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THE EXCITING “BULL SESSIONS” that so often generate more heat than light, and absorb college students and others in animated arguments far into the night, are nine times out of ten on subjects discussed in these pages. In fact, this book is largely a product of many years of individual and group discussions, as well as of prolonged study in and out of universities of the three essential departments of the modern mind—science, philosophy, and religion. The approach here used is chosen for the scientifically inclined person of today in non-Christian as well as in so-called Christian lands. Jewish and Christian teachers of former periods started by quoting the Bible, but that does not app...
This groundbreaking new source of international scope defines the essay as nonfictional prose texts of between one and 50 pages in length. The more than 500 entries by 275 contributors include entries on nationalities, various categories of essays such as generic (such as sermons, aphorisms), individual major works, notable writers, and periodicals that created a market for essays, and particularly famous or significant essays. The preface details the historical development of the essay, and the alphabetically arranged entries usually include biographical sketch, nationality, era, selected writings list, additional readings, and anthologies
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