Download or read book James Logan s The Duties of Man as They May be Deduced from Nature written by Norman Fiering and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2022 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book James Logan s The Duties of Man as They May be Deduced from Nature written by Norman Fiering and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "James Logan (1674–1751) of Philadelphia was a luminary with few equals in British America in the first half of the eighteenth century. His passion for learning is exemplified in the scholar’s library he amassed of nearly 3,000 titles, which had no match in the colonies. He wrote and published on botanical science and optics in European journals and was an accomplished mathematician and astronomer. His mastery of languages ancient and modern enabled him to keep up with intellectual developments in Britain and the Continent. At the same time, as the representative of the Penn family in the colony, coming to America when he was twenty-five, he was enmeshed in Pennsylvania politics, holding several major positions, including Chief Justice, and along the way he made a fortune by investing in the fur trade. It was perhaps to be expected that in 1734 he turned his creative drive to moral philosophy, the discipline in which were located the most engrossing and urgent issues of the day, culminating in the classic works of figures like David Hume, Adam Smith, and Immanuel Kant. Logan aimed to write a publishable treatise on the subject and compiled six or seven chapters of varying sophistication, but in the end the challenges were too great, and this ambition survived only in a manuscript—“The Duties of Man As They May Be Deduced from Nature”—which until about 1969 was assumed to be hopelessly dispersed in the archives of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania or altogether lost. In this analysis, Norman Fiering gives Logan’s effort new life."--
Download or read book Cyclopaedia of American Literature written by Evert Augustus Duyckinck and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cyclopadia of American Literature written by Evert Augustus Duyckinck and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 1024 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cyclop dia of American Literature written by Evert Augustus Duyckinck and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book From Colonials to Provincials written by Ned C. Landsman and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This volume provides a succinct, analytical, well-conceived, and nicely written account of the development of colonial North American thought and culture from 1680 to the eve of the American Revolution. Not an anachronistic search for the origins of later American cultural forms, it situates the subject firmlv within a transatlantic context. The author emphasizes the extent to which improving communications and expanding connections helped to incorporate colonial settlers into a larger British world by providing them access and inviting them to become contributors to a burgeoning public culture of print, which consisted of newspapers, magazines, books, and 1etters.Whereas during the first seven decades of the seventeenth century, the colonies had been little more than crude and isolated outposts of English culture, from the late seventeenth century, he contends, they increasingly became like Scotland and Protestant Ireland, intellectual and cultural provinces of an expanding British Empire." -Jack P. Greene, Journal of American History
Download or read book Handbook of Freemasonry written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2014-06-12 with total page 689 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Freemasonry is the largest, oldest, and most influential secret society in the world. The Brill Handbook of Freemasonry is a pioneering work that brings together, for the first time, leading scholars on Freemasonry. The first section covers historical perspectives, such as the origins and early history of Freemasonry. The second deals with the relationship between Freemasonry and specific religious traditions such as the Catholic Church, Judaism, and Islam. In the third section, organisational themes, such as the use of rituals, are explored, while the fourth section deals with issues related to society and politics - women, blacks, colonialism, nationalism, and war. The fifth and final section is devoted to Freemasonry and culture, including music, literature, modern art, architecture and material culture.
Download or read book The Life of Benjamin Franklin Volume 2 written by J. A. Leo Lemay and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2013-06-03 with total page 665 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named "one of the best books of 2006" by The New York Sun Described by Carl Van Doren as "a harmonious human multitude," Benjamin Franklin was the most famous American of his time, of perhaps any time. His life and careers were so varied and successful that he remains, even today, the epitome of the self-made man. Born into a humble tradesman's family, this adaptable genius rose to become an architect of the world's first democracy, a leading light in Enlightenment science, and a major creator of what has come to be known as the American character. Journalist, musician, politician, scientist, humorist, inventor, civic leader, printer, writer, publisher, businessman, founding father, philosopher, Franklin is a touchstone for America's egalitarianism. Volume 2 takes Franklin from his marriage in 1730 to his retirement as a printer at the beginning of 1748, examining the mysteries of the illegitimate William Franklin's birth and mother and Franklin's increasing civic activities—starting the Library Company in Philadelphia in 1731, forming Pennsylvania's first volunteer fire company, and becoming an advocate for a clean Philadelphia environment. J. A. Leo Lemay assesses Franklin's numerous writings, attributing to him for the first time a deistic Indian speech, remarking on his use of the second African American persona in journalism, and analyzing his publishing sensation of 1747, The Speech of Miss Polly Baker. These belletristic works are complemented by Franklin's religious, political, and scientific writings, which he produced prodigiously.
Download or read book History and Human Flourishing written by Darrin M. McMahon and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-12-06 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "What is the value of history for life? And how, if at all, might historians and their work contribute to human flourishing and well-being? Those are the straightforward, if capacious, questions that the distinguished contributors to this volume were asked to consider. The essays gathered here represent their responses. Each essay considers the value of history for life and its connections to human flourishing from a different standpoint and perspective. The answers are often deeply personal, but collectively they concur in affirming history and the historical craft as tremendous resources for human well-being and of vital importance for our times"--
Download or read book Benjamin Franklin s America written by Robert Ingraham and published by Robert Ingraham. This book was released on 2024-03-04 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume I of Benjamin Franklin's America examines the moral, intellectual and scientific accomplishments of Benjamin Franklin. The often neglected relationships with Cotton Mather and James Logan are examined, and his scientific investigations into electrical phenomena are explore in depth. His writings on Economics and finance are discussed, and other important features of his career, including his military leadership and his relationship with George Washington also examined.
Download or read book Guide to the Manuscript Collections of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania written by Historical Society of Pennsylvania and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 840 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Records cover Philadelphia and Pennsylvania unless otherwise noted.
Download or read book The Protestant Temperament written by Philip J. Greven, Jr. and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2013-09-04 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together an extraordinary richness of evidence—from letters, diaries, and other intimate family writing of the 17th and 18th centuries—Philip Greven, the distinguished scholar of colonial history explores the strikingly distinctive ways in which Protestant children were reared, and the Protestant temperament shaped, in America. Through this cache of remarkable and remarkably immediate and moving material – the family papers of some of America’s most famous theologians, political figures, lawyers, and ministers as well as those of lesser-known contemporaries (farmers, merchants, housewives) who embodied Protestant life and wrote about it most expressively—Philip Greven traces the hidden continuities of religious experience, of attitudes toward God, children, the will, the body, sexuality, achievement, pleasure, virtue, and selfhood among the three Protestant groups of the time. He examines, in turn, the three strains that persisted regardless of denomination. First, the “evangelicals” (their dictum for raising children: “Break their wills that you may save their souls”), ruled by a hostility to the self, a feeling that selfhood is the source of sin, too dangerous to be sought or desired (Jonathan Edwards wrote: “I have been before God and have given myself, all that I am, and have, to God; so that I am not, in any respect, my own . . . I have given myself clear away”). And we hear the products of this upbringing, in their twenties and thirties, speaking of themselves in the harshest tones (“My affections carnal, corrupt, and disordered”), distrusting themselves in the most profound ways (a woman faced with the choice of a husband wrote: “I dare not decide myself and dread nothing more than to be left to the Bent of my own heart”). In counterpoint, we see the “moderates,” poised between duty and personal desire, preoccupied but not obsessed with morality, more interested in self-control than self-suppression (an eminent Unitarian, the Reverend Theodore Parker of Boston, wrote: “The will needs regulation, not destroying. I should as soon think of breaking the legs of a horse in training him, as a child’s will”). And, finally, we see the “genteel” in polite society, taking their state of grace for granted, more interested in self-assertion than self-control, completely at ease with ambition and worldliness—music, dancing, games, convivial drinking, hunting, and sports all an integral part of the children’s lives as they grow into maturity; the boys groomed for social responsibility, the girls encouraged to be “steady, studious, docile, with a mild and winning presence, a sweet, obliging temper . . . ” The Protestant Temperament uncovers the personal experience and the psychological and social effects of religion and piety in the American of the 17th and 18th centuries, the feelings as well as the beliefs of religious people. Fascinating and groundbreaking in its revelations and its radical reassessment of the role of religion in early American life, Philip Greven’s book is a major intellectual event, an important and illuminating interpretation of the American Protestant experience.
Download or read book The Library of James Logan of Philadelphia 1674 1751 written by Loganian Library and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hidden in Plain Sight written by Robert Ingraham and published by Robert Ingraham. This book was released on 2024-03-26 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains major contributions on Dante, Machiavelli, a six part series on the self-directed creative evolution of the human species, a ten part series on Benjamin Franklin and other works. Its theme is the creativity and nobility of the human identity. Man the discoverer, Man the inventor, Man the composer. It stands in contrast to the bestial view of humanity which is now rampant in our culture.
Download or read book Young Benjamin Franklin written by Nick Bunker and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2019-08-20 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this new account of Franklin's early life, Pulitzer finalist Nick Bunker portrays him as a complex, driven young man who elbows his way to success. From his early career as a printer and journalist to his scientific work and his role as a founder of a new republic, Benjamin Franklin has always seemed the inevitable embodiment of American ingenuity. But in his youth he had to make his way through a harsh colonial world, where he fought many battles with his rivals, but also with his wayward emotions. Taking Franklin to the age of forty-one, when he made his first electrical discoveries, Bunker goes behind the legend to reveal the sources of his passion for knowledge. Always trying to balance virtue against ambition, Franklin emerges as a brilliant but flawed human being, made from the conflicts of an age of slavery as well as reason. With archival material from both sides of the Atlantic, we see Franklin in Boston, London, and Philadelphia as he develops his formula for greatness. A tale of science, politics, war, and religion, this is also a story about Franklin's forebears: the talented family of English craftsmen who produced America's favorite genius.
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