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Chapter XVIII: Future Condition Of Three Races—Part III

In Democracy in America Vol. I

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Alexis de Tocqueville and Alexis De Tocqueville

When Tocqueville visited America in the 1830s he found a thriving democracy of a kind he had not seen anywhere else. Many of his insightful …

A Priest in Spite of Himself

In Rewards and Fairies

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Rudyard Kipling

Joseph Rudyard Kipling (December 30, 1865 – January 18, 1936) was an English author and poet, born in India, and best known today for his ch…

XXVI - Of Civil Laws

In Leviathan (Books I and II)

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Thomas Hobbes

Leviathan, or The Matter, Forme and Power of a Common Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil, commonly called Leviathan, is a book written in 1651…

Chapter X, Part 3

In The History of England, from the Accession of James II - (Volume 2, Chapter 10)

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Thomas Babington Macaulay

This chapter begins with the flight of James II and then moves on to the downfall of Judge Jeffreys and the arrival of Dutch troops in Londo…

Chapter LXII: Greek Emperors Of Nice And Constantinople Part I

In The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Vol. VI

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Edward Gibbon

The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, a major literary achievement of the 18th century published in six volumes, was writ…

Appendix E: Definitions of Capital

In Principles of Economics, The Appendices

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Alfred Marshall

Principles of Economics was a leading economics textbook of Alfred Marshall (1842-1924), first published in 1890. Marshall began writing the…

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