progress" is merely a modern idea, which is to say,…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Friedrich Nietzche	Beyond Good and Evil — Friedrich Nietzche
Beyond Good and Evil “Since the French Revolution the influence of woman in Europe has DECLINED in proportion as she has increased her rights and claims; and the "emancipation of woman," insofar as it i…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Friedrich Nietzche	Thoughts Out Of Season - Part One — Friedrich Nietzche
Thoughts Out Of Season - Part One “A corpse is a pleasant thought for a worm, and a worm is a dreadful thought for every living creature. Worms fancy their kingdom of heaven in a fat body; professors of philosophy s…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Georg Hegel	Encyclopaedia of the Philosophical Sciences Part One — Georg Hegel
Encyclopaedia of the Philosophical Sciences Part One “The Critical Philosophy proceeds to test the value of the categories employed in metaphysic, as well as in other sciences and in ordinary conception. This scrutiny however is not d…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Georg Hegel	The Philosophy of Nature — Georg Hegel
The Philosophy of Nature “It may be noted in passing that it was an extraordinary notion of Kant's to claim that the definition of the straight line as the shortest distance between two points is a syntheti…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Georg Hegel	Science of Logic — Georg Hegel
Science of Logic “But the modern perplexity about a beginning proceeds from a further requirement of which those who are concerned with the dogmatic demonstration of a principle or who are sceptical…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Georg Hegel	Absolute Spirit — Georg Hegel
Absolute Spirit “Insofar, however, as the image of the God is at hand as immediate, thus the relation of the others, driven by their self-subsisting essences in the act of worship through devotion …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Georg Hegel	Objective Spirit — Georg Hegel
Objective Spirit “Thus in the stipulation we have the substantial being of the contract standing out in distinction from its real utterance in the performance, which is brought down to a mere sequel…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Georg Hegel	THE PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY — Georg Hegel
THE PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY “It is not history itself that is here presented. We might more properly designate it as a History of History; a criticism of historical narratives and an investigation of their tru…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Georg Hegel	PHILOSOPHY OF MIND — Georg Hegel
PHILOSOPHY OF MIND “This universal reappearance of self-consciousness - the notion which is aware of itself in its objectivity as a subjectivity identical with itself and for that reason universal - i…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Georg Hegel	THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF MIND — Georg Hegel
THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF MIND “IN the kinds of certainty hitherto considered, the truth for consciousness is something other than consciousness itself. The conception, however, of this truth vanishes in the cour…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Georg Hegel	The Philosophy of Spirit — Georg Hegel
The Philosophy of Spirit “The soul universal, described, it may be, as an anima mundi, a world-soul, must not be fixed on that account as a single subject; it is rather the universal substance which has its…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Georg Simmel	How is Society Possible? — Georg Simmel
How is Society Possible? “The things in nature are, on the one hand, more widely separated than souls. In the outward world, in which each entity occupies space which cannot be shared with another, there is…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Georg Simmel	A Chapter in the Philosophy of Value — Georg Simmel
A Chapter in the Philosophy of Value “The fact of economic exchange confers upon the value of things something super-individual. It detaches them from dissolution in the mere subjectivity of the agents, and causes them…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
John Stuart Mill	The Subjection of Women — John Stuart Mill
The Subjection of Women “On the other point which is involved in the just equality of women, their admissibility to all the functions and occupations hitherto retained as the monopoly of the stronger sex, …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
John Stuart Mill	On Liberty — John Stuart Mill
On Liberty “THE time, it is to be hoped, is gone by when any defence would be necessary of the "liberty of the press" as one of the securities against corrupt or tyrannical government. No argu…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
John Stuart Mill	Representative Government — John Stuart Mill
Representative Government “THE FORM of government for any given country being (within certain definite conditions) amenable to choice, it is now to be considered by what test the choice should be directed; w…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
John Stuart Mill	Autobiography — John Stuart Mill
Autobiography “For some years after this I wrote very little, and nothing regularly, for publication: and great were the advantages which I derived from the intermission. It was of no common impo…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
John Stuart Mill	UTILITARIANISM — John Stuart Mill
UTILITARIANISM “We are continually informed that Utility is an uncertain standard, which every different person interprets differently, and that there is no safety but in the immutable, ineffaceab…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
John Stuart Mill	The Contest in America — John Stuart Mill
The Contest in America “A nation which has made the professions that England has, does not with impunity, under however great provocation, betake itself to frustrating the objects for which it has been ca…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
John Stuart Mill	Considerations of a Representative Government — John Stuart Mill
Considerations of a Representative Government “The willingness of the people to accept representative government only becomes a practical question when an enlightened ruler, or a foreign nation or nations who have gained power …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Paul Rosenfels	Adaptation and Fun and Pleasure — Paul Rosenfels
Adaptation and Fun and Pleasure “Without the vividness of inner identity which continuity and integrity bring, the sense of importance which comes from adaptive accomplishments cannot be kept in its place. Mental …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Paul Rosenfels	Freud and the Scientific Method — Paul Rosenfels
Freud and the Scientific Method “The psychic content arising from the psychoanalytic transference is dream-like in atmosphere. The patient's personality is detached from any disciplined need to understand or to ac…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Paul Rosenfels	Letters to Dean — Paul Rosenfels
Letters to Dean “There is nothing automatic and inevitable about psychological maturity in civilized human beings. The necessity for each individual to choose a course in life which is acceptable t…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Paul Rosenfels	Love and Power — Paul Rosenfels
Love and Power “Adolescence is a period of self-exploration and discovery. Maturity is reached when the self conforms to those patterns of interaction with others which the various social roles re…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Paul Rosenfels	The Nature of Civilization — Paul Rosenfels
The Nature of Civilization “The search for truth and right are the highest psychological functions of man's civilized personality. When he is able to accept the importance of these undertakings on a priority …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Paul Rosenfels	Psychoanalysis and Civilization — Paul Rosenfels
Psychoanalysis and Civilization “The avoidance of psychological growth, maintaining the familial gratifications and manifold accomplishments of familial living in the aggressive and passive patterns, spares indivi…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Paul Rosenfels	Homosexuality: The Psychology of the Creative Process — Paul Rosenfels
Homosexuality: The Psychology of the Creative Process “When knowledge and insight do not enter the service of an ideal, they become the tools of self-aggrandizing behavior. Knowledge bestows competitive advantage when it is used as a p…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Paul Rosenfels	Psychic Exhaustion and the Growth Process — Paul Rosenfels
Psychic Exhaustion and the Growth Process “Conventional individuals find the stress of the search for truth and right overwhelming. One remedy they have available is the attempt to dwell permanently in a simplistic world st…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Paul Rosenfels	The Nature of Psychological Maturity — Paul Rosenfels
The Nature of Psychological Maturity “Conventional submissive personalities allow the dictates of society to provide them with guaranteed experiences, and conventional dominant personalities give themselves over to soc…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Paul Rosenfels	A Renegade Psychiatrist's Story — Paul Rosenfels
A Renegade Psychiatrist's Story Paul Rosenfels “As I built a psychotherapeutic practice, I became increasingly aware that my independent insights were worth far more in helping the patient than the psychoanalytic theories dispen…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Paul Rosenfels	Subjectivity and Objectivity — Paul Rosenfels
Subjectivity and Objectivity “In the formation of mated relationships there is, of course, a polarity between masculine and feminine personalities. There is no such pairing between balanced and unbalanced types…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Richard Mitchell	Less Than Words Can Say — Richard Mitchell
Less Than Words Can Say “It is possible, Sagan says, to damage the brain in precisely such a way that the victim will lose the ability to understand the passive or to devise prepositional phrases or someth…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Richard Mitchell	The Graves of Academe — Richard Mitchell
The Graves of Academe “The illuminating spirit, or evil genius, of modern educationism was Wilhelm Max Wundt, a Hegelian psychologist who established the world's first laboratory for psychological experi…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Richard Mitchell	The Gift of Fire — Richard Mitchell
The Gift of Fire “I have habitually imagined - guessed'' might be the more honest word - that Reason is high, very high, a lofty and distant realm where matters of the greatest import'' dwell, and w…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Richard Wagner	Art And Revolution — Richard Wagner
Art And Revolution “But the greatest peril of all, is that which the author would incur by his frequent use of the word Communism, should he venture into the Paris of to-day with these art-essays in h…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Richard Wagner	THE DESTINY OF OPERA — Richard Wagner
THE DESTINY OF OPERA “As everything written for, and acted at the theatre is nowadays inspired by nothing but this tendence to "Effect," so that whatever ignores it is promptly condemned to neglect, we …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Richard Wagner	ON STATE AND RELIGION — Richard Wagner
ON STATE AND RELIGION “The line my fancy followed was an organisation of public life in common, as also of domestic life, such as must lead of itself to a beauteous fashioning of the human race. The calc…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Richard Wagner	Beethoven — Richard Wagner
Beethoven “The idiosyncrasy that marks the musician as belonging to his nation must in any case be seated deeper than that whereby we recognise Goethe and Schiller as Germans, Rubens and Remb…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Richard Wagner	On Conducting — Richard Wagner
On Conducting “The older conductors of this stamp if they happened to be less gifted than those mentioned, found it difficult to cope with the complications of modern orchestral music--mainly bec…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Richard Wagner	The Wagner Story Book — Henry Frost
The Wagner Story Book Henry Frost “"You remember something about the Grail's knights. The Knight of the Swan was one of them. They live here in the temple, except when they are sent away on some journey, to help som…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Richard Wagner	Wagner's Tristan und Isolde — George Ainslie Hight
Wagner's Tristan und Isolde George Ainslie Hight “Wagner's Tristan has often--even by Lichtenberger--been described as a philosophic work; and as abstract thought or philosophy, it is said, is foreign to art, a work which admits i…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Sigmund Freud	The Origin and Development of Psychoanalysis — Sigmund Freud
The Origin and Development of Psychoanalysis “Collection of six of Freud's lectures in the states.…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Sigmund Freud	The History of the Psychoanalytic Movement — Sigmund Freud
The History of the Psychoanalytic Movement “Describes the history of his movement.…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Sigmund Freud	Psychopathology of Everyday Life — Sigmund Freud
Psychopathology of Everyday Life “Got some of the good stuff here for you to read about.…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Sigmund Freud	Interpretation of Dreams — Sigmund Freud
Interpretation of Dreams “Be a hit at parties.…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Transcendentalists	On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History — Transcendentalists
On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History “A large topic; indeed, an illimitable one; wide as Universal History itself. For, as I take it, Universal History, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bot…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Transcendentalists	Sartor Resartus — Transcendentalists
Sartor Resartus “OK, so maybe this book sold a little too well in Germany back around 1935 or so. What's your point?…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Transcendentalists	Brook Farm — John Thomas Codman
Brook Farm John Thomas Codman “Young Ralph Waldo Emerson was there, very late from the ministry, known better as poet, philosopher and essayist; and James Freeman Clarke, talented writer and preacher; and faithf…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Transcendentalists: Henry David Thoreau	Walden — Transcendentalists: Henry David Thoreau
Walden “When I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in a house which I had built myself, on the shore of Walden Pon…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Transcendentalists: Henry David Thoreau	SLAVERY IN MASSACHUSETTS — Transcendentalists: Henry David Thoreau
SLAVERY IN MASSACHUSETTS “They who have been bred in the school of politics fail now and always to face the facts. Their measures are half measures and makeshifts merely. They put off the day of settlement …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Transcendentalists: Henry David Thoreau	LIFE WITHOUT PRINCIPLE — Transcendentalists: Henry David Thoreau
LIFE WITHOUT PRINCIPLE “If a man walk in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer; but if he spends his whole day as a speculator, shearing off those wood…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Transcendentalists: Henry David Thoreau	A PLEA FOR CAPTAIN JOHN BROWN — Transcendentalists: Henry David Thoreau
A PLEA FOR CAPTAIN JOHN BROWN “He was one of that class of whom we hear a great deal, but, for the most part, see nothing at all- the Puritans. It would be in vain to kill him. He died lately in the time of Crom…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Transcendentalists: Henry David Thoreau	Cape Cod — Transcendentalists: Henry David Thoreau
Cape Cod “Our way to the high sand-bank, which I have described as extending all along the coast, led, as usual, through patches of Bayberry bushes, which straggled into the sand. This, next…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Transcendentalists: Henry David Thoreau	An Excursion to Canada — Transcendentalists: Henry David Thoreau
An Excursion to Canada “After spending the night at a farm-house in Chateau-Richer, about a dozen miles northeast of Quebec, we set out on our return to the city. We stopped at the next house, a picturesq…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Transcendentalists: Henry David Thoreau	A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers — Transcendentalists: Henry David Thoreau
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers “But to return to the mountain. It seemed as if he must be the most singular and heavenly minded man whose dwelling stood highest up the valley. The thunder had rumbled at my heels …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Transcendentalists: Henry David Thoreau	Wild Apples — Transcendentalists: Henry David Thoreau
Wild Apples “So much for the more civilized apple-trees (urbaniores, as Pliny calls them). I love better to go through the old orchards of ungrafted apple-trees, at whatever season of the year,…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Transcendentalists: Henry David Thoreau	Walking — Transcendentalists: Henry David Thoreau
Walking “Nowadays almost all man's improvements, so called, as the building of houses and the cutting down of the forest and of all large trees, simply deform the landscape, and make it mor…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Transcendentalists: Henry David Thoreau	THE MAINE WOODS — Transcendentalists: Henry David Thoreau
THE MAINE WOODS “Anxious to get out of the whale's belly, I rose early, and joined some old salts, who were smoking by a dim light on a sheltered part of the deck. We were just getting into the riv…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Transcendentalists: Ralph Waldo Emerson	English Traits — Transcendentalists: Ralph Waldo Emerson
English Traits “my narrow and desultory reading had inspired the wish to see the faces of three or four writers, -- Coleridge, Wordsworth, Landor, De Quincey, and the latest and strongest contribu…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Transcendentalists: Ralph Waldo Emerson	The Conduct of Life — Transcendentalists: Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Conduct of Life “There are men, who, by their sympathetic attractions, carry nations with them, and lead the activity of the human race. And if there be such a tie, that, wherever the mind of man g…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Transcendentalists: Ralph Waldo Emerson	Uncollected Prose — Transcendentalists: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Uncollected Prose “But perhaps we are telling our little story too gravely. There are always great arguments at hand for a true action, even for the writing of a few pages. There is nothing but seems…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Transcendentalists: Ralph Waldo Emerson	Representative Men — Transcendentalists: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Representative Men “AMONG eminent persons, those who are most dear to men are not of the class which the economist calls producers: they have nothing in their hands; they have not cultivated corn, nor…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Transcendentalists: Ralph Waldo Emerson	Nature; Adresses, and Lectures — Transcendentalists: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature; Adresses, and Lectures “Under the general name of Commodity, I rank all those advantages which our senses owe to nature. This, of course, is a benefit which is temporary and mediate, not ultimate, like it…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Transcendentalists: Ralph Waldo Emerson	Essays, Second Series — Transcendentalists: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Essays, Second Series “If I have described life as a flux of moods, I must now add that there is that in us which changes not and which ranks all sensations and states of mind. The consciousness in each …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Transcendentalists: Ralph Waldo Emerson	Essays, First Series — Transcendentalists: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Essays, First Series “This voice of fable has in it somewhat divine. It came from thought above the will of the writer. That is the best part of each writer which has nothing private in it; that which h…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Transcendentalists: Ralph Waldo Emerson	THE YOUNG AMERICAN — Transcendentalists: Ralph Waldo Emerson
THE YOUNG AMERICAN “The habit of living in the presence of these invitations of natural wealth is not inoperative; and this habit, combined with the moral sentiment which, in the recent years, has int…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Transcendentalists: Ralph Waldo Emerson	THE TRANSCENDENTALIST — Transcendentalists: Ralph Waldo Emerson
THE TRANSCENDENTALIST “The Transcendentalist adopts the whole connection of spiritual doctrine. He believes in miracle, in the perpetual openness of the human mind to new influx of light and power; he be…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Transcendentalists: Ralph Waldo Emerson	LECTURE ON THE TIMES — Transcendentalists: Ralph Waldo Emerson
LECTURE ON THE TIMES “But the subject of the Times is not an abstract question. We talk of the world, but we mean a few men and women. If you speak of the age, you mean your own platoon of people, as Mi…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Transcendentalists: Ralph Waldo Emerson	THE METHOD OF NATURE — Transcendentalists: Ralph Waldo Emerson
THE METHOD OF NATURE “I do not wish to look with sour aspect at the industrious manufacturing village, or the mart of commerce. I love the music of the water-wheel; I value the railway; I feel the pride…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Transcendentalists: Ralph Waldo Emerson	THE CONSERVATIVE — Transcendentalists: Ralph Waldo Emerson
THE CONSERVATIVE “This may stand for the earliest account of a conversation on politics between a Conservative and a Radical, which has come down to us. It is ever thus. It is the counteraction of t…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Transcendentalists: Ralph Waldo Emerson	THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR — Transcendentalists: Ralph Waldo Emerson
THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR “In this hope, I accept the topic which not only usage, but the nature of our association, seem to prescribe to this day, -- the AMERICAN SCHOLAR. Year by year, we come up hither to…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Transcendentalists: Ralph Waldo Emerson	Man the Reformer — Transcendentalists: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man the Reformer “It cannot be wondered at, that this general inquest into abuses should arise in the bosom of society, when one considers the practical impediments that stand in the way of virtuous…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Transcendentalists: Walt Whitman	Leaves of Grass — Transcendentalists: Walt Whitman
Leaves of Grass “I believe this is the fourth edition (like that guy who keeps remaking film versions of Agatha Christie's Ten Little Indians, Walt Whitman had just the one book all his life that h…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Transcendentalists: Walt Whitman	Collect — Transcendentalists: Walt Whitman
Collect “Strange as it may seem, the topmost proof of a race is its own born poetry. The presence of that, or the absence, each tells its story. As the flowering rose or lily, as the ripen'…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Transcendentalists: Walt Whitman	Pieces in Early Youth, 1834-'42 — Walt Whitman
Pieces in Early Youth, 1834-'42 Walt Whitman “He dragg'd his guardian to the earth and fell crushingly upon him, choking the shriek the poor victim but just began to utter. Then, with monstrous imprecations, he twisted a tight…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Transcendentalists: Walt Whitman	Notes Left Over — Transcendentalists: Walt Whitman
Notes Left Over “If the United States, like the countries of the Old World, are also to grow vast crops of poor, desperate, dissatisfied, nomadic, miserably-waged populations, such as we see loomin…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Transcendentalists: Walt Whitman	November Boughs — Transcendentalists: Walt Whitman
November Boughs “Beautiful as the song was, the original `Locksley Hall' of half a century ago was essentially morbid, heart-broken, finding fault with everything, especially the fact of money's be…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Transcendentalists: Walt Whitman	Specimen Days — Transcendentalists: Walt Whitman
Specimen Days “One phase of those days must by no means go unrecorded -- namely, the Broadway omnibuses, with their drivers. The vehicles still (I write this paragraph in 1881) give a portion of …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
William James Principles of Psychology The seminal work in American Psychology.	The Moral Equivalent of War — William James Principles of Psychology The seminal work in American Psychology.
The Moral Equivalent of War “History is a bath of blood. The Illiad is one long recital of how Diomedes and Ajax, Sarpedon and Hector killed. No detail of the wounds they made is spared us, and the Greek mind …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
William James Principles of Psychology The seminal work in American Psychology.	The Varieties of Religious Experience — William James Principles of Psychology The seminal work in American Psychology.
The Varieties of Religious Experience “Abstractly, it would seem illogical to try to measure the worth of a religion's fruits in merely human terms of value. How CAN you measure their worth without considering whether t…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
William James Principles of Psychology The seminal work in American Psychology.	Pragmatism — William James Principles of Psychology The seminal work in American Psychology.
Pragmatism “In this present hour I wish to illustrate the pragmatic method by one more application. I wish to turn its light upon the ancient problem of 'the one and the many.' I suspect that …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
William James Principles of Psychology The seminal work in American Psychology.	The Meaning of Truth — William James Principles of Psychology The seminal work in American Psychology.
The Meaning of Truth “It suffers badly at present from incomplete definition. Its most systematic advocates, Schiller and Dewey, have published fragmentary programmes only; and its bearing on many vital…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Various authors	The Pivot of Civilization
The Pivot of Civilization “This book aims to be neither the first word on the tangled problems of human society to-day, nor the last. My aim has been to emphasize, by the use of concrete and challenging exam…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Various authors	The Economic Consequence of the Peace
The Economic Consequence of the Peace “The power to become habituated to his surroundings is a marked characteristic of mankind. Very few of us realise with conviction the intensely unusual, unstable, complicated, unrel…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Various authors	Evolution and Ethics
Evolution and Ethics “Let us now imagine that some administrative authority, as far superior in power and intelligence to men, as men are to their cattle, is set over the colony, charged to deal with it…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Various authors	On War
On War “If, in the next place, we keep once more to the pure conception of War, then we must say that the political object properly lies out of its province, for if War is an act of violen…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Various authors	Our Androcentric Culture
Our Androcentric Culture “In the many books about women it is, naturally, their femaleness that has been studied and enlarged upon. And though women, after thousands of years of such discussion, have become…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Various authors	The Natural Philosophy of Love
The Natural Philosophy of Love “But the very idea of an aim is a human illusion. There is neither beginning, nor middle, nor end in the series of causes. What is has been caused by what was, and what will be has …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Various authors	The Martyrdom of Man
The Martyrdom of Man “A people can never rise from low estate as long as they are engrossed in the painful struggle for daily bread. On the other hand, leisure alone is not sufficient to effect the self…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Various authors	PROTESTANTISM AND THE RISE OF CAPITALISM
PROTESTANTISM AND THE RISE OF CAPITALISM “"Remember, that credit is money. If a man lets his money lie in my hands after it is due, he gives me interest, or so much as I can make of it during that time. This amounts to a c…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Various authors	The Philosophy of Misery
The Philosophy of Misery “The inadequacy of political economy has at all times impressed thoughtful minds, who, too fond of their dreams for practical investigation, and confining themselves to the estimati…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Various authors	Criminal Sociology
Criminal Sociology “From the consideration that human actions, whether honest or dishonest, social or anti-social, are always the outcome of a man's physio-psychical organism, and of the physical and …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Various authors	In Darkest England and The Way Out
In Darkest England and The Way Out “Some seven years ago a great outcry was made concerning the Housing of the Poor. Much was said, and rightly said--it could not be said too strongly--concerning the disease-breeding…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Various authors	DOWN WITH THE CITIES!
DOWN WITH THE CITIES! “However, the cunning and arrogant city has shifted the responsibility for the destruction of the Earth -- a responsibility that is clearly its own -- to others, insisting that the …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Various authors	Proposed Roads To Freedom
Proposed Roads To Freedom “THE man who seeks to create a better order of society has two resistances to contend with: one that of Nature, the other that of his fellow-men. Broadly speaking, it is science tha…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Various authors	The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists “She had been what is called a `slavey' but if she had been really a slave her owner would have had some regard for her health and welfare: her `loving friend' had had none. Mrs Sta…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Various authors	The Principles of Scientific Management — Frederick Winslow Taylor
The Principles of Scientific Management Frederick Winslow Taylor “First. The fallacy, which has from time immemorial been almost universal among workmen, that a material increase in the output of each man or each machine in the trade would result…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Various authors	The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte — Karl Marx
The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte Karl Marx “In the first French revolution, upon the reign of the Constitutionalists succeeds that of the Girondins; and upon the reign of the Girondins follows that of the Jacobins. Each of t…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Various authors	The Malady of the Century — Max Nordau
The Malady of the Century Max Nordau “"I am telling you the penalty of property. You must be just in everything. Granted that the rich man is a criminal; granted his idleness is an offense to your activity; granted tha…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Various authors	The Art-Work Of The Future — RICHARD WAGNER
The Art-Work Of The Future RICHARD WAGNER “If Mind has manufactured Nature, if Thought has made the Actual, if the Philosopher comes before the Man: then Nature, Actuality and Man are no more necessary, and their existence …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Various authors	The Idea of Progress — J.B. Bury
The Idea of Progress J.B. Bury “At the same time Pascal recognised that we are indebted to the ancients for our very superiority to them in the extent of our knowledge. "They reached a certain point, and the slig…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Various authors	The Philosophy of Despair — David Starr Jordan
The Philosophy of Despair David Starr Jordan “In the presence of the infinite problem of life, the voice of Science is dumb, for Science is the coördinate and corrected expression of human experience, and human experience must…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Various authors	Vices Are Not Crimes: A Vindication of Moral Liberty — Spooner
Vices Are Not Crimes: A Vindication of Moral Liberty Spooner “In the midst of this endless variety of opinion, what man, or what body of men, has the right to say, in regard to any particular action, or course of action, "we have tried this e…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Various authors	What is Property? — P. J. Proudhon
What is Property? P. J. Proudhon “Property is impossible; equality does not exist. We hate the former, and yet wish to possess it; the latter rules all our thoughts, yet we know not how to reach it. Who will explai…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Various authors	The Progress of Science: Substitutes for War
The Progress of Science: Substitutes for War “While man has inherited instincts which exhibit themselves in playing and fighting, the same instincts may by social control be diverted to playing the games of art or science, to …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Various authors	An Essay on the Trial By Jury — Lysander Spooner
An Essay on the Trial By Jury Lysander Spooner “That the legislation of the king was of no authority over a jury, is further proved by the oath taken by the kings at their coronation. This oath seems to have been substantially t…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Various authors	A New View of Society — Robert Owen
A New View of Society Robert Owen “Full title: New View of Society, Or, Essays on the Principle of the Formation of the Human Character, and the Application of the Principle to Practice…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Various authors	Modern French Philosophy--
Modern French Philosophy-- “Taine and Renan both express the initial attitude, a firm belief in determinism, but it is most clear and rigid in the work of Taine. His whole philosophy is hostile to any belief …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Various authors	Principles of Physiological Psychology — Wilhelm Wundt
Principles of Physiological Psychology Wilhelm Wundt “We must conclude from these results that the elementary phenomena of practice and fatigue are of radically different origin. The prime condition of the processes of practice is giv…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Various authors	Bergson and His Philosophy — J. Alexander Gunn
Bergson and His Philosophy J. Alexander Gunn “"In communicating itself the impetus splits up more and more. Life, in proportion to its progress, is scattered in manifestations which undoubtedly owe to their common origin the f…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Various authors	An Authority on Causation or Causality — CHARLES A. MERCIER
An Authority on Causation or Causality CHARLES A. MERCIER “WHILE it is generally understood that a cause and a condition are different things, and stand in different relations to effect, yet even in common speech and in practice they are o…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Various authors	Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus — Ludwig Wittgenstein
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus Ludwig Wittgenstein “5.123 If a god creates a world in which certain propositions are true, then by that very act he also creates a world in which all the propositions that follow from them come true. …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Various authors	Utopia of Usurers and other Essays — G.K. Chesterton
Utopia of Usurers and other Essays G.K. Chesterton “Now I have said again and again (and I shall continue to say again and again on all the most inappropriate occasions) that we must hit Capitalism, and hit it hard, for the plain an…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Various authors	The State and Revolution — V. I. LENIN
The State and Revolution V. I. LENIN “No, democracy is n o t identical with the subordination of the minority to the majority. Democracy is a state which recogizes the subordination of the minority to the majority, i.e…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Various authors	Letters Upon The Aesthetic Education of Man — Friedrich Von Schiller
Letters Upon The Aesthetic Education of Man Friedrich Von Schiller “When the mechanical artist places his hand on the formless block, to give it a form according to his intention, he has not any scruples in doing violence to it. For the nature on w…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Various authors	The Nature of Goodness — George Herbert Palmer
The Nature of Goodness George Herbert Palmer “A second inadequate definition of goodness is that it is adaptation to environment. This is a far more important conception than the preceding; but again, while not untrue, is stil…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Various authors	Evolution and Ethics and Other Essays — Thomas H. Huxley
Evolution and Ethics and Other Essays Thomas H. Huxley “And if natural selection, with artificial to help it, will produce better animals and better men than the present, and fit them better to the conditions of existence, why, let it w…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Various authors	A Handbook of Ethical Theory — George Stuart Fullerton
A Handbook of Ethical Theory George Stuart Fullerton “What constitutes the moral in human behavior, what marks out right or wrong conduct from conduct ethically indifferent, we have not yet considered. But no man is wholly without inf…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Various authors	Lectures and Essays — Goldwin Smith
Lectures and Essays Goldwin Smith “Supposing that man has ascended from a lower animal form, there appears to be ground at least for surmising that vice, instead of being a diabolical inspiration or a mysterious ele…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Various authors	God and my Neighbour — Robert Blatchford
God and my Neighbour Robert Blatchford “I was not perverted by an Infidel book. I had not read one when I wavered first in my allegiance to the orthodoxies. I was set doubting by a religious book written to prove the "Ve…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Various authors	Sociology and Modern Social Problems — Charles A. Ellwood
Sociology and Modern Social Problems Charles A. Ellwood “It is evident that if we assume Darwin's theory of descent in sociology we must look for the beginnings of many peculiarly human things in the animal world below man. Human institu…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Various authors	Prisoner for Blasphemy — G. W. [George William] Foote
Prisoner for Blasphemy G. W. [George William] Foote “It is a curious thing that such a fervid champion of religion should always attack unbelievers with private circulars. Yet this is the policy that Henry Varley has always pursued. …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Various authors	Battle Studies — Colonel Charles-Jean-Jacques-Joseph Ardant du Picq
Battle Studies Colonel Charles-Jean-Jacques-Joseph Ardant du Picq “"At what instant has this control escaped from the battalion commander? When from the captain, the section leader, the squad leader? At what time, in short, if such a thing did tak…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Various authors	Origin of Honour — Bernard Mandeville
Origin of Honour Bernard Mandeville “Full title: An Enquiry into the Origin of Honour, and the Usefulness of Christianity in War…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Various authors	The Mind in the Making — James Harvey Robinson
The Mind in the Making James Harvey Robinson “Full title: THE MIND IN THE MAKING The Relation of Intelligence to Social Reform…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Various authors	Studies of Nature — Bernadin de Saint-Pierre
Studies of Nature Bernadin de Saint-Pierre “Nature has not formed, after our limited manner, perspectives with one or two consonances; but she composes them of a multitude of different progressions to be found in the minutes…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive
Various authors	Moral Philosophy — Joseph Rickaby, S. J.
Moral Philosophy Joseph Rickaby, S. J. “2. An act is more or less voluntary, as it is done with more or less knowledge, and proceeds more or less fully and purely from the will properly so called. Whatever diminishes kno…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive