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In Homer and the Epic, ten or twelve years ago, I examined the literary objections to Homeric unity. These objections are chiefly based on alleged discrepancies in the narrative, of which no one poet, it is supposed, could have been guilty. The critics repose, I venture to think, mainly on a fallacy....

Let me take you into an old-fashioned country house, built by architects of the early reign of James the First. It had all the peculiarities--I might almost say the oddities--of that particular epoch in the building art. Chimneys innumerable had it. Heaven only knows what rooms they ventilated; but their...

A few years ago the subject-matter of the present volume might have been condensed into a few pages. Beyond what we would gather from the Old Testament, we knew but little about the history and geography of Canaan before the age of its conquest by the Israelites. Thanks, however, to the discovery and...

Lucid means being clear about what matters. It leads to peace of mind. The greatest answers and joys in Life can be shown to be very simple. This is a handbook for thriving with change by thinking differently. Everyone has intuition. It guides us to recognize purpose and timing. Being in sync with...

Defy The Effects of Aging A healthy diet is important at any age, but becomes critical, as you get older. The truth is that lifestyle diseases that stem from diet and lack of physical activity are harming us Aging is an inevitable process; it will happen regardless of what you do. However,...

We will all face the death of a loved one at some point in our lives, and inevitably, we will face our own deaths as well. Terri Daniel's new book, Turning the Corner on Grief Street begins where her previous books left off, by assuming that we are ready to accept these experiences as not only necessary...

Yoga, karma, meditation, guru—these terms, once obscure, are now a part of the American lexicon. Combining Hinduism with Western concepts and values, a new hybrid form of religion has developed in the United States over the past century. In Transcendent in America, Lola Williamson traces the history...

With new recipes and information on dozens of new ingredients, this expanded and updated edition of Incense is an essential guide to making your own homemade blends with natural ingredients. Join author Carl F. Neal as he presents an extensive collection of incense knowledge, including 129 recipes...

This is a work predicated on the value that emergency self-protection is usually done empty-handed. In other words, if you are ever attacked by a perpetrator, it is due to the opportune time presented by the predicament or circumstance. So, your activities of daily living of walking to your car, leaving...

Universal Wisdom for the Golden Age is D. M. Langdon’s second book. As with her first book, 'A Treatise on the Soul', D. M. Langdon reports she is not the author, merely the scribe. This will be immediately apparent to you, the reader, as you absorb the profound spiritual truths provided. D. M. Langdon...

How strange the sensation would be, how marvelously interesting the scene, were we to wake up from some quiet night's rest and find ourselves suddenly transported four or five hundred years back--living and moving among the men of a former age! To pass from the British fortress of Gibraltar, with drums...

The newspapers have recently adopted a strange habit of sometimes unexpectedly seizing an individual's name, long since retired from public notice, and gibbetting it up before the world's eye, when least anticipated, by volunteering a paragraph to announce, that some aged lord, or ex-minister, whom...

In order to gain an insight into the causes of the rapid development of monasticism among the German races, it is necessary to enquire into the social arrangements of the period which witnessed the introduction of Christianity, and into those survivals of the previous period of social development...

In the sea story of Australia, from the days of Captain Phillip in 1788, to the end of the "fifties" in the present century, American ships and seamen have no little part. First they came into the harbour of Sydney Cove as traders carrying provisions for sale to the half-starved settlers, then as whalers,...