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The Oilman's Bullock

In Folklore of the Santal Parganas, Vol. 1

Read by Leon Mire

Cecil Henry Bompas and Unknowntranslated Bycecil Henry Bompas

This is an intriguing collection of folklore from the Santal Parganas, a district in India located about 150 miles from Calcutta. As its pre…

PREFACE

In The Golden Bough. A Study in Magic and Religion. Part 2. Taboo and the Perils o…

Read by Leon Harvey

James Frazer

The third volume of The Golden Bough. The term Taboo is one of the very few words which the English language has borrowed from the speech of…

The Oath and Law of Hippocrates, Charles Eliot, Editor

In Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 002

Read by Leon Mire

Hippocrates; Charles Eliot, editor and Hippocrates

A collection of ten short nonfiction works in the public domain. The essays, speeches and reports included in this collection were independ…

Social and Political Progress/The Leadership of the Churches

In History of the United States, Vol. I

Read by Leon Mire

Charles and Mary Beard and Charles Austin Beard

Charles Austin Beard was the most influential American historian of the early 20th century. He published hundreds of monographs, textbooks a…

High-Grade Men: in College & Out (1903)

In Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 102

Read by Leon Harvey

Edwin Grant Dexter

"It is difficult for the human mind to take a comprehensive view of a subject." This is how librarian Arthur Bostwick begins his e…

Aphorisms 22 - 40

In The Golden Sayings of Epictetus

Read by Leon Mire

Epictetus

Aphorisms from the Stoic Greek.

Chapter 2: The Entrance of Buddhism into China

In Buddhism and Buddhists in China

Read by Leon Mire

Lewis Hodus and Lewis Hodous

Buddhism and Buddhists in China is an anthropological text describing Buddhism as practiced in China at the beginning of the 20th Century. I…

Chapter 2, Part 2

In The Subjection of Women

Read by Leon Mire

John Stuart Mill

The Subjection of Women is the title of an essay written by John Stuart Mill in 1869, possibly jointly with his wife Harriet Taylor Mill, st…

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