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The mission of The Remnant Trust is to elevate educational standards & the public's understanding of individual liberty & human dignity through the precedent setting, hands on availability of the world's great ideas in original form ... To raise consciousness of the most significant documents that have shaped America: The Great Experiment ... to raise the spirits of each generation to think the grandest thoughts & be guided by the most profound idealism, implementing Emerson's thesis on Man Thinking ... to provide, through sharing, those works moving Goethe's vision into reality: to think is easy, to act is hard, but the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with one's thinking ... to be the world's finest repository of the great ideas that have propelled Man through the centuries from earth to the stars ... to be free, to think, speak & act in keeping with the greatest of enduring assets: Reason, with justice for all ...

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Treasures from the Remnant Trust

Manuscript Bible leaf in Latin.
circa 1250

 

Plato
Gorgias.
[Florence], 1475

Plutarch
Plutarchus Claris Mulieribus and Plutarchi paralelia.
(Plutarch’s Virtues of Women and Plutarch’s Parallel Lives)
[Venice], 1485

 
 

Aquinas, Saint Thomas
Summa Theologiae.
[n.p.], 1496

Saint Bonaventure.
Biblia pauperum.
Venice, 1518

 
 

Aristotle
Libri politici (Politics & Economics)
Paris, 1543

Luther, Martin. Translated by William Tyndale.
Obedience of Christian Man.
London, 1548

 
 

Luther, Martin
Der Siebed Teil der bucher des Ehrnwirdigen Herrn Doctoris Mart. Lutheri. [Luther's Bible]
Wittenberg, 1563

Augustine, Saint
Citie of God.
[London], 1610

 
 

Calvin, John
Institution of Christian Religion.
London, 1611

Greenwood, Henry
A Treatise of the great and generall day of judgement.
London, 1614

 
 

More, Sir Thomas
Sir Thomas Moore's Utopia: containing an excellent, learned, wittie and pleasant discourse of the best state of a publike weale, as it is found in the government of the new ile called Utopia.
[n.p.], 1624

Bacon, Francis
Of the Advancement and Proficence of Learning.
Oxford, 1640

 
 

Machiavelli, Niccolo
The works for the famous Nicholas Machiavel, citizen and secretary of Florence.
London, 1640

L’Estrange, Sir Roger
Fables of Aesop
London, 1692

 
 

Wycliffe, John
The New Testament of our lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
London, 1731

Sale, George
The Koran, commonly called the Alcoran of Mohammed.
London, 1734

 
 

Milton, John
Areopagitica: a speech of Mr. John Milton, for the liberty of unlicens’d printing, to the Parliament of England.  
London, 1738

Hume, David
Essays, Moral & Political.
Edinburgh, 1742

 
 

Hobbes, Thomas
The Moral and Political works for Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury.
London, 1750

Blackstone, William
The Great Charter and Charter of the Forest, with other authentic instruments
Oxford, 1759

 
 

Voltaire. (Arouet, François-Marie)
Candid, or, All for the Best.
London, 1759

Short History of the Conduct of the Present Ministry,
with regard to the American Stamp Act.

London, 1766

 
 

Smith, Adam
Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
Dublin, 1776

The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments: with the Apocrypha., translated out of the original tongues, and with the former translations diligently compared and revised, by the special command of King James I, of England.
Worcester, MA; 1791

 
 

Dante, Alighieri. Translated by Rev. H. F. Cary, A.M.
The Vision; or, Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise.
New York, 1814

Van der Hooght, Everardo
Biblia Hebraica.
Philadelphia, 1814

 
 

Hamilton, Alexander, John Jay and James Madison.
The Federalist, on the new Constitution.
Philadelphia, 1818

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
Faust: a dramatic poem. 
London, 1833

 
 

Ben Harden’s Crockett Almanac 1842.
New York, 1842

Spooner, Lysander
The Unconstitutionality of Slavery. 
Boston, 1845

 
 

Marx, Karl and Frederick Engels
Manifesto of the Communist Party.
London, 1885

St. Augustine
The confessions of S. Augustine : in ten books.
London, 1900

 
 

Jefferson, Thomas
The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth, Extracted textually from the Gospels in Greek, Latin, French, and English.
Washington, 1904

Orwell, George
Animal Farm.
New York, 1946

 
 

Orwell, George
Nineteen Eighty-Four.
New York, 1949

Rand, Ayn
Atlas Shrugged.
New York, 1957

 
   
   
   
   

 

 

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