Origins of the Specious - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Origins of the Specious write by Patricia T. O'Conner. This book was released on 2010-08-24. Origins of the Specious available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Do you cringe when a talking head pronounces “niche” as NITCH? Do you get bent out of shape when your teenager begins a sentence with “and”? Do you think British spellings are more “civilised” than the American versions? If you answered yes to any of those questions, you’re myth-informed. In Origins of the Specious, word mavens Patricia T. O’Conner and Stewart Kellerman reveal why some of grammar’s best-known “rules” aren’t—and never were—rules at all. This playfully witty, rigorously researched book sets the record straight about bogus word origins, politically correct fictions, phony français, fake acronyms, and more. Here are some shockers: “They” was once commonly used for both singular and plural, much the way “you” is today. And an eighteenth-century female grammarian, of all people, is largely responsible for the all-purpose “he.” From the Queen’s English to street slang, this eye-opening romp will be the toast of grammarphiles and the salvation of grammarphobes. Take our word for it.
The War That Never Was
The War That Never Was - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The War That Never Was write by Kenneth W. Kemp. This book was released on 2020-05-29. The War That Never Was available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. One of the prevailing myths of modern intellectual and cultural history is that there has been a long-running war between science and religion, particularly over evolution. This book argues that what is mistaken as a war between science and religion is actually a pair of wars between other belligerents—one between evolutionists and anti-evolutionists and another between atheists and Christians. In neither of those wars can one align science with one side and religion or theology with the other. This book includes a review of the encounter of Christian theology with the pre-Darwinian rise of historical geology, an account of the origins of the warfare myth, and a careful discussion of the salient historical events on which the myth-makers rely—the Huxley-Wilberforce exchange, the Scopes Trial and the larger anti-evolutionist campaign in which it was embedded, and the more recent curriculum wars precipitated by the proponents of Creation Science and of Intelligent-Design Theory.
Atheist Delusions
Atheist Delusions - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Atheist Delusions write by David Bentley Hart. This book was released on 2009-04-21. Atheist Delusions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Religious scholar Hart argues that contemporary antireligious polemics are based not only upon conceptual confusions but upon facile simplifications of history and provides a powerful antidote to the New Atheists' misrepresentations of the Christian past.
The Specious Origins of Liberalism
The Specious Origins of Liberalism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Specious Origins of Liberalism write by Anthony M. Ludovici. This book was released on 2019-05-18. The Specious Origins of Liberalism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. First published as a series of articles in The South African Observer in the 1960s, this work provides a fascinating historical-philosophical analysis of the origin of modern liberalism. Starting with an analysis of what liberalism is, this book reviews the ideological origin--among the upper classes of society--of the notion of liberalism, and then moves through its historical development to the present day, where, he concludes, the "worst misapprehension of all is to suppose that all this Liberal misunderstanding of human nature can possibly fail in the end to pervert and corrupt the nation and wipe out all the accumulated treasure in virtue and sanity which has been fostered and stored during former, more rational and more tasteful times." As the author says in the preface: "Among the many remarkable changes witnessed in my lifetime, none has struck me more forcibly than that which has occurred in the relative importance of Religion and Politics. "For, whereas in my childhood and youth religion was still the principal field where fervour and fanaticism reigned, it has been my fate to see political doctrines and ideologies completely supersede it in all adult minds. "In my youth there was certainly hostility and rivalry between Liberals and Conservatives; but however bitter the antagonism, it never went to the length of branding the other side as "indecent", "disreputable" or actually "despicable". Yet to-day Liberalism has attained to this height of arrogance and presumption. "This book is therefore an attempt in this eleventh hour of expiring sanity to expose (he false assumptions and truculent vacuity of these very tenets and principles, and to outline a constructive means of combating them."
Madame Blavatsky's Baboon
Madame Blavatsky's Baboon - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Madame Blavatsky's Baboon write by Peter Washington. This book was released on 1995. Madame Blavatsky's Baboon available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Just before the turn of the century, a renegade Russian aristocrat named Madame Blavatsky came to America claiming that man was descended not from the ape but from spiritual beings. Thus began Theosophy, the very first "new age" religion. This thought-provoking and often hilarious study delineates the course of Theosophy and other sects which have come down through the years. Photos.
