On the Commonwealth (De Republica) - Book I
Marcus Tullius Cicero
The House of the Weathercock
Washington Irving
Little Dorrit (Chap 2.5)
Charles Dickens
Principles of Philosophy of the Future (Part I: History of Modern Philosophy)
Ludwig Feuerbach
Raising The Regiment (Chap. 1)
Theodore Roosevelt
Critique of Pure Reason; Preface to the Second Edition
Immanuel Kant
Democracy in America (Chap. 1.5.1)
Alexis de Tocqueville
Woman in the Nineteenth Century (Chap. 2.5)
Margaret Fuller
The Return of the Native (Chap. 1.6)
Thomas Hardy