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The Ethics of Fetal Research
“So here we have an entity too alive to be dead, not mature enough to be a viable baby, yet human enough to be specially protectable.” -- Paul Ramsey A storm has been brewing over legal and ethical...
The Renaissance Chaucer
For Elizabethans, modern English literary history began with Chaucer. Looking back, they say him as a noble primitive, a genius in spite of the barbarity of his age and language. In this book, Alice Miskimin...
The Yale Editions of Horace Walpole's Correspondence, Volume 39
With Henry Seymour Conway, Lady Ailesbury, Lord and Lady Hertford, Lord Beauchamp and Lord Hugh Seymour
The Yale Editions of Horace Walpole's Correspondence, Volume 38
With Henry Seymour Conway, Lady Ailesbury, Lord and Lady Hertford, Lord Beauchamp and Henrietta Seymour Conway
The Yale Editions of Horace Walpole's Correspondence, Volume 37
With Henry Seymour Conway, Lady Ailesbury, Lord and Lady Hertford, and Mrs. Harris
The Alchemist
In none of Ben Jonson’s plays is Renaissance heroic humanism converted to comic reality more obviously and successfully than in The Alchemist. Here the aspiration of the Renaissance to control and remake the...
The Humane Imperative
A Challenge for the Year 2000
What we read in the newspapers each day and what we consider to be world trends in the last decade do not leave much room for enthusiasm or hopefulness. It is easy for Americans—idealists and realists alike—to fall...
The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, Vol. 18
Volume 18: January 1, 1771 through December 31, 1771
The Yale Edition of The Complete Works of St. Thomas More
Volume 3, Part 1, Translations of Lucian
In 1505 and 1506, More and Erasmus found a world of profit and delight in turning some of Lucian of Samosata’s writing into Latin. More translated the Cynicus, Minippus, Philopseudes, and Tyrannicida, and...
In Bluebeard's Castle
Some Notes Towards the Redefinition of Culture
“Four impressive lectures about the culture of recent times (from the French Revolution) and the conceivable culture of times to come.” –New Yorker "An all too convincing diagnosis of what is...