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Day 83 - Harvard Classics - 90 Day Challenge





Nov 28: BLAKE'S POEMS


Poems Made from Visions

"To see a world in a grain of sand, and a heaven in a wild flower—"
Such was the exaltation of the mysticism of William Blake, who
reflected in his poetry the ecstasy of his visions. Simplicity is the
keynote of his genius.

Read: BLAKE'S POEMS ..........................    Vol. 41, pp. 583-592



Nov 29: Hume's OF THE ORIGIN OF IDEAS


How Ideas Originate

Did you ever stop to think just how you thought? What inner
emotions, what outer influences make up the fathomless depths
of mind and intellect? Hume explains how we draw our
thoughts, then clumsily put them into tangible shape called ideas.

Read: Hume's OF THE ORIGIN OF IDEAS ...............     Vol. 37, pp. 299-303



Nov 30: Swift's ESSAY ON CONVERSATION


"Don'ts" for Conversation

To harp on one's illnesses, giving all the symptoms and circumstances,
has been a blemish on conversation for ages. Two
hundred years ago Swift complained of persons who continually
talked about themselves.

Read: Swift's ESSAY ON CONVERSATION ..............      Vol. 27, pp. 91-98



Dec 1: Berkeley's THREE DIALOGUES


Are Skeptics Faulty Thinkers?

Offhand we say a skeptic is one who doubts everything. But
does he? And are his doubts caused by too much learning, or too
little? Berkeley presents both sides of skepticism.

Read from Berkeley's THREE DIALOGUES .............     Vol. 37, pp. 189-199