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General View of Distribution

In Principles of Economics, Book 6: The Distribution of National Income

Read by Carl Manchester


Alfred Marshall


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

Chapter 18

In Zadig or the Book of Fate

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Voltaire


Zadig, ou La Destinée, ("Zadig, or The Book of Fate") (1747) is a famous novel written by the French Enlightenment philosop…

09 - Verses 71 to 80

In Gitanjali

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Rabindranath Tagore


Gitanjali is a collection of 103 poems in English, largely translations by the Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore. This volume became very fam…

001 - Première nuit : Le marchand et le génie

In Les Mille et une nuits, tome 1

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Antoine Galland and Anonymoustranslated Byantoine Galland


Afin de ne plus être déçu par les femmes, le sultan Schahriar décide d'épouser une jeune fille chaque jour…

Futility

In Poems Recorded in Deptford and Greenwich

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Wilfred Owen


Armed with a hand-held digital recorder and the Penguin Book of English Verse, LibriVox’s UK Chapter set out one Sunday afternoon to capture…

Of the Different Species of Philosophy

In An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

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David Hume


The Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding is a shortened and simplified version of Hume's masterpiece A Treatise of Human Nature. It sough…

Introduction by Judd Larmor

In Science and Hypothesis

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Henri Poincaré


Jules Henri Poincaré (1854 – 1912) was one of France's greatest mathematicians and theoretical physicists, and a philosopher of scien…

The Unreality of Time

In The Unreality of Time

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John McTaggart Ellis McTaggart and John Mctaggart


John McTaggart was a British metaphysician and philosophical idealist. In this famous article for the periodical Mind, he introduced the not…

Ch 3 – Of Individuality

In On Liberty

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John Stuart Mill


Published in 1859, On Liberty details Mill's view that individuals should be left wholly free to engage in any activity, thought or belief t…

Chapter 1

In The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano

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Olaudah Equiano


The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, written in 1789, is the autobiography of Olaudah Equiano. It discusses his time sp…

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