v. 1. Rothschild's fiddle / Anton Chekhov. On happiness / Aristotle. The apology / Plato. Heart of darkness / Joseph Conrad. Conscience / Immanuel Kant. Alienated labor / Karl Marx. Genesis / Bible. Civilization and its discontents / Sigmund Freud. The social contract / Jean-Jacques Rousseau -- v. 2. The moral sense of man and the lower animals / Charles Darwin. Othello / William Shakespeare. On justice and injustice / David Hume. The power of the majority / Alexis de Tocqueville. Individual freedom / Georg Simmel. Antigone / Sophocles.