HOMER: The Iliad [Books 1-12]

HOMER: The Iliad [Books 1-12]

760-710 BC

The most concise summary of the Iliad according to Coleridge:

“A hero, injured by his general, and animated with a noble resentment, retires to his tent; and for a season withdraws himself and his troops from the war.

MARX—ENGELS: Manifesto of the Communist Party

MARX—ENGELS: Manifesto of the Communist Party

Published 2/21/1848

• Workingmen of all countries unite! You have nothing to lose but your chains. You have a world to win.

SMITH: The Wealth of Nations [Introduction—Book I, Ch. 9]

SMITH: The Wealth of Nations [Introduction—Book I, Ch. 9]

Published 3/9/1776

Introduction

• The annual labor of every nation is the fund which supplies all the necessaries and conveniences of life which it annually consumes.

The Federalist [Numbers 15, 31, 47, 51, 68-71]

The Federalist

Federalist No.15 – The Insufficiency of the Present Confederation to Preserve the Union by Alexander Hamilton 12/1/1787

• Both the opponents and friends of the constitution agree that the present confederation is insufficient to preserve the union.

The Federalist [Numbers 1-10]

The Federalist [Numbers 1-10]

Federalist No.1 – General Introduction by Alexander Hamilton 10/27/1787

• After an unequivocal experience of the inefficiency of the subsisting federal government, the states have been called upon to deliberate on a new constitution for the US.