Books he read
The following is a list of books that are mentioned in various source works as those that Vivekananda read at one time or another during his lifetime.
- Short History of the English People by John Richard Green
- Works of Herbert Spencer
- Immanuel Kant Schopenhauer
- John Stuart Mill
- Auguste Comte
- Aristotle
- Poetry Wordsworth (said in the Life of Swami Vivekananda by his eastern and western disciples to be his favorite poet as a youth)
- John Stuart Mill's Three Essays on Religion (said by Brajendra Seal to have “upset his first boyish theism and easy optimism.” )
- David Hume (a friend introduced him to the study of Hume)
- Percy Shelley: Hymn to the Spirit of Intellectual Beauty.
- And other poems (recommended to him by Brajendra Seal)
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