Much like a pilot need not know the pure physics behind his flight.

Ancient Hindu scriptures proclaim that some "longing in the darkness" propelled our world.

Egyptian Ideas of the Future Life places before the reader in a handy form an account of the principal ideas and beliefs held by the ancient Egyptians concerning the resurrection and the future life, which is derived wholly from native religious works.

Baroness Orczy's classic adventure novel El Dorado is the sequel to The Scarlet Pimpernel.

On May 7, 1978 a drunk driver ran down a mother and her two children.

Rousseau wrote about the difficulty of being a good individual within an inherently corrupting collectivity: society.

Emma By Jane Austen
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An A-Z encyclopedia of the unseen and the unknown world of psychics, channeling, mediums, mystics.

We have called our stories Fairy Tales though few of them speak of fairies (For some recent views on fairies and tales about fairies, see Notes.)

Enlightenment for Beginners is the simple account of how and why you've been imagining yourself.

Samuel Butler's Erewhon, or Over the Range was published anonymously 1872.

The object of this book is to suggest certain lines of thought as to the deep truths.

Considered the inventor of the essay itself, Michel de Montaigne published Essays.

American essayist, philosopher and poet Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882) lead Transcendentalism in the early nineteenth century and greatly influenced the later New Thought movement.

American essayist, philosopher and poet Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882) lead Transcendentalism in the early nineteenth century and greatly influenced the later New Thought movement.

There is nothing more disenchanting to man than to be shown the springs and mechanism of any art.

G. K. Chesterton said of Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson that he seemed to pick the right word up on the point of his pen, like a man playing spillikins.

Herbert Spencer was an English philosopher, prominent classical liberal political theorist.

Ethics is a philosophical book written by Benedictus de Spinoza.

A daughter inherits her father's miserliness, which stifles her relationship with her cousin, making love an unsatisfying experience.