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Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 074

Twenty-one short nonfiction works chosen by the readers. "We must learn to dignify common labor." Booker T. Washington spoke plain truth at an 1898 Lincoln Day commemoration. Recorded during months of pandemic virus lockdown, unemployment, and mass dependence on the "common labor" of grocery clerks and delivery persons, Volume 074 of the Short Nonfiction Collection reflects its readers' reactions to uncertain times. Religion and Philosophy figure in several selections (The Second Epistle of Clement; Nietzsche on Nihilism and the Idea of Recurrence; The Counter-reformation in Scandinavia and Poland; Spinoza and the Bible; and Women and Holy Orders). (8 hr 1 min)

Chapters

01 - Biscuits, Breakfast Cakes and Shortcakes - 1913

29:24

02 - The Counter-reformation in Scandinavia and Poland, Part 1

1:08:22

03 - The Counter-reformation in Scandinavia and Poland, Part 2

27:29

04 - The Crisis: Nihilism and the Idea of Recurrence

13:48

05 - Eternal Recurrence

19:46

06 - James Wilson, Blind Biographer

54:46

07 - Letter to Lord Chesterfield

3:55

08 - Lincoln Day Address

9:07

09 - Madame Yukio Ozaki: A Biographical Sketch

21:07

10 - On Some Mental Effects of the San Francisco Earthquake

18:36

11 - Original People

8:01

12 - Reflections of a Stained Glass Master

17:09

13 - Rhode Island

7:55

14 - The Salt Mines of Wieliczka

14:13

15 - The Second Epistle of Clement

29:57

16 - Spinoza and the Bible (Part 1)

31:29

17 - Spinoza and the Bible (Part 2)

34:44

18 - The Story of Crisco

25:33

19 - Surface Tension

20:02

20 - Tactless People

9:19

21 - Women and Holy Orders (1921)

16:48