AUTOBIOGRAPHY by JOHN STUART MILL CONTENTS CHAPTER I 1806-1819 CHILDHOOD AND EARLY EDUCATION CHAPTER II 1813-1821 MORAL INFLUENCES IN EARLY YOUTH—MY FATHER’S CHARACTER AND OPINIONS CHAPTER III 1821-1823 LAST STAGE OF EDUCATION, AND FIRST OF SELF-EDUCATION CHAPTER IV 1823-1828 YOUTHFUL PROPAGANDISM—THE “WESTMINSTER REVIEW” CHAPTER V 1826-1832 A CRISIS IN MY MENTAL HISTORY—ONE STAGE ONWARD CHAPTER […]

CONSIDERATIONS ON REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT BY JOHN STUART MILL, AUTHOR OF “A SYSTEM OF LOGIC, RATIOCINATIVE AND INDUCTIVE” NEW YORK: HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS, FRANKLIN SQUARE 1862. Preface Those who have done me the honor of reading my previous writings will probably receive no strong impression of novelty from the present volume; for the principles are […]

TREATISES ON FRIENDSHIP AND OLD AGE By Marcus Tullius Cicero Translated by E. S. Shuckburgh INTRODUCTORY NOTE MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO, the greatest of Roman orators and the chief master of Latin prose style, was born at Arpinum, Jan. 3, 106 B.C. His father, who was a man of property and belonged to the class of […]

De Amicitia, Scipio’s Dream By Cicero Translated, with an Introduction and Notes By Andrew P. Peabody SYNOPSIS. * * * * * DE AMICITIA 1. Introduction. 2. Reputation of Laelius for wisdom. The curiosity to know how he bore the death of Scipio. 3. His grounds of consolation in his bereavement 4. He expresses his […]

THE ATHENIAN CONSTITUTION   by Aristotle Translated by Sir Frederic G. Kenyon Part 1 …[They were tried] by a court empanelled from among the noble families, and sworn upon the sacrifices. The part of accuser was taken by Myron. They were found guilty of the sacrilege, and their bodies were cast out of their graves […]

THE WORKS OF ARISTOTLE THE FAMOUS PHILOSOPHER   Containing his Complete Masterpiece and Family Physician; his Experienced Midwife, his Book of Problems and his Remarks on Physiognomy   COMPLETE EDITION, WITH ENGRAVINGS PART I—BOOK I THE MASTERPIECE On marriage and at what age young men and virgins are capable of it: and why so much […]

THE SLAVE WARS The several serious slave wars that began their course at this time were provoked, first, by the sheer scale of the arrival of slaves, to start with mostly prisoners of war, and then purchased in markets like that of Delos. Estimates of the number of slaves in Italy during the second- first […]

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Mercantilism (15th-18th center) From the 15th to the 18th century, when the modern nation- state was being born, capitalism not only took on a commercial flavor but also developed in another special direction known as mercantilism. This peculiar form of capitalism attained its highe st level in England. The mercantilist system rested on private property […]

Capitalism Capitalism, economic system in which private individuals and business firms carry on the production and exchange of goods and services through a complex network of prices and markets. Although rooted in antiquity, capitalism is primarily European in its origins; it evolved through a number of stages, reaching its zenith in the 19th century. From […]