The Greatest Minds and Ideas of All Time

THE BOOKS

The Road To Freedom: Being One Hundred Best Books for an Education

GROUP I. INTRODUCTORY

1. THOMSON, J. A., The Outline of Science. 4 v.

2. CLENDENING, LOGAN, The Human Body.

*3. KELLOGG, J. H., The New Dietetics; pp. 1-531, 975-1011.

4. JAMES, Wm., Principles of Psychology. 2 v.

*5. WELLS, H. G., The Outline of History; chapters 1-14.

6. SUMNER,W. G., Folkways.

7. FRAZER, SIR JAS., The Golden Bough. 1-vol. ed.

GROUP II. ASIA AND AFRICA

*8. BREASTED and ROBINSON, The Human Adventure. 2v.Vol. 1, chs. 2-7.

5. WELLS, chs. 15-21, 26.

9. BROWN, BRIAN, The Wisdom of China.

*10. The Bible: Genesis, Exodus, Ruth, Esther, Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Solomon, Isaiah, Amos, Micah, the Gospels, Acts of the Apostles, and Epistles of St. Paul.

*11. FAURE, ELIE, History Of Art. 4v. Vol. I, chs. 1-3; vol. II, chs. 1-3.

12. WILLIAMS, H. S., History of Science. 5v. Bk. I, chs. 1-4.

GROUP III. GREECE

8. BREASTED and ROBINSON, vol. I, chs. 8-19.

5. WELLS, chs. 22-25.

13. BURY, J. B., History of Greece. 2 v.

14. HERODOTUS, Histories. (Everyman Library.)

15. THUCYDIDES, The Peloponnesian War. (Everyman Library.)

*16. PLUTARCH, Lives of Illustrious Men (esp. Lycurgus, Solon, Themistocles, Aristides, Pericles, Alcibiades, Demos-thenes, Alexander).

17. MURRAY, G., Greek Literature.

18. HOMER, Iliad. Trans. Bryant. Selections.

19. HOMER, Odyssey. Trans. Bryant. Selections.

20. AESCHYLUS, Prometheus Bound. Trans. Eliz. Browning.

21. SOPHOCLES, Oedipus Tyrannus and Antigone. Trans.Young. (Everyman Library.)

22. EURIPIDES, all plays so far translated by Gilbert Murray.

23. DIOGENES LAERTIUS, Lives of the Philosophers.

*24. PLATO, Dialogues. Trans. Jowett. Esp. The Apology of Socrates, Phaedo, and The Republic (sections 327-32, 336-77, 384-85, 392-426, 433-35, 481-83, 512-20, 572-95). 1-vol. ed. by Irwin Edman.

25. ARISTOTLE, Nicomachean Ethics.

26. ARISTOTLE, Politics.

12. WILLIAMS, History of Science, bk. I, chs. 5-9.

11. FAURE, History of Art, vol. I, chs. 4-7.

GROUP IV. ROME

8. BREASTED and ROBINSON, vol. I, chs. 20-30.

5. WELLS, chs. 27-29.

16. PLUTARCH, Lives (esp. Cato Censor, Tiberius and Caius Gracchus, Marius, Sylla, Pompey, Cicero, Caesar, Brutus, Antony).

27. LUCRETIUS, On the Nature of Things. Trans. Munro. (Certain passages are admirably paraphrased in W. H. Mallock, Lucretius on Life and Death. )

28. VIRGIL, Aeneid. Trans.Wm. Morris. Selections.

*29. MARCUS AURELIUS, Meditations. (Everyman Library.)

12. WILLIAMS, bk. I, chs. 10-11.

11. FAURE, vol. I, ch. 8.

*30. GIBBON, E., Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. 6 v. (Everyman Library.) Esp. chs. 1-4, 9-10, 14, 15-24, 26-28, 30-31, 35-36, 44, 71.

GROUP V. THE AGE OF CCHRISTIANITY

8. BREASTED and ROBINSON, vol. II, chs. 1-11.

5. WELLS, chs. 30-34.

30. GIBBON, chs. 37-38, 47-53, 55-59, 64-65, 68-70.

*31. OMAR KHAYYAM, Rubaiyat. Fitzgerald’s paraphrase.

32. MOORE, GEO., Heloise and Abelard. 2 v.

33. DANTE, Divine Comedy. Trans. Longfellow, or C. E. Norton.

*34. TAINE, H., History of English Literature, bk. I.

35. CHAUCER, G., Canterbury Tales. (Everyman Library.) Selections.

36. ADAMS, H., Mont St. Michel and Chartres.

12. WILLIAMS, bk. II, chs. 1-3.

11. FAURE, vol. II, chs. 4-9.

37. GRAY, C., History of Music, chs. 1-3, 5.

GROUP VI. THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE

5. WELLS, ch. 35.

38. SYMONDS, J. A., The Renaissance in Italy. 7 v.

39. CELLINI, B., Autobiography. Trans. Symonds.

40. VASARI, G., Lives of the Painters and Sculptors. 4v. Esp. Giotto, Brunelleschi, Botticelli, Fra Angelico, Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, and Michelangelo.

41. HOFFDING, H., History of Modern Philosophy. 2v. Sections on Bruno and Machiavelli.

42. MACHIAVELLI, N., The Prince.

37. GRAY, chs. 6, 8.

G ROUP VII. EUROPE IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY

8. BREASTED and ROBINSON, vol. II, chs. 13-14.

43. SMITH, P., The Age of the Reformation.

44. FAGUET, E., The Literature of France; sections on the sixteenth century.

45. RABELAIS, Gargantua and Pantagruel.

*46. MONTAIGNE, Essays. 3v. (Everyman Library.) Esp. Of Coaches, Of the Incommodity of Greatness, Of Vanity, and Of Experience.