# bib

id: 11261
author: Vaknin, Samuel
title: Cyclopedia of Philosophy
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 30
sentence: 3
flesch: 86
cache: cache/11261.txt
txt: txt/11261.txt
summary:
  RTF is Rich Text Format, and is readable in nearly any modern word processing program. Please see the corresponding RTF file for this eBook.


id: 44867
author: Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
title: The Discovery of the Future
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 9597
sentence: 311
flesch: 58
cache: cache/44867.txt
txt: txt/44867.txt
summary:
  All this world is heavy with the promise of greater things, and a day will come, one day in the unending succession of days, when beings, beings who are now latent in our thoughts and hidden in our loins, shall stand upon this earth as one stands upon a footstool, and shall laugh and reach out their hands amid the stars. And now, if it has been possible for men by picking out a number of suggestive and significant looking things in the present, by comparing them, criticising them, and discussing them, with a perpetual insistence upon Why? without any guiding tradition, and indeed in the teeth of established beliefs, to construct this amazing searchlight of inference into the remoter past, is it really, after all, such an extravagant and hopeless thing to suggest that, by seeking for operating causes instead of for fossils, and by criticising them as persistently and thoroughly as the geological record has been criticised, it may be possible to throw a searchlight of inference forward instead of backward, and to attain to a knowledge of coming things as clear, as universally convincing, and infinitely more important to mankind than the clear vision of the past that geology has opened to us during the nineteenth century? Let us grant that anything to correspond with the memory, anything having the same relation to the future that memory has to the past, is out of the question.


id: 35875
author: Freud, Sigmund
title: Reflections on War and Death
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 9620
sentence: 356
flesch: 58
cache: cache/35875.txt
txt: txt/35875.txt
summary:
  REFLECTIONS ON WAR AND DEATH REFLECTIONS ON WAR AND DEATH _ REFLECTIONS ON WAR AND DEATH I THE DISAPPOINTMENTS OF WAR Caught in the whirlwind of these war times, without any real information or any perspective upon the great changes that have already occurred or are about to be enacted, lacking all premonition of the future, it is small wonder that we ourselves become confused as to the meaning of impressions which crowd in upon us or of the value of the judgments we are forming.


id: 31354
author: Maeterlinck, Maurice
title: Death
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 10862
sentence: 387
flesch: 68
cache: cache/31354.txt
txt: txt/31354.txt
summary:
  102 DEATH I OUR IDEA OF DEATH It has been well said: Death and death alone is what we must consult about life; and not some vague future or survival, in which we shall not be present. Death alone bears the weight of the errors of nature or the ignorance of science that have uselessly prolonged torments in whose name we curse death because it puts an end to them.


id: 13766
author: Arachne
title: Cobwebs of Thought
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 16112
sentence: 724
flesch: 69
cache: cache/13766.txt
txt: txt/13766.txt
summary:
  But after all that the scientific French, German, American, Italian, and English workers have done, we are as yet only on the threshold of mind knowledge--of what we might know--if we had ardour enough to push self-analysis in to the remotest corner of the brain, noting down, comparing, tabulating the most involuntary and ethereal sublimities that appear to flit through the mind, the most subtle emotion that hardly finds expression in language. Mr. E.W. Scripture in The New Psychology says, in 1897, It cannot dissect the mind with a scalpel, it cannot hope to find a startling principle of mental life.


id: 17239
author: Fiske, John
title: The Destiny of Man, Viewed in the Light of His Origin
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 18637
sentence: 779
flesch: 61
cache: cache/17239.txt
txt: txt/17239.txt
summary:
  When we bear this in mind, we see how natural and inevitable it was that the Church should persecute such men as Galileo and Bruno. It enlarges tenfold the significance of human life, places it upon even a loftier eminence than poets or prophets have imagined, and makes it seem more than ever the chief object of that creative activity which is manifested in the physical universe. III.


id: 26321
author: Lodge, Oliver, Sir
title: Life and Matter: A Criticism of Professor Haeckel's "Riddle of the Universe"
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 26987
sentence: 713
flesch: 44
cache: cache/26321.txt
txt: txt/26321.txt
summary:
  Undoubtedly our body is material and can act on other matter; and the energy of its operations is derived from food, like any other self-propelled and fuel-fed mechanism; but mechanism is usually controlled by an attendant. Abstractions like the British Constitution, and other such things, can hardly be said to have any incarnate existence.


id: 47658
author: Carr, Herbert Wildon
title: The Problem of Truth
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 28331
sentence: 1287
flesch: 65
cache: cache/47658.txt
txt: txt/47658.txt
summary:
  Neither, then, is reality truth, nor appearance error. The idea that we are perhaps disqualified by our very nature itself from beholding reality and knowing truth is illustrated in the well-known allegory in the _Republic_ of Plato: And now let me show in a figure how far our nature is enlightened or unenlightened.


id: 43618
author: Knight, Sherwood Sweet
title: Human Life
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 34863
sentence: 954
flesch: 50
cache: cache/43618.txt
txt: txt/43618.txt
summary:
  Turning now from geological evidence to that founded upon other observations, as to the length of time man has been an inhabitant of the earth, perhaps one of the most interesting discoveries was that of the Tumuli or mounds of shells of such animals as the oyster, cockle, limpet, etc., and, along with this, the bones of birds, wild animals, and fish, together with stone implements and rude pottery. While the indulging in some amusements, such as a game of chance, for an insignificant stake, in order to maintain the interest, may be done with impunity by parties whose financial condition is such that the counters involved are of no moment to them, and the stability of their temperament is sedate enough so that the excitement of the game will not fascinate them with a snake's charm; yet are these particular participants sure that this is true of all of the company at such times?


id: 22283
author: Romanes, George John
title: Mind and Motion and Monism
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 43422
sentence: 1294
flesch: 50
cache: cache/22283.txt
txt: txt/22283.txt
summary:
  The least and lowest part of outward observation is not an independent entity--fact _minus_ mind, and out of which mind may, somewhere or other, be seen to emerge; but it is fact or object as it appears to an observing mind, in the medium of thought, having mind or thought as an inseparable factor of it. Although each mind presents the feature of finality or spontaneity, this does not hinder that it also presents the feature of relation to other minds, which, therefore, are able to act upon it in numberless ways.


id: 37864
author: Jones, Jesse Henry
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 80933
sentence: 3629
flesch: 63
cache: cache/37864.txt
txt: txt/37864.txt
title:
  Know the Truth: A Critique on the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation Including Some Strictures Upon the Theories of Rev. Henry L. Mansel and Mr. Herbert Spencer

summary:
  If, then, only one modification--object--comes into it at a time, this is because the faculties which see in its light are thus organized;--the being to whom it belongs is partial; but there is nothing pertaining to consciousness _as such_, which constitutes a limit,--which could bar the infinite Person from seeing all things at once in its light. So, then, though man cannot comprehend the absolute Person _as such_, he has a positive idea of absoluteness, and a positive knowledge that the Being is who is thus qualified.


id: 55761
author: Steiner, Rudolf
title: The Philosophy of Spiritual Activity A Modern Philosophy of Life Developed by Scientific Methods
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 91131
sentence: 3997
flesch: 64
cache: cache/55761.txt
txt: txt/55761.txt
summary:
  The fancy-picture of other perceptual worlds, made possible by other senses, has nothing to do with the problem of how it is that man stands in the midst of reality. Vice versa, it may happen that men with moral imagination lack technical skill, and are dependent on the service of other men for the realisation of their ideas.


id: 16406
author: Fullerton, George Stuart
title: An Introduction to Philosophy
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 113249
sentence: 4814
flesch: 68
cache: cache/16406.txt
txt: txt/16406.txt
summary:
  Some men have much accurate information regarding rocks, animals, the functions of the bodily organs, the development of a given form of society, and other things of the sort, and other men have but little; and yet it is usually not difficult for the man who knows much to make the man who knows little understand, at least, what he is talking about. and when they do speak thus, is it conceivable that other men should seriously occupy themselves with what they say?


id: 12264
author: Benson, Arthur Christopher
title: Father Payne
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 119683
sentence: 5886
flesch: 81
cache: cache/12264.txt
txt: txt/12264.txt
summary:
  I don't mind saying, old man, added Father Payne, in a different tone, that there isn't a touch of temptation about it all. Don't mind me, old man! said Father Payne, but try to make your epigrams genial instead of contemptuous--inclusive rather than exclusive.


id: 21668
author: Powys, John Cowper
title: The Complex Vision
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 123073
sentence: 3885
flesch: 52
cache: cache/21668.txt
txt: txt/21668.txt
summary:
  As to how the souls of plants, birds, and animals, or of planets or stars, differ in their nature from human souls we can only vaguely conjecture. They are clearly not completely exhausted or totally revealed by the vision of any individual human soul or of any number of human souls.


id: 43719
author: Eucken, Rudolf
title: Life's Basis and Life's Ideal: The Fundamentals of a New Philosophy of Life
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 137961
sentence: 3935
flesch: 46
cache: cache/43719.txt
txt: txt/43719.txt
summary:
  This is a fact which we find corroborated when we come to reflect that Immanent Idealism treats the spiritual life in man much too hastily and boldly as absolute spiritual life; that it attributes to human capacity, without further consideration, that which belongs to spiritual life in general. The experiences of modern life place the particularity and insignificant of man more and more before our eyes; they enable us to see with what difficulty and how slowly any kind of spiritual life whatever has emerged in the human sphere, and with what toil it maintains itself there; they insist that, if the spiritual life is not to sink down to a mere appearance to man, a sharp distinction must be made between the substance of the spiritual life and the form of its existence in man; in every sphere modern life puts questions which lead beyond the position of Immanent Idealism.


id: 38117
author: Sinclair, Upton
title: The Book of Life
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 168252
sentence: 5859
flesch: 66
cache: cache/38117.txt
txt: txt/38117.txt
summary:
  He asks, May it not be possible for man, of his own free impulse, born of his love of life and the wonderful potentialities which it unfolds, to invent for himself a discipline, a code based, not upon the destruction of other men and their enslavement, but upon cooperative emulation in the unfoldment of the powers of the mind? Again, is it stealing to hold land out of use for speculation, while other men are starving and dying for lack of land to labor upon?


