SOURCES OF TEXTS

for the excerpts from A World of Ideas: Essential readings for College
Writers by Lee A. Jacobus. 8th ed. New York: Bedford/St. Martins, 2010.
(for complete citations for excerpts see pp. 925-927.)
FOR MORE SOURCES OF FULL TEXT NJIT and PUBLIC DOMAIN BOOKS see
http://library.njit.edu/ebooks/
Part One - Government
1. Lao-tzu. Thoughts from the Tao-te Ching (1988 trans. By Stephen
Mitchell. Harper Collins)
a. Project Gutenberg links to several translations, including one in
Chinese:
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/search?
author=lao+tzu&amode=words&title=&tmode=words
b. Translation used in the book matches text, at website
http://www.mindfully.org/Tao-Te-Ching-Lao-tzu.htm
2. Machiavelli The Qualities of the Prince (1979 trans by Musa and
Bondanella, Viking Penguin)
a. Project Gutenberg shows several versions:
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/search?
author=machiavelli&amode=words&title=&tmode=words
b. http://www.constitution.org/mac/prince00.htm
3. Jean Jacques Rousseau Origin of Civil Society (from a transl by
Gerard Hopkins in a book Social Contract: Essays by Locke, Hume,
and Rousseau, ed. By Barker. 1947, Oxford U. Press)
a. Barker book from which excerpt was taken is held at Dana library
b. Project Gutenberg links to Rousseau works:
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/search?
author=jean+jacques+rousseau&amode=words&title=&tmode=words
4. Declaration of Independence
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a. National Archives Exhibition Charters of Freedom, A New World is at

Hand includes the full text and image of the original:
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/declaration.html
b. http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/document/index.htm
5. Ortega y Gasset, Jose. The Greatest Danger, the State (from the
Revolt of the Masses translated 1932 renewed 1960 by Teresa
Carey 1960. Norton.)
a. http://www.scribd.com/doc/7153482/Ortega-y-Gasset-The-Revolt-of-theMasses
6. Becker, Carl. Ideal Democracy (Excerpts 4-5 from Modern
Democracy. Also published in Afterthoughts on Constitutions in
Yale Review XVII, 455, 1941.)
a. Two copies of Becker, Carl L. Modern Democracy. New Haven: Yale
University Press, 1941 print in the Rutgers Dana Library
b. Print copy of Yale Review issue XVII in Rutgers Alexander Library
7. Hannah Arendt - Total Domination (Excerpted from Arendt, Hannah.
The Origins of Totalitarianism. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World,
1966.
a. Print copy is available in the Van Houten Library (Stacks Lower Level JC 481
A62 1973)
8. Marcus Tullius Cicero The Defense of Injustice
a. Grant, Michael, and Marcus T. Cicero. On Government. Penguin
classics. London: Penguin Books (not available at Rutgers or NJIT).
b. Many Cicero texts are online in the public domain:
http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/c#a128
9. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Literature/Douglass/Autobiography/
a. The excerpt in World of Ideas is from Chapters 6, 7, and 8 of the web
site above.
b. Baker, Houston A, and Frederick Douglass. Narrative of the Life of
Frederick Douglass, an American Slave. Penguin American library.
Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England: Penguin Books ,
10.
Henry David Thoreau Civil Disobedience
a. http://thoreau.eserver.org/civil.html
b. Rossi, William, and Henry D. Thoreau. Walden ; Resistance to Civil
Government. New York: W.W. Norton, 1992. Available at the Rutgers
Alexander Library
11.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton Declaration of Sentiments and
Resolutions
a. http://www.pinn.net/~sunshine/book-sum/seneca3.html
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b. Anthony, Susan B, Matilda J. Gage, Ida H. Harper, and Elizabeth C.

Stanton. History of Woman Suffrage. New York: Arno Press, 1969.
Available at Essex County College Library
12.
Martin Luther King Letter from Birmingham jail a.http://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.html
b. King, Martin L. Why We Can't Wait. New York: Harper & Row, 1964.
Available at Newark Public Library and Essex County College Library
13.
John Rawls A theory of Justice
a. Rawls, John. A Theory of Justice. Cambridge, Mass: Belknap Press of
Harvard University Press, 1971 Available at the NJIT Library ( JC578 .R38
Stacks lower level)

14.

15.

Ralph Waldo Emerson Self-Reliance

a. http://www.emersoncentral.com/selfreliance.htm
b. Emerson, Ralph W. Essays: First Series (1841). Charlottesville, Va:
University of Virginia Library Available at the NJIT Library ( PS1603
.K33 stacks lower level)

Emile Durkheim Individualism and the Intellectuals

a. Durkheim, Emile. On Morality and Society: Selected Writings. The
Heritage of sociology. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1973 Page 43-57
in Google Books or from the Rutgers Law Library
16.
W.E.B Du Bois Of Our Spiritual Strivings
a. http://www.bartleby.com/114/1.html
b. Excerpted from Blight, David W, Robert Gooding-Williams, and Bois W.
E. B. Du. The Souls of Black Folk. The Bedford series in history and
culture. Boston: Bedford Books Available at the Newark Public Library
and Essex County College
17.
Ruth Benedict - The Individual and Pattern of Culture
a. Benedict, Ruth. Patterns of Culture. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co, 1934 In
the NJIT Library (GN400 .B4 stacks lower level)
18.
Erich Fromm The Individual in the Chains of Illusion
a. Fromm, Erich. Beyond the Chains of Illusion: My Encounter with Marx and
Freud. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1962. Available at the NJIT Library
(B3305.M74 F72 Stacks lower level0
19.
Adam Smith Of the Natural Progress of Opulence
a. http://www.aol.bartleby.com/10/301.html
b. Smith, Adam, and P J. O'Rourke. On the Wealth of Nations. New York.
Available at the NJIT Library
20.
Karl Marx - The Communist Manefesto a.http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/pdf/Manifesto.pdf
b. Engels, Friedrich, Samuel Moore, David McLellan, and Karl Marx. The
Communist Manifesto. Available at the NJIT Library (HX39.5 .A5213 1998
Stacks lower level)
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21.
Andrew Carnegie The Gospel of Wealth
a.http://www.swarthmore.edu/SocSci/rbannis1/AIH19th/Carnegie.html
b. Nasaw, David, and Andrew Carnegie. The "gospel of Wealth" Essays and
Other Writings. New York: Penguin Books, 2006 Found in Google Books
22.
John Kenneth Galbraith The Position of Poverty
a. Selection from Galbraith, John K. The Affluent Society. Boston, Mass:
Houghton Mifflin, 1958. Print. Available in the NJIT Library ( HC106.5 .G32
1976 stacks lower level).

23.
Robert B. Reich Why are the Rich Getting Richer and the Poor,
Poorer
a. Reich, Robert B. The Work of Nations: Preparing Ourselves for 21st-Century
Capitalism. New York: A.A. Knopf, 1991. Print. In Essex County College and
Newark Public Library
24.
Plato The Allegory of the Cave
a. http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~wldciv/world_civ_reader/world_civ_reader_1
/plato.html
b. From Book VII of Platos Republic = Project Gutenberg
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/1497
25.

Rene Descartes - Fourth Meditation: of Truth and Error

a. Ariew, Roger, Donald A. Cress, and Rene Descartes. Meditations,
Objections, and Replies. Indianapolis, IN: Hackett Pub, Not available
locally.
b. Two versions available in full text online at UPenn:
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/search?
author=descartes&amode=words&title=meditations&tmode=words
c. Full text at Google Books: http://books.google.com/books?
id=tkw7AAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=descartes+and+meditati
ons&hl=en&ei=28rTOWJLYT78Aax_fXUCA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3
&ved=0CDUQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q&f=false
26.
Sigmund Freud - The Oedipus Complex from the Interpretation of
Dreams.
a. In NJIT Library (BF1078 .F72 2005 stacks lower level)
b. Full text online from UPenn:
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/search?
author=freud&amode=words&title=dreams&tmode=words

27.
Carl Jung The personal and Collective Unconscious. From the
Psychology of the Unconcious by Jung (BF173 .J75 1957 stacks lower level)
28.
Howard Gardner A Rounded Version: The Theory of Multiple
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http://learning.nwc.hccs.edu/members/kristine.ervin/engl1302/readings/Englis
h%201302%20Fall%202009%20Handout%20Gardners%20Theory%20of
%20Multiple%20Intelligences.pdf
29.
Steven Pinker Thinking Machines From How the Mind Works
in the NJIT Library (QP360.5 .P56 1997 stacks lower level)
30.
V.S. Ramamachandran Neuroscience The New Philosophy from Ramachandran, V S. A Brief Tour of Human Consciousness: From
Imposter Poodles to Purple Numbers. New York: Pi Press, 2004 (available at
the Newark Public Library)
31.
Francis Bacon The Four Idols http://www.olearyweb.com/classes/philosophyS2/readings/bacon/Idols.pdf
32.
Charles Darwin - Natural Selection http://www.literature.org/authors/darwin-charles/the-origin-of-species/chapter04.html
33.
Rachel Carson - The Sunless Sea from the Sea Around Us ( NJIT
Library GC21 .C3 1961 stacks downstairs)
34.
Stephen Jay Gould Nonmoral Nature http://www.stephenjaygould.org/library/gould_nonmoral.html
35.
Michio Kaku - The Mystery of Dark Matter From Thompson,
Jennifer T, and Michio Kaku. Beyond Einstein: The Cosmic Quest for the
Theory of the Universe. Toronto: Bantam Books, 1987 at Exxex County
College Library
36.
Francis Fukuyama Genetic Engineering from Fukuyama,
Francis. Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology
Revolution. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002 Available at Essex
County and the Newark Public Library
37.
Aristotle The Aim of Man - Part of the Nichomachean Ethics by
Aristotle http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/nicomachaen.html
38.
Friedrich Nietzsche Morality as Anti-Nature http://history.hanover.edu/courses/excerpts/111niet.html or
http://www.handprint.com/SC/NIE/GotDamer.html#sect5
39.
Friedrich Nietzche - The Four Great Errors http://www.handprint.com/SC/NIE/GotDamer.html#sect6
40.
Iris Murdoch Morality and Religion part of Murdoch, Iris.
Metaphysics As a Guide to Morals. New York, N.Y., U.S.A: Allen Lane, Penguin
Press Available at Essex County College and Newark Public Library
41.
Aldo Leopold The Land Ethic http://home.btconnect.com/tipiglen/landethic.html
42.
Peter Singer and Jim Mason The Ethics of Eating Meat from
Mason, Jim, and Peter Singer. The Ethics of What We Eat: Why Our Food

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Choices Matter. Emmaus, Pa.: Rodale, 2007 not available locally. Other
books by Singer are at Rutgers and Newark Public Libraries.
43.
Mary Wollstonecraft Of the Pernicious Effects Which Arise
from the Unnatural Distinctions Established in Society http://classicliberal.tripod.com/maryw/vrow09.html
44.
John Stuart Mill The Subjection of Women http://www.constitution.org/jsm/women.htm
45.
Virginia Woolf Shakespeares Sister http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/w/woolf/virginia/w91r/chapter3.html
46.
Margaret Mead - Sex and Temperament - from Mead, Margaret.
Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies. New York: Morrow, 1963
Available in Essex County and Newark Public Libraries
47.
Claude Levi-Strauss Men, Women, and Chiefs from LeviStrauss, Claude. A World on the Wane. New York: Criterion Books, 1961. Not
available locally.
48.
Germaine Greer Masculinity from Greer, Germaine. The Whole
Woman. New York: A.A. Knopf, 1999. Available at the Newark Public Library.

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