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 It is a profoundly erroneous truism, repeated by all the copy-books and by eminent people when they are making speeches, that we should cul...

 contingency as the opposite of necessity (possible being and possible nonbeing) vs contingency as the opposite of freedom (contingency) -- ...

 In The Philosophy of History ( volume I , volume II ), Friedrich Schlegel distinguishes two approaches to universal history, which in turn ...

 Ritual is really much older than thought; it is much simpler and much wilder than thought. A feeling touching the nature of things does not...

 * Musa al-Gharbi, On Clarence Thomas, White Liberals, and Racial Politics * Adam M. Willows, Stories and the Development of Virtue (PDF) *...

Book I continued  Chapter 13 Even in this first year of its existence, the company of the Round Table accomplished things of great valor, an...

 The next fortnightly book is Farewell to Valley Forge , by David Taylor. It is a book from my grandfather's library, published in 1955,...