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7. ‘We are of the company of those who seek the true and the right, and live accordingly;

8. ‘In our human world, in the short time we each have,

9. ‘We see our duty to make and find something good for ourselves and our companions in the human predicament.’

10. Let us help one another, therefore; let us build the city together,

11. Where the best future might inhabit, and the true promise of humanity be realised at last.

The Good Book is made from over a thousand texts by several hundred authors and from collections and anonymous traditions, among the most drawn upon being:

Abulfazi, Aeschylus, Anacreontia, Antisthenes, Aristotle, Aurelius, Bacon, Baudelaire, Bayle, Bentham, Beyle, Boyle, Buonarotti, Carvaka, Cato, Catullus, Chaucer, Chesterfield, Cicero, Clemens, Condillac, Condorcet, Confucius, Constant, Cowley, Cowper, Cuihao, d’Alembert, Darwin, Demosthenes, d’Holbach, Diderot, Dryden, Dufu, Emerson, Epictetus, Epicurus, Euripides, folklore, folktales, Gellius, Godwin, Goethe, Grayling, Greek anthology, Hafiz, Harrington, Hazlitt, Herodotus, Herrick, Hobbes, Homer, Horace, Hume, Huxley, Jefferson, Jonson, Juvenal, Kant, Kautilya, Laozi, Libai, Liuyuxi, Locke, Lovelace, Lucretius, Lysias, Machiavelli, Marmontel, Martial, Menander, Mencius, Mill, Milton, Montaigne, Montesquieu, Mozi, Naevius, Nerval, Newton, Nietzsche, Ovid, Paine, Pater, Petrarch, Plato, Pliny, Plutarch, Polybius, Propertius, Rimbaud, Rousseau, Rumi, Sainte-Beuve, Sallust, Sappho, Schiller, Schopenhauer, Seneca, Shaftesbury, Shangguanyi, Shijing, Sophocles, Spinoza, Suetonius, Sully-Prudhomme, Sunzi, Swift, Tacitus, Terence, Thomson, Thucydides, Tibullus, traditional, Turgot, Valery, Vergil, Verlaine, Voltaire, Walpole, Wangbo, Wangwei, Xenophon, Zhuxi.

Copyright © 2011 by A. C. Grayling

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Table of Contents

Cover

Title Page

Epistle to the Reader

Contents

Genesis

Wisdom

Parables

Concord

Lamentations

Consolations

Sages

Songs

Histories

Histories cont’d

Histories cont’d

Proverbs

The Lawgiver

Acts

Acts cont’d

Epistles

The Good

Some Source Texts

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