Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
Building giants was a necessity for ancient humans. A human tribe was more than the sum of its parts, in physical power, in productivity, and in knowledge.
Tim Urban • A Story of Stories
If there was anyone to whom the brothers were indebted for their upbringing and education for the rest of their lives, it was to this Yefim Petrovich, a most generous and humane man, of a kind rarely found.
Larissa Volokhonsky • The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue
Earlier in the century, most people lived on family farms that looked and smelled like rural factories. Survival was a matter of brutally hard labor and lots of kids. Houses were painted once when they were built, if at all; yards were full of garbage and foraging animals; soap was for clothes, not for people. Accelerating growth in the 1840s and 1
... See moreCharles R. Morris • The Tycoons: How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan Invented the American Supereconomy
Henry Gorse Book
henrygorse.co.uk
When the monasteries were swept away and the mediaeval system of hospitality destroyed, tramps and beggars became a problem,
G. K. Chesterton • The G. K. Chesterton Collection [50 Books]
Jonathan Jantz
@jonathanjantz