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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Read by Gary Gilberd
Benjamin Franklin
Franklin wrote his autobiography in the form of an extended letter to his son. While recording the events of his life, he adds instructions …
Common Sense
Read by Gary Gilberd
Thomas Paine
Common Sense, Paine's pro-independence monograph published anonymously on 10 January 1776, spread quickly among literate colonists. Within t…
The Philosophy of Style
Read by Gary Gilberd
Herbert Spencer
“The Philosophy of Style,” explored a growing trend of formalist approaches to writing. Highly focused on the proper placement and ordering …
Essays on Some Unsettled Questions of Political Economy
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John Stuart Mill
This is Mill’s first work on economics. It foreshadows his Political Economy which was the standard Anglo-American Economics textbook of the…
Some Turns of Thought in Modern Philosophy
Read by Gary Gilberd
George Santayana
Before the beginning of World War II, during the time of the Modernist movement in philosophy, George Santayana wrote these five descriptive…
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Autobiography
Read by Gary Gilberd
John Stuart Mill
John Stuart Mill (20 May 1806 – 8 May 1873), British philosopher, political economist, civil servant and Member of Parliament, was an influe…
Chapter IX: Why The People May Strictly Be Said To Govern In The United
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Democracy in America Vol. I
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Alexis de Tocqueville
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Alexis De Tocqueville
When Tocqueville visited America in the 1830s he found a thriving democracy of a kind he had not seen anywhere else. Many of his insightful …
Letter VII - ANIMAL HEAT, its laws and influence on the Animal Functions
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Familiar Letters on Chemistry
Read by Gary Gilberd
Justus Liebig
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Justus Von Liebig
Justus von Liebig (1803-1873) was a German chemist who made major contributions to agricultural and biological chemistry and is known for hi…
Chapter XXV: Jovian and Valentinian Pt. 1
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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Vol. II
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Edward Gibbon
The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, a major literary achievement of the 18th century published in six volumes, was writ…