Accepting the universe Accepting the universe by John Burroughs A wheel may have many spokes but can have but one hub. So I may say of this volume that there are many themes and chapter headings, but there is but one central thought into which they…
The universe a vast electric organism From the introduction This volume is intended to further elucidate my theories of electrical creation, to cover some points lightly touched upon in my previous books; also to bring forward to date the most recen…
Natural philosophy Natural philosophy - Wilhelm Ostwald Freface: The beginning of the twentieth century is marked by a sudden rise in interest in philosophy. This is especially manifest in the vast growth of philosophic literature. The present move…
Human nature and its remaking From the introduction: Since books are no longer supposed, whether by author or public, to contain the final and finished truth, no book need to apologize for being unripe. One's hope is, not to close the discussio…
Natural law- An essay in ethics Excerpt: If truth is at all within the reach of human capacity, 'tis certain it must lie very deep and abstruse; and to hope we shall arrive at it without pains, while the greatest geniuses have failed with the ut…
An ethical system based on the laws of nature The author of this patient, sincere, and searching work has done me the honour to ask for a preface from my pen. The task of writing comes when I am almost overweighted with other work on behalf of the p…
What nature is; an outline of scientific naturalism I am now convinced, that no great improvements in a lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought. The old opinions in relig…
The socialization of humanity The socialization of humanity by Charles Kendall Franklin analysis and synthesis of the phenomena of nature, life, mind and society through the law of repetition; a system of monistic philosophy. From Introduction: The…
