Jefferson: Sacred and Undeniable

Franklin: Self-Evident

(Note by Jacques Barzun)

Barzun, A Stroll with William James

Anyone brought up in the Alps and taking trips among them knows that “a mountain” is never twice the same — in shape, color, and “character.” It is “one thing” by a fiat helped by a name.

Bagehot, “The Metaphysical Basis of Toleration”

Human character is a most comple… waisberg.micro.blog

“Where the development of talent is concerned we are still in the food-gathering stage. We do not know how to grow it. Up to now in this country when one of the masses starts to write, paint, etc., it is because he happens to bump into the right accident. In my case the right accident happened in the 1930s... waisberg.micro.blog

Some of the authors at IWP Books:

  • Walter Bagehot
  • John Jay Chapman
  • Erwin Chargaff
  • G. Lowes Dickinson
  • E. M. Forster
  • Aldous Huxley
  • Desmond MacCarthy
  • Albert Jay Nock
  • José Ortega y Gasset
  • Agnes Repplier
  • Alfred Sidgwick
  • Anne Goodwin Winslow