The Library of Original Sources: Volume IX (1833 - 1865)

Book excerpt: CONTENTS:Physics, 1800-1833. (Continued from Volume VIII)OerstedThe Effect of the Electrical Conflict on the Magnetic NeedleJoseph HenryElectricity from MagnetismFaradayElectricity from MagnetismEducation, 1781-1833PestalozziThe School in BonnalPolitical Ideas in the United States, 1833-1860Basil HallSlave ConditionsHarriet MartineauMorals of SlaveryGeorge McDuffieThe Rights of SlaveryWilliam Lloyd GarrisonThe LiberatorThe Constitution a Covenant with Death and an Agreement with HellNo Union with Slaveholders In Support of the American Anti-slavery SocietyWendell PhillipsThe Murder of LovejoyJohn CalhounTexas and SlaveryHenry ClayThe Compromise of 1850William Henry SewardThe Higher LawStephen A. DouglasSquatter SovereigntyCrystallization of Sentiment Against the Extension of SlaveryAppeal of the Independent Democrats (Chase, Sumner, Giddings, Etc.)Chief Justice TaneyThe Dred Scott DecisionAbraham LincolnAgainst Squatter Sovereignty and the Dred Scott DecisionJefferson DavisThat the Territories Cannot Keep out SlaveryThe Party Platforms, 1860Douglas Democratic PlatformSouthern Democratic PlatformRepublican PlatformConstitutional Union PlatformSecessionOrdinance of South CarolinaSouth Carolina's Declaration of CausesEvolutionCharles LyellUniformity in the Series of past Changes in the Animate and Inanimate WorldTheodor SchwannCell TheoryHerbert SpencerProgress: Its Law and CauseCharles DarwinNatural SelectionErnst HaeckelThe Fundamental Law of the Evolution of OrganismsPhysics and ChemistryHermann von HelmholtzThe Conservation of EnergyKirchhoff and BunsenChemical Analysis by Means of the SpectroscopeEducationFriedrich FroebelThe KindergartenHorace MannLessons from EuropeInventions