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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
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Sep 7, 2021
Sep 7, 2021
1 min
Introductory note on The Destruction of Dá Derga’s Hostel (Volume 49, Harvard Classics)
Sep 7, 2021
Sep 7, 2021
23 min
There she was undoing her hair -- the loveliest woman the eyes of men ever beheld, the light of wooing in her regal eyes. A longing for her overwhelmed the warrior-king. (Volume 49, Harvard Classics)
Sep 6, 2021
Sep 6, 2021
Sep 6, 2021
24 min
Many sons of Scotland have striven eagerly for the great place held by Sir Walter Scott. Carlyle describes the qualities that combined to make him the idol of his people and the master of historical romance. (Volume 25, Harvard Classics)
Sep 6, 2021
Sep 6, 2021
Sep 6, 2021
14 min
Just as the individual has a definite length of life, so have species a limited duration. The progress and transition of the world, Darwin declares, will see the extinction of certain variants of human life. (Volume 11, Harvard Classics)
Darwin first outlines his theory of natural selection, Sept. 5. 1857.
Sep 4, 2021
Sep 4, 2021
Sep 4, 2021
18 min
Voltaire's daring courage led him to publish a series of letters which contained unfavorable comparisons of French customs with the English. For this he was threatened with the Bastille. (Volume 34, Harvard Classics)
Sep 3, 2021
Sep 3, 2021
1 min
Introductory note on American Historical Documents (Volume 43, Harvard Classics)
Sep 3, 2021
Sep 3, 2021
12 min
Until 1783 the British refused to believe that the Liberty Bell had rung. Then they signed a treaty formally recognizing the Colonies as free and independent states. (Volume 43, Harvard Classics)
Treaty between England and the United States signed Sept. 3, 1783.