Benjamin Paul Blood

Pluriverse

Charles Dickens

William James

H. G. Wells

Aleister Crowley

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Stephen Crane

Charles Baudelaire

Horacio Quiroga

Guy de Maupassant

Peter Mark Roget

Jean Lorrain

Thomas de Quincey

Havelock Ellis

Marie Corelli

Fitz Hugh Ludlow

Greg Boyd

Maurice Level

Jean Richepin

Jordan Jones

Leo Tolstoy

Fred V. Williams

Ernest Dowson

Théophile Gautier

J. C. O’Day

Hendrik DeLeeuw

Harry Hubbell Kane

Claude Farrère

Santiago Dabove

Ahmad Mahmood

Sampurnanand

Eugenio Buona

Gaston Danville

Edward Levinstein

m. i. blue

Michael Stephans

From antiquity to the present, people have sought artificial paradise in the stimulations and insights afforded by the use of intoxicants. Famous literary figures have often been the first to experiment with little-known drugs, and to champion their unique fascination upon the human imagination. In this remarkable anthology, a dazzling array of authors, including H. G. Wells, Marie Corelli, Guy de Maupassant, Leo Tolstoy, Charles Dickens, Stephen Crane, Sadegh Hedayat, Santiago Dabove, Jean Cocteau, William James, Charles Baudelaire, Théophile Gautier, and a host of others from many cultures and historical periods, raids a pharmacopoeia containing ether, absinthe, morphine, hashish, opium, cocaine, heroin, alcohol, chloral hydrate, psilocybin, ayahuasca, carbon tetrachloride, LSD, amyl nitrate, ecstasy, and angel dust, in flights of descriptive prose of unparalleled suggestive power and visionary splendor.

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Excerpt from Pluriverse: An Essay in the Philosophy of Pluralism And the fact is clearly apparent, to common sense, that if the stars in their multitude do thus go on and on interminably, there can be no comprehension nor comprehender of them as a whole, or as a one, or as all; and that no pressure or formation or manage ment can come to them from without. But this in ference, seemingly so sure, is conditioned upon the natural understanding that the space which con tains the stars would go on, whether with or with out them; and this understanding has been rudely shaken by idealism, a doctrine that outer things are at least partly determined by the knowing of them, and that space is not physical extensity, but mental or spiritual freedom to extend. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

An Essay in the Philosophy of Pluralism (Classic Reprint)

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