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Extracts from Literature
Redeeming Time
Pip Pirrip never misses a moment of visiting time with Abel Magwitch, the convict who made him into a gentleman, in the prison hospital.
by Charles Dickens 1812-1870
Lives of the Saints
Breaking Death
For Jesus Christ to step down alive from his cross would have been a mighty miracle, but not the mightiest.
by Elfric of Eynsham 955-1010
Cynewulf
The Six Leaps of Faith
The eighth-century English bishop and poet Cynewulf explores a prophecy from the Song of Solomon.
by Cynewulf fl. ?800
Bible and Saints
At Heaven’s Gate
The eighth-century English bishop and poet Cynewulf takes us to the threshold of God’s holy city, and gives us a choice.
International Relations
Guardian of Peace
J. S. Mill argues that free trade has done more to put an end to war than any political union or military alliance.
by John Stuart Mill 1806-1873
Discovery and Invention
A Monument to Liberty
Samuel Smiles explains why the London and Birmingham Railway was an achievement superior to the Great Pyramid of Giza.
by Samuel Smiles 1812-1904
