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A Century’s Progress in Science
“The world is in a process of development, and … gradually, as advancing knowledge has enabled us to take a sufficiently wide view of the world, we have come to see that it is so.”
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The Federal Convention
The conversations and compromises that laid the foundation for the Constitution
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The Idea of God (Part II)
The final installment in a two-part series on ancient and modern theology.
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The Idea of God (Part I)
The first installment in a two-part series on ancient and modern theology.
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Who Are the Aryans?
“We are so accustomed to consider language a mark of race that it is difficult to avoid using linguistic epithets in an ethnological sense, and a good deal of confused thinking sometimes results from this.”
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A Librarian’s Work
“For everybody except the librarian, his position is rather a tantalizing one. In the midst of the great ocean of books, it is ‘water, water, everywhere, and not a drop to drink.’”
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New York Public Library Werewolves and Swan-maidens
“The mediæval belief in werewolves is especially adapted to illustrate the complicated manner in which divers mythical conceptions and misunderstood natural occurrences will combine to generate a long-enduring superstition.”
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The Origins of Folk-Lore
“We define a myth as, in its origin, an explanation, by the uncivilized mind, of some natural phenomenon.”
