Classicly Books
Animals' Rights Considered in Relation to Social Progress
Henry S. SaltIt may be taken, perhaps, as a sign of the extension of humane ideas that, since its first appearance in 1892, this essay on “Animals’ Rights” has passed through numerous editions, and has been transl..
Moses, not Darwin
B. G. JohnsHow shall any such being understand that religion, that prayer, praise, and sacrifice are no mere matter between man and man, but only between him and God? What does it affect him to be told, or..
Murderer's Base
William J. BrittainHervey was good at this damned, dull, hateful task. Not many men were willing to spend nine months out of the year blasting from asteroid to asteroid, checking and servicing and reporting on the great..
The Palace of Glass and the Gathering of the People
John StoughtonChaucer, though unhappily as a writer not free from moral blemishes, was, like Hogarth, the great historic painter of his age, sketching not armies in battle, or parliaments in conclave, but a people ..
Daughters of Men
Hannah LynchThrough the confused mingling of languages French could be detected as the most universal. A fair, pale young man, with the grave questioning air of a stranger who is disagreeably conscious of being s..
Knott's pop-corn book
E. R. KnottYou, when you first tasted a delicious brittle kernel of Pop-corn, coated thinly with candy, you did not think of the skill attained by practise, the skill that was necessary in order that your piece ..
Legendary Islands of the Atlantic - A Study of Medieval Geography
William Henry BabcockWe know that the Greeks of Pythias’ time coasted as far north as Britain and probably Scandinavia and had most likely made the acquaintance still earlier of the Fortunate Islands (two or more of the C..
Maid—To Order
Hal AnnasThe blonde smiled wryly. "She is only a half-ounce under the specifications, to be exact. Perhaps you have not carefully read your requirements. Let me remind you, Mr. Cornith, the Foundation probed y..