1859
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On The Origin of Species
More creatures are born than can survive, they differ, and the useful differences carry forward. Darwin builds that one plain idea into an explanation of every living thing on earth.
On Liberty
Mill sets the limit that still governs the argument: society may interfere with you only to prevent harm to others. Silence an opinion and you rob everyone, including the people who are right.
The World as Will and Representation
Underneath everything we perceive, Schopenhauer argues, runs a blind will that wants without knowing why. Because wanting never finishes, living is suffering, and only art and music briefly suspend it.
A Tale of Two Cities
Eighteen years in the Bastille have left Doctor Manette making shoes in the dark. Dickens carries his daughter's household from London into the Terror, where Madame Defarge knits a death list.
View of Mount Fuji from Satta Point
The eye sweeps from pines on the cliff across Suruga Bay to Fuji, a whole vista folded into a few flat planes of color.
The shield may be as important for victory, as the sword or spear.