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Former President of Harvard University Charles W. Eliot wrote in his introduction to the Harvard Classics, "In my opinion, a five-foot shelf would hold books enough to give a liberal education to any one who would read them with devotion, even if he could spare but fifteen minutes a day for reading." Here you are, you can easily listen to his entire 15-minutes-a-day study guide while commuting to and from work (most of us spend far more than 15 minutes a day commuting each day), doing mundane work in the office, washing dishes at home, or doing most of the things day in and day out. It is so easy, so entertaining, and so educational that they can be listened to again and again, until they permeate into our own thinking and into our characters. Perhaps, in one year's time, you will become someone you barely recognize, all for the better. Who knows?
-- Rich E Book
Episodes
Jan 30, 2022
Jan 30, 2022
Jan 30, 2022
22 min
Antigone, an orphan princess, defies a king's mandate and risks her life to do her duty to her brother. What is this duty which her brother calls her to perform and the king forbids? (Volume 8, Harvard Classics)
Sophocles died at Athens, Jan. 30. 405 B. C.
Jan 29, 2022
Jan 29, 2022
Jan 29, 2022
29 min
South of Patagonia is Tierra del Fuego - "The Land of Fire." The natives of that primitive country are today almost extinct. Darwin made a careful and vitally interesting study of that land and its ill-fated inhabitants. (Volume 29, Harvard Classics)
Darwin married Emma Wedgewood, Jan. 29, 1839.
Jan 28, 2022
Jan 28, 2022
Jan 28, 2022
26 min
A pure heart, says Thomas à Kempis, comprehends the very depths of Heaven and Hell. And it is by the wings of simplicity and purity that man is lifted above all earthly things. (Volume 7, Harvard Classics)
Jan 27, 2022
Jan 27, 2022
Jan 27, 2022
22 min
Dante fell madly in love with Beatrice at first sight; but it is doubted if he ever spoke to her in this world. He tells of his happy meeting with Beatrice in Paradise. (Volume 20, Harvard Classics)
Dante victim of political persecution in Florence, Jan. 27, 1302.
Jan 26, 2022
Jan 26, 2022
Jan 26, 2022
26 min
A king who entombed his daughter in a golden cow --- the worship of the bull and the cat --- scandal of the court and the gossip of the temples is given by Herodotus in his delightful story of old Egypt. (Volume 33, Harvard Classics)