| | 1 | Author: | Lang, Andrew | Add | | | Title: | The Making of Religion  | | | | Published: | 2001 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | The modern Science of the History of Religion has attained conclusions
which already possess an air of being firmly established. These
conclusions may be briefly stated thus: Man derived the conception of
'spirit' or 'soul' from his reflections on the phenomena of sleep, dreams,
death, shadow, and from the experiences of trance and hallucination.
Worshipping first the departed souls of his kindred, man later extended
the doctrine of spiritual beings in many directions. Ghosts, or other
spiritual existences fashioned on the same lines, prospered till they
became gods. Finally, as the result of a variety of processes, one of
these gods became supreme, and, at last, was regarded as the one only God.
Meanwhile man retained his belief in the existence of his own soul,
surviving after the death of the body, and so reached the conception of
immortality. Thus the ideas of God and of the soul are the result of early
fallacious reasonings about misunderstood experiences. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 3 | Author: | Locke, John | Add | | | Title: | Some considerations of the consequences of the lowering of interest, and raising the value of money [microform] :
in a letter to a member of Parliament | | | | Published: | 2001 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | These Notions, concerning Coinage, having for the main, as you
know, been put into Writing above Twelve Months since; as those
other concerning Interest, a great deal above to many Years: I
put them now again into your Hands with a Liberty (since you will
have it so) to communicate them further, as you please. If, upon
a Review, you continue your favourable Opinion of them, and
nothing less than Publishing will satisfie you, I must desire you
to remember, That you must be answerable to the World for the
Stile; which is such as a man writes carelesly to his Friend,
when he seeks Truth, not Ornament; and studies only to be right,
and to be understood. I have since you saw them last Year, met
with some new Objections in Print, which I have endeavoured to
remove; and particularly, I have taken into Consideration a
Printed Sheet, entituled, Remarks upon a Paper given in to the
Lords, &c. Because one may naturally suppose, That he that was so
much a Patron of that Cause would omit nothing that could be said
in favour of it. To this I must here add, That I am just now told
from Holland, That the States, finding themselves abused by
Coining a vast quatity of their base [Schillings] Money, made of
their own Ducatoons, and other finer Silver, melted down; have
put a stop to the Minting of any but fine Silver Coin, till they
should settle their Mint upon a new Foot. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 9 | Author: | Meade, L. T. [pseud.] | Add | | | Title: | A Sweet Girl Graduate | | | | Published: | 2001 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | PRISCILLA'S trunk was neatly packed. It was a new trunk and had a nice canvas
covering over it. The canvas was bound with red braid, and Priscilla's initials
were worked on the top in large plain letters. Her initials were P. P. P.,
and they stood for Priscilla Penywern Peel. The trunk was corded and strapped
and put away, and Priscilla stood by her aunt's side in the little parlor
of Penywern Cottage. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 11 | Author: | Mill, John Stuart, 1806-1873 | Add | | | Title: | Utilitarianism / by John Stuart Mill | | | | Published: | 2001 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | THERE are few circumstances among those which make up the present
condition of human knowledge, more unlike what might have been
expected, or more significant of the backward state in which
speculation on the most important subjects still lingers, than the
little progress which has been made in the decision of the controversy
respecting the criterion of right and wrong. From the dawn of
philosophy, the question concerning the summum
bonum, or, what is the same thing, concerning the foundation of morality, has been
accounted the main problem in speculative thought, has occupied the
most gifted intellects, and divided them into sects and schools,
carrying on a vigorous warfare against one another. And after more
than two thousand years the same discussions continue, philosophers
are still ranged under the same contending banners, and neither
thinkers nor mankind at large seem nearer to being unanimous on the
subject, than when the youth Socrates listened to the old
Protagoras, and asserted (if Plato's dialogue be grounded on a real
conversation) the theory of utilitarianism against the popular
morality of the so-called sophist. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 12 | Author: | Mill, John Stuart, 1806-1873 | Add | | | Title: | Essay on Liberty / John Stuart Mill | | | | Published: | 2001 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | THE subject of this Essay is not the so-called Liberty
of the Will, so unfortunately opposed to the misnamed doctrine of Philosophical Necessity; but Civil,
or Social Liberty: the nature and limits of the power which
can be legitimately exercised by society over the individual.
A question seldom stated, and hardly ever discussed, in general terms, but which profoundly influences the practical
controversies of the age by its latent presence, and is likely
soon to make itself recognized as the vital question of the
future. It is so far from being new, that, in a certain sense,
it has divided mankind, almost from the remotest ages, but
in the stage of progress into which the more civilized portions of the species have now entered, it presents itself
under new conditions, and requires a different and more fundamental treatment. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 14 | Author: | Morrison, Harry Steele | Add | | | Title: | The Adventures of a Boy Reporter | | | | Published: | 2001 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | "YES," said Mrs. Dunn to her neighbour, Mrs. Sullivan, "we are expecting
great things of Archie, and yet we sometimes hardly know what to think of
the boy. He has the most remarkable ideas of things, and there seems to be
absolutely no limit to his ambition. He has long since determined that he
will some day be President, and he expects to enter politics the day he is
twenty-one." | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 15 | Author: | Munroe, Kirk, 1850-1930. | Add | | | Title: | The flamingo feather | | | | Published: | 2001 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | ON a dreary winter's day, early in the year 1564, young Réné
de Veaux, who had just passed his sixteenth birthday, left the dear old chateau
where he had spent his happy and careless boyhood, and started for Paris.
Less than a month before both his noble father and his gentle mother had
been taken from him by a terrible fever that had swept over the country,
and Réné their only child, was left without a relative in the
world except his uncle the Chevalier Réné de Laudonniere, after
whom he was named. In those days of tedious travel it seemed a weary time
to the lonely lad before the messenger who had gone to Paris with a letter
telling his uncle of his sad position could return. When at length he came
again, bringing a kind message that bade him come immediately to Paris and
be a son to his equally lonely uncle, Réné lost no time in
obeying. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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