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Millhands and Preachers
A Study of Gastonia
To explore the question of the church’s role in Western economic systems, Mr. Pope presents a pioneering study of the actual role played by the church in the industrial community Gastonia, North Carolina. He has written...
Volume 32
With the Countess of Upper Ossory, I, 1761-1777
The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms
Volume 2: Mythical Thought
The Symbolic Forms has long been considered the greatest of Cassirer’s works. Into it he poured all the resources of his vast learning about language and myth, religion, art, and science—the various creative...
The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, Vol. 8
Volume 8: April 1, 1758 through December 31, 1759
In this volume Franklin is representing the Pennsylvania Assembly in London, meeting with limited success before the Privy Council over the question of the Proprietor's alleged fraud in Indian lands and with complete reversal...
The Works of Samuel Johnson, Vol 6
Poems
In 1941, when Mr. McAdam and the late D. Nichol Smith published their edition of Johnson's poems, no one could have foreseen the great surge in Johnsonian studies in the next generation, much less the discovery of addition...
The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms
Volume 1: Language
“An outstanding contribution to epistemology and to the human power of abstraction.”—F.I.G. Rawlins, Nature The Symbolic Forms has long been considered by many who knew it in the original...
The Morality of Law
"Among the important books in the history of American legal philosophy. It includes insights into the relations between morality and law, and advances a theory of law of great practical relevance. . . . [This] is...
The Problem of God
Yesterday and Today
"A gem of a book—lucid, illuminating, brilliantly written."—Paul Weiss In an urbane and persuasive tract for our time, the distinguished Catholic theologian John Murray combines a comprehensive...
Character Text for Intermediate Chinese
In this parallel character version of Intermediate Chinese, dialogues, pronunciation drills, sentence-building exercises, substitution drills and memorization exercises correspond to the same lessons Intermediate...
Political Oppositions in Western Democracies
The idea that the opposition has a right to organize and to appeal for votes against the government in elections and in parliament is one of the most important milestones in the development of democratic institutions. Mr....