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Selections from the Table Talk of Martin Luther

Selections from the Table Talk of Martin Luther

by Martin Luther

Martin luther died on the 18th of February, 1546, and the first publication of his “Table Talk”—Tischreden—by his friend, Johann Goldschmid (Aurifaber), was in 1566, in a substantial folio.  The talk of Luther was arranged, according to its topics, into eighty chapters, each with a minute index of contents.  The whole work in a complete o..

Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae)

Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae)

by Saint Thomas Aquinas

The Summa Theologiae or Summa Theologica, often referred to simply as the Summa, is the best-known work of Thomas Aquinas, a scholastic theologian and Doctor of the Church. ..

Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae)

Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae)

by Saint Thomas Aquinas

The Summa Theologiae or Summa Theologica, often referred to simply as the Summa, is the best-known work of Thomas Aquinas, a scholastic theologian and Doctor of the Church. Questions are specific topics of discussion, whereas their corresponding Articles are further-specified facets of the parent question. For example, Part I, Question 2 ("The..

True Christianity

True Christianity

by Johann Arndt

Both the general purpose of the venerable Johann Arndt in writing his “True Christianity,” and also his own character and spirit, will be best exhibited by submitting to the reader a statement referring to his personal history. He was born, December 27th, 1555, in Ballenstädt, a town in the Duchy of Anhalt, where his father, Rev. Jacob Arndt, long ..

Harvesting Ants and Trap-Door Spiders

Harvesting Ants and Trap-Door Spiders

by J. Traherne Moggridge

Claudius Ælianus, who lived in the time of Hadrian, gives a detailed account of the habits which he attributes to ants, from which the following is a translation: "In summer time, after harvest, while the ears are being threshed the ants pry about in troops around the threshing floors, leaving their homes, and going singly, in pairs, or sometimes t..

Space-Trap At Banya Tor

Space-Trap At Banya Tor

by W.J. Matthews

Space-Trap At Banya Tor, by W. J. Matthews. Exciting entertainment, these telecasts of dashing pirates, gorgeous victims and the always stupid Space Patrol, but Jeff Thorne, famed Derelict of Mars, was grimly bent on stopping them—in all their ghastly reality!.Wheelwright was not impressed. "You know best, then I know him as a sot who stumbled on a..

The Psalms of David

The Psalms of David

by Isaac Watts

The Poems of Dr. Watts were by my recommendation inserted in the late Collection; the readers of which are to impute to me whatever pleasure or weariness they may find in the perusal of Blackmore, Watts, Pomfret, and Yealden.ISAAC WATTS was born July 17, 1674, at Southampton, where his father of the same name, kept a boarding-school for young gentl..

Design For Doomsday

Design For Doomsday

by Bryce Walton

Design For Doomsday, by Bryce Walton. Slogging through Venus' reeking muck and groping horrors toward the forbidding dome of Solar Science City—treasure-vault of the best brains in the System—Guardsman Venard remembered the frightened whispers: "An evil god rules there!"The tone of the slurred, emotionless voice was cold and deadly, as were the ton..