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Sceptical essays

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Description: "This volume beings with an essay on 'The Value of Scepticism,' and all its seventeen essays have this in common, that they advocate a considerable degree of scepticism. The earlier essays give in popular form scientific and philosophical reasons for an undogmatic attitude in all departments of knowledge. Then there is a group of essays setting out the moral and ethical advantages of a realization that our beliefs are all subject to error. The third group applies scepticism to politics; while the last essay in the volume suggests--though with due scepticism--certain things likely to happen in politics, economics, family life, art, and literature, if our industrial society develops without a cataclysm"--From dust jacket.
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Publication date: 1928.
Call number: 645044
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Essays and letter concerning Ishi

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This group of items includes two essays and a letter, all of which relate to the Yana Indian Ishi. One of the essays, written by anthropologist Darwin B. Lyon who assisted Professor T. T. Waterman with the examination of Ishi, describes Lyon's experiences with Ishi including the two of them creating a map of the area in which Ishi lived. Lyon also talks about the Indians in California and their history in general. The other essay and letter are written by Alfred Barstow and also talk about Darwin B. Lyon and Ishi; the letter is addressed to Leslie Edgar Bliss of The Huntington Library.

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The conquest of happiness

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"Happiness comes party from within, partly from without. This book deals only with the former part. Every person, given food health and the necessities of life, ought to be happy. Yet happiness is rare. Why? Mr. Bertrand Russell, who is recognised as one of the leading minds of our generation, propounds the solution and discusses the manner in which the mind may be directed so that happiness ensues"--From dust jacket.

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Essays

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2 pieces: a published book of three essays, Three Essays : Free Will. Teleology. Origins (Yeovil: Western Gazette &c. Company, Limited, [1908]) and a pamphlet "Socialism - An Essay" (April 1908), both inscribed to Arundell Esdaile, by William Esdaile.

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The Nucleous of Our Planet in a State of Igneous Liquifaction: essay ; watercolor miniature of Edgar Allan Poe

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This essay was written by Eveleth in late 1848; he wrote it in response to Edgar Allan Poe's "Eureka." The cover of the volume and the printed version of Eveleth's essay are incorrectly attributed to Poe.

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Philip K. Dick letters, essay, and interview

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Photocopies of letters by Philip D. Dick, some in German, a copy of an article and essay by Dick, and a transcript of an interview with Dick by Uwe Anton and Werner Fuchs. They are all photocopies.

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