Literary Thoughts edition presents Nights with the Gods by Emil Reich
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"Nights with the Gods" was written in 1909 by historian Emil Reich (1854-1910) as a criticism of modern English society.
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Emil Reich. Nights with the Gods (Emil Reich) (Literary Thoughts Edition)
Nights with the Gods, by Emil Reich
FOREWORD
THE FIRST NIGHT – ARISTOTLE ON SPECIALISM IN ENGLAND
THE SECOND NIGHT – DIOGENES AND PLATO ON TOLSTOY, IBSEN, SHAW, ETC
THE THIRD NIGHT – ALCIBIADES ON WOMEN IN ENGLAND
FOURTH NIGHT – ALCIBIADES—CONTINUED
THE FIFTH NIGHT – CÆSAR ON THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
THE SIXTH NIGHT – APOLLO AND DIONYSUS IN ENGLAND
THE SEVENTH NIGHT – SOCRATES, DIOGENES, AND PLATO ON RELIGION
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"In Nature there is no evolution, but only co-evolution; there is no differentiation but only co-differentiation. The little ones have quite overlooked all that; and that is why so many of the statements of co-differentiation in my zoology can be neither confirmed nor refuted by them. Who dare say which is a 'part' in Nature? Is the hand a 'part,' that is, something that might legitimately be told off as a speciality? Or must it be studied in connection with the arm, or with its homologies in the nether part of the body?
"In the same way: what constitutes a 'period' in history? Any division of a hundred or a thousand years by two, three, or four? Or by a division of twenty-five or thirty only? Who can tell? A man who says he is a specialist in the thirteenth century, is he not like a man who pretends that he is a specialist in respiration in the evening?
