• Essays,  History,  Natural History,  Religions

    Science and Hebrew tradition; essays by Thomas Henry Huxley 1894 PDF book

    Science and Hebrew tradition; essays by Thomas Henry Huxley 1894 PDF book  EXCEPT: for more than a thousand years, the great majority of the most highly civilized and instructed nations in the world have confidently believed and passionately maintained that certain writings, which they entitle sacred, occupy a unique position in literature, in that they possess an authority, different in kind, and immeasurably superior in weight, to that of all other books.  Age after age, they have held it to be an indisputable truth that whoever may be the ostensible writers of the Jewish, Christian, and Mahometan scriptures, God Himself is their real author; and, since their conception of the…

  • freethought,  History,  Religions

    The origin of supernatural conceptions and development of religions from prehistoric times (1906) John James Greenough

    The origin of supernatural conceptions and development of religions from prehistoric times Excerpt: Before attempting to investigate the origin of religion, it may be well to fix a definite meaning to that constantly employed word. We find in the modern lexicons numerous meanings ascribed to the word religion, that differ widely in their nature, and are antagonistic in their purport. If by religion is meant the healthful development of the right life, a practice of conscientious duty to our fellow men, and abstaining from all injustice, every right-minded man must give it his approval. But if by religion is meant ” a system of faith in, and worship of, a…

  • History,  Religions,  Roman Empire

    Roman emperor worship (1919) PDF by Louis Matthews Sweet

    Roman emperor worship (1919) PDF by Louis Matthews Sweet The Roman Imperial Cult began with the first Caesar and continued until the final overthrow of paganism in the Empire. An exhaustive study of the Cult in all its ramifications would practically involve a survey of Roman his- tory during the imperial epoch and would transcend all reasonable limits. A bald analytical review, merely, of the data which have passed under my own eye in the course of this investigation, would break bounds. A rigid and somewhat painful process of elimination has, therefore, been exercised both in the use and presentation of the available data in this field. Particularly in the…

  • Civilization,  History,  Roman Empire

    A history of the mental growth of mankind in ancient times (1893) PDF book by John S. Hittel (IV. Rome and early Christianity)

    A history of the mental growth of mankind in ancient times (1893) PDF book by  John S. Hittel (IV. Rome and early Christianity) Of all national military careers, that of ancient Rome is the most brilliant. She made more campaigns, fought more battles, won more victories, slew and enslaved more enemies, and conquered, annexed, and permanently held more countries than did any other state. In military power, as compared with coeval nations, no other has approached her. Her drill was not so thorough as that of Sparta, but her army was much larger, her sphere of operations far more extensive, her high military efficiency of much longer duration, and her…

  • Classic Books,  Editor's Picks,  History,  Roman Empire

    Plutarch’s Lives by Plutarch; (1914) Volume 10 ( Agis and Cleomenes, and Tiberius and Caius Gracchus. Philopoemen and Flaminus )

    Plutarch’s Lives by Plutarch; (1914) Volume 10 ( Agis and Cleomenes, and Tiberius and Caius Gracchus. Philopoemen and Flaminus ) PDF book Translated by Bernadotte Perrin Plutarch’s Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans, commonly called Parallel Lives or Plutarch’s Lives, is a series of 48 biographies of famous men, arranged in tandem to illuminate their common moral virtues or failings, probably written at the beginning of the second century AD. The surviving Parallel Lives (Greek: Βίοι Παράλληλοι, Bíoi Parállēloi) comprises 23 pairs of biographies, each pair consisting of one Greek and one Roman of similar destiny, such as Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar, or Demosthenes and Cicero. It is…

  • Art,  History,  Sculpture

    Sculpture, Egyptian–Assyrian–Greek–Roman. With numerous illustrations by George Redford (1888)

    Sculpture, Egyptian–Assyrian–Greek–Roman. With numerous illustrations, a map of ancient Greece, and a chronological list of ancient sculptors and their works by George  Redford (1888) PDF book The Study of Antique Sculpture has two principal directions, the Historic or Archaeological, and that on the side of Art. Each view has its own special interest, and both contribute mutually to the elucidation of the general subject; but while the one has a comparatively little direct relation to the cultivation of the fine arts, the other is constantly concerned with artistic practice as well as the principles.  The great truths which ancient art evolved, and which remain as firmly established as those which…

  • English Language,  History,  Learn English

    Phrases and names, their origins and meanings 1906 PDF book by Trench Johnson (English names)

    Download Phrases and names, their origins and meanings  1906 PDF book  by  Trench Johnson (English names) The origin of place-names is interesting in that it opens up the history of peoples and the civilizing influences if so one might term it, of conquest. London street-names, in particular, convey in one word to a person of antiquarian tastes as much meaning as ” a volume of forgotten lore.” As to phrases and expressions, the author has made a special study of the subject. A great many Americanisms have been included, but as the number is daily increasing it would require a -monthly publication of such home-made phrases to keep fully abreast…

  • History,  Mythology,  Mythology and Folklore,  pinned

    Phantoms of the deep, or : legends and superstitions of the sea and of sailors (1903) Free PDF book with Illustrations

    Phantoms of the deep, or: legends and superstitions of the sea and of sailors (1903) Free PDF book This book illustrates the stories of sea ghosts and phantoms, that prevailed all the world. Some people still believe in some stories and others deny them completely,  Excerpt from the book’s introduction: Among the many wonderful changes wrought in the various conditions of life by the progress of the scientific investigation and modern achievement, there are none so complete as those affecting the man of the sea.  The swift journey to Europe has become an affair of so little moment to many that it is hardly thought of until Jand fades from…

  • History,  Russian revolution,  Travel

    Petrograd, the city of trouble, 1914-1918 (Saint Petersburg) PDF book by Meriel Buchanan

    Petrograd, the city of trouble, 1914-1918 (Saint Petersburg) PDF book by Meriel  Buchanan Petrograd, the city of trouble It has been one of the characteristics of the Russian Revolution’ — perhaps of every Revolution — that the spectators of its evolution have named every fresh development a climax. Looking back now through the events in Russia during 1917, one sees the abdication of the Czar, the revolt of Korniloff, the Bolshevik coup d’Stat as successive climaxes, but none of them as, in any sense, an ultimate climax; although one is now a year and a half from that first wonderful day in March when the Cossacks lined the Nevski and…

  • Crimes,  History

    The history and romance of crime from the earliest time to the present day by Arthur Griffiths PDF book

    The history and romance of crime from the earliest time to the present day by Arthur Griffiths PDF book Contents of the book I. Chronicles of Newgate from the twelfth to the eighteenth century.–II. Chronicles of Newgate from the eighteenth century to its demolition; a sketch of the Tower.–III. Milbank penitentiary; an experiment in reformation.–IV. Non-criminal prisons: English debtor’s prisons and prisons of war; French war prisons; American war prisons; with references to those of other lands.–V. Prisons overseas: deportation and colonization; British and American prisons of to-day.–VI. Early French prisons: Le Grand and Le Petit Châtelets; Vincennes-the Bastile-Loches; the galleys; revolutionary prisons [Download This PDF Book ##download##]