# bib

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: 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: 55317
author: Marcus Aurelius, Emperor of Rome
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 41631
sentence: 2324
flesch: 80
cache: cache/55317.txt
txt: txt/55317.txt
title:
  The Meditations of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus A new rendering based on the Foulis translation of 1742

summary:
  Of what value the things are which the many account good you may judge from this: If a man has conceived certain things, such as prudence, temperance, justice, or courage, to be good in the real sense, he cannot, while he is of this mind, readily listen to the traditional gibe about a superabundance of good things. Are you then to be a fool because they are? In whatever case I had been left I could have made my fortune: for what is it to make a fortune but to confer good things upon one's self; and true good things are a worthy frame of mind, worthy impulses, worthy actions.


id: 53261
author: Muir, Edwin
title: We Moderns: Enigmas and Guesses
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 40330
sentence: 2168
flesch: 70
cache: cache/53261.txt
txt: txt/53261.txt
summary:
  For creative Love would enjoin, not sympathy with suffering, but the will to transcend suffering; not reform, whose aim is happiness, but revolution, whose aim is growth; not Art for Art's sake, an escape from Life into a stationary æsthetic world, but the creation, out of Life, of ever new Art; not Realism or the need to find men interesting; but idealization, or the desire to _make_ men interesting. In short, good things can only be produced by great men--and these are exceptions.


id: 45122
author: Müller, F. Max (Friedrich Max)
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 47370
sentence: 2200
flesch: 76
cache: cache/45122.txt
txt: txt/45122.txt
title:
  Thoughts on Life and Religion An Aftermath from the Writings of The Right Honourable Professor Max Müller

summary:
  _Gifford Lectures, I._ The heart and mind and soul of man are the same under every sky, in all the varying circumstances of human life; and it would be awful to believe that _any_ human beings should have been deprived of that light 'which lighteth _every_ man that cometh into the world.' We cannot know, we cannot name the Divine, nor can we understand its ways as manifested in nature and human life.


id: 29904
author: Leonardo, da Vinci
title: Thoughts on Art and Life
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 47687
sentence: 1719
flesch: 68
cache: cache/29904.txt
txt: txt/29904.txt
summary:
  And if they despise me, who am a creator, far more are they, who do not create but trumpet abroad and exploit the works of other men, to be blamed. But let us {47} confine ourselves to human matters, relating one supreme infamy, which is not to be found among the animals of the earth; because among these you will not find animals who eat their young, except when they are utterly foolish (and there are few indeed of such among them), and this occurs only among the beasts of prey, such as the lions, and leopards, panthers, lynxes, cats and the like, which sometimes feed on their young; but thou, besides thy children, dost devour thy father, thy mother, thy brother and thy friends; and not satisfied with this, thou goest forth to hunt on the islands of others, seizing other men and


id: 17862
author: Mitchell, Donald Grant
title: Dream Life: A Fable of the Seasons
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 59004
sentence: 2440
flesch: 78
cache: cache/17862.txt
txt: txt/17862.txt
summary:
  * * * ----The old man is gone: his dream-life is ended. In the long hours of toilsome days little thought comes over you of the morning prayer; and only when evening deepens its shadows, and your boyish vexations fatigue you to thoughtfulness, do you dream of that coming and endless night, to which--they tell you--prayers soften the way.


id: 2680
author: Marcus Aurelius, Emperor of Rome
title: Meditations
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 72421
sentence: 2996
flesch: 72
cache: cache/2680.txt
txt: txt/2680.txt
summary:
  Him also I must thank, that ever I heard first Bacchius, then Tandasis and Marcianus, and that I did write dialogues in my youth; and that I took liking to the philosophers' little couch and skins, and such other things, which by the Grecian discipline are proper to those who profess philosophy. And in very truth many good things are spoken by these poets; as that (for example) is an excellent passage: '


id: 15877
author: Marcus Aurelius, Emperor of Rome
title: Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 76380
sentence: 3429
flesch: 74
cache: cache/15877.txt
txt: txt/15877.txt
summary:
  Achilles tells Priam (Iliad, 24, 527) that Zeus has two casks, one filled with good things, and the other with bad, and that he gives to men out of each according to his pleasure; and so we must be content, for we cannot alter the will of Zeus. [from other things], nothing worthy of blame, nothing which seeks a hiding-place.


id: 26861
author: Darwin, Erasmus
title: The Temple of Nature; or, the Origin of Society A Poem, with Philosophical Notes
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 77344
sentence: 2608
flesch: 57
cache: cache/26861.txt
txt: txt/26861.txt
summary:
  This exertion of our volition excites many other ideas, and is attended with pleasurable sensation; which constitutes the sentiment of novelty. Associate ideas, therefore, are those which are preceded by other ideas or muscular motions, without the intervention of irritation, sensation, or volition between them; these are also termed ideas of suggestion.] ON rapid feet o'er hills, and plains, and rocks, Speed the scared leveret and rapacious fox; On rapid pinions cleave the fields above The hawk descending, and escaping dove; With nicer nostril track the tainted ground The hungry vulture, and the prowling hound; Converge reflected light with nicer eye The midnight owl, and microscopic fly; 100 With finer ear pursue their nightly course The listening lion, and the alarmed horse.


id: 17201
author: Mallock, W. H. (William Hurrell)
title: Is Life Worth Living?
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 88296
sentence: 3726
flesch: 69
cache: cache/17201.txt
txt: txt/17201.txt
summary:
  To _de-religionize_ life, then, it is not enough to condemn creeds and to abolish prayers. Indeed, many men who believe most firmly that without religion human life will be dead, rest their hopes for the future not on the revival and triumph of any one alleged revelation, but on the gradual evanescence of the special claims of all.


id: 39928
author: Wallace, Alfred Russel
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 90979
sentence: 2479
flesch: 51
cache: cache/39928.txt
txt: txt/39928.txt
title:
  Man's Place in the Universe A Study of the Results of Scientific Research in Relation to the Unity or Plurality of Worlds, 3rd Edition

summary:
  The greatest proper motions yet determined amount to between 7 and 8 in a year, while other stars require twenty, or even fifty or a hundred years to show an equal amount of displacement. These stars are always arranged more or less symmetrically, following the curves of the spiral, while outside the visible nebula are other stars arranged in curves strongly suggesting a former greater extension of the nebulous matter.


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: 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: 26163
author: Bergson, Henri
title: Creative Evolution
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 142708
sentence: 5144
flesch: 56
cache: cache/26163.txt
txt: txt/26163.txt
summary:
  Now, as soon as we have clearly distinguished between the order that is willed and the order that is automatic, the ambiguity that underlies the idea of _disorder_ is dissipated, and, with it, one of the principal difficulties of the problem of knowledge. Some start from the inorganic, and, by compounding it with itself, claim to form the living; others place life first, and proceed towards matter by a skilfully managed _decrescendo_; but, for both, there are only differences of _degree_ in nature--degrees of complexity in the first hypothesis, of intensity in the second.


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?


