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  • Privilege of Pain-Caroline Kane Mills Everett

    Privilege of Pain-Caroline Kane Mills Everett
    Nov 7 2026
    Privilege of Pain by Caroline Kane Mills Everett.

    We have seen that as mankind rises in the scale of civilization the body becomes increasingly less important. Nevertheless, I wish it to be clearly understood, that I do not maintain that it is preferable to be ill than well, but only that each state has its own peculiar privileges, which are rarely interchangeable. Health and sickness are merely different roads to achievement. The earth requires rain as well as sunshine; we need both tears and laughter; navvies are necessary and so are philosophers. The book details how people from many professions who had some or other physical disability or pain reached their goals. The introduction is by Kate Douglas Wiggin.

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    1 hr and 45 mins
  • Essay Concerning Human Understanding Book III-John Locke

    Essay Concerning Human Understanding Book III-John Locke
    Nov 6 2026
    Essay Concerning Human Understanding Book III by John Locke.

    This is the third book of John Locke's Essay on Human Understanding. Book I was Neither Principles Nor Ideas Are Innate. Book II was Of Ideas and Book III is Of Words. Locke is writing about the ideas we have in our minds and the things they are to represent. What does it mean to define a thing? What is an abstract idea? What is motion? What is essential to me as an individual? What would an Englishman born in Jamaica think about ice when he went to England for the first time? What is a concrete term? Locke tackles many such questions in this third book. Book IV is Of Knowledge and Probability.

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    6 hrs and 20 mins
  • Human Nature and Conduct - Part 4, Conclusion-John Dewey

    Human Nature and Conduct - Part 4, Conclusion-John Dewey
    Nov 8 2026
    Human Nature and Conduct by Part 4, Conclusion-John Dewey.

    John Dewey, an early 20th Century American philosopher, psychologist, educational theorist. This project encompasses Part 4 of 4 of his book Human Nature and Conduct, An Introduction to Social Psychology, published in 1922. Dewey's uses the words "HABIT" and "Impulse" as a specialized catch-all words to describe how a person and his/her objective environment interact. This interaction is the basis for moral and ethical judgments. Dewey writes: "All habits are demands for certain kinds of activity; and they constitute the self.” In other places he also asserts that "Habits are Will." In the third part of the book, Dewey describes how we make ethical judgments (Dramatic Rehearsal) on the occasions which call upon the exercise of intelligence, and the relationship among aims, goals, means and ends, and emotions. Elements in freedom; capacity in action; novel possibilities; force of desire.

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    1 hr and 51 mins
  • World-Power and Evolution-Ellsworth Huntington

    World-Power and Evolution-Ellsworth Huntington
    Nov 5 2026
    World-Power and Evolution by Ellsworth Huntington.

    Every important aspect of human knowledge must be considered in its relation to both space and time. In "Civilization and Climate" the problem of the effect of physical environment upon human progress was discussed in its relation to space. It was shown that the distribution of civilization upon the earth's surface is closely in harmony with the distribution of climatic energy, which appears to be the most important factor in physical environment. In the present volume the same problem is considered in its relation to time. Beginning with the present day we find that from year to year business activities vary in extraordinary harmony with health. Further study shows that variations in health from year to year depend upon the weather far more than upon any other single factor.

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    7 hrs and 36 mins
  • Essay Concerning Human Understanding Book IV-John Locke

    Essay Concerning Human Understanding Book IV-John Locke
    Nov 4 2026
    Essay Concerning Human Understanding Book IV by John Locke.

    This is the fourth book of John Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding. His book deals with knowledge and probability. He asks how far knowledge can go, if there are universal propositions, what are judgment and probability and deals with faith, reason and enthusiasm.

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    9 hrs and 16 mins
  • Our Androcentric Culture, or the Man-Made World-Charlotte Perkins Gilman

    Our Androcentric Culture, or the Man-Made World-Charlotte Perkins Gilman
    Nov 3 2026
    Our Androcentric Culture, or the Man-Made World by Charlotte Perkins Gilman.

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    4 hrs and 52 mins
  • Human, All Too Human A Book For Free Spirits, Part I-Friedrich Nietzsche (Part 2 of 2)

    Human, All Too Human A Book For Free Spirits, Part I-Friedrich Nietzsche (Part 2 of 2)
    Nov 2 2026
    Human, All Too Human A Book For Free Spirits, Part I by Friedrich Nietzsche.

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    42 mins
  • Human, All Too Human A Book For Free Spirits, Part I-Friedrich Nietzsche (Part 1 of 2)

    Human, All Too Human A Book For Free Spirits, Part I-Friedrich Nietzsche (Part 1 of 2)
    Nov 1 2026
    Human, All Too Human A Book For Free Spirits, Part I by Friedrich Nietzsche.

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    9 hrs and 20 mins