THE VISION OF BABOUC. Among the genii who preside over the empires of the earth, Ithuriel held one of the first ranks, and had the...

The great philosopher Citosile once said to a woman who was disconsolate, and who had good reason to be so: "Madame, the queen of...

I. INTRODUCTION. There can be no doubt that everything in the world is governed by fatality. My own life is a convincing proof o...

[1] I was born in Candia, in the year 1600. My father was governor of the city; and I remember that a poet of middling parts, and ...

DOES HAPPINESS RESULT FROM IGNORANCE OR FROM KNOWLEDGE? In my travels I once happened to meet with an aged Bramin. This man had a ...

The adventure of the youthful Rustan is generally known throughout the whole province of Candahar. He was the only son of a Mirza of t...

"Hitherto," said Candide to Martin, "I have met with none but unfortunate people in the whole habitable globe, except i...

Plato was a great dreamer, as many others have been since his time. He dreampt that mankind were formerly double; and that, as a punis...

Memnon one day took it into his head to become a great philosopher. "To be perfectly happy," said he to himself, "I hav...

Many persons, worthy of credit, have seen Jeannot and Colin at school in the town of Issoire, in Auvergne, France,—a town famous all o...

When I was in the city of Benarez, on the borders of the Ganges, the country of the ancient Brahmins, I endeavored to instruct myself ...

André Des Touches was a very agreeable musician in the brilliant reign of Louis XIV. before the science of music was perfected by Rame...

The Winged Dragon.[1] In order to be successful in their efforts to govern the multitude, rulers have endeavored to instill all ...

All the world knows that Pythagoras, while he resided in India, attended the school of the Gymnosophists, and learned the language of ...

In the year 1723, there was a Chinese in Holland, who was both a learned man and a merchant, two things that ought by no means to be i...