Unit 1 Life
Text A Self-Reliance……………………………RalphWaldo Emerson
Text B The Way to Wealth……………………………Benjamin Franklin
Text C What Is the Point of Working?……………………………Lance Morrow
Unit 2 Politics
Text A Communist Manifesto……………………………Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels
Text B Common Sense……………………………Thomas Paine
Text C The Social Contract……………………………Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Unit 3 Feminism
Text A Give Her a Pattern……………………………D. H. Lawrence
Text B The Fraud of Feminism……………………………E. Belfort Bax
Text C A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects……………………………Mary Wollstonecraft
Unit 4 Culture
Text A Yoga and the West……………………………Carl G. Jung
Text B The Citizen of the World……………………………Oliver Goldsmith
Text C How the Monkey Became a God……………………………Edward T. C. Werner
Unit 5 Travel
Text A Once More to the Lake……………………………E. B. White
Text B Health and Mountains……………………………Robert Louis Stevenson
Text C Pictures from Italy……………………………Charles Dickens
Unit 6 Law
Text A On the Punishment of Death……………………………Percy Bysshe Shelley
Text B On Legislator……………………………Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Text C Ancient Codes……………………………Henry Maine
Unit 7 Science
Text A Normal Science as Puzzle-Solving……………………………Thomas S. Kuhn
Text B Religion and Science: Irreconcilable?……………………………Albert Einstein
Text C The Survival of the Fittest……………………………Charles Darwin
Unit 8 Biography
Text A Kant the ManWilliam Somerset ……………………………Maugham
Text B Thoreau……………………………Ralph Waldo Emerson
Text C The Gay Genius: The Life and Times of Su Tungpo……………………………Lin Yutang