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Its justification is the\r\nfact that strangers and friends in England and America alike had urged\r\nme from time to time to gather them together, that they might be had in\r\na more convenient form, believing that they contained some elements of\r\npermanent value which deserved to be rescued from the past numbers of\r\na Review not easily procurable, and thus rendered more accessible to\r\nstudents. I had long resisted these solicitations for reasons which\r\nI shall explain presently; but a few months ago, when I was prostrated\r\nby sickness and my life was hanging on a slender thread, it became\r\nnecessary to give a final answer to the advice tendered to me. This\r\nvolume is the result. The kind offices of my chaplain the Rev. J.R.\r\nHarmer, who undertook the troublesome task of verifying the references,\r\ncorrecting the press, and adding the indices, when I was far too ill to\r\nattend to such matters myself, have enabled me to bring it out sooner\r\nthan I had hoped.\nWhen I first took up the book entitled 'Supernatural Religion,' I felt,\r\nwhether rightly or wrongly, that its criticisms were too loose and\r\npretentious, and too full of errors, to produce any permanent effect;\r\nand for the most part attacks of this kind on the records of the Divine\r\nLife are best left alone. But I found that a cruel and unjustifiable\r\nassault was made on a very dear friend to whom I was attached by the\r\nmost sacred personal and theological ties; and that the book which\r\ncontained this attack was from causes which need not be specified\r\nobtaining a notoriety unforeseen by me. Thus I was forced to break\r\nsilence; and, as I advanced with my work, I seemed to see that, though\r\nundertaken to redress a personal injustice, it might be made subservient\r\nto the wider interests of the truth.\nPaper succeeded upon paper, and I had hoped ultimately to cover the\r\nwhole ground, so far as regards the testimony of the first two centuries\r\nto the New Testament Scriptures. But my time was not my own, as I was\r\nnecessarily interrupted by other literary and professional duties which\r\nclaimed the first place; and meanwhile I was transferred to another and\r\nmore arduous sphere of practical work, being thus obliged to postpone\r\nindefinitely my intention of giving something like completeness to the\r\nwork.\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 18191 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Lightfoot, J. B. (Joseph Barber) \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Apr 17, 2006 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Lightfoot, J. B. 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Since 1860 he\r\nhas written intermittently in various periodicals, and since the summer\r\nof 1865 he has written continuously in the New York Tribune, upon actors\r\nand their art; and in that way he has accumulated a great mass of\r\nhistorical commentary upon the drama. In preparing this book he has been\r\npermitted to draw from his contributions to the Tribune, and also from\r\nhis writings in Harper's Magazine and Weekly, in the London Theatre, and\r\nin Augustin[Pg 8] Daly's Portfolio of Players. The choice of these papers has\r\nbeen determined partly by consideration of space and partly with the\r\ndesign of supplementing the author's earlier dramatic books, namely:\r\nEdwin Booth in Twelve Dramatic Characters; The Jeffersons; Henry Irving;\r\nThe Stage Life of Mary Anderson; Brief Chronicles, containing eighty-six\r\ndramatic biographies; In Memory of McCullough; The Life of John Gilbert;\r\nThe Life and Works of John Brougham; The Press and the Stage; The Actor\r\nand Other Speeches; and A Daughter of Comedy, being the life of Ada\r\nRehan. The impulse of all those writings, and of the present volume, is\r\ncommemorative. Let us save what we can.\nW.W.\nApril 18, 1892.\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 18860 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Winter, William \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Jul 18, 2006 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Winter, William,1836-1917 \/ eBook \/ English","offer_id":43217565974685,"sku":"gb-18860-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/18860.jpg?v=1671438276"},{"product_id":"papers-of-the-peabody-museum-of-american-archaeology-and-ethnology-vol-iv-no-3-gb-19042","title":"Papers of the Peabody museum of American archaeology and ethnology, vol. IV, no. 3","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnimal Figures in the Maya Codices\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe various peoples inhabiting Mexico and Central America in early\r\npre-Columbian times were accustomed to record various events, especially\r\nin regard to their calendar and the religious ceremonials in relation to\r\nit, on long strips of skin or bark. These were usually painted on both\r\nsides and folded together like a screen. Several of these codices are\r\nstill in existence from the Nahua and Zapotec areas in Mexico, but only\r\nthree have come down to us from the Maya region which is included in the\r\npeninsula of Yucatan, the states of Tabasco and Chiapas in Mexico, and\r\nportions of Guatemala and Honduras. These three manuscripts are the\r\nDresden Codex in the Royal Public Library at Dresden, the\r\nTro-Cortesianus (formerly considered to have been two, the Troano and\r\nthe Cortesianus) in the National Archaeological Museum at Madrid, and\r\nthe Peresianus in the National Library at Paris. These pre-Columbian\r\nmanuscripts have all been published in facsimile. (See bibliography.)\nThese remains of a once extensive literature show evidence not only of\r\nconsiderable intellectual attainments on the part of their authors but\r\nalso of a high degree of artistic skill in the drawings and\r\nhieroglyphics. The frequent occurrence in these manuscripts of\r\nrepresentations of animals showing various degrees of elaboration and\r\nconventionalization has led us to undertake the task of identifying\r\nthese figures as far as possible and studying the uses and significance\r\nof the several species, a[284] field practically untouched.284-*\r\nFrstemann in his various commentaries on the Maya codices (1902, 1903,\r\n1906), Brinton (1895), and deRosny (1876) have only commented briefly\r\nupon this side of the study of the manuscripts. Seler (1904a) and some\r\nothers have written short papers on special animals. During the\r\npreparation of this paper there has appeared a brief account by Stempell\r\n(1908) of the animals in the Maya codices. The author has, however,\r\nomitted a number of species and, as we believe, misidentified others. In\r\nmaking our identifications we have given the reasons for our\r\ndeterminations in some detail and have stated the characteristics\r\nemployed to denote the several species.\nWe have not limited ourselves entirely to the Maya manuscripts as we\r\nhave drawn upon the vast amount of material available in the stone\r\ncarvings, the stucco figures, and the frescoes found throughout the Maya\r\narea. This material has by no means been exhausted in the present paper.\r\nIn addition to the figures from the Maya codices and a comparatively few\r\nfrom other sources in the Maya region, we have introduced for comparison\r\nin a number of cases figures from a few of the ancient manuscripts of\r\nthe Nahuas and the Zapotecs to the north. The calendar of these two\r\npeoples is fundamentally the same as that of the Mayas. The year is made\r\nup in the same way being composed of eighteen months of twenty days each\r\nwith five days additional at the end of the year. There is therefore a\r\nmore or less close connection as regards subject matter in all the\r\npre-Columbian codices of Mexico and Central America but the manner of\r\npresentation differs among the different peoples of this region.\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 19042 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Allen, Glover M. (Glover Morrill) \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Aug 14, 2006 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eContributors\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eContributor (Author)\u003c\/b\u003e: Tozzer, Alfred M. (Alfred Marston), 1877-1954 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Allen, Glover M. (Glover Morrill),1879-1942 \/ eBook \/ English","offer_id":43217574625437,"sku":"gb-19042-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/19042.jpg?v=1671439022"},{"product_id":"a-new-system-or-an-analysis-of-antient-mythology-volume-i-gb-19153","title":"A New System or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough the whole process of my inquiries, it has been my endeavour,\r\n  from some plain and determinate principles, to open the way to many\r\n  interesting truths. And as I have shewn the certainty of an universal\r\n  Deluge from the evidences of most nations, to which we can gain access, I\r\n  come now to give an history of the persons who survived that event; and\r\n  of the families which were immediately descended from them. After having\r\n  mentioned their residence in the region of Ararat, and their migration\r\n  from it, I shall give an account of the roving of the Cuthites, and of\r\n  their coming to the plains of Shinar, from whence they were at last\r\n  expelled. To this are added observations upon the histories of Chaldea\r\n  and Egypt; also of Hellas, and Ionia; and of every other country which\r\n  was in any degree occupied by the sons of Chus. There have been men of\r\n  learning who have denominated their works from the families, of which\r\n  they treated; and have accordingly sent them into the world under the\r\n  title of Phaleg, Japhet, and Javan. I might, in like manner, have\r\n  prefixed to mine the name either of Cuth, or Cuthim; for, upon the\r\n  history of this people my system chiefly turns. It may be asked, if there\r\n  were no other great families upon earth, besides that of the Cuthites,\r\n  worthy of record: if no other people ever performed great actions, and\r\n  made themselves respectable to posterity. Such there possibly may have\r\n  been; and the field is open to any who may choose to make inquiry. My\r\n  taking this particular path does not in the least abridge others from\r\n  prosecuting different views, wherever they may see an opening.\nAs my researches are deep, and remote, I shall sometimes take the\r\n  liberty of repeating what has preceded; that the truths which I maintain\r\n  may more readily be perceived. We are oftentimes, by the importunity of a\r\n  persevering writer, teazed into an unsatisfactory compliance, and yield a\r\n  painful assent; but, upon closing the book, our scruples return, and we\r\n  lapse at once into doubt and darkness. It has therefore been my rule to\r\n  bring vouchers for every thing, which I maintain; and though I might upon\r\n  the renewal of my argument refer to another volume, and a distant page,\r\n  yet I many times choose to repeat my evidence, and bring it again under\r\n  immediate inspection. And if I do not scruple labour and expense, I hope\r\n  the reader will not be disgusted by this seeming redundancy in my\r\n  arrangement. What I have now to present to the public, contains matter of\r\n  great moment, and should I be found to be in the right, it will afford a\r\n  sure basis for the future history of the world. None can well judge\r\n  either of the labour, or utility of the work, but those who have been\r\n  conversant in the writings of chronologers, and other learned men, upon\r\n  these subjects, and seen the difficulties with which they were\r\n  embarrassed. Great, undoubtedly, must have been the learning and\r\n  perspicuity of a Petavius, Perizonius, Scaliger, Grotius, and Le Clerc;\r\n  also of an Usher, Pearson, Marsham, and Newton. Yet it may possibly be\r\n  found at the close, that a feeble arm has effected what those prodigies\r\n  in science have overlooked.\nMany, who have finished their progress, and are determined in their\r\n  principles, will not perhaps so readily be brought over to my opinion.\r\n  But they who are beginning their studies, and passing through a process\r\n  of Grecian literature, will find continual evidences arise; almost every\r\n  step will afford fresh proofs in favour of my system. As the desolation\r\n  of the world by a deluge, and the renewal of it in one person, are points\r\n  in these days particularly controverted; many, who are enemies to\r\n  Revelation, upon seeing these truths ascertained, may be led to a more\r\n  intimate acquaintance with the Scriptures: and such an insight cannot but\r\n  be productive of good. For our faith depends upon historical experience:\r\n  and it is mere ignorance, that makes infidels. Hence it is possible, that\r\n  some may be won over by historical evidence, whom a refined theological\r\n  argument cannot reach. An illness, which some time ago confined me to my\r\n  bed, and afterwards to my chamber, afforded me, during its recess, an\r\n  opportunity of making some versions from the poets whom I quote, when I\r\n  was little able to do any thing of more consequence. The translation from\r\n  Dionysius was particularly done at that season, and will give the reader\r\n  some faint idea of the original, and its beauties.\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 19153 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Bryant, Jacob \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Aug 31, 2006 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Bryant, Jacob,1715-1804 \/ eBook \/ English","offer_id":43217581801629,"sku":"gb-19153-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/19153.jpg?v=1671439493"},{"product_id":"history-of-rationalism-embracing-a-survey-of-the-present-state-of-protestant-theology-gb-19397","title":"History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHistory of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRationalism is the most recent, but not the least violent and insidious,\r\nof all the developments of skepticism. 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Thus it has assumed an\r\nimportance which should not be overlooked by British and American\r\nthinkers who love those dearly-bought treasures of truth that they have\r\nreceived as a sacred legacy from the martyrs and reformers of the\r\nEnglish church. The recent writings of the exegetical Rationalists of\r\nEngland are sufficient to induce us to gather up our armor and adjust it\r\nfor immediate defence. Delay will entail evil. The reason why skepticism\r\nhas wrought such fearful ravages at various stages during the career of\r\nthe church has been the tardiness of the church in watching the sure and\r\nsteady approach, and then in underrating the real strength of her\r\nadversary. The present History will be written for the specific purpose\r\nof awakening an interest in the danger that now threatens us. We have no\r\nambition to deal with the past, further than to enable it to minister to\r\nthe immediate demands of the present. We all belong to this generation;\r\nit calls for our energies; it has its great wants; and we shall be held\r\njustly responsible if we neglect to contribute our share toward the\r\nprogress of our contemporaries.\nThe three principles which have influenced us to undertake a discussion\r\nof the present themeand of the truth of which we are profoundly\r\nconvincedare the following:\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 19397 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Hurst, J. F. (John Fletcher) \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Sep 28, 2006 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Hurst, J. F. 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La\nrvolution de France arrivait  grands pas; bien qu'on ne ft qu'en\n1788[1], la convocation des notables du royaume et les remontrances du\nParlement n'taient pas de nature  rassurer sur l'avenir.  des menes\nsourdes, hostiles contre la cour se joignaient les dnonciations contre\nles ministres; les thtres eux-mmes, encourags par l'audacieux\nexemple de Beaumarchais, poussaient  l'mancipation; un an aprs on\ndevait reprsenter Charles IX, de Chnier, premier anneau de cette\nchane de pices affranchies de toute entrave. 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They are marked\r\nand the corrected text is shown in the popup. A list of these\r\nerrors is found at the end of this book.\nIn presenting this Commentary on the Codex Perez to students of American\r\nArchaeology, the Peabody Museum adds another paper to its series\r\nrelating to the study of the hieroglyphic writing of the ancient peoples\r\nof Mexico and Central America.\nThe Museum is fortunate in adding to its collaborators Mr. William E.\r\nGates, of Point Loma, California, who for more than ten years has been\r\nan earnest student of American hieroglyphs. From his lifelong studies in\r\nlinguistics in connection with his research in the motifs of\r\ncivilizations and cultures, he comes well-equipped to take up the\r\ndifficult and all-absorbing study of American hieroglyphic writing. Mr.\r\nGates has materially advanced this study by his reproduction of the\r\nglyphs in type. These type-forms he has used first in his reproduction\r\nof the Codex Perez, and now in this Commentary they are used for the\r\nfirst time in printing. The method used in the construction of this font\r\nof type is explained by Mr. Gates in the following pages. This important\r\naid to the study will be highly appreciated by all students of American\r\nhieroglyphs, as it will greatly facilitate the presentation of the\r\nresults of future research.\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 25878 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Gates, William \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Jun 22, 2008 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Gates, William,1863-1940 \/ eBook \/ English","offer_id":43218750832797,"sku":"gb-25878-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/25878.jpg?v=1671503877"},{"product_id":"studies-in-literature-and-history-gb-25937","title":"Studies in Literature and History","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eStudies in Literature and History\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the Second Series of his Asiatic Studies the late Sir Alfred\r\nLyall republished a number of articles that he had contributed to\r\nvarious Reviews up to the year 1894. 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Afterward he was shy of going back lest they should\r\napologize.\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 26146 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Frohman, Daniel \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Jul 29, 2008 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eContributors\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eContributor (Author)\u003c\/b\u003e: Marcosson, Isaac Frederick, 1876-1961 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Frohman, Daniel,1851-1940 \/ eBook \/ English","offer_id":43218772689053,"sku":"gb-26146-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/26146.jpg?v=1671504894"},{"product_id":"introduction-to-the-history-of-religions-gb-27829","title":"Introduction to the History of Religions","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIntroduction to the History of Religions - Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. It appears probable that primitive men endowed with their\r\nown qualities every seemingly active object in the world. Experience\r\nforced them to take note of the relations of all objects to themselves\r\nand to one another. The knowledge of the sequences of phenomena,\r\nso far as the latter are not regarded as acting intentionally on him,\r\nconstitutes man's science and philosophy; so far as they are held\r\nto act on him intentionally, the knowledge of them constitutes his\r\ntheory of religion, and his sense of relation with them is his religious\r\nsentiment. Science and religion are coeval in man's history,\r\nand both are independently continuous and progressive. 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On going through\nthe sources I found that the subject might well\ndeserve a more comprehensive treatment than the\nscope of a dictionary would allow. It is such a\ntreatment that I have attempted in the following\npages.\n\n\nA difficulty that occurred at the very beginning\nof the inquiry was how to define the notion of\natheism. Nowadays the term is taken to designate\nthe attitude which denies every idea of God. Even\nantiquity sometimes referred to atheism in this\nsense; but an inquiry dealing with the history of\nreligion could not start from a definition of that\nkind. It would have to keep in view, not the\nphilosophical notion of God, but the conceptions of\nthe gods as they appear in the religion of antiquity.\nHence I came to define atheism in Pagan antiquity\nas the point of view which denies the existence of the\nancient gods. 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We do\nnot believe that the gods whom the Greeks and the\nRomans worshipped and believed in exist or have\never existed; we hold them to be productions of\nthe human imagination to which nothing real corresponds.\nThis view has nowadays become so ingrained\nin us and appears so self-evident, that we\nfind it difficult to imagine that it has not been\nprevalent through long ages; nay, it is perhaps a\nwidely diffused assumption that even in antiquity\neducated and unbiased persons held the same\nview of the religion of their people as we do. In\nreality both assumptions are erroneous: our\natheism in regard to ancient paganism is of\nrecent date, and in antiquity itself downright denial\nof the existence of the gods was a comparatively\nrare phenomenon. The demonstration of this fact,\nrather than a consideration of the various intermediate\npositions taken up by the thinkers of\nantiquity in their desire to avoid a complete rupture\nwith the traditional ideas of the gods, has been one\nof the chief purposes of this inquiry.\n\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 28312 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Drachmann, A. B. 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Use of italics on\r\ntitles of cited words is not consistent. This text maintains the\r\noriginal usage.\nThe most comprehensive and accurate map of Yucatan is that which has\r\nbeen copied for this pamphlet. In the several volumes of travel,\r\ndescriptive of Maya ruins, are to be found plans more or less complete,\r\nintended to illustrate special journeys, but they are only partial in\r\ntheir treatment of this interesting country. The Plano de Yucatan,\r\nherewith presentedthe work of Sr. Dn. Santiago Nigra de San\r\nMartinwas published in 1848, and has now become extremely rare. It is\r\nvaluable to the student, for it designates localities abounding in\r\nruinsthose not yet critically explored, as well as those which have\r\nbeen more thoroughly investigatedby a peculiar mark, thus [rectangular\r\nbox], and it also shows roads and paths used in transportation and\r\ncommunication. Since its publication political changes have caused the\r\ndivision of the Peninsula into the States of Yucatan and Campeachy,\r\nwhich change of boundaries has called for the preparation of a new and\r\nimproved map. Such an one is now being engraved at Paris and will soon\r\nbe issued in this country. It is the joint production of Sr. Dn. Joaquin\r\nHubbe and Sr. Dn. Andres Aznar Prez, revised by Dr. C. Hermann Berendt.\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 29723 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Salisbury, Stephen \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Aug 18, 2009 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Salisbury, Stephen,1835-1905 \/ eBook \/ English","offer_id":43219202343069,"sku":"gb-29723-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/29723.jpg?v=1671517866"},{"product_id":"history-of-free-thought-in-reference-to-the-christian-religion-gb-30499","title":"History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHistory of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\nThe object of this Preface is to explain the design of the following\nLectures, and to enumerate the sources on which they\nare founded.\n\n\nWhat is the province and mode of inquiry intended in a\nCritical History of Free Thought?1 What are the causes which\nled the author into this line of study?2 What the object proposed\nby the work?3 What the sources from which it is\ndrawn?4these\nprobably are the questions which will at once\nsuggest themselves to the reader. The answers to most of them\nare so fully given in the work,5 that it will only be necessary\nhere to touch upon them briefly.\n\n\nThe word free thought is now commonly used, at least in\nforeign literature6,\nto express the result of the revolt of the mind\nagainst the pressure of external authority in any department of\nlife or speculation. Information concerning the history of the\nterm is given elsewhere.7 It will be sufficient now to state, that\nthe cognate term, free thinking, was appropriated by Collins early\nin the last century8\nto express Deism. It differs from the modern\nterm free thought, both in being restricted to religion, and in\nconveying the idea rather of the method than of its result, the freedom\nof the mode of inquiry rather than the character of the conclusions\nattained; but the same fundamental idea of independence\nand freedom from authority is implied in the modern term.\n\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 30499 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Farrar, Adam Storey \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Nov 19, 2009 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Farrar, Adam Storey,1826-1905 \/ eBook \/ English","offer_id":43219450003613,"sku":"gb-30499-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/30499.jpg?v=1671526770"},{"product_id":"aunt-charlotte-s-stories-of-greek-history-gb-30809","title":"Aunt Charlotte's Stories of Greek History","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAunt Charlotte's Stories of Greek History\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\nn this\nlittle book the attempt has been to trace Greek History so as to\nbe intelligible to young children. In fact, it will\ngenerally be found that classical history is remembered at an\nearlier age than modern history, probably because the events are\nsimple, and there was something childlike in the nature of all\nthe ancient Greeks. I would begin a childs reading\nwith the History of England, as that which requires to be known\nbest; but from this I should think it better to pass to the\nHistory of Greece, and that of Rome (which is in course of\npreparation), both because of their giving some idea of the\ncourse of time, and bringing p. 4Scripture\nhistory into connection with that of the world, and because\nlittle boys ought not to begin their classical studies without\nsome idea of their bearing. I have begun with a few of the\nGreek myths, which are absolutely necessary to the understanding\nof both the history and of art. As to the names, the\nordinary reading of them has been most frequently adopted, and\nthe common Latin titles of the gods and goddesses have been used,\nbecause these, by long use, have really come to be their English\nnames, and English literature at least will be better understood\nby calling the king of Olympus Jupiter, than by becoming familiar\nwith him first as Zeus.\nCHARLOTTE M. YONGE.\n\n\n\n\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 30809 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Yonge, Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Dec 30, 2009 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Yonge, Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary),1823-1901 \/ eBook \/ English","offer_id":43219504693405,"sku":"gb-30809-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/30809.jpg?v=1671527927"},{"product_id":"euphorion-vol-i-gb-31303","title":"Euphorion - Vol. I","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEuphorion - Vol. I\r - Being Studies of the Antique and the Mediaeval in the Renaissance\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFaustus is therefore a parable of the impotent yearnings of the Middle Agesits\r\npassionate aspiration, its conscience-stricken desire, its fettered curiosity amid the\r\ntramping limits of imperfect knowledge and irrational dogmatism. The indestructible\r\nbeauty of Greek art,whereof Helen was an emblem, became, through the\r\ndiscovery of classic poetry and sculpture, the possession of the modern world.\r\nMedivalism took this Helen to wife, and their offspring, the Euphorion of\r\nGoethe's drama, is the spirit of the modern world.J.A. Symonds, \"Renaissance\r\nIn Italy,\" vol. ii. p. 54.\nEuphorion is the name given by Goethe to the\r\nmarvellous child born of the mystic marriage of Faust\r\nand Helena. Who Faust is, and who Helena, we all\r\nknow. Faust, of whom no man can remember the\r\nyouth or childhood, seems to have come into the\r\nworld by some evil spell, already old and with the\r\nfaintness of body and of mind which are the heritage\r\nof age; and every additional year of mysterious study\r\nand abortive effort has made him more vacillating of\r\nstep and uncertain of sight, but only more hungry of\r\nsoul. Postponed and repressed by reclusion from the\r\nworld, and desperate tension over insoluble problems;\r\ndiverted into the channels of mere thought and vision;\r\nthere boils within him the energy, the passion, of\r\nretarded youth: its appetites and curiosities, which,\r\ncramped by the intolerant will, and foiled by many a\r\nsudden palsy of limb and mind, torment him with\r\nmad visions of unreal worlds, mock him with dreams\r\nof superhuman powers, from which he awakes in\r\nimpotent and apathetic anguish. But these often-\r\nwithstood and often-baffled cravings are not those\r\nmerely of scholar or wizard, they are those of soldier\r\nand poet and monk, of the mere man: lawless desires\r\nwhich he seeks to divert, but fails, from the things of\r\nthe flesh and of the world to the things of the reason;\r\nsupersensuous desires for the beautiful and intangible,\r\nwhich he strives to crush, but in vain, with the cynical\r\nscepticism of science, which derides the things it cannot\r\ngrasp. In this strange Faustus, made up of so many\r\nand conflicting instincts; in this old man with ever-\r\nbudding and ever-nipped feelings of youthfulness,\r\nmuddling the hard-won secrets of nature in search\r\nafter impossibilities; in him so all-sided, and yet so\r\nwilfully narrowed, so restlessly active, yet so often palsied\r\nand apathetic; in this Faustus, who has laboured\r\nso much and succeeded in so little, feeling himself at\r\nthe end, when he has summed up all his studies, as\r\nfoolish as beforewhich of us has not learned to\r\nrecognize the impersonated Middle Ages? And\r\nHelena, we know her also, she is the spirit of Antiquity.\r\nPersonified, but we dare scarcely say, embodied;\r\nfor she is a ghost raised by the spells of\r\nFaustus, a simulacrum of a thing long dead; yet with\r\nsuch continuing semblance of life, nay, with all life's\r\nreal powers, that she seems the real, vital, living one,\r\nand Faustus yonder, thing as he is of the present,\r\nlittle better than a spectre. Yet Helena has been\r\nages before Faust ever was; nay, by an awful mystery\r\nlike those which involve the birth of Pagan gods,\r\nshe whom he has evoked to be the mother of his only\r\nson has given, centuries before, somewhat of her life\r\nto make this self-same Faust. A strange mystery of\r\nFate's necromancy this, and with strange anomalies.\r\nFor opposite this living, decrepit Faust, Helena, the\r\nlong dead, is young; and she is all that which Faust\r\nis not. Knowing much less than he, who has plunged\r\nhis thoughts like his scalpel into all the mysteries of\r\nlife and death, she yet knows much more, can tell\r\nhim of the objects and aims of men and things; nay,\r\nwith little more than the unconscious faithfulness to\r\ninstinct of the clean-limbed, placid brute, she can\r\ngive peace to his tormented conscience; and, while\r\nhe has suffered and struggled and lashed himself for\r\nevery seeming baseness of desire, and loathed himself\r\nfor every imagined microscopic soiling, she has\r\nwalked through good and evil, letting the vileness of\r\nsin trickle off her unhidden soul, so quietly and\r\nmajestically that all thought of evil vanishes; and\r\nthe self-tormenting wretch, with macerated flesh hidden\r\nbeneath the heavy garments of mysticism and\r\nphilosophy, suddenly feels, in the presence of her unabashed\r\nnakedness, that he, like herself, is chaste.\nSuch are the parents, Faustus and Helena; we know\r\nthem; but who is this son Euphorion? To me it\r\nseems as if there could be but one answerthe Renaissance.\r\nGoethe indeed has told us (though, with his\r\nrejuvenation of Faustus, unknown to the old German\r\nlegend and to our Marlowe, in how bungling a manner!)\r\nthe tale of that mystic marriage; but Goethe could\r\nnot tell us rightly, even had he attempted, the real\r\nname of its offspring. For even so short a time ago,\r\nthe Middle Ages were only beginning to be more\r\nthan a mere historical expression, Antiquity was being\r\nonly then critically discovered; and the Renaissance,\r\nbut vaguely seen and quite unformulated by the\r\nfirst men, Gibbon and Roscoe, who perceived it at\r\nall, was still virtually unknown. To Goethe, therefore,\r\nit might easily have seemed as if the antique\r\nHelena had only just been evoked, and as if of her\r\nunion with the worn-out century of his birth, a real\r\nEuphorion, the age in which ourselves are living,\r\nmight have been born. But, at the distance of additional\r\ntime, and from the undreamed-of height upon\r\nwhich recent historical science has enabled us to stand,\r\nwe can easily see that in this he would have been\r\nmistaken. Not only is our modern culture no child of\r\nFaustus and Helena, but it is the complex descendant,\r\nstrangely featured by atavism from various sides, of\r\nmany and various civilizations; and the eighteenth\r\ncentury, so far from being a Faustus evoking as his\r\nbride the long dead Helen of Antiquity, was in itself a\r\ncuriously varied grandchild or great-grandchild of such\r\na marriage, its every moral feature, its every intellectual\r\nmovement proclaiming how much of its being was inherited\r\nfrom Antiquity. No allegory, I well know,\r\nand least of all no historical allegory, can ever be\r\nstrained to fit quite tightthe lives of individuals and\r\nthose of centuries, their modes of intermixture, genesis,\r\nand inheritance are far different; but if an allegory is\r\nto possess any meaning at all, we must surely apply it\r\nwherever it will fit most easily and completely; and\r\nthe beautiful allegory prepared by the tradition of the\r\nsixteenth century for the elaborating genius of Goethe,\r\ncan have a real meaning only if we explain Faust as representing\r\nthe Middle Ages, Helena as Antiquity, and\r\nEuphorion as that child of the Middle Ages, taking\r\nlife and reality from them, but born of and curiously\r\nnurtured by the spirit of Antiquity, to which significant\r\naccident has given the name of Renaissance.\r\nAfter Euphorion I have therefore christened this\r\nbook; and this not from any irrational conceit of\r\nknowing more (when I am fully aware that I know\r\ninfinitely less) than other writers about the life and\r\ncharacter of this wonderful child of Helena and Faustus,\r\nbut merely because it is more particularly as the offspring\r\nof this miraculous marriage, and with reference\r\nto the harmonies and anomalies which therefrom\r\nresulted, that Euphorion has exercised my thoughts.\r\nThe Renaissance has interested and interests me, not\r\nmerely for what it is, but even more for what it sprang\r\nfrom, and for the manner in which the many things\r\ninherited from both Middle Ages and Renaissance, the\r\ntendencies and necessities inherent in every special\r\ncivilization, acted and reacted upon each other, united\r\nin concord or antagonism; forming, like the gases of\r\nthe chemist, new things, sometimes like and sometimes\r\nunlike themselves and each other; producing now\r\nsome unknown substance of excellence and utility, at\r\nother times some baneful element, known but too well\r\nelsewhere, but unexpected here. But not the watching\r\nof the often tragic meeting of these great fatalities\r\nof inherited spirit and habit only: for equally fascinating\r\nalmost has been the watching of the elaboration\r\nby this double-natured period of things of little\r\nweight, mere trifles of artistic material bequeathed to\r\nit by one or by the other of its spiritual parents. The\r\ncharm for mea charm sometimes pleasurable, but\r\nsometimes also painful, like the imperious necessity\r\nwhich we sometimes feel to see again and examine,\r\nseemingly uselessly, some horrible evilthe charm, I\r\nmean the involuntary compulsion of attention, has\r\noften been as great in following the vicissitudes of a\r\nmere artistic item, like the Carolingian stories or the\r\nbucolic element, as it has been in looking on at the\r\ndissolution of moral and social elements. And in\r\nthis, that I have tried to understand only where my\r\ncuriosity was awakened, tried to reconstruct only\r\nwhere my fancy was taken; in short, studied of this\r\nRenaissance civilization only as much or as little as I\r\ncared, depends all the incompleteness and irrelevancy\r\nand unsatisfactoriness of this book, and depends also\r\nwhatever addition to knowledge or pleasure it may\r\nafford; Were I desirous of giving a complete, clear\r\nnotion of the very complex civilization of the Renaissance,\r\na kind of encyclopdic atlas of that period,\r\nwhere (by a double power which history alone possesses)\r\nyou could see at once the whole extent and\r\nshape of this historical territory, and at the same time,\r\nwith all its bosses of mountain and furrows of valley,\r\nthe exact composition of all its various earths and\r\nwaters, the exact actual colour and shape of all its\r\ndifferent vegetations, not to speak of its big towns\r\nand dotting villages;were I desirous of doing this, I\r\nshould not merely be attempting a work completely\r\nbeyond my faculties, but a work moreover already\r\ncarried out with all the perfection due to specially\r\nadapted gifts, to infinite patience and ingenuity, occasionally\r\namounting almost to genius. Such is not\r\nat all within my wishes, as it assuredly would be\r\ntotally without my powers.\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 31303 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Lee, Vernon \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Feb 17, 2010 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Lee, Vernon,1856-1935 \/ eBook \/ English","offer_id":43219603226781,"sku":"gb-31303-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/31303.jpg?v=1671529757"},{"product_id":"euphorion-vol-ii-gb-31304","title":"Euphorion - Vol. II","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEuphorion - Vol. II\r - Being Studies of the Antique and the Mediaeval in the Renaissance\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReal and Idealthese are the handy terms, admiring\r\nor disapproving, which criticism claps with random\r\nfacility on to every imaginable school. This artist\r\nor group of artists goes in for the realthe upright,\r\nnoble, trumpery, filthy real; that other artist or group\r\nof artists seeks after the idealthe ideal which may\r\nmean sublimity or platitude. We summon every\r\nliving artist to state whether he is a realist or an\r\nidealist; we classify all dead artists as realists or\r\nidealists; we treat the matter as if it were one of\r\nalmost moral importance. Now the fact of the case\r\nis that the question of realism and idealism, which\r\nwe calmly assume as already settled or easy to settle\r\nby our own sense of right and wrong, is one of the\r\ntangled questions of art-philosophy; and one, moreover,\r\nwhich no amount of theory, but only historic\r\nfact, can ever set right. For, to begin with, we find\r\nrealism and idealism coming before us in different\r\nways and with different meaning and importance.\r\nAll art which is not addressing (as decrepit art is\r\nforced to do) faculties to which it does not spontaneously\r\nand properly appealall art is decorative, ornamental,\r\nidealistic therefore, since it consciously or\r\nunconsciously aims, not merely at reproducing the\r\nalready existing, but at producing something which\r\nshall repay the looking at it, something which shall ornament,\r\nif not a place, at least our lives; and such making\r\nof the ornamental, of the worth looking at, necessarily\r\nimplies selection and arrangementthat is to say\r\nidealism. At the same time, while art aims definitely\r\nat being in this sense decorative, art may very possibly\r\naim more immediately at merely reproducing, without,\r\nselection or arrangement, the actually existing things\r\nof the world; and this in order to obtain the mere\r\npower of representation. In short, art which is idealistic\r\nas a master will yet be realistic as a scholar: it\r\ndecorates when it achieves, it copies when it studies.\r\nBut this is only half the question. Certain whole\r\nschools may be described as idealistic, others as\r\nrealistic, in tendency; and this, not in their study, but\r\nin their achievement. One school will obviously be\r\ncontented with forms the most unselected and vulgar;\r\nothers will go but little out of their way in search of\r\nform-superiority; while yet others, and these we must\r\nemphatically call idealistic, are squeamish to the last\r\ndegree in the choice and adaptation of form, anxious,\r\nto get the very best, and make the very best of it.\r\nYet, on thinking over it, we shall find that realistic.\r\nand idealistic schools are all, in their achievements,\r\nequally striving after something which is not the mere\r\nreproduction of the already existing as suchstriving,\r\nin short, after decoration. The pupil of Perugino\r\nwill, indeed, wait patiently to begin his work until he\r\ncan find a model fit for a god or goddess; while the\r\nfellow-craftsman of Rembrandt will be satisfied with\r\nthe first dirty old Jew or besotten barmaid that comes\r\nto hand. But the realistic Dutchman is not, therefore,\r\nany the less smitten with beauty, any the less eager\r\nto be ornamental, than the idealistic Italian: his man\r\nand woman he takes indeed with off-hand indifference,\r\nbut he places them in that of which the Italian shall\r\nperhaps never have dreamed, in that on which he has\r\nexpended all his science, his skill, his fancy, in that\r\nwhich he gives as his addition to the beautiful things\r\nof artin atmosphere, in light, which are to the everyday\r\natmosphere and light what the patiently sought\r\nfor, carefully perfected god or goddess model of\r\nRaphael is to the everyday Jew, to the everyday\r\nbarmaid, of Rembrandt.\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 31304 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Lee, Vernon \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Feb 17, 2010 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Lee, Vernon,1856-1935 \/ eBook \/ English","offer_id":43219603423389,"sku":"gb-31304-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/31304.jpg?v=1671529761"},{"product_id":"the-next-step-in-religion-an-essay-toward-the-coming-renaissance-gb-31920","title":"The Next Step in Religion: An Essay toward the Coming Renaissance","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Next Step in Religion: An Essay toward the Coming Renaissance\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\r\nThe purpose of this book is positive and constructive, although it may\r\nnot at first appear such to the reader whose inherited beliefs are\r\nfreely challenged.  But let the reader ponder the fact that the deepest\r\nspiritual life has always concerned itself with the appreciation and\r\nmaintenance of values.  He who acknowledges, and wishes to further,\r\nhuman values cannot be said to be irreligious or unspiritual.\r\n\n\r\nThe center of gravity of religion has been openly changing for some\r\ntime now from supernaturalism to what may best be called a humanistic\r\nnaturalism.  The history of this change is traced in many of the\r\nchapters of the book.  There have been many steps forward in the past,\r\nfor every age must possess its own religion, a religion concordant with\r\nits knowledge and expressive of its problems and aims.  The sincerity\r\nand adequacy with which this necessary task is done measures the\r\nspiritual greatness of the particular age.\r\n\n\r\nI have called the book The Next Step in Religion because the time is\r\nripe for one of the great steps forward.  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But there the drama is; it is alive, and it is\r\ngrowing.\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 36590 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Filon, Augustin \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Jul 3, 2011 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eContributors\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTranslator\u003c\/b\u003e: Whyte, Frederic, 1867-1941 \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Filon, Augustin,1841-1916 \/ eBook \/ English","offer_id":43220369473693,"sku":"gb-36590-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/36590.jpg?v=1671550613"},{"product_id":"a-book-about-the-theater-gb-36790","title":"A Book About the Theater","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Book About the Theater\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrench Dramatists of the 19th Century\r\nPen and Ink, Essays on subjects of more or less importance\r\nAspects of Fiction, and other Essays\r\nThe Historical Novel, and other Essays\r\nParts of Speech, Essays on English\r\nThe Development of the Drama\r\nInquiries and Opinions\r\nThe American of the Future, and other Essays\r\nGateways to Literature, and other Essays\r\nOn Acting\r\nA Book About the Theater\nLet me begin by confessing my regret that I cannot\r\noverhear your first remark when you receive this sheaf\r\nof essays, many of which are devoted to the subordinate\r\nsubdivisions of the art of the stage. 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In days to come they will look back with a\r\nfeeling akin to awe on the hours when, in Sir Owen\r\nSeaman's words, they \"saw the Powers of Darkness\r\nput to flight\" and \"saw the morning break.\" The\r\nfuture of our country will be determined by the youth\r\nof to-day. Problems of the greatest complexity and\r\nperplexity await solution, and can be solved only by\r\nhonesty, intelligence, sympathy, breadth of outlook,\r\nsacrificial service, and the fear of God. The teachers\r\nand pupils now in our schools are in the midst of a\r\ngreat crisis, and will need greatness of soul that they\r\nmay rightly face it. That they will respond nobly to\r\nthe challenge of the age, I have not the shadow of a\r\ndoubt.\nNever was there a more timely occasion for the\r\nteaching of an ardent and enlightened patriotism.\r\nThose who understand the issues at stake in the Great\r\nWar, the genius of the world-wide British Commonwealth,\r\nthe national consciousness of our own fair\r\nCanada, the lessons taught us by the mighty struggle,\r\nwill be well-instructed citizens of this Dominion,\r\nequipped by knowledge and by spirit to serve their\r\ncountry, their Empire, and the world.\n[x]\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 46427 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Cody, Henry John \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Jul 27, 2014 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eContributors\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEditor\u003c\/b\u003e: Wetherell, J. E. (James Elgin), 1851-1940 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Cody, Henry John,1868-1951 \/ eBook \/ English","offer_id":43221662466205,"sku":"gb-46427-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/46427.jpg?v=1671609724"},{"product_id":"their-majesties-servants-annals-of-the-english-stage-volume-1-of-3-gb-47116","title":"\"Their Majesties' Servants.\" Annals of the English Stage (Volume 1 of 3)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Their Majesties' Servants.\" Annals of the English Stage (Volume 1 of 3)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is unnecessary to apologise for a new edition of\r\nDr. Doran's Annals of the Stage. The two editions\r\nalready published have been for many years out of\r\nprint, and the first is so rare that copies of it bring a\r\nhigh price whenever they occur for sale. And this\r\ndemand is not a mere bibliographical accident, for\r\nthe book has held for many years a recognised position\r\nas the standard popular history of the English\r\nstage. The admirable work of Genest, indispensable\r\nas it is to every writer on theatrical history, and to\r\nevery serious student of the stage, is in no sense a\r\npopular work, and is, indeed, rather a collection of\r\nfacts towards a history than a history itself.\nIn preparing this new edition every effort has\r\nbeen made to add to its interest by the introduction\r\nof portraits and other illustrations, and to its\r\nauthority as a book of reference, by correcting\r\nthose errors which are scarcely to be avoided by[vi]\r\na writer working among the confused, inaccurate,\r\nand contradictory documents of theatrical history.\r\nNo one who has not ventured into this maze can\r\nconceive the difficulty of keeping the true path, and\r\nI can imagine nothing better calculated to sap one's\r\nself-confidence than the task of noting the false\r\nturnings made by such a writer as Dr. Doran. I\r\ncan hardly hope that my own work, light as it is\r\nin comparison with his, will be found free from\r\nsins of omission, and even of commission.\nMy principle has been to pass no error, however\r\ntrifling; but, at the same time, I have not thought\r\nmyself entitled to discuss matters of opinion, or to\r\ncriticise, either directly or indirectly, Dr. Doran's\r\ntreatment of his subject. Thus it would be easy to\r\nsupplement the information regarding the ancient\r\ntheatres and the theatre of Shakspeare's time contained\r\nin the first and second chapters; but, as Dr.\r\nDoran obviously intended that his real work should\r\nbegin with the Restoration Theatres, I have not\r\ninterfered with his scheme. I trust that, in this, as\r\nin other respects, my work has been done in a spirit\r\nfree from captiousness.\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 47116 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Doran, Dr. (John) \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Oct 14, 2014 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eContributors\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEditor\u003c\/b\u003e: Lowe, Robert William, 1853-1902 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Doran, Dr. (John),1807-1878 \/ eBook \/ English","offer_id":43221709619357,"sku":"gb-47116-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/47116.jpg?v=1671612261"},{"product_id":"their-majesties-servants-annals-of-the-english-stage-volume-2-of-3-gb-47117","title":"\"Their Majesties' Servants.\" Annals of the English Stage (Volume 2 of 3)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Their Majesties' Servants.\" Annals of the English Stage (Volume 2 of 3)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eArtists who have been wont to look into the Vicar\r\nof Wakefield, Gil Blas, and last century comedies,\r\nfor picturesque subjects, would find account in\r\nreferring to the lives of our actresses. Here is not\r\na bad picture of its class. The time is at the close\r\nof the seventeenth century; the scene is at the\r\nMitre Tavern in St. James's Market, kept by one\r\nMrs. Voss. It is a quiet summer evening, and after\r\nthe fatigues of the day are over, and before the later\r\nbusiness of the night has commenced, that buxom\r\nlady is reclining in an easy chair, listening to a fair[2]\r\nand bright young creature, her sister,[1] who is reading\r\naloud, and is enjoying what she reads. Her eyes,\r\nlike Kathleen's in the song, are beaming with light,\r\nher face glowing with intelligence and feeling.\r\nEven an elderly lady, their mother, turns away from\r\nthe picture of her husband, who had ridden in the\r\nGuards, and held a commission under James II.she\r\nturns from this, and memories of old days, to\r\ngaze with tender admiration on her brilliant young\r\ndaughter; who, be it said, at this present reading,\r\nis only an apprentice to a seamstress in King Street,\r\nWestminster.\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 47117 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Doran, Dr. (John) \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Oct 14, 2014 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eContributors\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEditor\u003c\/b\u003e: Lowe, Robert William, 1853-1902 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Doran, Dr. (John),1807-1878 \/ eBook \/ English","offer_id":43221709684893,"sku":"gb-47117-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/47117.jpg?v=1671612264"}],"url":"https:\/\/booksdeli.com\/collections\/history-general.oembed","provider":"booksdeli.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}