Answers questions on the Bhagavad Gita: Arjuna's dilemma, duty, action without attachment and devotion, quoting Sir Edwin Arnold's verse translation (The Song Celestial) from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the chapter.
“V. RELIGION OF RENOUNCING WORKS VI. RELIGION BY SELF-RESTRAINT VII. RELIGION BY DISCERNMENT VIII. RELIGION BY SERVICE OF THE SUPREME IX. RELIGION BY THE KINGLY …”
Answers questions on Augustine's Confessions: the stolen pears, his conversion in the garden and his reflections on time and memory, quoting Edward Bouverie Pusey's translation from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the book.
“Being led, however, from this to prefer the Catholic doctrine, I felt that her proceeding was more unassuming and honest, in that she required to be believed th…”
Answers questions on Rousseau's The Social Contract: the general will, sovereignty and legitimate government, quoting G. D. H. Cole's translation from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the book.
“Religion, considered in relation to society, which is either general or particular, may also be divided into two kinds: the religion of man, and that of the cit…”
Answers questions on Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan: the state of nature, the social contract and sovereign power, quoting the 1651 text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the chapter.
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 Francis Bacon's Essays: short counsels on studies, truth, friendship, ambition, revenge and other topics, quoting the text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the essay.
“## Of Unity In Religion RELIGION being the chief band of human society, it is a happy thing, when itself is well contained within the true band of unity. The qu…”
Answers questions on Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil: the prejudices of philosophers, master and slave morality and the free spirit, quoting Helen Zimmern's translation from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the chapter.
“…eneral development of mankind,—will use religion for his disciplining and educating work, just as he will use the contemporary political and economic conditions…”
Answers questions on The Art of Public Speaking by Esenwein and Carnegie: confidence, voice, gesture, preparation and holding an audience, quoting the 1915 text from Project Gutenberg (public domain).
“Even some older people profess to regard religion as a superstition, pardonable in the ignorant but unworthy of the educated. Those who hold this view look down…”
Answers questions on Tocqueville's Democracy in America, Part I: equality, local self-government and the tyranny of the majority, quoting Henry Reeve's translation from Project Gutenberg (public domain).
“…c opinion pronounces itself in favor of religion: love, support, and honor are bestowed upon it, and it is only by searching the human soul that we can detect t…”
Answers questions on Thomas Paine's Rights of Man, his defence of the French Revolution and natural rights against Burke, quoting The Writings of Thomas Paine, Volume II from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the part.
“…ministry, wish to see contentions about religion kept up, to prevent the nation turning its attention to subjects of government. It is as if they were to say, "…”