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On the Significance of Science and Art by Leo Nikoleyevich Tolstoy (the reading list .TXT) πŸ“• - American Library Books πŸ“š Read (28910) Books Online Free

it is only necessary for him to display intelligence,--one man in the military service, another in the judicial, another on the violin. There have been many and varied expressions of human wisdom, and these phenomena were known to the men of the nineteenth century. The wisdom of Rousseau and of Lessing, and Spinoza and Bruno, and all the wisdom of antiquity; but no one man's wisdom overrode the crowd. It was impossible to say even this,--that Hegel's success was the result of the symmetry of

An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume II. by John Locke (best books to read .TXT) πŸ“• - American Library Books πŸ“š Read (28910) Books Online Free

refore the great Augustus himself, in the possession of that power which ruled the world, acknowledged he could not make a new Latin word: which was as much as to say, that he could not arbitrarily appoint what idea any sound should be a sign of, in the mouths and common language of his subjects. It is true, common use, by a tacit consent, appropriates certain sounds to certain ideas in all languages, which so far limits the signification of that sound, that unless a man applies it to the same

Content by Cory Doctorow (first e reader txt) πŸ“• - American Library Books πŸ“š Read (28910) Books Online Free

And so it has been for the last 13 years. The companies that claim the ability to regulate humanity's Right to Know have been tireless in their endeavors to prevent the inevitable. The won most of the legislative battles in the U.S. and abroad, having purchased all the government money could buy. They even won most of the contests in court. They created digital rights management software schemes that behaved rather like computer viruses. Indeed, they did about everything they could short of

The Book of the Damned by Charles Fort (e book reader free .txt) πŸ“• - American Library Books πŸ“š Read (28910) Books Online Free

he same goal.As to physical things, chemic, mineralogic, astronomic, it is not customary to say that they act to achieve Truth or Entity, but it is understood that all motions are toward Equilibrium: that there is no motion except toward Equilibrium, of course always away from some other approximation to Equilibrium. All biologic phenomena act to adjust: there are no biologic actions other than adjustments. Adjustment is another name for Equilibrium. Equilibrium is the Universal, or that which

A Confession by Leo Nikoleyevich Tolstoy (best sales books of all time txt) πŸ“• - American Library Books πŸ“š Read (28910) Books Online Free

s of our present progress could justify this deed; and that though everybody from the creation of the world had held it to be necessary, on whatever theory, I knew it to be unnecessary and bad; and therefore the arbiter of what is good and evil is not what people say and do, nor is it progress, but it is my heart and I. Another instance of a realization that the superstitious belief in progress is insufficient as a guide to life, was my brother's death. Wise, good, serious, he fell ill while

The Coming Technological Singularity by Vernor Vinge (novels for teenagers .TXT) πŸ“• - American Library Books πŸ“š Read (28910) Books Online Free

ere able to follow it, in some sense that might say something about the plausibility of such kindness in this universe.)I have argued above that we cannot prevent the Singularity, that its coming is an inevitable consequence of the humans' natural competitiveness and the possibilities inherent in technology. And yet ... we are the initiators. Even the largest avalanche is triggered by small things. We have the freedom to establish initial conditions, make things happen in ways that are less