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Wisdom

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• The Burden of God: Studies in Wisdom and Civilization from the Book of Ecclesiastes (c1993), by Michael W. Kelley (PDF at Contra Mundum)

• An Introduction to Wysedome (London: T. Berthelet, 1544), by Juan Luis Vives, trans. by Richard Morison, contrib. by Desiderius Erasmus (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Three Wise Old Couples (London et al.: Cassell, Petter, Galpin and Co., c1881), by Elizabeth T. Corbett, illust. by Livingston Hopkins (page images at ufl.edu)

• Leaves of Grass, by Walt Whitman (multiple editions)

• Investigation for Insight, by Susan Elbaum Jootla (HTML at Access to Insight)
• Satipatthana Vipassana, by Mahā caññʻ Cha rā toʻ ʼA rhaṅʻ Sobhana (HTML at Access to Insight)

• Inquiring Mind (selected issues and articles of this Buddhist journal, 1984-2015) (partial serial archives)

• The Divine Love and Wisdom (multiple translations), by Emanuel Swedenborg
  • Ager edition: HTML at eswedenborg.com
  • Rogers edition: HTML at eswedenborg.com
  • Harley and Harley edition: HTML at eswedenborg.com

• Understanding Stupidity: An Analysis of the Premaladaptive Beliefs and Behavior of Institutions and Organizations, by James F. Welles (HTML at mensch.net)
• Natures Picture Drawn by Fancies Pencil to the Life: Being Several Feigned Stories, Comical, Tragical, Tragi-Comical, Poetical, Romanicical, Philosophical, Historical, and Moral (second edition; London: Printed by A. Maxwell, 1671), by Margaret Cavendish Newcastle (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Judgment and Decision Making (2006-) (full serial archives)

• The Canadian, Photoplay Title of The Land of Promise: A Novelization of W. Somerset Maugham's Play (with pictures from the photoplay; New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1914), by D. Torbett, contrib. by W. Somerset Maugham (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Plunderer (New York: A. L. Burt Co., c1912), by Roy Norton, illust. by Douglas Duer
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• What Matters Now (2009), ed. by Seth Godin (PDF with commentary at typepad.com)

• Elegant Jeremiahs: The Sage from Carlyle to Mailer, by George P. Landow (HTML at Victorian Web)

• A Series of Lessons in Gnani Yoga (the Yoga of Wisdom), by Ramacharaka (Gutenberg text)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Creative Experience (originally published 1924), by Mary Parker Follett (page images at Toronto)
• Essays in Radical Empiricism, by William James (multiple formats at archive.org)

• No Sense of Obligation: Science and Religion in an Impersonal Universe (c2001), by Matt Young (PDF with commentary at mines.edu)
• The Scepticism of British Empiricism (handwritten University of Michigan masters' thesis; 1889), by Elisha M. Hartman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Studies in Empirical Philosophy, by John Anderson (HTML at SETIS)

• Ways of Making and Knowing: The Material Culture of Empirical Knowledge (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2014), ed. by Pamela H. Smith, Amy R. W. Meyers, and Harold John Cook (page images at HathiTrust)

• Ways of Making and Knowing: The Material Culture of Empirical Knowledge (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2014), ed. by Pamela H. Smith, Amy R. W. Meyers, and Harold John Cook (page images at HathiTrust)

• Philosophy of Science and Education: Chinese and European Views (Washington: Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, c1995), ed. by Shen Qingsong, Tran Van Doan, and Fritz Wallner (multiple formats at Google)
• Realist Magic: Objects, Ontology, Causality (Ann Arbor: Open Humanities Press, 2013), by Timothy Morton (HTML and PDF with commentary at Open Humanities Press)
• A Defence of Idealism: Some Questions and Conclusions (London: Macmillan and Co., 1917), by May Sinclair (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Essays in Experimental Logic (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, c1916), by John Dewey
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • Gutenberg text

• Speculations (2010-) (full serial archives)

• Thucydides and the Ancient Simplicity: The Limits of Political Realism (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998), by Gregory Crane (HTML at UC Press)

• Pragmatism and the Crisis of Democracy (Public policy pamphlet #12; Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1934), by Charles W. Morris (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Metaphysics of Pragmatism (Chicago and London: Open Court Pub. Co., 1927), by Sidney Hook, contrib. by John Dewey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pragmatism and Theory in English Law (Hamlyn Lectures, #39; London: Stevens and Sons, 1987), by P. S. Atiyah (PDF in the UK)
• Pragmatism, by D. L. Murray, contrib. by F. C. S. Schiller (Gutenberg text)
• Pragmatism: A New Name For Some Old Ways of Thinking, by William James (Gutenberg text)
• The Philosophy of William James, Drawn From His Own Works (New York: Modern Library, c1925), by William James, ed. by Horace Meyer Kallen (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Die Philosophie des Als Ob: System der Theoretischen, Praktischen und Religiösen Fiktionen der Menschheit auf Grund eines Idealistischen Positivismus, Mit Einem Anhang Über Kant und Nietzsche (7th and 8th edition, in German; Leipzig: F. Meiner, 1922), by Hans Vaihinger (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Creative Intelligence: Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude (New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1917), by John Dewey, Addison Webster Moore, Harold Chapman Brown, George Herbert Mead, Boyd Henry Bode, Henry Waldgrave Stuart, James Hayden Tufts, and Horace Meyer Kallen (Gutenberg text)
• Essays in Radical Empiricism, by William James (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Meaning of Truth, by William James (Gutenberg text)
• The Last Stand of Dialectic Materialism: A Study of Sidney Hook's Marxism (New York: Polemic Publishers, 1934), by Max Eastman (page images at HathiTrust)

• Art in History, History in Art: Studies in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Culture (Santa Monica, CA: Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, c1991), ed. by David Freedberg and Jan De Vries (page images and PDF with commentary at getty.edu and Google)
• American Impressionist and Realist Paintings and Drawings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond J. Horowitz, Exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 19 April through 3 June 1973 (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1973), by Dianne H. Pilgrim, contrib. by John K. Howat (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• Realism's Empire: Empiricism and Enchantment in the Nineteenth-Century Novel (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2009), by Geoffrey Baker (PDF at Ohio State)
• For Love or For Money: Balzac's Rhetorical Realism (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2011), by Armine Kotin Mortimer (PDF at Ohio State)
• Dickens's Hyperrealism (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2010), by John Robert Reed (PDF at Ohio State)
• The Limits of Realism: Chinese Fiction in the Revolutionary Period (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990), by Marston Anderson (HTML at UC Press)
• The Novel-Machine: The Theory and Fiction of Anthony Trollope (originally published 1980; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Walter M. Kendrick (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
• A Superficial Reading of Henry James: Preoccupations with the Material World (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2006), by Thomas J. Otten (PDF at Ohio State)
• On Howells: The Best From American Literature (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1993), ed. by Edwin Harrison Cady and Louis J. Budd (page images at HathiTrust)
• Primitive Minds: Evolution and Spiritual Experience in the Victorian Novel (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2013), by Anna Neill (PDF at Ohio State)
• Feminist Realism at the Fin de Siècle: The Influence of the Late-Victorian Woman's Press on the Development of the Novel (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2008), by Molly Youngkin (PDF at Ohio State)
• After the Vows Were Spoken: Marriage in American Literary Realism (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1984), by Allen F. Stein (PDF at Ohio State)
• Literature and Reality (New York: International Publishers, c1950), by Howard Fast (page images at HathiTrust)

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