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De la démocratie en Amérique
De la démocratie en Amérique

by Alexis de Tocqueville, Gustave de Beaumont

AFTER the birth of a human being, his early years are obscurely spent in the toils or pleasures of childhood.

1835 421 ed.
Democracy and Education
Democracy and Education

by John Dewey

The most notable distinction between living and inanimate things is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.

1916 184 ed.
Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy
Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy

by Joseph Alois Schumpeter, Gaël Fain

IT WAS not by a slip that an analogy from the world of religion was permitted to intrude into the title of this chapter.

1942 78 ed.
The Wealth of Nations
The Wealth of Nations

by Adam Smith

The greatest improvement in the productive powers of labour, and the greater part of the skill, dexterity, and judgment ...

1776 123 ed.
Xi you ji
Xi you ji

by Wu Cheng'en, Eleanor Hazard

Amid the Three Islands Sun Wu-k'ung seeks a cure; With sweet dew Kuan-shih-yin revives a tree.

1900 132 ed.
On Liberty
On Liberty

by John Stuart Mill

John Stuart Mill said in his Autobiography that his father, James Mill, was "the last of the eighteenth century."

1859 465 ed.
Leaves of Grass
Leaves of Grass

by Walt Whitman

ONES-SELF I sing, a simple separate person,

1855 755 ed.
Государство и революция
Государство и революция

by Vladimir Il’ich Lenin

What is now happening to Marx's teaching has, in the course of history, happened repeatedly to the teachings of revoluti...

1900 132 ed.
How we think
How we think

by John Dewey

No words are oftener on our lips than thinking and thought.

1909 86 ed.
The complete poetical works
The complete poetical works

by Robert Burns

MY loved, my honoured, much respected friend!

1786 293 ed.
Cyropaedia
Cyropaedia

by Xenophon

Xenophon's Education of Cyrus offers its own introduction, one that helps turn the reader's attention to the core issues...

1527 122 ed.
From slavery to freedom
From slavery to freedom

by John Hope Franklin, Alfred A. Moss Jr.

By the end of the twentieth century, it became commonplace for African Americans to speak and write sensitively of the l...

1947 51 ed.
Democracy
Democracy

by Henry Adams

For reasons which many persons thought ridiculous, Mrs. Lightfoot Lee decided to pass the winter in Washington.

1880 135 ed.
Escape from Freedom
Escape from Freedom

by Erich Fromm

Modern European and American history is centered around the effort to gain freedom from the political, economic, and spi...

1941 89 ed.
20 Years at Hull House
20 Years at Hull House

by Jane Addams

ON THE THEORY that our genuine impulses may be connected with our childish experiences, that one's bent may be tracked b...

1910 115 ed.
Galapagos
Galapagos

by Kurt Vonnegut, Kurt Vonnegut

THE THING WAS: One million years ago, back in 1986 A.D., Guayaquil was the chief seaport of the little South American de...

1820 40 ed.