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徬徨 (Wandering or Pang Huang)

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Xun Lu

Wandering or Pang Huang was Lu Xun's second collection of stories. It was published near the end of 1925 and included 11 stories written bet…

IV. How To Win Fortune

In The Empire of Business

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Andrew Carnegie

This collection of essays by Scottish-American steel industrialist Andrew Carnegie, gathered from various periodicals and first published in…

Maxims 151-160

In The Art of Worldly Wisdom

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Baltasar Gracián

300 short maxims by Spanish Jesuit Baltasar Gracian (1601-1658). The advice is still useful and insightful for our modern world. Gracian was…

Defence of Criminals: A Criticism of Morality (Part 1)

In Civilisation: Its Cause and Cure, and Other Essays

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Edward Carpenter

This publication, by English utopian socialist Edward Carpenter, describes civilisation as a sort of disease with which humanity is afflicte…

BOOK I. CHAP. I.

In Enquiry Concerning Political Justice and its Influence on Morals and Happiness.…

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William Godwin

It was Godwin, in his Enquiry concerning Political Justice (2 vols., 1793), who was the first to formulate the political and economical conc…

V. The Intellectuals and the Boston Mob

In My Larger Education

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Booker T. Washington

This is a sequel to Washington's first autobiographical book, Up From Slavery, which depicted his early life. He says "This book contai…

Chapter VI - Internal Combustion Engines

In The Romance of Modern Mechanism

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Archibald Williams

In 1910, when this book was published, the advancement of modern mechanism was still moving at a rapid pace. It must have seemed like very d…