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A Year with the Birds

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W. Warde Fowler

William Warde Fowler was a true polymath; although his early studies focused on natural history, he became a well-known authority on the his…

The Astral Plane: Its Inhabitants, Scenery, and Phenomena

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C. W. Leadbeater

Few words are needed in sending this little book out into the world. It is the fifth of a series of Manuals designed to meet the public dema…

William Blake

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G. K. Chesterton

From the author’s introduction: "Blake’s life of Blake … would have been full of symbolic wild beasts and naked women, of monstrous cl…

Rambles Beyond Railways; or, Notes in Cornwall taken A-foot

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Wilkie Collins

Two travellers, the writer of this book, and an artist friend who is the companion of his ramble, explored Cornwall together, on foot in the…

Practical Mysticism (Version 2)

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Evelyn Underhill

I write only for the larger class which, repelled by the formidable appearance of more elaborate works on the subject, would yet like to kno…

Orthodoxy (Version 3)

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G. K. Chesterton

… [In] its pages I have attempted in a vague and personal way, in a set of mental pictures rather than in a series of deductions, to state t…

08 Lecture 5 Magnetism, Electricity

In On the Various Forces of Nature

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Michael Faraday

A non-mathematical survey of the fundamental forces of nature and some relationships among them. This is a series of lectures aimed at young…

The Tabernacle

In A Class-Book of Old Testament History

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George Frederick Maclear

This is classic book by scholar, educator, theologian and preacher George Frederick Maclear, headmaster of King's College School, London, an…

The Hive

In Bees, Shown to the Children

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Ellison Hawks

A very good introduction to the bee, including its physical and behavioral characteristics. Most appropriate for children. - Summary by Kevi…