Classicly Books
The Effects of Cross & Self-Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom
Charles DarwinThere is weighty and abundant evidence that the flowers of most kinds of plants are constructed so as to be occasionally or habitually cross-fertilised by pollen from another flower, produced either b..
Mutual Aid - A Factor of Evolution
kniaz Petr Alekseevich KropotkinMutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution is a book by Peter Kropotkin on the subject of mutual aid, written while he was living in exile in England. It was first published by William Heinemann in London in O..
Power Through Repose
Annie Payson CallWhen the body is perfectly adjusted, perfectly supplied with force, perfectly free and works with the greatest economy of expenditure, it is fitted to be a perfect instrument alike of impression, expe..
The British Barbarians
Grant AllenThe story is preceded by an introduction which, although it may appear to have no connection with the story itself, the reader is earnestly besought by the author to read. The introduction begins as a..
An Inquiry into the Nature and Progress of Rent, and the Principles by Which It is Regulated
T. R. MalthusThe following tract contains the substance of some notes on rent, which, with others on different subjects relating to political economy, I have collected in the course of my professional duties at th..
Observations on the Effects of the Corn Laws, and of a Rise or Fall in the Price of Corn
T. R. MalthusA revision of the corn laws, it is understood, is immediately to come under the consideration of the legislature. That the decision on such a subject, should be founded on a correct and enlightened vi..
The Grounds of an Opinion on the Policy of Restricting the Importation of Foreign Corn Intended as an appendix to "Observations on the corn laws"
T. R. MalthusThe professed object of the Observations on the Corn Laws, which I published in the spring of 1814, was to state with the strictest impartiality the advantages and disadvantages which, in the actual c..
Studies from Court and Cloister
J.M. StoneThese studies on various crucial points connected with the history of religion in Europe at the close of the Middle Ages, its decline, revival, and the causes which led to both, have already appeared ..