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Day 29 - Harvard Classics - 90 Day Challenge




Apr 26: Hume ON MIRACLES

Do Miracles Still Happen

Just what constitutes a miracle? Does Science indorse miracles?
One wonders why such marvelous things do not happen often
nowadays. Hume tells why.

Read from Hume ON MIRACLES ..............   Vol. 37, pp. 375-385


Apr 27: Emerson's BEAUTY

He Dared to See Forbidden Beauty

The Puritan world feared Beauty. Emerson, great American
essayist and philosopher, declared that the world was made for
beauty, and openly worshiped at beauty's shrine.

Read: Emerson's BEAUTY .......................   Vol. 5, pp. 297-310



Apr 28: THE BOOK OF ECCLESIASTES

"Vanity of Vanities," Saith the Preacher

Three hundred years before Christ, a preacher in Jerusalem complained
that there was no new thing under the sun. Everything
considered new had really existed in the time of the fathers.
Sophisticated and modern is this writer of 2,300 years ago.

Read from THE BOOK OF ECCLESIASTES ..............   Vol. 44, pp. 335-341



Apr 29: THE THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS

How I Got Rich — by Sindbad the Sailor

Sindbad, a poor man, recited woeful verses before the magnificent
dwelling of Sindbad of the Sea. The great Sindbad, hearing him,
invited the poor Sindbad to a feast and told the wonderful story
of his fabulous fortune.

Read from THE THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS .....  Vol. 16, pp. 231-242