Letter XVIII BY beauty the sensuous man is led to form and to thought; by beauty the spiritual man is brought back to matter and...

XVII WHILE we were only engaged in deducing the universal idea of beauty from the conception of human nature in general, we had only to...

Letter XV I APPROACH continually nearer to the end to which I lead you, by a path offering few attractions. Be pleased to follow me a...

Chapter 75 The people's hunger Is due to the excess of their ruler's taxation So they starve The people's difficulty in being governed...

Chapter 67 Everyone in the world calls my Tao great As if it is beyond compare It is only because of its greatness That it seems...

Letter XIV WE have been brought to the idea of such a correlation between the two impulsions that the action of the one establishes and...

The poetry of Dante may be considered as the bridge thrown over the stream of time, which unites the modern and ancient world. The...

Letter XII THIS twofold labour or task, which consists in making the necessary pass into reality in usand in making out of us reality...

In our own day, many scholars, imitating Gorgias of Leontini, have been accustomed to dispute, not nine hundred questions merely, but the...

Letter XI If abstraction rises to as great an elevation as possible, it arrives at two primary ideas, before which it is obliged to stop...