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Contents: The Epicurean Pursuit of PleasureStoic Self-Control by LawThe Platonic Subordination of Lower to HigherThe Aristotelian Sense of ProportionThe Christian Spirit of Love William De Witt Hyde, the seventh president of Bowdoin College (1885-1917), was born in Winchendon, Massachusetts, on September 23, 1858. After earning his bachelor's degree from Harvard in 1879, he continued his theological studies at Union Theological Seminary (1879-...

This discussion treats an important question that has received no specific and thorough examination elsewhere, notwithstanding is gravity. Mr. Darrow is probably the foremost of the American representatives of the non-resistance theory, and his case is stated in these pages more pointedly and forcibly than in any of his published works. The arguments launched against Mr. Darrow will, I think, satisfy the opponents of the non-resistance philoso...

John Paul Jones, like other distinguished men of his day, kept copies of his correspondence, preserving many of the letters he received and autograph drafts of his own private and official letters. An exhaustive examination of all the documents in the Government archives of the United States, England, France, and Russia, and of all those existing in a variety of private archives and public libraries, has brought to light an astonishing amount ...

John Paul Jones, like other distinguished men of his day, kept copies of his correspondence, preserving many of the letters he received and autograph drafts of his own private and official letters. An exhaustive examination of all the documents in the Government archives of the United States, England, France, and Russia, and of all those existing in a variety of private archives and public libraries, has brought to light an astonishing amount ...

Originally published by the University of Chicago Press in 1918, this volume aims to throw light upon the various economic questions which arise in connection with war. It covers the economic background of war in general, the economic reorganization required in view of the necessities of a world-war, and the economic questions involved in the reorganization of the industrial system at the end of World War I.

Pure Sociology is a synthesis of Wards sociological thought, his next to last book. Lester F. Ward (1841-1913) worked as a government geologist and paleontologist from 1881 to 1906, when he became professor of sociology at Brown. One of the first and most important of American sociologists, Ward developed a theory of planned progress called telesis, whereby man, through education and development of intellect, could direct social evolution. War...

Tolstoy (1828-1910) joined the army in 1851 and took part in campaigns against the native Caucasian tribes and, soon after, in the Crimean War (1853-56). This book of three sketches published between 1855 and 1856 is based on his experiences during the Crimean War.

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Strategic mobility, the capability to transport military forces rapidly across intercontinental distances into an operational theater, lies at the heart of US military strategy. Nowhere has the importance of strategic mobility been more evident than in Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm, the military response to the Iraqi seizure of Kuwait that began in August 1990 and ended in March 1991. "This study presents a detailed analysis of how the ...

This book recounts the development of aviation in the United States Army from April 1861, when the Army first became interested in balloons as a means of observation, to April 1917, when America entered World War I. The origins and organizations of the Army's air arm are told in detail, with particular emphasis on early air force personnel, planes, and experiments. In the process the monograph traces the early development of what today is The ...

This 1911 biography reveals the extraordinary influence of the wealthy botanist Banks on eighteenth-century science, exploration and society.

For two centuries the works of Jean-Jacques Rousseau have been read and reread and perpetually annotated. Rousseau's ideas on education were so original when first published in 1762 that they still have claims to novelty. In the cause of education he has been a great incitor of ideas in others, the initiator of the modern movement, the "leader" of most of the educators who came after him. Gabriel Compayré is the author of History of Pedagogy, ...

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