v.1. The Indestructibility of Our Inner Nature / Arthur Schopenhauer -- Medea / Euripides -- The Spirit of Capitalism / Max Weber -- The Misanthrope / Moliere -- The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire / Edward Gibbon -- v.2. Job -- Utilitarianism / John Stuart Mill -- Caesar and Cleopatra / Bernard Shaw -- The City of God / St. Augustine -- Symposium / Plato v.3. Of Experience / Michel de montaigne -- Rameau's Nephew / Denis Diderot -- The Tempest / William Shakespeare -- The Federalist / Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, James Madison -- The Overcoat / Nikolai Gogol.