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Day 72 - Harvard Classics - 90 Day Challenge





Oct 15: VESPUCCI'S ACCOUNT OF HIS FIRST VOYAGE


First Families of America

"They are a people smooth and clean of body because of continually
washing themselves—they eat all their enemies whom
they kill or capture." Amerigo Vespucci thus writes of the New
World inhabitants.

Read: VESPUCCI'S ACCOUNT OF HIS FIRST VOYAGE .......   Vol. 43, pp. 28-44



Oct 16: HIPPOCRATES' OATH AND LAW


When Medicine Was a Mystery

Once physicians treated the sick with a mixture of medicine and
charms. In those days medicine was regarded as a dark art like
magic, and those practicing it formed guilds to protect themselves.

Read: HIPPOCRATES' OATH AND LAW ................    Vol. 38, pp. 3-5



Oct 17: Browne's RELIGIO MEDICI


Reason His Only Religion

The religion of Thomas Browne—a liberal man in a most intolerant
time—was not taken from either Rome or Geneva, but
from his own reason.

Read from Browne's RELIGIO MEDICI ................   Vol. 3, pp. 253-265



Oct 18: SHELLEY'S POEMS


"If Winter Comes"

From the title of a recently popular novel, we know that one
prominent fiction writer of to-day was inspired by the verses of
Shelley. Many others have also felt the stirring vigor of his poetry.
What is your reaction?

Read: SHELLEY'S POEMS ..........................    Vol. 41, pp. 829-835