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Laughter - An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic

Henri Bergson

This work, by Professor Bergson, has been revised in detail by the author himself, and the present translation is the only authorised one. For this ungrudging labour of revision, for the thoroughness ..

The Psychology of Nations

G. E. Partridge

The Psychology of Nations written by G. E. Partridge. This book contains two closely related studies of the consciousness of nations. It has been written during the closing months of the war and in th..

Censorship and Art

John Galsworthy

Since, time and again, it has been proved, in this country of free institutions, that the great majority of our fellow-countrymen consider the only Censorship that now obtains amongst us, namely the C..

We Philologists, Volume 8

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

To what a great extent men are ruled by pure hazard, and how little reason itself enters into the question, is sufficiently shown by observing how few people have any real capacity for their professio..

Memnon

Voltaire

Memnon the Philosopher, begins with Memnon resolving to himself to become a great philosopher. That’s philosopher not in the often current sense of the word as one who takes philosophy is college and ..

Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary

Voltaire

Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary is an encyclopedic dictionary published by Voltaire in 1764. The alphabetically arranged articles often criticize the Roman Catholic Church, Judaism, Islam, and oth..

Zadig

Voltaire

Zadig is a novella and work of philosophical fiction by the Enlightenment writer Voltaire. It tells the story of Zadig, a philosopher in ancient Babylonia. The author does not attempt any historical a..

Alcibiades I

Plato

The First Alcibiades or Alcibiades I is a dialogue featuring Alcibiades in conversation with Socrates. It is ascribed to Plato, although scholars are divided on the question of its authenticity. ..