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Published in 1913 and based on Royce's Hibbert Lectures delivered at Oxford, this first of a two-volume series is subtitled "The Christian Doctrine of Life." Focusing on the issue of what essential Christianity is—this book discusses Royce’s ideas of a universal community, the individual and his moral burden, guilt, time, and much more.

 One of the author’s many treatises on the foundations of knowledge, this collection focuses on science. Part One, “The Unknowable,” discusses ultimate religious and scientific theories which Spencer sees as unknowable. Part Two, “The Knowable,” explains data; concepts such as motion, forces,...

This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. "[T]he rule of education is the chief end whereby man is formed under civilization." - Immanuel KantOn Education (1803) is a collection of Kant's lectures on physical and practical education, pedagogy, and moral culture,...

In this 1880 series of lectures, missionary James Legge, a pivotal figure in East-West relations, shares his knowledge based on more than thirty years’ experience in the East, plus a lifetime of study. He discusses his views on the relationship between Christianity and Chinese culture, as well as his interpretations of Confucianism and Taoism.

Originally published in 1888, The Secret Doctrine is Madame Blavatsky's two-volume magnum opus, constituting one of the seminal works on esoteric knowledge of their age. Volume 1, "Cosmogenesis," covers the creation of the universe, the evolution of our universe, and how it follows the Hindu cycles of manvantaras (activity) and pralayas (passivity).

Published in 1885, this collection of Arnold’s public addresses given during his 1883-84 American tour consists of "Numbers: or the Majority and the Remnant," "Literature and Science," and "Emerson," in which he judges Emerson as a mediocre poet and philosopher but nevertheless places him among the "most distinctly and honourably American of your writers."

Assembled in the wake of the death of “Arminius von Thunder-ten-Tronckh”—struck by a stray bullet during the Franco-Prussian War—here is a collection of the fictional Prussian’s letters, conversations, and opinions. A descendant of the von Thunder-ten-Tronckh family of Voltaire’s Candide,...

“At the present moment two things about the Christian religion must surely be clear to anybody with eyes in his head. One is, that men cannot do without it; the other, that they cannot do with it as it is.” In this towering 1875 work, Arnold grapples with the problem of finding religious meaning in a scientific age.

Matthew Arnold was a British school inspector for over three decades, giving him the opportunity to travel around England and the Continent surveying schools. A French Eton is a study of the French educational system, including its highly democratic nature, and an argument that the English system needed to be reformed.

Arnold toured America, the land where his daughter had married and settled, twice before publishing this 1888 controversial work. It sets forth Arnold's often harsh criticisms of American civilization—or, rather, the lack thereof, for he makes no secret of finding the cultural climate of the United States backward or even primitive.

This ninth of twelve volumes of Ingersoll’s collected works showcases his writings on politics. Essays include “Speech Nominating Blaine;” “Centennial Oration;” “Hard Times and the Way Out;” “Suffrage Address;” “Wall Street Speech;” and “An Address to the Colored People,” about...

Beginning with the physiocrats and ending with the anarchists—with chapters on Adam Smith, Thomas Robert Malthus, John Stuart Mill, and Karl Marx, among many others, in between—this invaluable work provides perspective on modern economic theories by connecting them with their historical antecedents.

Written partially to support the movement for women’s equal rights, this pioneering 1914 sociological study anticipates many issues and conflicts still alive today: sexual equality, difference, feminist critiques of social science, egalitarian sexual ethics, gender politics, and the connections between private behavior and social conditions.  

This history of Jerusalem from about the time of Jesus’ death through the mid-nineteenth century covers the Jewish Revolt and the ensuing Roman siege of the city, the Muslim conquest, the Crusader occupation, and the long period of Muslim rule that followed. It is notable for its reliance on both western and Arab source materials.