Guide to Ignorance

Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 046

by VARIOUS ( - )

Twenty short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include meteor showers, smallpox inoculation, telegraphy, fear of death, church bell change-ringing , painting as a pastime, prejudice against Jews from Mark Twain's perspective, the view from Braddock Heights, Maryland, philosophical reflections by Saint Bonaventure, Paracelsus, and Friedrich Jacobi, letters written by Thomas Jefferson and James Monroe, and eulogies to Alexander Hamilton and John Keats.The Degrees of Ascension to God by Saint Bonaventure was translated by Thomas Davidson.

Listen next episodes of Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 046:
A Matchless Panorama--The View from Braddock Heights , Inoculation for the Smallpox , Letter to James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 28 October 1785 , Marconi's Telegraphing Across the Ocean without Wires , Meteoric Astronomy , Of the Imagination , On The Degrees of Ascension to God , Painting as a Pastime, Part 1 , Painting as a Pastime, Part 2 , The Honour of Your Country , The Rule of Reason