The Empire of Business
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Andrew Carnegie gives practical business advice: aim high, practice thrift and honesty, avoid liquor, speculation and risky endorsements; discusses trusts, tariffs, steel and railroads.
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The Empire of Business
Industrial Peace
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Andrew Carnegie urges arbitration and friendly employer-employee relations to prevent strikes. He advises employers not to hire strikebreakers and to value loyal, long-serving workers.
James Watt
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Andrew Carnegie urges industrial peace via arbitration, mutual respect, and patient negotiation between employers and workers. He warns against hiring strikebreakers.
A League of Peace: A Rectorial Address Delivered to the Students in the University of St. Andrews, 17th October, 1905
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Andrew Carnegie's 1905 rectorial calls for ending war, surveying ancient and Christian condemnations of violence and advocating arbitration and a league of peace.
Edwin M. Stanton: An Address by Andrew Carnegie on Stanton Memorial Day at Kenyon College
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Andrew Carnegie's 1906 memorial address on Edwin M. Stanton celebrates Stanton's patriotism, legal career, opposition to secession, and role in preserving the Union.
The Negro in America: An Address Delivered Before the Philosophical Institution of Edinburgh, 16th October 1907
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Andrew Carnegie's 1907 address 'The Negro in America' surveys slavery, emancipation, and the challenges of making freed African Americans full citizens, emphasizing education and gradual development.
Problems of To-Day: Wealth—Labor—Socialism
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Carnegie examines unequal wealth, advocating progressive estate taxes and civic stewardship by the rich while critiquing socialist labor theories and urging temperance.
The Path to Peace Upon the Seas
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Andrew Carnegie urges Great Britain to convene the powers to abolish naval warfare, create international maritime courts, and end the naval arms race to secure peace upon the seas.
Supplement to the Path to Peace
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Andrew Carnegie urges an international conference to abolish naval warfare, limit armaments, and create international judicial courts for arbitration to secure peace.
War as the Mother of Valor and Civilization
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Argues that war is not the mother of valor or civilization; moral courage, arbitration, and generosity drive progress. Calls for peace leagues and legal settlement of international disputes.
Address by Andrew Carnegie at the Unveiling of a Statue to Burns, Erected by the Citizens of Montrose
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Carnegie's 1912 Montrose address honors Burns as a 'poet‑prophet' whose sympathy, democratic ideals, and call to brotherhood inspire peaceful social progress and just stewardship.
The Baseless Fear of War
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Andrew Carnegie argues against militarism and costly naval/army build-ups, urging confidence in peaceful international relations and arbitration instead of preparing for unlikely invasions.
Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie
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Andrew Carnegie's autobiography tracing his rise from Scottish childhood to steel magnate, labor struggles, and philanthropy (the "Gospel of Wealth"). Includes preface and full contents.
Andrew Carnegie’s Own Story for Boys and Girls
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Adapted autobiography of Andrew Carnegie for young readers, recounting his Scottish childhood, emigration to America, early work, rise in steel, and later philanthropy.
Circular Regarding the Confederate Cemetery of Fredericksburg, VA
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Account of Fredericksburg's volunteer companies and the Ladies' Memorial Association organizing after the Civil War to recover, inter, and memorialize Confederate soldiers' remains.
The Second Coming of Christ
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Argues for a real Millennium and a kingdom that is both present and future, seeing the Church as continuation of OT promises while rejecting extreme premillennial claims.
The Drama of Redemption
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A devotional theological work presenting the Bible as God's revelation, Christ as both divine and human Redeemer, and the Holy Spirit as applicator of salvation, with assurance of heaven.
A Thorough Reformation of Our English Orthography Necessary and Practicable
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1907 lecture advocating a thorough reform of English orthography for simplicity and educational efficiency, tracing the spelling-reform movement and its objections.
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