writings by year:
- (1566-1625) king james
- (1596-1650) rené descartes
- (1737-1809) thomas paine
- (1743-1826) thomas jefferson
- (1776-????) united states of america
- (1780-1842) william ellery channing
- (1797-1851) mary shelley
- (1799-1836) charles wilkins
- (1803-1882) ralph waldo emerson
- (1803-1890) adin ballou
- (1809-1849) edgar allan poe
- (1812-1870) charles dickens
- (1817-1862) henry david thoreau
- (1817-1893) benjamin jowett
- (1818-1848) emily bronte
- (1819-1891) herman melville
- (1828-1910) leo tolstoy
- (1829-1894) john veitch
- (????-????) vihari-lala mitra
- (1832-1898) lewis carroll
- (1832-1888) louisa may alcott
- (1834-1891) prentice mulford
- (1834-1909) henry wood
- (1835-1910) mark twain
- (1836-1903) francis ellingwood abbot
- (1847-1912) bram stoker
- (1847-1916) thomas troward
- (1848-1941) harriet emilie cady
- (1851-1927) mabel collins
- (1856-1915) elbert hubbard
- (1857-1926) emile coué
- (1857-1940) j william lloyd
- (1859-1930) arthur conan doyle
- (1860-1911) wallace delois wattles
- (1862-1932) william walker atkinson
- (1862-1932) yogi ramacharaka
- (????-????) swami mukerji
- (1863-1902) swami vivekananda
- (1864-1912) james allen
- (1866-1939) swami abhedananda
- (1866-1958) ralph waldo trine
- (1866-1954) horatio w dresser
- (1872-1944) harold bell wright
- (1872-1938) joseph s benner
- (1872-1970) bertrand russell
- (1874-1962) christian d larson
- (1874-1942) lucy maud montgomery
- (1885-1951) sinclair lewis
- (1908-1981) peace pilgrim
- (1961-20??) roger l. cole