Social Science Books

Animals' Rights Considered in Relation to Social Progress

Henry S. Salt

It 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..

The Workers - An Experiment in Reality. The West

Walter A. Wyckoff

We are tired and very hungry, and not a little discouraged; we should be almost desperate but for one redeeming fact. The silver lining of our cloud has appeared to-night in the form of falling snow. ..

The Physical Training of Children

Pye Henry Chavasse

The arrangement of the book is in the form of questions and answers. This is an excellent idea, the long experience of the author, as a physician, enabling him to suggest many important questions that..

Discipline in School and Cloister

Jacobus X

Quintilian wished to abolish flogging, and the only fault about his reasons was that they were addressed to barbarians who were not yet ready to understand. ‘I would like scholars not to be beaten: fi..

Owen's Moral Physiology

Ralph Dale Owen

Reproduction or accumulation of identities similar to self is a common law of animal and vegetable matter; and the disposition to reproduce in all well-formed and healthy subjects is as powerful as hu..

The Personal Relation in Industry

John D. Rockefeller

The following material by Mr. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., consists, with one exception, of addresses delivered by him on various occasions and amidst the demands of many varied interests. These addresse..

Roman Public Life

A. H. J. Greenidge

It is not only that classic traditions were forgotten, that, as Gibbon says, “the purity of the Latin language was debased by adopting, in the intercourse of pride and flattery, a profusion of epithet..

Behind the Scenes in a Hotel

Anonymous

The labor force required to furnish service in the modern hotel has necessarily increased enormously since the day when the host of the old-time hostel and his family personally cared for the needs of..