From The Races of Men (1850)

Knox began his career as an anatomist, lecturing at the University of Edinburgh in the late 1820s. He left his position after his name was linked to a scandal involving the source of cadavers for medical students’ dissections. He supported himself by writing...

From Manual of Political Economy (1793)

Political Economy is at once a science and an art. The value of the science has for its efficient cause and measure, its subserviency to the art. According to the principle of utility in every branch of the art of legislation, the object or...

From The Moonstone (1868)

Going round to the terrace, I found three mahogany-colored Indians, in white linen frocks and trowsers, looking up at the house. The Indians, as I saw on looking closer, had small hand-drums slung in front of them. Behind them stood a little, delicate-looking, light-haired, English...

From Mesmerism in India (1847)

Before submitting to the reader the results of my observations on somnambulism, I beg leave to prefix the following summary of the appearances recognised as distinctive of the somnambulistic state in Europe. It is given in the British and Foreign Medical Review, already quoted:—‘Somnambulism is...

From Bartleby the Scrivener (1856)

At the period just preceding the advent of Bartleby, I had two persons as copyists in my employment, and a promising lad as an office-boy. First, Turkey; second, Nippers; third, Ginger Nut. These may seem names, the like of which are not usually found in...