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Christopher Carson; Familiarly Known as Kit Carson the Pioneer of the West


John S.C. Abbott - 1873
    This book, Christopher Carson - The Pioneer of the West by John S.C. Abbott tells the story in wonderful detail. You'll meet other well known Americans such as John C. Fremont, but mostly, you'll thrill to the adventures of Kit Carson. Carson was a mild mannered man who didn't drink alcohol and never used foul language, but when danger threatened him or any of his companions, he stepped forward without a hint of fear. He grew to manhood in some of the most exciting times the new American nation ever experienced, and was instrumental in extending the boundaries of this new nation from sea to shining sea. This isn't a novel, but the true story of the life of Kit Carson. Once you start reading you'll find that this is a book you won't want to put down until the end. This edition of CHRISTOPHER CARSON; Familiarly Known As Kit Carson The Pioneer of the West includes the original images from the book plus historical and newly painted images of Kit Carson. This is the ebook of the Bottom of the Hill Publishing print edition of CHRISTOPHER CARSON; Familiarly Known As Kit Carson The Pioneer of the West. If you would like a printed book look on Amazon for ISBN 978-1-61203-731-8

China and its People in Early Photographs: An Unabridged Reprint of the Classic 1883/4 Work


John Thomson - 1873
    

History of Philosophy


Albert Schwegler - 1873
    This is a comprehensive look at the history of philosophy up until the late 19th century. From the intro:“Philosophy is reflection, the thinking consideration of things. This definition exhausts not the idea of philosophy, however. Man thinks in his practical activities as well, where he calculates the means to the attainment of ends and all the other sciences—those even which belong not to philosophy in the stricter sense—are of the nature of thought. By what, then, does philosophy distinguish itself from these sciences? By what does it distinguish itself, for example, from the science of astronomy, or from that of medicine, or of jurisprudence? Not, certainly, by the difference of its matter. Its matter is quite the same as that of the various empirical sciences. Plan and order of the universe, structure and function of the human body, property, law, politics,—all these belong to philosophy quite as much as to their respective special sciences. What is given in experience —actual fact—that, their material, is the material of philosophy also. It is not, then, by its matter that philosophy distinguishes itself from the empirical sciences, but by its form, by its method,—so to speak by its mode of knowing. The various empirical sciences take their matter directly from experience; they find it ready to hand and as they find it, they accept it. Philosophy, on the contrary, accepts not what is given in experience as it is given, but follows it up into its ultimate grounds, regarding each particular fact only in relation to a final principle, and as a determinate link in the system of knowledge. But just so it strips from such particular fact—which to our senses seems but a something given this its character of independency, individualness and contingency. In the sea of empirical particulars, in the confused infinitude of the contingent, it establishes the universal, the necessary, the all-pervading law. In short, philosophy considers the entire empirical finite in the form of an intelligently articulated system.”