Reflections on the Revolution in France 212

COMTE, AUGUSTE
A Course of Positive Philosophy 224

GEORGE, HENRY
Progress and Poverty 238

HOBBES, THOMAS
The Leviathan 249

MACHIAVELLI, NICCOLO
The Prince 261

MALTHUS, T.R.
On the Principle of Population 270

MARX, KARL
Capital: A Critical Analysis 282

MILL, JOHN STUART
Principles of Political Economy 294

MONTESQUIEU
The Spirit of Laws 306

MORE, SIR THOMAS
Utopia Nowhere Land 315

PAINE, THOMAS
The Rights of Man 324

ROUSSEAU, JEAN JACQUES
The Social Contract 337

SMITH, ADAM
Wealth of Nations 350

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_Acknowledgment_

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Poverty," by Henry George.

_Philosophy_

HEGEL

The Philosophy of History

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel was born on August 27, 1770, at
Stuttgart, the capital of Wuertemburg, in which state his father
occupied a humble position in government service. He was educated
at Tuebingen for the ministry, and while there was, in private, a
diligent student of Kant and Rousseau. In 1805 he was Professor
Extraordinarius at the University of Jena, and in 1807 he gave the
world the first of his great works, the "Phenomenology." It was not
until 1816 that Hegel's growing fame as a writer secured for him a
professorship at Heidelberg, but, after two years, he exchanged it
for one at Berlin, where he remained until his death on November
14, 1831. On October 22, 1818, he began his famous lectures. "Our
business and vocation," he remarked to his listeners, "is to
cherish the philosophical development of the substantial foundation
which has renewed its youth and increase