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10/08/2024
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Moral Obligation to be Intelligent and Other Essays

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In different ways the four essays set forth one theme—the moral use to which intelligence might be put, in rendering our admirations and our loyalties at once more sensible and more noble. – Summary by John Erskine     [chương_files]  

09/08/2024
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Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche: Volume 3

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Volume 3 of the complete works contains several short critical introductory essays, five lectures under the heading “On the Future of our Educational Institutions,” and finally an essay by the author entitled “Homer and Classical Philology.” As always, Nietzsche believes in the importance of classical thought.     [chương_files]  

09/08/2024
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Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence

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It seems eminently fitting and proper in this year, the fiftieth anniversary of the Proclamation of Emancipation that the Negro should give pause and look around him at the things which he has done, those which he might have done, and those which he intends to do. We pause, just at the beginning of another half century, taking stock of past achievements, present conditions, future possibilities. (Preface)     [chương_files]