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Brian Earley

The Project Gutenberg eBook of Burke's Writings and Speeches, Volume the Second, by Edmund Burke. - 0 views

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      Irish born English conservative approves of the American Revolution
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    The gutenberg project is an amazing source for online books and I just happened to find a compilation of Edmund Burke's works online.
Sarah Wills

Lyrical Ballads 1798 by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth - Project Gutenberg - 0 views

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    This is a website where you can download the text of Lyrical Ballards, the book by Wordsworth and Coleridge.
Megan Stern

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Project Gutenberg - 0 views

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    One of my favorite books ever. Raskolnikov kills two women to prove that he is one of the "supermen" Nietzche talks about as being able to rise above the moral structure of God, which, according to Nietzsche, is now dead. "Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us?"
Parker Woody

On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin - Project Gutenberg - 0 views

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    Free online version of Darwin's Origin of Species
James Wilcox

The Project Gutenberg eBook of Dream Psychology: Psychoanalysis for Beginners, by Sigmund Freud - 0 views

  • The medical profession is justly conservative. Human life should not be considered as the proper material for wild experiments. Conservatism, however, is too often a welcome excuse for lazy minds, loath to adapt themselves to fast changing conditions.
  • there always seemed to be a close connection between his patients' dreams and their mental abnormalities
  • constant connection between some part of every dream and some detail of the dreamer's life during the previous waking state
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  • there was in every dream the attempted or successful gratification of some wish
  • many of our dream visions are symbolical
  • sexual desires play an enormous part in our unconscious
  • direct connection between dreams and insanity
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    Human life should not be considered as the proper material for wild experiments.
Kristi Koerner

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman., by Laurence Sterne - 0 views

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    The book mentioned by Dr. Burton on Tuesday.
James Wilcox

Poems, by T. S. Eliot - 1 views

    • James Wilcox
       
      He pulls together so many different topics, ideas, and historical people bringing in a lot of depth to what could otherwise be a simple poem
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    A whole collection of Poems by T.S. Eliot from the Gutenburg Project.
James Wilcox

Einsteins Theory of Relativity - 0 views

  • the principle of relativity
  • We advance a step farther in our generalisation when we express the tenet thus: If, relative to K, K1 is a uniformly moving co-ordinate system devoid of rotation, then natural phenomena run their course with respect to K1 according to exactly the same general laws as with respect to K. This statement is called
  • (in the restricted sense).
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  • two general facts which at the outset speak very much in favour of the validity of the principle of relativity
  • The principle of relativity must therefore apply with great accuracy in the domain of mechanics
    • James Wilcox
       
      Basically I get out of this the fact that Einstein is a genius and can quite literally think outside of the box.  In fact he can think at the box from any angle in multiple dimensions and then describe it.  Although I am sure I am not getting this 100%, I do see that the light is working on his end.
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