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Wendell Phillips Before the Concord Lyceum
From "The Liberator," March 28, 1845. Concord, Mass., March 12, 1845. Mr. Editor:— We have now...
Life without Principle
Atlantic Monthly, Boston, October, 1863. At a lyceum, not long since, I felt that the lecturer h...
Herald of Freedom
From "The Dial," Boston, April, 1844. We had occasionally, for several years, met with a number ...
Paradise (To Be) Regained
"Democratic Review," New York, November, 1843. We learn that Mr. Etzler is a native of Germany, ...
A Plea for Captain John Brown
Read to the citizens of Concord, Mass., Sunday Evening, October 30, 1859. I trust that you will ...
Slavery in Massachusetts
An Address, delivered at the Anti-Slavery Celebration at Framingham, July 4th, 1854. I lately at...
Part IV: Of the sceptical and other systems of philosophy
Section I. Of scepticism with regard to reason In all demonstrative sciences the rules are certa...
Part III: Of knowledge and probability
Section I. Of knowledge There are 1 seven different kinds of philosophical relation, viz. resemb...
Part II: Of the ideas of space and time
Section I. Of the infinite divisibility of our idea of space and time Whatever has the air of a ...
Part I: Of ideas, their origin, composition, connexion, abstraction, etc.
Section I. Of the origin of our ideas All the perceptions of the human mind resolve themselves i...
Book VII. Vendemiaire.
Chapter 1. Decadent. How little did any one suppose that here was the end not of Robespierre onl...
Book VI. Thermidor.
Chapter 1. The Gods Are Athirst. What then is this Thing, called La Revolution, which, like an A...
Book V. Terror the Order of the Day.
Chapter 1. Rushing Down. We are now, therefore, got to that black precipitous Abyss; whither all...
Book IV. Terror.
Chapter 1. Charlotte Corday. In the leafy months of June and July, several French Departments ge...
Book III. The Girondins.
Chapter 1. Cause and Effect. This huge Insurrectionary Movement, which we liken to a breaking ou...
Book II. Regicide.
Chapter 1. The Deliberative. France therefore has done two things very completely: she has hurle...
Book I. September.
Chapter 1. The Improvised Commune. Ye have roused her, then, ye Emigrants and Despots of the wor...
Book VI. The Marseillese.
Chapter 1. Executive That Does Not Act. How could your paralytic National Executive be put 'in a...
Book V. Parliament First.
Chapter 1. Grande Acceptation. In the last nights of September, when the autumnal equinox is pas...
Book IV. Varennes.
Chapter 1. Easter at Saint-Cloud. The French Monarchy may now therefore be considered as, in all...