Religion & belief

Four Dissertations is a collection of four essays by the Scottish enlightenment philosopher David Hume, first published in 1757.

The Anniversary Discourses Jones delivered to the Asiatick Society of Bengal, and his essays from Asiatick Researches: the contents of the first volume of his Works (1799).

Translated from the German by Oswald Charles Wood, M. D.

Twelve essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson, from “History” and “Self-Reliance” to “Art”, first published in Boston in 1841 and revised by him for the New Edition of 1847, in which most of the essays gained a verse motto of…

On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History, is a collection of six essays by Thomas Carlyle, published in 1841, based on a series of lectures he delivered in 1840.

Eight essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson, from “The Poet” and “Experience” to “Nominalist and Realist”, with the lecture “New England Reformers”, first published in Boston in 1844 and revised by him for the Second Edition of…

Emerson's first book, Nature (1836), collected in 1849 with nine addresses and lectures he gave between 1837 and 1844, among them “The American Scholar” and the Divinity School address.

Seven lectures by Ralph Waldo Emerson on the uses of great men and on six of them, Plato, Swedenborg, Montaigne, Shakspeare, Napoleon and Goethe, as the philosopher, the mystic, the skeptic, the poet, the man of the…

Ralph Waldo Emerson's account of England and the English, drawn from his visits of 1833 and 1847–48: their land, race, manners, wealth, aristocracy, universities, religion and literature, with his meetings with…

Nine essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson, from “Fate” to “Illusions”, each headed by a verse motto of his own, published in Boston in December 1860.

"Culture and Anarchy" is Arnold's most famous piece of writing on culture which established his High Victorian cultural agenda and remained dominant in debate from the 1860s until the 1950s.

Twelve essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson, first published in 1870. Most grew out of lectures he had given in the preceding years.

Newman's account of what a university is for, written when he was founding the Catholic University of Ireland in Dublin.

Eleven essays and addresses by Ralph Waldo Emerson, put together from his manuscripts with the help of James Elliot Cabot and published in 1876 without a preface.

Browne's account of the twelve months he spent in Persia in 1887–8, travelling from Tabríz to Ṭeherán, Iṣfahán, Shíráz, Yezd and Kirmán.

In this book, first published in book form in 1897, James ponders such conundrums as... Is life worth living?. The sentiment of rationality. The dilemma of determinism. The moral philosopher and the moral life.

The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature is a book by Harvard University psychologist and philosopher William James.

Blood's last book, published the year after his death: a pluralist's quarrel with the monists and idealists from Parmenides to Hegel, closing on the “anæsthetic revelation” he had first described in 1874, which William…