About the book: 1968 / The first volume includes the most important works of the famous scientist, outstanding moralist B. Franklin (“Discourse on Liberty and necessity, pleasure and suffering”, “The Path to Abundance”, autobiography, etc.), the hero of the liberation war Ethan Allen (“Reason is the only oracle of man” - the first anti-religious treatise in America), the prominent scientist K. Colden, who developed the teachings of Newton ( “Principles of the Action of Matter” and “Introduction to the Study of Philosophy”), and the founder of American psychotherapy, a fighter against idealism B. Rush (“The Influence of Physical Causes on the Moral Capacity” and “Lectures on Animal Life”). The publication is supplied with notes and name and subject indexes.