"Four years after the death of Justinian, A.D. 569, was born at Mecca, in Arabia, the man who, of all others, has exer…"

"I have to deplore the systematic manner in which the literature of Europe has contrived to put out of sight our scien…"

""But, though the Church hath evermore from Holy Writ affirmed that the earth should be a wide-spread plain bordered b…"

"Time, to the nation as to the individual, is nothing absolute; its duration depends on the rate of thought and feeling."

"The Koran abounds in excellent moral suggestions and precepts; its composition is so fragmentary that we can not turn…"

"Vier Jahre nach dem Tode von Justinian, 569 n.Chr., wurde in Mekka, Arabien, der Mann geboren, der unter allen Männer…"

"Der Koran fließt über von ausgezeichneten moralischen Empfehlungen und Geboten. Er ist so aufgebaut, dass wir nicht e…"

"The Corn Belt is a gift of the gods—the rain god, the sun god, the ice god and the gods of geology. In the middle of …"

"Technology...has become the prime source of material change and so determines the pattern of the total social fabric."

"My great-grandmother would talk about her uncles who served in the Maine Regiment during the Civil War, my great-gran…"