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Essay #4 A Long Way Round to Nirvana

In Some Turns of Thought in Modern Philosophy

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George Santayana

Before the beginning of World War II, during the time of the Modernist movement in philosophy, George Santayana wrote these five descriptive…

Chapter 11

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…

The Calvanism of To-day

In What's Wrong With the World

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GK Chesterton and G. K. Chesterton

Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936) has been called the “prince of paradox.” Time magazine observed of his writing style: “Whenever possibl…

Chapter XXV: Jovian and Valentinian Pt. 1

In The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Vol. II

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Edward Gibbon

The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, a major literary achievement of the 18th century published in six volumes, was writ…

Preface and Contents

In Essays on Some Unsettled Questions of Political Economy

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John Stuart Mill

This is Mill’s first work on economics. It foreshadows his Political Economy which was the standard Anglo-American Economics textbook of the…

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