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1. A CRITICISM OF CHRISTIANITY

A religious system so many-faced and so enduring as Christianity must necessarily be saturated with truth even if it be not wholly true.

2. WRITING

The door is not half open; the light is but a light new lit. Our world to-day is only in the beginning of knowledge.

3. What a Computer Can Do for You - Recordkeeping

A good place to start is with farm records.

4. The Art of Money Getting or, Golden Rules for Making Money - Chapter 15

The Art of Money Getting or, Golden Rules for Making Money by P. T. Barnum is part of HackerNoon’s Book Blog Post series.

5. THE NEANDERTHALER AND THE RHODESIAN MAN

Mentally and physically they were upon a different line from the human line.

6. What a Computer Can Do for You - Process Controllers

Besides analyzing farm management problems and storing data, computers have another key use—as process controllers.

[7. The Art of Money Getting or, Golden Rules for Making Money - Part 3 -

Avoid Debt](https://hackernoon.com/the-art-of-money-getting-or-golden-rules-for-making-money-part-3-avoid-debt) The Art of Money Getting or, Golden Rules for Making Money by P. T. Barnum is part of [HackerNoon’s Book Blog Post series]

8. This Misery of Boots by H. G. Wells - Table of Links

This Misery of Boots by H. G. Wells, is part of the HackerNoon Books Series. Read this book online for free on HackerNoon!

9. THE FIRST SEAGOING PEOPLES

Cnossos was not so much a town as a great palace for the Cretan monarch and his people.

10. The Art of Money Getting or, Golden Rules for Making Money - Chapter 1

The Art of Money Getting or, Golden Rules for Making Money, by PT Barnum, is part of the HackerNoon Books series. Read this book online for free on HackerNoon!

11. THE WORLD AS BOOTS AND SUPERSTRUCTURE

My friend was a realistic novelist, and a man from whom hope had departed.

12. The Art of Money Getting or, Golden Rules for Making Money - Chapter 6

The Art of Money Getting or, Golden Rules for Making Money by P. T. Barnum is part of HackerNoon’s Book Blog Post series.

13. Some Experiences in the Oil Business

"I'll go no higher, John; the business is yours."

14. On The Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation by David Ricardo - Table of Links

On The Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation, by David Ricardo is part of the HackerNoon Books Series. Read this book online for free on HackerNoon!

15. THE TEACHING OF JESUS

Our only direct sources of information about the life and teaching of Jesus are the four Gospels.

16. Selling to the Steel Company

The work went on uninterruptedly and prosperously until the formation of the United States Steel Corporation.

17. A Normal Growth

Dock property was secured at low prices and made valuable by buildings and development.

18. SOCIALISM MEANS REVOLUTION

I want to change everything in the world that made that; and I do not greatly care what has to go in the process. Do you?

19. Computers on the Farm: Purpose of This Bulletin

USDA Farmers' Bulletin No. 2277: Computers on the Farm, Purpose of This Bulletin by Deborah Takiff Smith is part of HackerNoon’s Book Blog Post series.

20. The Question of Rebates

The Standard gave advantages to the railroads for the purpose of reducing the cost of transportation of freight.

21. TO PROVE THAT THE INDIANS AFORENAMED CAME ONLY BY THE NORTH-WEST

For if they had come by the Cape of Good Hope, then must they, as aforesaid, have fallen upon the south parts of America.

22. How to Select Hardware - Types of Hardware

The modem turns the computer from an information processor and storage machine into a piece of communications equipment.

23. THE WORLD IN SPACE

The earth, as everybody knows nowadays, is a spheroid, a sphere slightly compressed, orange fashion, with a diameter of nearly 8,000 miles.

24. The Art of Money Getting or, Golden Rules for Making Money - Chapter 5

The Art of Money Getting; Or, Golden Rules for Making Money by P. T. Barnum

25. The Human Side of Animals: Chapter 6 - Animal Mathematics

The Human Side of Animals by Royal Dixon is part of HackerNoon’s Book Blog Post series.

26. The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated by John Henry Newman - Table of Links

The Idea of a University, by John Henry Newman is part of HackerNoon’s Book series. Read this book online for free on HackerNoon!

27. Computers on the Farm: Information available Online From USDA, State, and Private Sources

USDA Farmers' Bulletin No. 2277: Computers on the Farm, by Deborah Takiff Smith is part of HackerNoon’s Book Blog Post series.

28. Information available From Your County Extension Agent

The county Extension staff can tell you what is available online in your area that is tailored to your kind of farming and your region.

29. BETWEEN ROME AND CHINA

China at this time was the greatest, best organized and most civilized political system in the world.

30. The Art of Money Getting or, Golden Rules for Making Money - Chapter 2

The Art of Money Getting or, Golden Rules for Making Money by P.T Barnum

31. THE NATURE OF LOVE

Love does not seem to me to be a simple elemental thing.

32. THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

The human being was needed now only where choice and intelligence had to be exercised.

33. The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: Advertisement

The present collection of Lectures and Essays, written by him while Rector of the Catholic University of Ireland, is certainly not an exception to this remark.

34. PRIMITIVE NEOLITHIC CIVILIZATIONS

We have to remember that human races can all interbreed freely and that they separate, mingle and reunite as clouds do.

35. OF ABSTINENCES AND DISCIPLINES

Most people speak of drugs in the spirit of that admirable firm of soap-boilers which assures its customers that the soap they make “contains no chemicals.

36. A Landsman for Ship Manager

The great ships and the railroad put us in possession of the most favourable facilities.

37. The Art of Money Getting or, Golden Rules for Making Money - Chapter 10

The Art of Money Getting or, Golden Rules for Making Money by P.T Barnum

38. On the influence of Demand and Supply on Prices

This is true of monopolized commodities, and indeed of the market price of all other commodities for a limited period.

39. THE SECOND MAIN GENERALIZATION OF SOCIALISM

His business undertakings would be under limitations his grandfather never knew—even harmless adulterations that merely intensify profit, forbidden him!

40. The Dance of Life by Havelock Ellis - Table of Links

The Dance of Life by Havelock Ellis, is part of the HackerNoon Books Series. Read this book online for free on HackerNoon!

41. THE SYNTHETIC MOTIVE

Different people, of differing temperament and tradition, have sought oneness, this steadying and universalizing thing, in various manners.

42. What a Computer Can Do for You - Other Uses

Other Uses

43. Panic Experiences

I had desired to retire from business in the early nineties.

44. WRONG WAYS OF LIVING

Much more do we condemn dishonest or fraudulent trading and every act of advertisement that is not punctiliously truthful.

45. How to Select Hardware - Where to Look for Good Hardware

A reliable dealer who handles several brands can help you make this decision.

46. ON USING THE NAME OF GOD

Yet let me confess that I am greatly attracted by such fine phrases as the Will of God, the Hand of God, the Great Commander.

47. Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex by Sigmund Freud - Table of Links

Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex by Sigmund Freud, is part of the HackerNoon Books Series. Read this book online for free on HackerNoon!

48. THE FIRST BIRDS AND THE FIRST MAMMALS

The very earliest birds seem to have been seabirds living upon fish, and their fore limbs were not wings but paddles rather after the penguin type.

49. The Limitations of the Rich

The novelty of being able to purchase anything one wants soon passes, because what people most seek cannot be bought with money.

50. THE FIRST LOAN

"All right, Mr. Rockefeller, you can have it," he replied. "Just give me your own warehouse receipts; they're good enough for me."

51. Coral Reefs by Charles Darwin - Table of Link

Coral Reefs by Charles Darwin, is part of the HackerNoon Books Series. Read this book online for free on HackerNoon!

52. The Future in America by H. G. Wells - Table of Links

The Future in America by H. G. Wells, is part of the HackerNoon Books Series. Read this book online for free on HackerNoon!

53. The Sacrifice for Scientific Research

Dr. Alexis Carrel has been associated with Dr. Flexner and his work, and his wonderful skill has been the result of his experiments and experiences.

54. INTRODUCTORY PASSAGES QUOTED BY DARWIN IN HIS “ORIGIN OF SPECIES.”

INTRODUCTORY PASSAGES QUOTED BY DARWIN IN HIS “ORIGIN OF SPECIES.”

55. AUTHOR'S PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION

VIENNA, December, 1909.

56. SOCIALISM

Socialism for me is a common step we are all taking in the great synthesis of human purpose.

57. AUTHOR'S PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION

I have added many passages in this edition, but I have abstained from calling attention to them, as in former editions, by special marks.

58. THE WAR AIMS OF THE WESTERN ALLIES

In some fashion it is now necessary to achieve sufficient human unity to establish a world peace and save the future of mankind.

59. The World of Dreams by Havelock Ellis - Table of Links

The World of Dreams by Havelock Ellis, is part of the HackerNoon Books Series. Read this book online for free on HackerNoon!

60. How to Choose a Microcomputer System

Many computer experts strongly recommend against buying a computer first and then shopping for the software packages.

61. Computers on the Farm

A computer can be very useful when repetitive analyses are needed or when data storage is important, as with financial records or daily milk output per cow.

62. CERTAIN REASONS ALLEGED FOR THE PROVING OF A PASSAGE BY THE NORTH-EAST BEFORE THE QUEEN’S MAJESTY

In like manner is this current in the Frozen Sea increased and maintained by the Dwina, the river Ob, etc.

63. The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: Introductory Letter

To The Right Honourable WILLIAM MONSELL, M.P., ETC., ETC.

64. THE ANCESTRY OF MAN

Among all the apes and monkeys, the only group that have their great toes developed on anything like the same fashion as man are some of the lemurs.

65. BELIEFS

I draw my beliefs exactly as an artist draws lines to make a picture, to express my impression of the world and my purpose.

66. The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: Note on Page 478

I think it worthwhile, in illustration of what I have said above at the page specified, to append the following passage from Grandorgæus's catalogue of Muratori

67. Exercising Economic Judgement in Planning

If sufficient funds are available, one sensible way to proceed is to use the accumulated collective experience outlined above.

68. FREE WILL AND PREDESTINATION

I glance at this question rather to express a detachment than a view.

69. Disinterested Service the Road to Success

The man will be most successful who confers the greatest service on the world.

70. Institutions as they Relate to Each Other

A number of enthusiastic people had a plan for founding an orphan asylum which was to be conducted by one of our strongest religious denominations.

71. Table of Links - Cottage Economy to Which Is Added the Poor Man's Friend

Cottage Economy To Which Is Added The Poor Man's Friend, by William Cobbett, is part of the HackerNoon Books Series. Read this book online for free on HackerNoo

72. THE SWORD OF PEACE

Europe is at war!

73. THE CONSOLATION OF FAILURE

“This and not that was my appointed work, and this I had to be.”

74. THE LAST CONFESSION

Behind everything I perceive the smile that makes all effort and discipline temporary, all the stress and pain of life endurable.

75. THE VALUE OF FRIENDSHIPS

"I may want to call upon you for the use of some money. I don't know that we shall need it, but I thought I'd speak to you in advance about it."

76. Taxes on Rent

A tax on rent would affect rent only; it would fall wholly on landlords, and could not be shifted to any class of consumers.

77. THE FUNDAMENTAL IDEA OF SOCIALISM

He wants a complete organization for all those human affairs that are of collective importance.

78. ELEGIAC VERSES BY WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

In Memory of a Brother Drowned at Sea.

79. PEOPLE WHOSE BOOTS DON’T HURT THEM

Everybody does not suffer misery from boots.

80. INTRODUCTION

Recently I set myself to put down what I believe.

81. The Claim of Higher Education

The mere fact that most of the great achievements in science, medicine, art, and literature are the flower of the higher education is sufficient.

82. THE WORLD OF FACT

Fact expresses for me something in its nature primary and unanalyzable.

83. How to Select Software - Where to Look for Good Software

USDA Farmers' Bulletin No. 2277: Computers on the Farm, by Deborah Takiff Smith is part of HackerNoon’s Book Blog Post series.

84. PLANES AND DIALECTS OF THOUGHT

Let me endeavour to make myself a little less obscure by a flagrant instance from physical things.

85. PREFACE

The references are to the American edition of Darwin’s works published by D. Appleton & Co., New York.

86. Employing a Competitor

In giving such an order he was exposed, of course, to the risk of paying very high prices.

87. PRIMITIVE THOUGHT

The sources to which scientific men have gone in their attempts to reconstruct that primitive mentality are very various.

88. THE MONGOL CONQUESTS

In 1214 Jengis Khan, the leader of the Mongol confederates, made war on the Kin Empire and captured Pekin (1214).

89. THE STUDY AND PROPAGANDA OF DEMOCRACY

All round the world there is this same obscuration of the real intelligence of men.

90. Obvious And Very Important Things Computers Can Do For Farmers

Determine the most economical feed ration for dairy cows and other farm animals.

91. Some Underlying Principles

Every right-minded man has a philosophy of life, whether he knows it or not.

92. Group Psychology and The Analysis of The Ego by Sigmund Freud - Table of Links

Group Psychology and The Analysis of The Ego by Sigmund Freud, is part of the HackerNoon Books Series. Read this book online for free on HackerNoon!

93. THE NECESSITY FOR METAPHYSICS

This persuasion is a very important thing in my mind.

94. The Start of the Standard Oil Company

It has placed its manufactories at the points where they could supply markets at the least expense.

95. A NIMBLE BORROWER

I rounded up all of our banks in the city, and made a second journey to get the money, and kept going until I secured the necessary amount.

96. EDITORIAL NOTE

The three introductions, which my friend Professor Judd has kindly furnished, give critical and historical information which makes this edition of special value

97. THE AGE OF ARMAMENT IN EUROPE, AND THE GREAT WAR OF 1914-18

The rest of the European Powers were in a state of intensifying congestion.

98. THE SYNTHESIS

I write this down. It is the form of my belief, and that unanalyzable something called Beauty is the light that falls upon that form.

99. THE PROBLEM OF MOTIVES THE REAL PROBLEM OF LIFE

I confess I find myself a confusion of motives beside which my confusion of perceptions pales into insignificance.

100. SEX

We have set aside the conception of Justice as in any sense a countervailing idea to that of the synthetic process.

101. The Art of Money Getting or, Golden Rules for Making Money - Chapter 8

The Art of Money Getting or, Golden Rules for Making Money by P.T Barnum

102. SOCIAL PARASITISM AND CONTEMPORARY INJUSTICES

These broad principles about one’s way of living are very simple; our minds move freely among them.

103. HOW THAT THE PASSAGE BY THE NORTH-WEST IS MORE COMMODIOUS FOR OUR TRAFFIC THAN THE OTHER BY THE EAST

But by the north-west we may safely trade without danger or annoyance of any prince living, Christian or heathen, it being out of all their trades.

104. The Effects of Cross & Self-Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom by Charles Darwin - Table of Link

The Effects of Cross & Self-Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom by Charles Darwin, is part of the HackerNoon Books Series.

105. Tithes

Tithes are a tax on the gross produce of the land, and, like taxes on raw produce, fall wholly on the consumer.

106. THE PRIMITIVE ARYANS

These Nordic people were destined to play a very important part indeed in the world’s history.

107. The Insurance Plans

The company never went into outside ventures, but kept to the enormous task of perfecting its own organization.

108. Some Old Friends

The men who have been very successful are correspondingly conservative, since they have much to lose in case of disaster.

109. Oil Pipe-lines vs. Railroads

"I am opposed on principle to the whole system of rebates and drawbacks—unless I am in it."

110. RAISING CHURCH FUNDS

The begging experiences I had at that time were full of interest.

111. How to Select Hardware - Checklist for Evaluating Hardware

Some agricultural programs use 48K or 64K of memory.

112. The Art of Money Getting or, Golden Rules for Making Money - Chapter 9

The Art of Money Getting or, Golden Rules for Making Money by P.T Barnum

113. The Benevolent Trusts

I confess I felt most strongly on the subject, and I feel so now.

114. OF SECESSION

No profession of faith, no formula, no usage can be perfect.

115. THE HERD INSTINCT

After this encouragement to modesty, we shall be inclined to listen to another voice, which promises us an explanation based upon simpler grounds.

116. THE MAN’S OWN SHARE

They will in their own time take this world as a sculptor takes his marble and shape it better than all our dreams.

117. The Appeals that Come

"I don't give to such and such a board, because I have read that of the money given only half or less actually gets to the person needing help."

118. INTRODUCTION

To the Labouring Classes of this Kingdom.

119. The Reason for Conditional Gifts

It is highly important that every charitable institution shall have at all times the largest possible number of current contributors.

120. INDIVIDUALITY AN INTERLUDE

I do not know whether the average age of the parent at the birth of a child under modern conditions can be determined from existing figures.

121. CONDUCT IN RELATION TO THE THING THAT IS

Secrets will be contraband in the new time.

122. DEMOCRACY

And to begin with I must have a quarrel with the word itself.

123. More About Computers on the Farm

USDA Farmers' Bulletin No. 2277: Computers on the Farm, by Deborah Takiff Smith is part of HackerNoon’s Book Blog Post series.

124. POSSIBILITY OF A NEW ETIQUETTE

First and Last Things by H. G. Wells, is part of the HackerNoon Books Series. You can jump to any chapter in this book here. POSSIBILITY OF A NEW ETIQUETTE

125. What is Coming? by H. G. Wells - Table of Links

What is Coming? by H. G. Wells, is part of the HackerNoon Books Series. Read this book online for free on HackerNoon!

126. WHAT IS GOOD?

That is the general expression for right living as I conceive it.

127. MUHAMMAD AND ISLAM

About forty Muhammad began to develop prophetic characteristics like those of the Hebrew prophets twelve hundred years before him.

128. The Art of Money Getting or, Golden Rules for Making Money - Chapter 14

The Art of Money Getting or, Golden Rules for Making Money by P. T. Barnum is part of HackerNoon’s Book Blog Post series.

129. The Foundations of Geometry, by David Hilbert - Table of Links

The Foundations of Geometry, by David Hilbert, is part of the HackerNoon Books Series. Read this book online for free on HackerNoon!

130. Alternatives to Buying a Microcomputer

A programmable calculator may be an appropriate tool that is much less costly then a microcomputer.

131. What a Computer Can Do for You - Telecommunications

With the computer hooked up to the telephone, you can get information quickly, receive it visually, and record it in detail if you wish.

132. THE FUTURE OF MONARCHY

It is the fashion for the apologists of monarchy in the British Empire to speak of the British system as a crowned republic.

133. THE EXPANSION OF THE UNITED STATES

The growth of the United States is a process that has no precedent in the world’s history; it is a new kind of occurrence.

134. THE DYNASTIES OF SUY AND TANG IN CHINA

In Central Asia the Turkish peoples had taken root in what is now Western Turkestan, and Persia already employed many Turkish officials and Turkish mercenaries.

135. The Human Side of Animals: Chapter 13 - Animals Scavengers and Criminals

The Human Side of Animals by Royal Dixon is part of HackerNoon’s Book Blog Post series.

136. THE WARS OF THE GREEKS AND PERSIANS

The Greeks were becoming serious rivals to the Semites upon the sea, and their detached and vigorous intelligence made them useful and, unprejudiced officials.

137. A PICTURE OF THE WORLD OF MEN

I seem to be a consciousness, vague and insecure, placed between two worlds.

138. Computers on the Farm: Components of a Microcomputer

USDA Farmers' Bulletin No. 2277: Computers on the Farm, by Deborah Takiff Smith is part of HackerNoon’s Book Blog Post series.

139. Mankind in the Making by H. G. Wells - Table of Links

Mankind in the Making by H. G. Wells, is part of the HackerNoon Books Series. Read this book online for free on HackerNoon!

140. TO PROVE THAT THOSE INDIANS CAME NOT BY THE NORTH-EAST

The like whereof also happeneth in the Frozen Sea, which proveth but small continuance of that sea toward the east.

141. THE AGE OF FISHES

This question of Organic Evolution, like the question of the age of the earth, has in the past been the subject of much bitter controversy.

142. STARTING AT WORK

"Please pay this bill."

143. In The Fourth Year by H. G. Wells - Table of Links

In The Fourth Year by H. G. Wells, is part of the HackerNoon Books Series. Read this book online for free on HackerNoon!

144. THE BEGINNINGS OF LIFE

The earliest rocks in the record are called by geologists the Azoic rocks, because they show no traces of life.

145. INTEREST AT 10 PER CENT

These experiences with my father remind me that in the early days there was often much discussion as to what should be paid for the use of money.

146. THE RESUMPTION OF METAPHYSICAL ENQUIRY

Since then the world never effectually reopened these questions until the modern period.

147. An Added Note as to the "Practical"

Nothing is said about the nature of the consequences; they may be aesthetic, or moral, or political, or religious in quality—anything you please.

148. THE PLEASURES OF ROAD PLANNING

Of all the profitable things which develop quickly under the hand, I have thought my young nurseries show the greatest yield.

149. TWO ARTIFICIAL GROUPS: THE CHURCH AND THE ARMY

The most interesting example of such structures are churches—communities of believers—and armies.

150. US Online Services For Farmers

USDA Farmers' Bulletin No. 2277: Computers on the Farm, by Deborah Takiff Smith is part of HackerNoon’s Book Blog Post series.

151. The Art of Money Getting or, Golden Rules for Making Money - Introduction

In the United States, where we have more land than people, it is not at all difficult for persons in good health to make money.

152. Poor Rates

The rate might equal or exceed the rent; but whether it did or not, no part of this rate would be paid by the landlord.

153. Voyages in Search of the North-West Passage by Richard Hakluyt - Table of Links

Voyages in Search of the North-West Passage by Richard Hakluyt, is part of the HackerNoon Books Series. Read this book online for free on HackerNoon!

154. A COMMENT

So my friend, who I think is altogether too strongly swayed by biological analogies.

155. THE CASE OF THE WIFE AND MOTHER

These principles give a rule also for the problem that faces the great majority of thinking wives and mothers to-day.

156. What a Computer Can Do for You - Farm Management Analysis

A good place to start is by analyzing data already stored in the computer or available in the files.

157. LOVE AND DEATH

Faith which feeds on personal love must at last prevail over it.

158. THE AGE OF REPTILES

Age by age and with abundant fluctuations that mitigation came.

159. DEMOCRACY AND ARISTOCRACY

The broad principles determining that attitude are involved in things already written in this book.

160. TO PROVE THAT THESE INDIANS, AFORENAMED, CAME NOT BY THE SOUTH-EAST, SOUTH-WEST

TO PROVE THAT THESE INDIANS, AFORENAMED, CAME NOT BY THE SOUTH-EAST, SOUTH-WEST, NOR FROM ANY OTHER PART OF AFRICA OR AMERICA

161. Other Business Experiences and Business Principles

I was a minority stockholder in all these enterprises, and had no part in their management. Not all of them were profitable.

162. CONCERNING MR. MAXIMILIAN CRAFT

We are, I believe, assisting at the end of a vast, intolerable oppression upon civilisation.

163. On-Line Data-Acquisition Systems in Nuclear Physics, 1969: Chapter 3 - PROCESS-CONTROL APPLICATION

Tables 12 and 13 give a summary of present and anticipated process-control applications disclosed by the survey.

164. OF LOVE AND JUSTICE

“Justice,” she asserts, “is an instinctive craving very nearly akin to the physical craving for equilibrium. Its social importance corresponds.

165. The Difficult Art of Getting

Naturally, people of modest means lead a closer family life than those who have plenty of servants to do everything for them.

166. OF OTHER RELIGIONS

These schemes are true, and also these schemes are false! in the sense that new things, new phrasings, have to replace them.

167. TO PROVE BY EXPERIENCE OF SUNDRY MEN’S TRAVELS THE OPENING OF SOME PART OF THIS NORTH-WEST PASSAGE

Likewise Hieronimus Fracastorius, a learned Italian, and traveller in the north parts of the same land.

168. THE REVOLUTION AND FAMINE IN RUSSIA

In 1921 came a drought and a great famine among the peasant cultivators in the war-devastated south-east provinces. Millions of people starved.

169. Random Reminiscences of Men and Events by John D. Rockefeller - Table of Links

Random Reminiscences of Men and Events, by John D. Rockefeller is part of the HackerNoon Books Series. Read this book online for free on HackerNoon!

170. INTRODUCTION

Psychoanalysis always showed that they referred to some definite problem or conflict of the person concerned.

171. WHY BRITAIN WENT TO WAR

We face, perhaps, the most awful winter that mankind has ever faced.

172. CONCERNING NEW STARTS AND NEW RELIGIONS

When one is discussing this possible formation of cults and brotherhoods, it may be well to consider a few of the conditions that rule such human re-groupings.

173. MY PRIMARY ACT OF FAITH

I dismiss the idea that life is chaotic because it leaves my life ineffectual, and I cannot contemplate an ineffectual life patiently.

174. The Discovery of Muscovy by Richard Hakluyt - Table of Links

The Discovery of Muscovy by Richard Hakluyt, is part of the HackerNoon Books Series. Read this book online for free on HackerNoon!

175. HATE AND LOVE

London people have recently seen an edifying instance of the transition, in the Brown Dog statue riots.

176. Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel, and the Apocalypse of St. John - Table of Links

Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel, and the Apocalypse of St. John by Isaac Newton, is part of the HackerNoon Books Series.

177. THE BARBARIANS BREAK THE EMPIRE INTO EAST AND WEST

In Asia the Roman frontiers were crumpling back under the push of a renascent Persia.

178. KING ASOKA

Asoka was at first disposed to follow the example of his father and grandfather and complete the conquest of the Indian peninsula.

179. An Englishman Looks at the World by H. G. Wells - Table of Links

An Englishman Looks at the World by H. G. Wells, is part of the HackerNoon Books Series. Read this book online for free on HackerNoon!

180. The Art of Money Getting or, Golden Rules for Making Money - Chapter 16

The Art of Money Getting or, Golden Rules for Making Money by P.T Barnum

181. The Best Philanthropy

No mere money-giving is comparable to this in its lasting and beneficial results.

182. Nursing the Commercially Ill

Before these matters were entirely closed up we had a vast amount of experience in the doctoring of the commercially ill.

183. DESCRIPTION OF THE PLATES

In the several original surveys, from which the small plans on this plate have been reduced, the coral-reefs are engraved in very different styles.

184. The Art of Money Getting or, Golden Rules for Making Money - Chapter 4 - Persevere

The Art of Money Getting or, Golden Rules for Making Money by P. T. Barnum is part of HackerNoon’s Book Blog Post series.

185. PRIMITIVE NOMADIC PEOPLES

For settlement under the conditions of the primitive civilizations men needed a constant water supply and warmth and sunshine.

186. ON FORGETTING, AND THE NEED OF PRAYER, READING, DISCUSSION AND WORSHIP

One aspect of life I had very much in mind when I planned those Samurai disciplines of mine. It was forgetting.

187. The Art of Money Getting or, Golden Rules for Making Money - Chapter 13

The Art of Money Getting or, Golden Rules for Making Money by P. T. Barnum is part of HackerNoon’s Book Blog Post series.

188. THE LIBERAL FEAR OF RUSSIA

Defeat, or even a partial victory for the Allies, means nothing less than that.

189. THE RACES OF MANKIND

It is necessary now to discuss plainly what is meant by a phrase, used often very carelessly, “The Races of Mankind.”

190. The Generosity of Service

Probably the most generous people in the world are the very poor, who assume each other's burdens in the crises which come so often to the hard pressed.

191. Darwinism Stated by Darwin himself - Table of Links

Darwinism Stated by Darwin himself by Charles Darwin, is part of the HackerNoon Books Series. Read this book online for free on HackerNoon!

192. Strategies for Getting Into Computers

One way is to first buy the basic hardware and components you think you need, and then add memory and other components later

193. The Art of Money Getting or, Golden Rules for Making Money - Chapter 7

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194. THE FIRST TRUE MEN

These first real human beings we know of in Europe appear already to have belonged to one or other of at least two very distinct races.

195. Computers on the Farm: Try it Out

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196. EGYPT, BABYLON AND ASSYRIA

We are entering now upon a thousand years of warfare between the once quite separated civilizations of Mesopotamia and the Nile.

197. The Art of Money Getting or, Golden Rules for Making Money - Chapter 12

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198. THE BRITISH EMPIRE IN 1914

It was and is a quite unique political combination; nothing of the sort has ever existed before.

199. MONKEYS, APES AND SUB-MEN

Now the past history of the Primates is one very difficult to decipher in the geological record.

200. The Art of Money Getting or, Golden Rules for Making Money - Chapter 11 - Be Systematic

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201. THE MYSTIC ELEMENT

To the mystery of Power and Beauty, out of the earth that mothered us, we move.

202. New Worlds For Old: A Plain Account of Modern Socialism by H. G. Wells - Table of Links

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203. Taxes on Houses

A tax on the rent of houses may either fall on the occupier, on the ground landlord, or on the building landlord.

204. LOGIC STATIC AND LIFE KINETIC

The current syllogistic logic rests on the assumption that either A is B or it is not B.

205. How to Select Software - Compatibility Counts

Not all hardware and software are compatible.

206. THE AGE OF MAMMALS

As the Cainozoic period unrolled, the resemblance of its flora and fauna to the plants and animals that inhabit the world to-day increased.

207. Follow the Laws of Trade

The underlying, essential element of success in business affairs is to follow the established laws of high-class dealing.

208. THE WEAKNESS OF IMMATURITY

One is apt to write and talk of strong and weak as though some were always strong, some always weak.

209. THE LEAGUE MUST BE REPRESENTATIVE

Half a world peace is better than none.

210. How to Select Software - Checklist for Evaluating Software

Some software programs may come to you with bugs (errors) in them.

211. The Management of Capital

In the early days the risks of the business were great, and if the stock had been dealt in on the Exchange its fluctuations would no doubt have been violent.

212. OF PERSONAL IMMORTALITY

Let me shift my ground a little and ask you to consider what is involved in the opposite belief.

213. SUMERIA, EARLY EGYPT AND WRITING

About the same time, for chronology is still vague, the great history of Egypt was beginning.

214. Of the vision of the Image composed of four Metals

The head of the Image was of gold, and signifies the nations of Babylonia, who reigned first, as Daniel himself interprets.

215. THE LAST BABYLONIAN EMPIRE AND THE EMPIRE OF DARIUS I

Even under the Assyrian monarchs and especially under Sardanapalus, Babylon had been a scene of great intellectual activity.

216. THE REFORMATION OF THE LATIN CHURCH

In 1398 a learned Czech, John Huss, delivered a series of lectures upon Wycliffe’s teachings in the university of Prague.

217. Psychopathology of Everyday Life by Sigmund Freud - Table of Links

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218. The Copy of the Duke of Muscovy and Emperor or Russia his Letters, sent to King Edward VI.

These letters were sent the next year after the date of King Edward’s letters, 1554.

219. A Short History of the World by H. G. Wells - Table of Links

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220. SUMMARY

Most minds, it seems to me, are similar, but none are absolutely alike in character or in contents.

221. EMPTY TERMS

You will find a large proportion of human prejudice and misunderstanding arises from this universal proclivity.

222. ROME AND CARTHAGE

A temple to the Roman god, Jupiter Capitolinus, stood in the place of the Temple, and Jews were forbidden to inhabit the city.

223. A DILEMMA

We are led by this discussion of secession straight between the horns of a moral dilemma.

224. THE ADVANCEMENT OF SOCIALISM

In that spirit, and with no presumption of finality, this little book of explanations is given to the world.

225. AT THIS POINT A DISPUTE ARISES

Such arguments are not to be swept aside with a wave of the hand.

226. COMMON SENSE AND THE BALKAN STATES

The Balkan States never have been a problem, they have only been a part of a problem.

227. WAR AND COMPETITION

War is manifestly not a thing in itself, it is something correlated with the whole fabric of human life.

228. Building the Ships

All the conferences, as I said before, were carried on by Mr. Gates, who seemed to enjoy work, and he has had abundant privileges in that direction.

229. The Salvaging of Civilization by H. G. Wells - Table of Links

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230. A CRITICISM OF CERTAIN FORMS OF SOCIALISM

The Socialism of my beliefs rests on a profounder faith and broader proposition.

231. IS SOCIALISM POSSIBLE?

I don’t think the “human nature” argument against the possibility of Socialism will hold water.

232. PERSONAL LOVE AND LIFE

I have already spoken under the heading of Beliefs of the part that the idea of a Mediator has played and can play in the religious life.

233. Dr. William R. Harper

He raised millions of dollars among the people of Chicago and the Middle West, and won the personal interest of their leading citizens

234. THE INSTITUTION OF MARRIAGE

We live in a constantly changing development and modification of that tradition.

235. THE MUSEUM AND LIBRARY AT ALEXANDRIA

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236. MODERN WAR

In our contemporary world, in our particular phase, military and naval organization loom up, colossal and unprecedent facts.

237. The Human Side of Animals: Chapter 8 - In their Boudoirs, Hospitals, and Churches

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238. CHILDHOOD AND CONCEALING MEMORIES

In the aforementioned essay I only touched upon, but in no way exhausted, the varieties in the relations and meanings of concealed memories.

239. Anticipations by H. G. Wells - Table of Links

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240. THE BENEVOLENT TRUST-THE VALUE OF THE COOPERATIVE IN GIVING

Many benefactors of education are availing themselves of these disinterested inquiries, and it is hoped that more will do so.

241. Of the Kingdoms represented by the feet of the Image composed of iron and clay

Non nisi perfidiâ nacti penetrabile tempus, Irrupere Getæ, nostras dum Rhætia vires Occupat, atque alio desudant Marte cohortes.

242. THE IMMIGRANT

These are all mitigations of the outlook, but still the dark shadow of disastrous possibility remains.

243. THE NEANDERTHAL MEN, AN EXTINCT RACE

About 200 centuries ago or earlier, real men of our own species, if not of our own race, came drifting into the European area.

244. The Problem of Philosophy, by Bertrand Russell - Table Of Links

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245. THE HUNS AND THE END OF THE WESTERN EMPIRE

In 453 Attila died suddenly after a great feast to celebrate his marriage to a young woman, and at his death this plunder confederation of his fell to pieces.

246. The Human Side of Animals: Chapter 15 - The Future life of Animals

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247. RELIGIOUS DEVELOPMENTS UNDER THE ROMAN EMPIRE

As Egypt developed from city states into one united kingdom there was much of this theocrasia.

248. Preface

When these Reminiscences were begun, there was of course no thought that they should ever go so far as to appear between the covers of a book.

249. The New Opportunities

The great economic era we are entering will give splendid opportunity to the young man of the future.

250. CERTAIN WORKERS

Privations are not needed to create a sense of economic disadvantage; thwarted hopes suffice.

251. THE BEING OF MANKIND

Let me point out that this is no sentimental or mystical statement. It is hard fact as any hard fact we know.

252. THE THIRD AND LAST VOYAGE INTO META INCOGNITA

There fell also the same day, being the 26th July, such a horrible snow, that it lay a foot thick upon the hatches, which froze as fast as it fell.

253. Of the Times of the Birth and Passion of Christ

All this time Matthew passeth over in few words, and here begins to relate the preaching and miracles of Christ.

254. Character the Essential Thing

Late in 1871, we began the purchase of some of the more important of the refinery interests of Cleveland.

255. Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software, by Sam Williams - Table of Links

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256. THE EARTH IN SPACE AND TIME

Astronomers and geologists and those who study physics have been able to tell us something of the origin and history of the earth.

257. The Fundamental Lesson in Help

If the people can be educated to help themselves, we strike at the root of many of the evils of the world.

258. FURTHER PROBLEMS AND LINES OF WORK

We have hitherto considered two artificial groups and have found that they are dominated by two emotional ties.

259. On Profits

The whole value of their commodities is divided into two portions only: one constitutes the profits of stock, the other the wages of labour.

260. THE WORLD IN TIME

At last a condition of things must have been attained in which a man might have stood up on earth and looked about him and lived.

261. PRACTICAL CONCLUSIONS FROM THESE CONSIDERATIONS

The man trained solely in science falls easily into a superstitious attitude; he is overdone with classification.

262. SOME ASPECTS OF AMERICAN WEALTH

This sort of childishness, of course, has nothing distinctively American in it.

263. NAÏVE REALISM VS. PRESENTATIVE REALISM

The idealists attribute to the realists the doctrine that "the perceived object is the real object."

264. The Human Side of Animals: Chapter 7 - The language of Animals

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265. Errors of memory

From these errors, which originate from repression, we must sharply distinguish those which are based on actual ignorance.

266. A DISCOURSE

It is to be considered that of the Bona Speranza no word nor knowledge was had at this present day, nor yet of the arrival of the ships or goods from Scotland.

267. THE NEW EDUCATION

The exact sciences lead to the administrative work of industrialism, and to general economics.

268. CERTAIN OTHER REASONS OR ARGUMENTS TO PROVE A PASSAGE BY THE NORTH-WEST

Quarum quæ media est, non est habitabilis æstu.

269. MISTAKES IN READING AND WRITING

We found what is probably not exactly the same thing, a disturbance of the attention through a strange obtruding thought.

270. THE MOST NECESSARY MEASURES IN THE WORLD

At the very core of all this evil that has burst at last in world disaster lies this Kruppism, this sordid enormous trade in the instruments of death.

271. HANDS OFF THE PEOPLE’S FOOD

At the end unless the more prosperous people pull themselves together it will not be like that.

272. BEING IN LOVE AND HYPNOSIS

Even in its caprices the usage of language remains true to some kind of reality.

273. FRINGING OR SHORE-REEFS

The outer edge of the reef on the western or leeward side of the island is tolerably well defined, and is a little higher than any other part.

274. A REVIEW OF MOTIVES

Now in this matter of physical appetites I do not know whether to describe myself as a sensualist or an ascetic.

275. FORGETTING OF FOREIGN WORDS

“Very well, the ridiculous idea comes to me to divide the word in the following way: a and liquis.”

276. THE JOY OF ACHIEVEMENT

The part played by one of my earliest partners, Mr. H.M. Flagler, was always an inspiration to me.

277. THE MODERN CORPORATION

Beyond question there is a suspicion of corporations.

278. INTRODUCTION TO TRANSLATION

The instincts with which every child is born furnish desires or cravings which must be dealt with in some fashion.

279. "THE WHITE MAN'S BURTHEN"

The ghosts of the thirst-tormented Hereros rise up in their thousands from the African dust, protesting.

280. WHAT THE WAR IS DOING FOR WOMEN

The war came, the jolt of an earthquake, to throw things into their proper relationships.

281. THE AMERICAN WAR OF INDEPENDENCE

The motive that had sent Columbus to America and Vasco da Gama to India was the perennial first motive of all sailors since the beginning of things—trade.

282. OF AN ORGANIZED BROTHERHOOD

The idea of organizing the progressive elements in the social chaos into a regular developing force is one that has had a great attraction for me.

283. NEGATIVE TERMS

Let me try and express how in my mind this matter of negative terms has shaped itself.

284. THE UNITED STATES, FRANCE, BRITAIN, AND RUSSIA

The mind plunges hopelessly through that tangle to the elements of a speech which is as yet unknown.

285. NATURAL SELECTION AND THE CHANGES OF SPECIES

m all things whatever that are without life in certain general aspects.

286. PRIESTS AND PROPHETS IN JUDEA

All other peoples had national gods embodied in images that lived in temples. If the image was smashed and the temple razed, presently that god died out.

287. THE NEW OVERSEAS EMPIRES OF STEAMSHIP AND RAILWAY

In 1859, following upon a serious mutiny of the native troops in India, this empire of the East India Company was annexed to the British Crown.

288. The Difficult Art of Giving

I am sure it is a mistake to assume that the possession of money in great abundance necessarily brings happiness.

289. Taxes on Gold

Taxes on gold are of two kinds, one on the actual quantity of gold in circulation, the other on the quantity that is annually produced from the mines.

290. On Natural and Market Place

In the 7th chap. of the Wealth of Nations, all that concerns this question is most ably treated.

291. The Ore Mines

We had great faith in these mines, but to work them the railroad was necessary.

292. The Human Side of Animals: Chapter 9 - Self-defense and Home-Government

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293. THE GREEKS

The Greek tribes as we have told were a branch of the Aryan- speaking stem.

294. THE NEED OF A NEW MAP OF EUROPE

That is why I think we liberal English should draw our new map of Europe now, first of all on paper and then upon the face of the earth.

295. On Bounties on Production

But how would the interest of the landlord be affected?

296. THE FIRST VOYAGE OF MASTER MARTIN FROBISHER

To the North-West for the search of the passage or strait to China, written by Christopher Hall, and made in the year of our Lord 1576.

297. ADMINISTRATIVE SOCIALISM

Systematic expropriation of private owners by death-duties and increased taxation.

298. THE EMPEROR CHARLES V

Some families have fought, others have intrigued their way to world power; the Habsburgs married their way.

299. EARLY THOUGHT

The drawings even of Late Palæolithic man do not suggest that he paid any attention to sun or moon or stars or trees.

300. The first relations between England and Russia were established in Queen Elizabeth’s reign

The story of our first contact with Russia belongs to the days of Ivan the Terrible.

301. ON DEBTS OF HONOUR

My ethical disposition is all against punctilio and I set no greater value on unblemished honour than I do on purity.

302. STATE-BLINDNESS

"The Now is an atom of Sand, And the Near is a perishing Clod, But Afar is a fairyland, And Beyond is the Bosom of God."

303. THE FIRST MAIN GENERALIZATION OF SOCIALISM

And who can doubt the amount of mental and moral dwarfing that is going on side by side with this physical shortage?

304. CONFUCIUS AND LAO TSE

If there were human sacrifices they had long given way to animal sacrifices before the dawn of history.

305. THE STRUGGLE FOR EXISTENCE

A struggle for existence inevitably follows from the high rate at which all organic beings tend to increase.

306. A DIFFERENTIATING GRADE IN THE EGO

There is always a feeling of triumph when something in the ego coincides with the ego ideal.

307. THE SPLENDOUR OF GREECE

The century and a half that followed the defeat of Persia was one of very great splendour for the Greek civilization.

308. THE WILL TO LOVE

Love is a thing to a large extent in its beginnings voluntary and controllable, and at last quite involuntary.

309. THE WAY TO CONCRETE REALIZATION

Fantastic as they are, they have played a large part in reducing the Hague Tribunal to an ineffective squeak amidst the thunders of this war.

310. Of the vision of the four Beasts

I beheld, saith Daniel, till the Beast was slain, and his body destroyed, and given to the burning flames.

311. THE OUTLOOK FOR THE GERMANS

I will do no more than I must to injure Germany further, and I will do all that I can to restore the unity of mankind.

312. Of the King who did according to his will, and magnified himself above every God

The Bishop and Presbyters of one city meddled not with the affairs of another city, except by admonitory letters or messages.

313. GODS AND STARS, PRIESTS AND KINGS

Like the early Aryan life, it was a life in a sort of family-tribe household.

314. Of the kingdoms represented in Daniel by the Ram and He-Goat

Now because this horn was a horn of the Goat, we are to look for it among the nations which composed the body of the Goat.

315. THE STANDARD OIL COMPANY

To judge the character of all the members of a great organization or the organization itself by the actions of a few individuals would be manifestly unfair.

316. What is Epistemological Realism?

In short, the moral is quite literally, "Forget it," or "Cut it out."

317. The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: Discourse II - Theology A Branch Of Knowledge.

The word “God” is a Theology in itself, indivisibly one, inexhaustibly various, from the vastness and the simplicity of its meaning.

318. THE PART PLAYED BY WORMS IN THE HISTORY OF THIS PLANET

Worms have played a more important part in the history of the world than most persons would at first suppose.

319. DARWIN AND HIS THEORIES FROM A RELIGIOUS POINT OF VIEW

“Darwin’s writings may be searched in vain for an irreverent or unbelieving word.”—The Church Review.

320. THE PRELIMINARY SOCIAL DUTY

Our problems of conduct lie in the world as it is and not in the world as we want it to be.

321. Computers on the Farm: Computers Need an Investment in Time and Money

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322. ROME COMES INTO HISTORY

In the end the plebeians broke down most of the exclusive barriers of the old families and established a working equality with them.

323. SUGGESTION AND LIBIDO

Now that I once more approach the riddle of suggestion after having kept away from it for some thirty years, I find there is no change in the situation.

324. It is Not Always Possible to Remember Just How One First Met an old Friend

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325. ARGUMENTS VERSUS CAPITAL

"You say that we do not need to spend this money?"

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327. COMBINED FAULTY ACTS

I do not mean to assert that such cases of combined faulty actions can teach anything new that we have not already seen in the individual cases.

328. THE FIRST CIVILIZATIONS

The settled folk had the weight of numbers on their side; the herdsmen might raid and loot, but they could not stay.

329. THE ARYAN-SPEAKING PEOPLES IN PREHISTORIC TIMES

Priests are not very much in evidence, but there is a sort of medicine man who deals in spells and prophecy.

330. SCEPTICISM OF THE INSTRUMENT

The world of fact is not what it appears to be.

331. AN APPEAL TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE

Already the wounds of our dead cry out to you.

332. Why the Standard Pays Large Dividends

The capital stock could be raised several hundred per cent. without a penny of over-capitalization or "water"; the actual value is there.

333. Introduction concerning the Compilers of the books of the Old Testament

The writer set down the race of those Kings till his own time, and therefore wrote before David conquered Edom.

334. REVOLUTIONARY SOCIALISM

It was Karl Marx who brought the second great influx of suggestion into the intellectual process of Socialism.

335. EUROPEAN AGGRESSION IN ASIA AND THE RISE OF JAPAN

We cannot tell here in any detail of Japan’s war with China in 1894-95. It demonstrated the extent of her Westernization.

336. Of the eleventh horn of Daniel's fourth Beast

A Seer, Επισκοπος, is a Bishop in the literal sense of the word; and this Church claims the universal Bishoprick.

337. On Taxes

Capital may therefore be increased by an increased production, or by a diminished consumption.

338. THE OPPORTUNITY OF LIBERALISM

The opportunity of Liberalism has come at last, an overwhelming opportunity.

339. THE RECENT STRUGGLE FOR PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION IN GREAT BRITAIN

British political life resists cleansing with all the vigour of a dirty little boy.

340. THE INVASION OF THE DRY LAND BY LIFE

No creature can breathe, no creature can digest its food, without water.

341. TO PROVE BY CIRCUMSTANCE THAT THE NORTH-WEST PASSAGE HATH BEEN SAILED THROUGHOUT

First, as Gemma Frisius reciteth, there went from Europe three brethren though this passage: whereof it took the name of Fretum trium fratrum.

342. BRAINTREE, BOCKING, AND THE FUTURE OF THE WORLD

It is--or shall I write, "it may be"?

343. THE BEGINNINGS OF CULTIVATION

The pre-human age is called the “Older Palæolithic;” the age of true men using unpolished stones in the “Newer Palæolithic.

344. Computers on the Farm: Glossary of Computer Terms

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345. Foreign Markets

We soon discovered, as the business grew, that the primary method of transporting oil in barrels could not last.

346. Keeping Pigs

If the weather be very mild, you may wait a little longer; for the hog cannot be too fat.

347. THE COMMON MAN’S LIFE UNDER THE EARLY ROMAN EMPIRE

In this miscellaneous empire the ways of doing work and business were naturally also very miscellaneous.

348. Taxes Paid by the Producer

Eleven hundred pounds payable at the end of one year, when money is at 10 per cent. interest, is of no more value than 1000l. to be paid immediately.

349. THE LATER POSTGLACIAL PALÆOLITHIC MEN, THE FIRST TRUE MEN

Now here again, with every desire to be plain and explicit with the reader, we have still to trouble him with qualified statements and notes of interrogation.

350. THE WAR OF THE MIND

All the realities of this war are things of the mind.

351. On the Comparative Value of Gold, Corn, and Labour, in Rich and in Poor Countries

Spain and Portugal, the countries which possess the mines, are, after Poland, perhaps, the two most beggarly countries in Europe.

352. Roman Catholic Charities

It is unnecessary to dwell upon the centuries of experience which the Church of Rome has gone through to perfect a great power of organization.

353. The Curious Idea of a Church

In quite a little while the whole world may be alive with this renascent faith.

354. The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: Lecture VII

Its basis of operations, what it starts from, what it falls back upon, is the phenomena which meet the senses.

355. The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: Discourse III -Bearing Of Theology On Other Branch

It does not follow that they deny the existence of a God, because they are not found talking of it, when the topic would be utterly irrelevant.

356. CULTURE

Boston is now producing no literature except a little criticism.

357. SOCIALISM A DEVELOPING DOCTRINE

The first early Socialisms were most various and eccentric upon the question of government and control.

358. On Colonial Trade

The advance in the price of money is the same thing as the decline in the price of commodities.

359. THE CLASSIFICATORY ASSUMPTION

A mind nourished on anatomical study is of course permeated with the suggestion of the vagueness and instability of biological species.

360. The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: Lecture III - English Catholic Literature

Every great people has a character of its own, which it manifests and perpetuates in a variety of ways.

361. THE BEGINNINGS OF THE MIND AND LANGUAGE

The newborn child is at first no more than an animal.

362. ASSOCIATIONS

There is in this passage one particularly valuable idea, the idea of an association of people to guarantee the welfare of their children in common.

363. THE EARLY HISTORY OF THE JEWS

Before that time the Jews do not seem to have been a very civilized or united people.

364. THE IDEA OF JUSTICE

The weak have no essential rights against the strong, nor the strong against the weak.

365. THE IDEA OF THE CHURCH.

Now all this leads very directly to a discussion of the relations of a person of my way of thinking to the Church and religious institutions generally.

366. CONDUCT TOWARDS TRANSGRESSORS

One thing renders a sexual relationship incurably offensive to others and altogether wrong, and that is cruelty.

367. What is the Biological Equivalent of Sin?

Exploring the modern ideas of sin and damnation.

368. THE BYZANTINE AND SASSANID EMPIRES

The sixth century, which was an age of complete darkness for the West, saw indeed a considerable revival of the Greek power.

369. THE GREAT DAYS OF THE ARABS

Very speedily the intolerant self-sufficiency of the early days of faith, which made the Koran seem the only possible book, was dropped.

370. The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: Lecture IV - Elementary Studies

Again, compare one idea with another; adjust truths and facts; form them into one whole, or notice the obstacles which occur in doing so.

371. STICKING TO BUSINESS PRINCIPLES

"My son, I find I have got to have that money."

372. The Coins, Weights, and Measures, used in Russia

Whensoever you find the prices of your wares rated by the pode, consider that to be the great weight, and the pound to be small.

373. The Human Side of Animals: Chapter 11 - Food Conservers

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374. THE RISE OF GERMANY TO PREDOMINANCE IN EUROPE

After the turn of the century Europe broke out into a fresh cycle of wars. They were chiefly “balance-of- power” and ascendancy wars.

375. RECALCITRANT PRINCES AND THE GREAT SCHISM

The consequences of this want of firm definition are to be seen in the whole history of the papacy up to the sixteenth century.

376. THE LABOUR VIEW OF MIDDLE AFRICA

What are these broad essentials? What are the ends that must be achieved if Africa is not to continue a festering sore in the body of mankind?

377. THE GROUP AND THE PRIMAL HORDE

The primal father of the horde was not yet immortal, as he later became by deification.

378. TWO STUDIES IN DISAPPOINTMENT

Ever and again, in the pauses, my eyes would go to where New York far away glittered like a brighter and more numerous Pleiades.

379. THE DEVELOPMENT OF LATIN CHRISTENDOM

Upon this divided world of Christendom rained the blows of three sets of antagonists.

380. Making Bread - (continued)

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381. POSTSCRIPT

Every Christian loves Christ as his ideal and feels himself united with all other Christians by the tie of identification.

382. THE RECORD OF THE ROCKS

Not only is Space from the point of view of life and humanity empty, but Time is empty also.

383. THE POLITICAL AND SOCIAL RECONSTRUCTION OF THE WORLD

The Peace Conference at Versailles was a gathering very ill adapted to do more than carry out the conflicts and defeats of the war to their logical conclusions.

384. First and Last Things: A Confession of Faith and Rule of Life by H. G. Wells - Table of Links

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385. Taxes on raw produce

A tax on raw produce would not be paid by the landlord; it would not be paid by the farmer; but it would be paid, in an increased price, by the consumer.

386. God the Invisible King: Preface

This book sets out as forcibly and exactly as possible the religious belief of the writer.

387. The Human Side of Animals: Chapter 12 - Tourists and Sight-seeing

The Human Side of Animals by Royal Dixon is part of HackerNoon’s Book Blog Post series.

388. OTHER ACCOUNTS OF COLLECTIVE MENTAL LIFE

In face of these completely contradictory accounts, it looks as though the work of Group Psychology were bound to come to an ineffectual end.

389. On the rent of mines.

By the discovery of America and the rich mines in which it abounds, a very great effect was produced on the natural price of the precious metals.

390. THE END OF THE WAR

The prophet who emerges with the most honour from this war is Bloch.

391. Land-Tax

In no respect would such a tax differ from a tax on rent.

392. THE LIFE OF GAUTAMA BUDDHA

The sense of disease and mortality, the insecurity and the un-satisfactoriness of all happiness, descended upon the mind of Gautama.

393. Of the Prophetic Language

For understanding the Prophecies, we are, in the first place, to acquaint our-selves with the figurative language of the Prophets.

394. FORECASTING THE FUTURE

Science is very largely analysis aimed at forecasting.

395. H.G. Wells' Thoughts on America's Treatment of African Americans

No, I can't help idealizing the dark submissive figure of the negro in this spectacle of America.

396. THE CRUSADES AND THE AGE OF PAPAL DOMINION

Aristotle was read and discussed by these Jews and Arabs during these centuries of European darkness.

397. On Gross and Net Revenge

Adam Smith constantly magnifies the advantages which a country derives from a large gross, rather than a large net income.

398. THE DEVELOPMENT OF MODERN POLITICAL AND SOCIAL IDEAS

The institutions and customs and political ideas of the ancient civilizations grew up slowly, age by age, no man designing and no man foreseeing.

399. THE MIDDLE-CLASS MAN, THE BUSINESS MAN, AND SOCIALISM

Socialism is not the coming of chaos and repudiation, it is the coming of order and justice.

400. Of the relation which the Apocalypse of John hath to the Book of the Law of Moses