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The conquest of happiness
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Isaac Newton et ses travaux: copy of book chapter
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This manuscript is a handwritten transcription, in French, of the Chapter "Newton et ses Travaux" from Bertrand's book Les fondateurs de l'astronomie moderne: Copernic, Tycho Brahé, Kepler, Galilée, Newton, par Joseph Bertrand. it was a gift from Francisco José Mariano Duarte, a Venezuelan mathematician and scientist., to the Babson Institute in 1956. Duarte may well be the author of the manuscript. It is bound in leather and the cover is stamped "Babson Institute" with "Newton" on the spine.
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Sceptical essays
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"This volume beings with an essay on 'The Value of Scepticism,' and all its seventeen essays have this in common, that they advocate a considerable degree of scepticism. The earlier essays give in popular form scientific and philosophical reasons for an undogmatic attitude in all departments of knowledge. Then there is a group of essays setting out the moral and ethical advantages of a realization that our beliefs are all subject to error. The third group applies scepticism to politics; while the last essay in the volume suggests--though with due scepticism--certain things likely to happen in politics, economics, family life, art, and literature, if our industrial society develops without a cataclysm"--From dust jacket.
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Rules and Minutes of the Forensic Club
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Rules, bylaws, membership and attendance records, and minutes of proceedings, including proposed questions for discussion, e.g. "Whether a Man who only attempts to kill another ought to be punished with Death" (1764, Nov. 12); "Whether a lawyer may defend a Criminal knowing him to be such?" (1765, Apr. 22); "Whether Toleration Ought to be Allowed" (Sept. 2, 1765), or "If one may take up Arms to deliver Subjects from the York of a strange Prince who is become a Tyrant?" (1765, Nov. 25) and the appointed speakers to argue "on the Affirmative" and "on the Negative;" commendations, and fines (mostly for "impious language," nonattendance, or "not speaking according to Appointment.")
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The Kama sutra of Vatsyayana
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"The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana, a Sanskrit book of about the third century A.D., has for long been honoured in India as the earliest Indian treatise on the science and art of sex and love. It describes social customs in early India, analyses sexual techniques and comments on the many different situations in which men and women of the day might find themselves involved and how best these should be dealt with. Its purpose is to discover in what ways happiness and enjoyment can be best achieved. While sharing the Indian attitude to love as an ecstatic experience, it assumes that sexual happiness is founded on scientific knowledge and to this end it provides a series of chapters based on the practical experience of sex. In this respect it is a forerunner of the marriage guidance books of today. The Kama Sutra underlies all later Indian writings on love including Sanskrit love poetry and is a classic contribution to Indian culture"--dust jacket.
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