The Remnant Trust, Inc.

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The Remnant Trust, Inc.
Type	Non-profit organization
Founded	1997
Headquarters	129 East Court Avenue, Jeffersonville, Indiana, United States, GPS: N 38 16.282, W 85 44.316
Key people	Kristophor Bex, President
Website	http://www.theremnanttrust.com/

The Remnant Trust is a public educational foundation that shares an actively growing collection of original and 1st edition works dealing with the topics of liberty and dignity with some pieces dating as early as 1250.

The Trust makes this collection available to colleges, universities, and other organizations for use by students, faculty, scholars and the general public. Those exposed are encouraged to touch, feel and read the originals.

Generally, titles are loaned for a semester to educational entities that choose specific displays that are tailored to each institution. Serving multiple institutions each semester, The Remnant Trust is normally booked a couple of years in advance giving adequate time to plan.

[edit] Mission Statement

The mission of The Remnant Trust is to elevate educational standards & the public's understanding of individual liberty & human dignity through the precedent setting, hands on availability of the world's great ideas in original form ... To raise consciousness of the most significant documents that have shaped America: The Great Experiment ... to raise the spirits of each generation to think the grandest thoughts & be guided by the most profound idealism, implementing Emerson's thesis on Man Thinking ... to provide, through sharing, those works moving Goethe's vision into reality: to think is easy, to act is hard, but the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with one's thinking ... to be the world's finest repository of the great ideas that have propelled Man through the centuries from earth to the stars ... to be free, to think, speak & act in keeping with the greatest of enduring assets: Reason, with justice for all ... Great ideas belong to everyone.

[edit] Hosting Institutions

Some of the schools visited include:

• Calvin College, Grand Rapids, MI
• Denison University
• Hanover College, Hanover, IN
• Indiana University
• South Dakota State
• University of Maine
• University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
• Vanderbilt University

[edit] A Selection of Works in the Collection

• Bill of Rights Journal of the First Session of the Senate of the United States of America, begun and held at the City of New York March 4th 1789, 1789
• Complete Proceedings of the First Continental Congress, 1775
• Declaration of Independence, 1776
• Emancipation Proclamation, 1862
• The Federalist, 1788
• Illustrated Bible, 1791
• Intolerable Act - (Stamp Act), 1766
• Magna Carta, 1542
• Pamphlet Printing of the United States Constitution, 1787
• John Adams, A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America, 1787
• Thomas à Kempis, Imitation of Christ, 1497
• Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica, 1496
• Aristotle, Opera, 1496
• Saint Augustine, Confessions, 1491
• Saint Augustine, Citie of God, 1610
• Francis Bacon, Essays or Counsels, Civill and Morall, 1629
• Frédéric Bastiat, Twelve pamphlets - including The Law, 1850
• William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, 1771
• Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France bound with Three Responses, 1790
• John Calvin, Commentary upon the Prophecie of Isaiah, 1609
• John Calvin, Institutes, 1578
• Marcus Tullius Cicero, Orations, 1547
• Confucius, The Morals of Confucius, 1691
• James Fenimore Cooper, The American Democrat, or Hints on the Social Civic Relations of the United States of America, 1838
• Crèvecœur, Letters from an American Farmer, 1782
• Richard de Bury, Philobiblon, 1832
• Demosthenes, The Three Orations of Demosthenes, 1570
• Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, 1848
• Jonathan Edwards, On the Will, 1754
• Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays - including Self-Reliance, 1841
• Ralph Waldo Emerson, Miscellanies: embracing Nature, Addresses and Lectures, 1856
• Desiderius Erasmus, The Praise of Folly - (Moriae Encomium), 1549
• Euclid, The First Six Elements of Geometry, 1705
• John Foxe, Foxe's Book of Martyrs, 1610
• Benjamin Franklin, Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society Founding Document, 1787
• Galileo Galilei, Dialogo di Galileo Galilei linceo matematico supreme dello studio di padova - (Galileo's Dialogues), 1710
• Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 1777
• William Godwin, An Inquiry Concerning Political Justice, 1796
• Goethe, Faust, 1833
• James Harrington, The Commonwealth of Oceana, 1656
• Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, 1651
• Richard Hooker, On the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, 1593
• David Hume, Philosophical Essays Concerning Human Understanding, 1748
• John of Salisbury, Policraticus, 1595
• Immanuel Kant, Critik Der Practischen Vernunft, - (Critique of Practical Reason), 1788
• Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address, 1863
• John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, 1690
• John Locke, Two Treatises of Government, 1694
• Martin Luther, Obedience of a Christian Man, 1548
• Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince, 1640
• Thomas Robert Malthus, Principles of Political Economy, 1820
• Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 1635
• Marsilius of Padua, Defensor Pacis, 1522
• John Milton, Areopagitica, 1644
• Bernard de Mandeville, The Fable of the Bees, 1728
• Karl Marx, Capital: A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production, 1889
• John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, 1859
• Michael Seigneur de Montaigne, Essays, 1685
• Montesquieu, The Spirit of the Laws, 1752
• Thomas More, Utopia, 1624
• Isaac Newton, The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, 1729
• Albert Jay Nock, Our Enemy the State, 1935
• George Orwell, Animal Farm, 1946
• George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, 1949
• Ovid, Metamorphoses, 1505
• Thomas Paine, Common Sense, 1776
• Thomas Paine, Rights of Man, 1792
• William Penn, The Great Case of Liberty of Conscience, 1670
• Plato, The Republic, 1763
• Plutarch, The Virtues of Women and the Parallel Lives, 1485
• Matthew Poole, The Nullity of the Roman Faith, or a Blow at the Root of the Romish Church, 1666
• Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, 1957
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Du Contrat Social, 1762
• Albert Schweitzer, The Decay and The Restoration of Civilization, 1923
• Percy Bysshe Shelley, Declaration of Rights, 1819
• Algernon Sidney, Discourses Concerning Government, 1698
• Adam Smith, Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, 1776
• Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments, 1759
• Herbert Spencer, The Man Versus the State, 1884
• Henry David Thoreau, A Yankee in Canada, 1866
• Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War, 1550
• Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, 1836
• John Trenchard & Thomas Gordon, Cato's Letters, 1724
• Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, 1792
• John Wycliffe, New Testament, 1731
• John Peter Zenger, The Trial of John Peter Zenger, 1738