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1881

Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality


Friedrich Nietzsche - 1881
    This volume presents the distinguished translation by R. J. Hollingdale, with a new introduction that argues for a dramatic change in Nietzsche's views from Human, All too Human to Daybreak, and shows how this change, in turn, presages the main themes of Nietzsche's later and better-known works such as On the Genealogy of Morality. The edition is completed by a chronology, notes and a guide to further reading.

The Gospel of the Holy Twelve


G.J. Ouseley - 1881
    An irish clergyman claims to have discovered in a Tibetan Monastery the Original Gospel from which the present Four Gospels are derived

Diuturnum Illud: On the Origins of Civil Power


Pope Leo XIII - 1881
    

The Questions Of King Milinda - Part I


T.W. Rhys Davids - 1881
    W. Rhys DavidsThe Milinda Pañha (also Milindapanha, Milindapañha, or Milindapañhā; abbrev., Mil) (Pali trans. "Questions of Milinda") is a Buddhist text which dates from approximately 100 BCE. It is sometimes included in the Pali Canon of Theravada Buddhism as a book of the Khuddaka Nikaya.It purports to record a dialogue in which the Indo-Greek king Menander I (Milinda in Pali) of Bactria, who reigned in the second century BCE, poses questions on Buddhism to the sage Nāgasena.The Sacred Books of the East series, comprising fifty volumes, has translations of key sacred texts of Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, Zoroastrianism, Jainism, and Islam.   BN #2940012283856