Beaconlights of Western culture
Subtitle: condensed versions of great books and epoch-making public acts that have shaped our spiritual heritage
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 1952
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Subjects: Literature -- Collections
Other titles: Great books and epoch making public acts
Table of contents: value: v. 1. The Republic, by Plato.  The prince, by Machiavelli.  Novum organum, book 1, by F. Bacon.  Discourse on method, by Descartes.  Principia (selected passages) by Newton.  Second treatise on civil government, by Locke.  The principles of human knowledge, by Berkeley.  Essay on inequality, by Rousseau.  Candide, by Voltaire.- v. 2. Virginia bill of rights, by G. Mason.  Virginia statute of religious liberty, by Jefferson.  The principle of utility (utilitarianism) by Bentham.  Declaration of the rights of man and of the citizen.  Age of reason, by T. Paine.  Communist manifesto, by Marx and Engels.  Walden, by Thoreau.  Essay on liberty, by Mill.  The origin of species, by Darwin.  The doctrine of nonresistance to evil by force, by Tolstoy.  The theory of the leisure class, by Veblen.  Universal declaration of human rights.- v. 3. The wealth of nations, by A. Smith.  Essay on population, by Malthus