Theory of the Leisure Class Assistant

Answers questions on Russell Conwell's lecture Acres of Diamonds, on finding opportunity close at hand, quoting the text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the section.

Answers questions on Charles Mackay's Extraordinary Popular Delusions: the Tulipomania, the South Sea Bubble, the Mississippi Scheme and other manias, quoting the text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the chapter.

Answers questions on Lucretius's On the Nature of Things: atoms and void, the soul, why not to fear death and the origins of the world, quoting William Ellery Leonard's translation from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the book.

Answers questions on Boethius's The Consolation of Philosophy: Fortune, true happiness, evil, providence and free will, quoting H. R. James's translation from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the book.

Answers questions on Hendrik van Loon's The Story of Mankind: Egypt, Greece, Rome, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance and the revolutions, quoting the text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the chapter.

Answers questions on H. G. Wells's A Short History of the World, from the origins of life and the first civilisations to the First World War, quoting the text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the chapter.