Books & Literature

The Written Word

St. Thomas Aquinas: 16 Precepts for Acquiring the Treasure of Knowledge

The renowned letter from St. Thomas Aquinas to Brother John, wherein he lists 16 precepts for acquiring the treasure of...

Lord of the Flies: Novel vs. Netflix Series

Coincidentally, right after I finished reading the novel Lord of the Flies for the first time, Netflix released a 4-episode...

Ethics In Diet

The abuse, cruelty, and suffering inflicted upon the animals in factory farms, plus FREE ebook: The First Step, or The...

Examination Day | A Short Story by Henry Slesar

Examination Day by Henry Slesar is a 1958 short story about a 12-year-old boy who takes a mandatory government intelligence...

The War Prayer by Mark Twain

The War Prayer was written by Mark Twain in 1905, but was unpublished until after his death for fear of...

Live Not By Lies by Alexandr Solzhenitsyn

Alexandr Solzhenitsyn was arrested for publishing Live Not by Lies; download the ebook from my Free Ebook Library...

The Law of Love & The Law of Violence by Leo Tolstoy

Tolstoy states that the true Christian doctrine consists only in the recognition of love as the supreme law of life,...

The Lowest Animal by Mark Twain

In The Lowest Animal, Mark Twain describes how animals often show greater civility than humans, causing him to ponder man's...