An Answer to the Question: What Is Enlightenment?

imanuelle-kantEnlightenment is man's emergence from his self-incurred immaturity. Immaturity
is the inability to use one's own understanding without the guidance of another.
This immaturity is self-incurred if its cause is not lack of understanding, but
lack of resolution and courage to use it without the guidance of another. Sapere aude! Have courage to use your own
understanding!read the short story

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IMMANUEL KANT

The Doom That Came to Sarnath

The Doom That Came to SarnathAccording to the _tale, more than ten thousand years ago, a _race of shepherd _people colonized the banks of the river Ai in a land called Mnar, forming the cities of Thraa, Ilarnek, and Kadatheron, _which rose to great intellectual and mercantile prowess. Craving more land, a group of these hardy people migrated to the shores of a _lonely and vast lake at the heart of Mnar, _founding the metropolis of Sarnath.read the short story

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Horror
Author: 
H.P. Lovecraft
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"The Artilleryman" by by Walt Whitman (Poetry Collection)

The ArtillerymanThe Artilleryman read or listen
WhiLE my wife at my side lies slumbering, and -the wars are over long,     
And my head on -the pillow rests at home, and -the vacant midnight passes,     
And through -the stillness, through -the dark, I hear, just hear, -the breath of my infant,   read the short story

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Walt Whitman
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"Empty House" Ghost story - Algernon Blackwood

empty-houseCertain -houses, like certain persons, manage somehow to proclaim at once
their character for evil. In the case of the latter, no particular
feature need betray them; they may boast an open countenance and an
ingenuous smile; and yet a little of their company leaves the
unalterable conviction that there is something radically amiss with
their being: that they are evil.read the short story

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Fiction
Author: 
Algernon Blackwood

"The Children of the Zodiac" Short Story by Rudyard Kipling

"The Children of the Zodiac" Short Story by Rudyard Kipling children-zodiac Read or Listen
"It's too hard," said the Big Boy. "I don't know what
     'Zodiac' means." "I will hunt up the words for you in the
     dictionary," said the Little Girl. And when they came to the
     next story the Boy took pleasure in doing his own hunting in
     the dictionary.read the short story

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Children's
Author: 
Rudyard Kipling
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"THE 4 WIVES" story

 4wivesOnce upon a time.There was a rich merchant who had four wives. He his 4. wife dresses  him popular and richest fancy and flavors of her treatment. But its the best thing to him and gave great care.read the short story

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Other
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Anonym

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button; Read or Listen the Short Story

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Fitzgerald's short story: Curious Case of Benjamin Button
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As long ago as 1860 it was the proper thing to be born at home. At
present, so I am told, the high gods of medicine have decreed that the
first cries of the young shall be uttered upon the anaesthetic air of
a hospital, preferably a fashionable one.(Part2 of audio story)read the short story

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Other
Author: 
F Scott Fitzgerald

Wynken, Blynken, and Nod;The Duel

Wynken, Blynken, and Nod one night
   Sailed off in a wooden shoe---
Sailed on a river of crystal light,
   Into a sea of dew.
"Where are you going, and what do you wish?"
   The old moon asked the three.
"We have come to fish for the herring fish
   That live in this beautiful sea;
   Nets of silver and gold have we!"
                     Said Wynken,
                     Blynken,
                     And Nod.read the short story

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Children's
Author: 
Eugene Field

The Furnished Room by O. Henry

     Restless, shifting, fugacious-- as time itself is a certain vast bulk of the population of the- red brick district of the lower West -Side. Homeless, they -have a hundred homes. -They flit from furnished room to furnished room, transients forever—transients in abode, transients in heart and mind.read the short story

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Romance
Author: 
O. Henry

"Beauty and the Beast" story by Marie le Prince de Beaumont

Beauty-and-the-BeastThere was once a very- rich merchant, who had six children, three sons,and three daughters; being a man of sense, he spared no cost for their education, but gave them all -kinds of masters.  read the short story

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Children's
Author: 
Marie le Prince de Beaumont
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