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Introductory

In Principles of Economics, Book 4: The Agents of Production

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Alfred Marshall


Principles of Economics was a leading economics textbook of Alfred Marshall (1842-1924), first published in 1890. Marshall began writing the…

Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young

In Aphorisms

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Oscar Wilde


In 1894, Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900) published two collections of aphorisms: A Few Maxims For The Instruction Of The Over-Educated, in the Sa…

Chapter XXXII – Of the Principles of Christian Politics

In Leviathan (Books III and IV)

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Thomas Hobbes


In Books 3 and 4 of Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes elaborates on the political philosophy set forth in the first two books, by considering the nat…

Introduction

In Leviathan (Books I and II)

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Thomas Hobbes


Leviathan, or The Matter, Forme and Power of a Common Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil, commonly called Leviathan, is a book written in 1651…

War in West Virginia

In The Autobiography of Mother Jones

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Mother Jones and Mary Harris Jones


Mother Jones (Mary Harris Jones) was a legendary labor organizer. She was a founding member of the International Workers of the World (the I…

Front Matter

In How to Analyze People on Sight Through the Science of Human Analysis: The Five …

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Elsie Lincoln Benedict and Ralph Paine Benedict, Elsie Lincoln Benedict and Elsie Lincoln Benedictandralph Paine Benedict


In this popular American book from the 1920s, accomplished public speaker and self-help charlatan Elsie Lincoln Benedict outlines her pseudo…

Sections 145 to 156

In A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge

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George Berkeley


A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge (Commonly called "Treatise" when referring to Berkeley's works) is a 1710 …

The New President

In Reviews

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Oscar Wilde, ed. Robert Ross and Oscar Wilde


Wilde’s literary reputation has survived so much that I think it proof against any exhumation of articles which he or his admirers would hav…

I Remember Cheese

In The Complete Book of Cheese

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Robert Carlton Brown and Bob Brown


Bob Brown, after living thirty years in as many foreign lands and enjoying countless national cheeses at the source, returned to New York an…

Editor's Preface -- To the First English Translation

In Capital: a critical analysis of capitalist production, Vol 1

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Karl Marx, transl. Moore and Aveling and Karl Marx


Capital, Volume I is the first of three volumes in Karl Marx’s monumental work, Das Kapital, and the only volume to be published during his …

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