Walter Bagehot addresses the issue of a universal currency in A Practical Plan for Assimilating the English and American Money, as a Step Towards a Universal ...

Passages from the Life of a Philosopher is a series of snapshots from the life of Charles Babbage, dubbed the "father of the computer" for his invention ...

One of the towering figures in global radicalism of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, EMMA GOLDMAN (1869–1940) was an anarchist, a feminist ...

Traffics and Discoveries, originally written in 1904, is a collection of 24 short stories by celebrated novelist and storyteller Rudyard Kipling. These ...

This classic tale of an alien invasion serves as a catalyst for a whole range of media adaptations in radio, film, and literature. Playing on the public's ...

EQUALITY, first published in 1897, is the sequel to the 1888 book, Looking Backward-Bellamy's most popular work about a utopian Boston-and a response to ...

Why is real-world experience vital to a mature appreciation of any philosophical system? Why is the search for “objective truth” a trickier ...

FAMILIES PERFORM RITUALS each day without knowing it. Celebrating birthdays, eating a meal together, taking daily walks to the park, making French toast ...

The New York Society for the Suppression of Vice sounds like the satirical invention of a modern wag, but it was a very real organization dedicated to ...

With the knowledge of the forces of nature which the resources of the astral plane place at the command of its inhabitants the production of what are called ...