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Seymour-Smith's "100 Most Influential Books Ever Written"

From "The 100 Most Influential Books Ever Written: From the Zend Avesta of Zarathustra to B.F. Skinner’s Beyond Freedom and Dignity":http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/367538 by Martin Seymour-Smith

(found at: http://www.interleaves.org/~rteeter/grtinfluential.html)

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1. The I Ching or Book of Changes
by C.F. Baynes
  
2. A Treatise Concerning The Principles Of Human Knowledge
by George Berkeley
  
3.
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 The Old Testament  
4. New Science (Penguin Classics)
by Giambattista Vico
  
5. Iliad and Odyssey boxed set
by Homer
  
6. Treatise of Human Nature
by David Hume
  
7.
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 Upanishads  
8.
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 L'Encyclopedie - 2 volumes
by Denis Diderot
  
9. Tao Te Ching, 25th-Anniversary Edition
by Lao Tsu
  
10.
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 A dictionary of the English language: in which the words are deduced from their originals, and illustrated in their different significations by examples from the best writers. To which are prefixed,
by Samuel, Johnson
  
11. Avesta: The Religious Books of the Parsees. Volumes 1-3
by Arthur Henry Bleeck
  
12. Candide (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Voltaire
  
13. The Analects of Confucius
by Arthur Waley
  
14. Common Sense
by Thomas Paine
  
15. The History Of The Peloponnesian War
by Thucydides
  
16.
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 An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations: 2 Volumes (The Glasgow Edition of the Works and Correspondence of Adam Smith)
by Adam Smith
  
17.
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 The genuine works of Hippocrates;
by Hippocrates
  
18. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Penguin Classics)
by Edward Gibbon
  
19. Critique of Pure Reason (Penguin Modern Classics)
by Immanuel Kant
  
20. The Basic Works of Aristotle (Modern Library Classics)
by Aristotle
  
21. Herodotus: The Histories : New Translation, Selections, Backgrounds, Commentaries (Norton Critical Editions)
by Herodotus
  
22.
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 Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau
by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  
23. The Republic (Penguin Classics)
by Plato
  
24. Reflections on the Revolution in France (Oxford World's Classics)
by Edmund Burke
  
25. Euclid's Elements
by Euclid
  
26. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Penguin Classics)
by Mary Wollstonecraft
  
27. The Koran (Penguin Classics)
by Anonymous
  
28.
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 Experiments With Plant Hybrids
by Gregor Mendel
  
29. The Dhammapada: The Sayings of the Buddha (Oxford World's Classics)
by John Ross Carter
  
30. The Guide for the Perplexed
by Moses Maimonides
  
31. War and Peace (Oxford World's Classics)
by Leo Tolstoy
  
32.
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 Enquiry Concerning polit Justice Its Influence mod Morals Happiness (Penguin Classics)
by William Godwin
  
33.
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 The Kabbalah  
34. A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism: Volume 1 (Oxford Classic Texts in the Physical Sciences)
by James Clerk Maxwell
  
35. The Aenid
by Virgil
  
36. St Thomas Aquinas Summa Theologica (translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province) (5 Volume Set)
by Thomas Aquinas
  
37. Thus Spake Zarathustra (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Friedrich Nietzsche
  
38. An Essay on the Principle of Population
by Thomas Robert Malthus
  
39. The Divine Comedy
by Dante Alighieri
  
40. The Interpretation Of Dreams
by Sigmund Freud
  
41. The Way Things Are: The De Rerum Natura
by Lucretius
  
42. In Praise of Folly
by Erasmus
  
43. Pragmatism and Other Writings (Penguin Classics)
by William James
  
44. Phenomenology of Spirit (Galaxy Books)
by G. W. F. Hegel
  
45. The Prince
by Niccolo Machiavelli
  
46. Relativity: The Special and the General Theory (Penguin Classics)
by Albert Einstein
  
47.
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 Allegorical Expositions of the Holy Laws
by Philo of Alexandria
  
48.
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 On the Babylonian Captivity of the Church
by Martin Luther
  
49.
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 The Mind and Society
by Vilfredo Pareto
  
50. Arthur Schopenhauer: The World As Will and Idea  
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