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This book relates the Civil War in Canada, with ample details of the immediate causes and progress thereof, from the commencement to its final conclusion; preceded by an introduction, containing a faithful exposition of the more remote causes of the present disastrous state of affairs in those colonies;...

The Atlantic is also relatively deeper and less cumbered with islands than the Pacific, which has the higher ridges near its shores, constituting what some visitors to the Pacific coast of America have not inaptly called the "back of the world," while the wider slopes face the narrower ocean,...

The Incas Civilization flourished in 15th century A.D. until its conquest by the Spanish in the 1530s. Their empire extended across western South America. It’s described as the largest empire ever seen in the Americas and the largest in the world at that period... “The proofs that the Incas had...

What is life? This question gives a new interest to every department of science that relates to life in any form, and the history of life offers a most suggestive field for research. The paleontology took its origin in the mind of the first person who, finding something like a shell or a bone naturally...

Alfred Russel Wallace was a British naturalist, considered as one of the greatest thinkers of the 19th century. This book treating about the Ice Age and its work, is one of his contributions to explain how changed the climate, mainly in the periods of glaciation, and how the phases of the ice age may have affected the earth.

It is here proposed to give some account of Jewish life in the first and second centuries A.D., under Roman rule in Syria, which—in spite of the terrible episodes of the sieges of Jerusalem in 70 A.D. and 132 A.D.—was for the greater part of the period a peaceful domination over a very mixed population at a time when the Jews were very prosperous and fairly contented...

Unfortunately, the chief fell sick and died shortly after his arrival; but the promise of assistance made before this occurred was confirmed by his successor, a daughter, Ma-Mochisane. In order to confer with her on the matter, Livingstone made a journey to Shesheke, where she lived, 130 miles to...

Of all the island groups in the outer Pacific none surpass the Fijis in their rare combination of beautiful scenery and interesting natives. The islands are upon the opposite side of the world from England, for the meridian of 180° passes through the centre of the group crossing the island of Taviuni......

How to help the unemployed? This subject developed by Henry George is more relevant to our time when unemployment becomes a major problem. Henry George, famous for his book titled Progress and Poverty, was American political economist who developed a "tax reform" project and promoted economic...

This book presents the origin of primitive money and how it is used since the last centuries. (With the illustration of old moneys used by our ancestors.) “If money is viewed simply as a tool used to facilitate transactions, only those media that are readily accepted in exchange for goods,...

What Makes the Rich Richer and the Poor Poorer? Through this question, this book deals with the effect of capitalist competition on the social classes.

Pessimism is an attitude of hopelessness towards life, a vague general opinion that pain and evil predominate in human affairs. How to overcome it? Is Life Worth Living? This book deals with the Pessimism and its Antidote.

William James, American psychologist and philosopher, was mainly known by his works on The Principles of Psychology and the Pragmatism. --- Everyone is now acquainted with the Conscious-Automaton-theory... The theory maintains that in everything outward we are pure material machines. Feeling is a...

What is an Emotion? Our natural way of thinking about the standard emotions is that the mental perception of some fact excites the mental affection called the emotion, and that this latter state of mind gives rise to the bodily expression. The thesis on the contrary is that the bodily changes follow...