Monadnock Valley Press: Essays

This page lists all of the essays that have been published so far by the Monadnock Valley Press.

Lord Acton (1834-1902)

• The History of Freedom in Antiquity
• The History of Freedom in Christianity

Joseph Addison (1672-1719)

• The Qualifications of Friendship

Francis Bacon (1561-1626)

• Of Friendship

Frederic Bastiat (1801-1850)

• The Broken Window
• The Candlemakers' Petition

Randolph Bourne (1886-1918)

• Below the Battle
• The Dodging of Pressures
• The Excitement of Friendship
• H.L. Mencken
• On Discussion
• A Philosophy of Handicap
• The War and the Intellectuals
• War is the Health of the State

John Burroughs (1837-1921)

• Another Word on Thoreau
• Emerson
• The Exhilarations of the Road
• The Flight of the Eagle
• Waiting
• What Life Means to Me

Benjamin Constant (1767-1830)

• The Liberty of Ancients Compared with that of Moderns

J. Hector St. Jean de Crevecoeur (1735-1813)

• What is an American

George Eliot (1819-1880)

• Review of Thoreau's Walden

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

• History
• Self-Reliance
• Compensation
• Spiritual Laws
• Love
• Friendship
• Prudence
• Heroism
• The Over-Soul
• Circles
• Intellect
• Art
• The Poet
• Experience
• Character
• Manners
• Gifts
• Nature
• Politics
• Nominalist and Realist
• New England Reformers
• Fate
• Power
• Wealth
• Culture
• Behavior
• Worship
• Considerations by the Way
• Beauty
• Illusions
• The American Scholar
• Eulogy for Thoreau
• The Sovereignty of Ethics
• The Transcendentalist

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)

• Information to Those Who Would Remove to America
• The Junto
• The Way to Wealth

William Hazlitt (1778-1830)

• On the Feeling of Immortality in Youth
• On Genius and Common Sense
• On the Ignorance of the Learned
• On the Knowledge of Character
• On Living to Oneself
• On Party Spirit
• On the Past and Future
• On People with One Idea
• On Personal Identity
• On Public Opinion

Victor Hugo (1802-1885)

• Preface to Cromwell

David Hume (1711-1776)

• Of the Delicacy of Taste and Passion
• Of the Dignity or Meanness of Human Nature
• Of the First Principles of Government
• Of the Liberty of the Press
• Of the Middle Station of Life
• Of the Origin of Government
• Of Superstition and Enthusiasm
• The Epicurean
• The Platonist
• The Sceptic
• The Stoic

Charles Ives (1874-1954)

• Thoreau

William James (1842-1910)

• Does 'Consciousness' Exist?
• Is Life Worth Living?
• The Moral Philosopher and the Moral Life
• The Moral Equivalent of War
• On a Certain Blindness in Human Beings
• What Makes a Life Significant

Jack London (1876-1916)

• What Life Means to Me

H.L. Mencken (1880-1956)

• On Being an American
• Mark Twain's Americanism
• The American Credo

Carl Menger (1840-1921)

• On the Origin of Money

John Stuart Mill (1806-1873)

• The Contest in America (1862)
• Inaugural Address (1867)

Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592)

• That the Soul Expends its Passions upon False Objects, Where the True Are Wanting
• That the Intention Is Judge of Our Actions
• Of Idleness
• Of Liars
• That the Taste of Good and Evil Depends in Large Part on the Opinion We Have of Them
• That Men Are Not to Judge of Our Happiness till after Death
• That to Philosophize is to Learn to Die
• Of the Education of Children
• Of Friendship
• Of Cato the Younger
• Of Solitude
• A Consideration upon Cicero
• Of the Inequality that is Between Us
• Of Democritus and Heraclitus
• Of a Saying of Caesar's
• A Custom of the Isle of Cea
• Of Exercise or Practice
• Apology for Raymond Sebond
• That We Taste Nothing Pure
• Of Virtue
• Of Anger
• Of Three Commerces or Societies
• Of the Art of Conversation
• Of Managing the Will
• Of Experience

Albert Jay Nock (1870-1945)

• A Cultural Forecast
• The Decline of Conversation
• On Making Low People Interesting

Richard Overton (fl. 1631-1664)

• An Arrow against all Tyrants

Walter Pater (1839-1894)

• Giordano Bruno, Paris

Francesco Petrarch (1304-1374)

• Ascent of Mount Ventoux

George Santayana (1863-1952)

• Emerson
• English Liberty in America
• The Genteel Tradition in American Philosophy
• Lucretius
• Cloud Castles
• Cross-Lights
• The Human Scale
• Skylarks
• At Heaven's Gate
• Society and Solitude
• Carnival
• Classic Liberty
• The Mansions of Helen
• On My Friendly Critics
• Hermes the Interpreter

Herbert Spencer (1820-1903)

• The Right to Ignore the State

Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

• Autumnal Tints
• Civil Disobedience
• Life Without Principle
• A Plea for Captain John Brown
• Slavery in Massachusetts
• The Succession of Forest Trees
• A Walk to Wachusett
• Walking
• Wild Apples
• A Winter Walk

Walt Whitman (1819-1892)

• Democratic Vistas

Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)

• George Eliot
• Jane Austen
• Montaigne
• On Not Knowing Greek
• The Patron and the Crocus
• Thoreau

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