There is a sense in which the authoritarian figures of a socialist society are far more authoritarian than those of a capitalist one. To ill...

George Borrow (1803-1881) was an English author who was contemporary with novelists such as Charles Dickens and George Eliot. Well-known in ...

Beethoven had a housekeeper.* She did the cooking and housekeeping while he composed music. I am sure the modern view of the matter is that ...

G.I. Gurdjieff George Gurdjieff (d. 1947) was a mystic who believed in the possibility of a higher state of consciousness, and who tried to ...

Richard Church (1893-1972) Richard Church was a poet and novelist who was particularly active during the 1930s and 1940s. Perhaps his best k...

Mary Somerville, born Mary Fairfax in 1780, was a Scottish scientist, known particularly for her books on astronomy and other physical scien...

Extract from pamphlet Canada wants domestic servants , issued by Canada’s Minister of the Interior in 1909: The domestic servant problem i...

Extract from Advice to Clever Children , about the modern obsession with qualifications. T.E. Lawrence (1888-1935) In the University of Ox...

In the Eastern Orthodox Church, a key idea is that man should become God, and that the universe will become deified with him. Here are som...

George Berkeley (1685-1753) George Berkeley, born in 1685 at Dysart Castle in County Kilkenny, and Bishop of Cloyne from 1734 to 1753, wrote...