Why Men Fight Serapis Classics

Download or read book Why Men Fight (Serapis Classics) written by Bertrand Russell and published by Serapis Classics. This book was released on 2017-10-11 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written in response to the devastation of World War I, "Why Men Fight" lays out Bertrand Russell's ideas on war, pacifism, reason, impulse, and personal liberty. Russell argues that when individuals live passionately, they will have no desire for war or killing. Conversely, excessive restraint or reason causes us to live unnaturally and with hostility toward those who are unlike ourselves.

Download or read book Europe and the Faith (Serapis Classics) written by Hilaire Belloc and published by Serapis Classics. This book was released on 2017-10-07 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I say the Catholic "conscience" of history--I say "conscience"--that is, an intimate knowledge through identity: the intuition of a thing which is one with the knower--I do not say "The Catholic Aspect of History." This talk of "aspects" is modern and therefore part of a decline: it is false, and therefore ephemeral: I will not stoop to it.

Download or read book John Paul Jones written by Evan Thomas and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-06-15 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times bestseller from master biographer Evan Thomas brings to life the tumultuous story of the father of the American Navy. John Paul Jones, at sea and in the heat of the battle, was the great American hero of the Age of Sail. He was to history what Patrick O’Brian’s Jack Aubrey and C.S. Forester’s Horatio Hornblower are to fiction. Ruthless, indomitable, clever; he vowed to sail, as he put it, “in harm’s way.” Evan Thomas’s minute-by-minute re-creation of the bloodbath between Jones’s Bonhomme Richard and the British man-of-war Serapis off the coast of England on an autumn night in 1779 is as gripping a sea battle as can be found in any novel. Drawing on Jones’s correspondence with some of the most significant figures of the American Revolution—John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson—Thomas’s biography teaches us that it took fighters as well as thinkers, men driven by dreams of personal glory as well as high-minded principle, to break free of the past and start a new world. Jones’s spirit was classically American.

Download or read book A Classical Dictionary written by Charles Anthon and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 1570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Historical Magazine, Or, Classical Library of Public Events written by and published by . This book was released on 1792 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Classical Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Classical Dictionary of Biography, Mythology, and Geography written by William Smith and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 946 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: