| title | creator | language | description | tableOfContents | contributor | subject | created |
| Life and Matter
A Criticism of Professor Haeckel's 'Riddle of the Universe' | Lodge, Oliver, Sir, 1851-1940 | en | | | | Monism; Life -- Origin; Philosophy and religion; Haeckel, Ernst Heinrich Philipp August, 1834-1919. Welträthsel | 2008-08-15 |
| Printing and the Renaissance
A paper read before the Fortnightly Club of Rochester, New York | Slater, John Rothwell, 1872-1965 | en | | | | Printing -- History -- Origin and antecedents; Renaissance | 2008-07-11 |
| The Interlude of Wealth and Health | Anonymous | en | Stage play, origin dated to 1557, when a play of the same title was registered by John Waley, or Wally; appeared on a list of plays appended to the edition of Goffe's Careless Shepherdess, printed for Rogers and Ley in 1656; an accurate description was gi | | Simpson, Percy [Editor] | | 2005-12-09 |
| Essays Towards a Theory of Knowledge | Philip, Alexander | en | | Time and periodicity -- The origin of physical concepts -- The two typical theories of knowledge -- The doctrine of energy. | | Knowledge, Theory of; Cycles; Force and energy | 2007-11-09 |
| Right Above Race | Kahn, Otto Hermann, 1867-1934 | en | | Americans of German origin and the war -- Prussionized Germany -- The poison growth of Prussianism -- Frenzied liberty -- The myth of "a rich man's war" -- Letter to a German. | | | 2009-11-20 |
| Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I | Spencer, Herbert, 1820-1903 | en | | The development hypothesis -- Progress: its law and cause -- Transcendental physiology -- The nebular hypothesis -- Illogical geology -- Bain on the emotions and the will -- The social organism -- The origin of animal worship -- Morals and moral sentiments -- The comparative psychology of man -- Mr. Martineau on evolution -- The factors of organic evolution. | | Science; Political science; Philosophy | 2009-08-31 |
| Lecture on the Aborigines of Newfoundland
Delivered Before the Mechanics' Institute, at St. John's,
Newfoundland, on Monday, 17th January, 1859 | Noad, Joseph, 1823-1898 | en | | | | Beothuk Indians; Indians of North America -- Newfoundland and Labrador; Newfoundland and Labrador -- History; Indians of North America -- Origin | 2005-02-21 |
| Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects
Everyman's Library | Spencer, Herbert, 1820-1903 | en | | Education: intellectual, moral, and physical: What knowledge is of most worth? Intellectual education. Moral education. Physical education -- Essays on kindred subjects: Progress: its law and cause. On manners and fashion. On the genesis of science. On the physiology of laughter. On the origin and function of music. | Eliot, Charles William, 1834-1926 [Commentator] | | 2005-08-11 |
| Prehistoric Structures of Central America
Who Erected Them? | Townsend, Martin I. (Martin Ingham), 1810-1903 | en | | | | Indians of Central America -- Antiquities; Indians of Mexico -- Antiquities; Indians -- Origin; America -- Discovery and exploration -- Pre-Columbian; Central America -- Antiquities; Mexico -- Antiquities | 2009-06-24 |
| The Little Tea Book | | en | | The origin of tea -- Tea [poem] / by Francis Saltus Saltus -- little cups of Chinese and Japanese tea -- On tea [poem] / by Edmund Waller -- Some English tea history -- O tea! [poem] / Arthur Gray -- Tea terms (Japanese. Chinese) -- Tea leaves / by John Ernest McCann -- Wit, wisdom and humor of tea -- Fate / Churchill -- Tea making and taking in Japan and China -- Tea-drinking in other lands -- The tea-table -- Ladies, literature and tea -- On our English poetry and this poem upon tea / R. B. -- To the author on his poem upon tea / T. W. -- Poems from J. Roberts pamphlet (London, 1700) -- Dr. Johnson's affinity -- Earliest mention of tea -- Australian tea -- Five o'clock tea -- Tea in ladies' novels -- Sydney Smith -- Dr. Johnson again -- A cup of tea [poem] / Helen Gray Cone. | | | 2006-09-27 |
| The Indian Fairy Book
From the Original Legends | Mathews, Cornelius, 1817-1889 | en | | The Celestial Sisters -- The Boy who Set a Snare for the Sun -- Strong Desire and the Red Sorcerer -- The Wonderful Exploits of Grasshopper -- The Two Jeebi -- Osseo, the Son of the Evening Star -- Gray Eagle and his Five Brothers -- The Toad-Woman -- The Origin of the Robin -- White Feather and the Six Giants -- Sheem, the Forsaken Boy -- The Magic Bundle -- The Red Swan -- The Man with his Leg Tied Up -- The Little Spirit or Boy-Man -- The Enchanted Moccasins -- He of the Little Shell -- Manabozho, the Mischief-Maker -- Leelinau, the Lost Daughter -- The Winter Spirit and his Visitor -- the Fire-Plume -- Weendigoes and the Bone-Dwarf -- The Bird Lover -- Bokwewa the Humpback -- The Crane that Crossed the River -- Wunzh, the Father of Indian Corn. | McLenan, John, 1827-1866 [Illustrator] | | 2007-08-05 |
| The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science | | en | | Hypnotism : Its history, practice and theory / Bramwell -- Natural history / Buffon -- Vestiges of creation / Chambers -- Surface of the globe / Cuvier -- Origin of species / Darwin -- Elements of chemical philosophy / Davy -- Experimental researches in electricity / Faraday -- Chemical history of a candle / Faraday -- Senses of insects / Forel -- Dialogues on the system of the world / Galileo -- Essays in eugenics / Galton -- Evolution of man / Haeckel -- On the motion of the heart and blood / Harvey -- Outlines of astronomy / Herschel -- Cosmos, a sketch of the universe / Humboldt -- Theory of the Earth / Hutton -- Zoological philosophy / Lamarck -- Physiogonomical fragments / Lavater -- Animal chemistry / Liebig -- Principles of geology / Lyell -- Treatise on electricity and magnetism / Maxwell -- Nature of man / Metchnikoff -- Prolongation of life / Metchnikoff -- Old red sandstone / Miller -- Principia / Newton -- Anatomy of vertebrates / Owen -- Cellular pathology / Virchow. | | | 2008-05-17 |
| The Best of the World's Classics, Vol. V (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland III | | en | | Excerpts from Boswell's "Life of Johnson"
A Poet Defined, from the Preface to "Lyrical Ballads" by Wordsworth
The Arrival of the Master of Ravenswood, from "The Bride of Lammermoor" by Scott
The Death of Meg Merriles, from "Guy Mannering" by Scott
A Vision of Rob Roy, from "Rob Roy" by Scott
Queen Elizabeth and Amy Robsart at Kenilworth, from "Kenilworth" by Scott
The Illness and Death of Lady Scott, from Scott's "Journal"
Does Fortune Favor Fools?, from "A Sailor's Fortune" by Coleridge
The Destiny of the United States, from the "Table Talk" by Coleridge
Nelson's Death at Trafalgar, from the "Life of Nelson" by Southey
The Death of Hofer, by Landor
Napoleon and Pericles, by Landor
Dream Children—A Reverie; Poor Relations; The Origin of Roast Pig; That We Should Rise with the Lark, from the "Essays of Elia" by Lamb
Hamlet, from the "Characters of Shakespeare's Plays" by Hazlitt
Dreams of an Opium-Eater, from the "Confessions of an English Opium-Eater" by de Quincey
Joan of Arc, from the "Biographical and Historical Essays" by de Quincey
Charles Lamb, from the "Literary Reminiscences" by de Quincey
Of His Mother's Treatment of Him, letter by Lord Byron
To His Wife after the Separation, letter by Lord Byron
To Sir Walter Scott, letter by Lord Byron
Of Art and Nature as Poetical Subjects, from the "Reply to Bowles" by Lord Byron
In Defense of Poetry, by Shelley
The Baths of Caracalla, from letter by Shelley
The ruins of Pompeii, from letter by Shelley
The Mutilation of the Hermæ; If Alexander Had Lived, from the "History of Greece" by Grote
Charlotte Corday, from the "History of the French Revolution" by Carlyle
The Blessedness of Work, from "Past and Present" by Carlyle
Cromwell, from "Heroes and Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History" by Carlyle
In Praise of Those Who Toil, from "Sart | | | 2007-07-30 |