Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion ist vorübergehend kostenlos im AppStore erhältlich.

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Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
by David Hume

David Hume’s Dialogues concerning Natural Religion, first published in 1779, is one of the most influential works in the philosophy of religion and the most artful instance of philosophical dialogue since the dialogues of Plato. It presents a fictional conversation between a sceptic, an orthodox Christian, and a Newtonian theist concerning evidence for the existence of an intelligent cause of nature based on observable features of the world. This new edition presents it together with several of Hume’s other, shorter writings about religion, and with brief selections from the work of Pierre Bayle, who influenced both Hume’s views on religion and the dialectical style of the Dialogues. The volume is completed by an introduction which sets the Dialogues in its philosophical and historical contexts.

The Worship of The Generative Powers by Thomas Wright ist vorübergehend kostenlos im AppStore erhältlich.

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The Worship of The Generative Powers
by Thomas Wright

“This work first appeared as the second half of the 1865 printing of A Discourse on the Worship of Priapus. Wright’s extended essay on Phallic worship is distinguished by much better scholarship and writing than some of the other works of this genre. Along with the usual suspects (ancient and modern phallic objects, fertility rituals and so on) Wright devotes the longest section of this text to exploring what would become known as the ‘Witch Cult’. Wright lays out a compelling case for the survival of ancient fertility rituals in the otherwise puzzling accounts of the Witches’ Sabbath.”

About the Author :-

“Thomas Wright (21 April 1810 – 23 December 1877) was an English antiquarian and writer.

Wright was born near Ludlow, in Shropshire, descended from a Quaker family formerly living at Bradford, Yorkshire. He was educated at the old grammar school, Ludlow, and at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated in 1834.”

Table Of Contains…

01. Antiquity
02. Middle Ages and Renaissance
03. Shelah-na-Gigs
04. Priapus Worship
05. Priapic Amulets
06. The ‘Fig’
07. Sexual Demons
08. Phallic Festivals
09. May-day
10. Midsummer Night
11. Plants and Flowers
12. Other Festivals
13. Mediaeval Secret Societies
14. The Knights Templar
15. The Witches’ Sabbath
16. Inniskea

The Mystery ist vorübergehend kostenlos im AppStore erhältlich.

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The Mystery
by Stewart Edward White, Samuel Hopkins Adams

Published in 1907 (67,622 words) (204 pages)
Categories: Mystery / Detective, Nautical

Here and there in the sea a glint of silver, a patch of purple, or dull red, or a glistening apparition of black showed where the unintended victims of the explosion, the gay-hued open-sea fish of the warm waters

Captain Selover received as his due the most absolute and implicit obedience imaginable. When he condescended to give an order in his own person, the men fairly jumped to execute it. The matter had evidently been threshed out long ago. They did not love him, not they; but they feared him with a mighty fear, and did not hesitate to say so, vividly, and often, when in the privacy of the forecastle. The prevailing spirit was that of the wild beast, cowed but snarling still. Pulz and Thrackles in especial had a great deal to say of what they were or were not going to do, but I noticed that their resolution always began to run out of them when first foot was set to the companion ladder.

The disappearance of three successive crews from the stout ship “Laughing Lass” in mid-Pacific, is a mystery weird and inscrutable. In the solution, there is a story of the most exciting voyage that man ever undertook.

About the Author:
Stewart Edward White (12 March 1873 – September 18, 1946) was an American author.
Born in Grand Rapids, Michigan he earned degrees from University of Michigan (Ph.D., 1895; M.A., 1903).
From about 1900 until about 1922, he wrote adventure travel books. Starting in 1922, He and his wife Elizabeth “Betty” Grant White wrote numerous books they claimed were received through channelling with spirits. They also wrote of their travels around the state of California. White died in Hillsborough, California.

A Book of Folklore ist vorübergehend kostenlos im AppStore erhältlich.

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A Book of Folklore
by Sabine Baring-Gould

“The word folk-lore (lore = knowledge) was first used by the British archaeologist William J. Thomas in a letter published by the London Journal Athenaeum in 1846. Folklore is the body of expressive culture, including tales, music, dance, legends, oral history, proverbs, jokes, popular beliefs, customs, and so forth within a particular population comprising the traditions (including oral traditions) of that culture, subculture, or group. It is also the set of practices through which those expressive genres are shared. The academic and usually ethnographic study of folklore is sometimes called folkloristics.”

About the Author:

“The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould (28 January 1834 – 2 January 1924) was an English hagiographer, antiquarian, novelist and eclectic scholar. His bibliography lists more than 500 separate publications. His family home, Lewtrenchard Manor near Okehampton, Devon, has been preserved as he rebuilt it and is now a hotel. He is remembered particularly as a writer of hymns, the best-known being “Onward, Christian Soldiers” and “Now the Day Is Over”, and the desk at which he wrote these hymns is still preserved at the hotel. He also translated the carol “Gabriel’s Message” from Basque to English.

His education at The King’s School, Warwick lasted just a few months in 1846 – he caught whooping-cough and was ordered to go abroad for the sake of his health. He then went up to Cambridge earning the degrees of B.A. in 1857, then M.A. in 1860 from Clare College.”

Hanged Poems ist vorübergehend kostenlos im AppStore erhältlich.

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The Hanged Poems
Translated by F.E. Johnson and Sheikh Faiz-ullah-bhai

Translations of the earliest (pre-Islamic) Arabic poetry known, poems originally displayed (“hanged”) in the Kaaba, the holiest shrine of Mecca.

THE Arabs are one of the most ancient races known to history. Historical records, which are perhaps earth’s earliest, have been recently rediscovered among the ruins of Babylon and the other cities of the Euphrates valley; and these refer frequently to Arab invasions of the fertile valley and to Arab conquests over its fairest regions. The cultured classes of many an ancient Babylonian city were thus of the Arabian race, springing from the intermarriage of the fierce desert conquerors with the defeated valley folk. Yet in their own homeland the Arabs were among the last of Asiatic peoples to develop a written literature. We come down almost to the time of Mohammed, that is, to the sixth century after Christ, before we find among them any written books.

Hence Arabic literature in the written form, the only form in which it can be permanently preserved, does not begin until the sixth century of our own era, the century just before Mohammed. During this period there were several of the tribal poets so valued, that the idea was formed of honoring them by hanging copies of their best poems in the chief religious shrine of Arabia, the building called the Kaaba at Mecca. So the Arabic literature which we know to-day begins with these “hanged” poems, and they form the opening of the present volume.