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Weird Tales - Wikisource - 0 views

  • This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was legally published within the United States (or the United Nations Headquarters in New York subject to Section 7 of the United States Headquarters Agreement) before 1964, and copyright was not renewed.
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    Weird Tales is an American fantasy and horror fiction pulp magazine first published in March 1923. The magazine was set up in Chicago by J.C. Henneberger, an ex-journalist with a taste for the macabre. Edwin Baird was the first editor of the monthly, assisted by Farnsworth Wright.
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My Path to Atheism, by Annie Besant - 0 views

  • the negation of error, where error is supreme, is necessary before the assertion of truth can become possible
  • it becomes the duty of the Humanitarian to discover natural laws
  • "law" in the mouth of the Rationalist means nothing more than the observed and registered invariable sequence of events
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  • In God, Christians tell us there is no changeableness, neither shadow of turning; then what pleased him in long past ages would please him still, and what he commanded yesterday would be right to-day.
  • God distinctly said: "Thou shalt not suffer a Witch to live;" and God sanctioned Slavery, and God commanded Persecution on account of religious convictions
  • the benefit of man, is the basis of his morality
  • Rational morality, on the other hand, grows with the growth of those who follow its dictates; its errors are corrected by wider experience, its omissions are filled up by the irrefragable arguments of necessity. It is founded upon the needs of man; his happiness is its sole object; not only his physical happiness, not only the fulfilment of the desires of the body for ease and comfort, but the satisfaction also of all the cravings of his intellectual and moral powers, the love of truth, the love of beauty, the love of justice. A morality founded on this basis can never be overthrown; one sure test it affords whereby to decide on the morality or the immorality of any-given action: "Is it useful to man? does it tend to the promotion of human happiness?"
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Author:Thomas Stearns Eliot - Wikisource - 0 views

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    The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
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Author:Émile Zola - Wikisource - 0 views

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    Germinal
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Michael S. Hart - Gutenberg - 0 views

  • Michael Stern Hart
  • Hart was best known for his 1971 invention of electronic books, or eBooks
  • He founded Project Gutenberg, which is recognized as one of the earliest and longest-lasting online literary projects
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  • From this beginning, the digitization and distribution of literature was to be Hart's life's work, spanning over 40 years
  • "Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people."
  • his passion for life, and all the things in it, never abated
  • The invention of eBooks was not simply a technological innovation or precursor to the modern information environment. A more correct understanding is that eBooks are an efficient and effective way of unlimited free distribution of literature. Access to eBooks can thus provide opportunity for increased literacy. Literacy, and the ideas contained in literature, creates opportunity.
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Science Fiction (Bookshelf) - Gutenberg - 0 views

  • Science Fiction (often called sci-fi or SF) is a popular genre of fiction in which the narrative world differs from our own present or historical reality in at least one significant way. This difference may be technological, physical, historical, sociological, philosophical, metaphysical, etc, but not magical (see Fantasy).
  • For other copyrighted but free Science Fiction ebooks (free of charge and free of DRM) have a look at the Baen Free Library
  • Bova, Ben
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  • Bradley, Marion Zimmer
  • Burroughs, Edgar Rice
  • Del Rey, Lester
  • Dick, Philip K.
  • Doctorow, Cory
  • Doyle, Arthur Conan
  • Harrison, Harry
  • Herbert, Frank Patrick
  • Kipling, Rudyard
  • Norton, Andre
  • Piper, H. Beam
  • Pohl, Frederik
  • Silverberg, Robert
  • Smith, E. E.
  • Verne, Jules
  • Vonnegut, Kurt
  • Wells, H. G.
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