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Adam Smith
by Bryce WaltonEarly in 1793 Dugald Stewart read at two meetings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh his “Account of the Life and Writings of Adam Smith.” Written with the sympathetic pen of a friend and disciple in the Corinthian style that Stewart loved, the memoir was too good to be superseded. A century passed, and in 1895 appeared Mr. John Rae’s exhaustive Lif..
The Spanish Influenza Pandemic of 1918
by Oscar Jewell HarveyEARLY in September, 1918, the United States was invaded by a scourge of highly infectious and fatal disease, which spread with rapidity throughout the country. It was pandemic in its nature, and partook of many of the characteristics of influenza, grip and pneumonia. No one seemed to know much about the disease or its treatment, and medical science..
What Became of the Slaves on a Georgia Plantation?
by Q. K. Philander DoesticksThe largest sale of human chattels that has been made in Star-Spangled America for several years, took place on Wednesday and Thursday of last week, at the Race-course near the City of Savannah, Georgia. The lot consisted of four hundred and thirty-six men, women, children and infants, being that half of the negro stock remaining on the old Major B..
Practicable Socialism, New Series
by S. A. BarnettThe first edition of Practicable Socialism was printed in 1888, the second in 1894. Now, twenty-one years afterwards, a new series is issued, but the most important of the two authors, alas! has left the world, and it therefore falls to me to write the introduction alone.In selecting the papers for this volume, out of a very great deal of material,..
The dawn of astronomy
by Sir Norman LockyerThe enormous advance which has been recently made in our astronomical knowledge, and in our power of investigating the various bodies which people space, is to a very great extent due to the introduction of methods of work and ideas from other branches of science. Much of the recent progress has been, we may indeed say, entirely dependent upon the ..
Riches and Poverty
by L. G. Chiozza MoneyThe present edition of "Riches and Poverty" revises my estimates of the distribution of the wealth of the United Kingdom down to the year 1908. The effect of the revision is to show that in the five years that have elapsed since this work was first published, the distribution of wealth has grown even more unequal. The comparative stationariness of ..
Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal Vol. 10
by Various AuthorsTrial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal Vol. 10..
Clara Barton - A Centenary Tribute to the World's Greatest Humanitarian
by Charles Sumner YoungClara Barton: A Centenary Tribute to the World's Greatest HumanitarianFounder of the American Red Cross Society, Author of the American Amendment to the International Red Cross Convention of Geneva, Founder of the National First Aid Association of America.The author undertakes to produce a few pen pictures of a personal friend—humanity’s friend. Th..