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  1. Victory Odes, by Pindar. Translated by Arthur S. Way - Free ebook ...

    The poems are known for their intricate complexity, which combines praise for the athletes, mythological references, moral reflections, and philosophical musings.

  2. The Consolation of Philosophy - Standard Ebooks

    Boethius’ use of this general form, as well as the variety of literary genres he incorporates into it, contributes to the complexity of the work’s interpretation; to what extent did he intend Philosophy’s …

  3. Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus - Standard Ebooks

    It is not necessarily assumed that the complexity of facts is finite; even if every fact consisted of an infinite number of atomic facts and if every atomic fact consisted of an infinite number of objects …

  4. The Education of Henry Adams - Standard Ebooks

    No one knew enough to know how ignorant he was; how childlike; how helpless before the relative complexity of a school. As an animal, the Southerner seemed to have every advantage, but even as …

  5. Human Nature and Conduct - IX: The Present and Future

    Complexity of conditions render the difficulties in the way of the development of a technique enormous. It is imaginable they will never be overcome. But our choice is between the development of a …

  6. The Pursuit of God - standardebooks.org

    Every age has its own characteristics. Right now we are in an age of religious complexity. The simplicity which is in Christ is rarely found among us. In its stead are programs, methods, organizations and a …

  7. A General View of Positivism - I: The Intellectual Character of Positivism

    Both features alike result from the increase of complexity. Even the laws of the Solar System are very far from perfect, notwithstanding their greater simplicity, which indeed makes their defects more …

  8. Democracy and Education - Standard Ebooks

    Increasing complexity of social life requires a longer period of infancy in which to acquire the needed powers; this prolongation of dependence means prolongation of plasticity, or power of acquiring …

  9. Seven Pillars of Wisdom - LVIII

    Man, elaborating nature, had given to her compartments an additional complexity. Each of these main north-and-south strip divisions was crossed and walled off artificially into communities at odds.

  10. The Public and Its Problems - III: The Democratic State

    In any case, the complexity of the historic events which have operated is such as to preclude any thought of rehearsing them in these pages, even if I had a knowledge and competency which are …