treatise

Also known as tractate, tract

A treatise is a formal and systematic written discourse on some subjects concerned with investigating or exposing the main principles of the subject and its conclusions. A monograph is a treatise on a specialized topic.

Overview

A treatise is a formal and systematic written discourse on some subject concerned with investigating or exposing the principles of the subject and its conclusions. A monograph is a treatise on a specialized topic. Etymology The word 'treatise' first appeared in the fourteenth century as the Medieval English word tretis, which evolved from the Medieval Latin tractatus and the Latin tractare, meaning to treat or to handle. Historically significant treatises Table The works presented here have been identified as influential by scholars on the development of human civilization.

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Also known as tractate, tract

Notable quotes

“When you look for the motivations you always go to the basic instincts, to the basic emotions, the basic things that have moved humankind always. That's what all writers write about, ultimately. What did Shakespeare write about? Jealousy, love, sex, power, greed, the same stuff that soap operas and the Bible are made of. It's always the same.”
— 1994 interview included in Conversations with Isabel Allende (1999)
“Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.”
— Charles Caleb Colton, Lacon, 1820.
“The present writer ... writes because for him it is a luxury that becomes all the more enjoyable and conspicuous the fewer who buy and read what he writes.”
— Søren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling (1843), S. Walsh, trans. (2006), p. 5
“I have made this [letter] longer, because I have not had the time to make it shorter.”
— Blaise Pascal, "Lettres provinciales", letter 16 (1657). Translated as "The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter" in Pensées, The Provincial Letters, provincial letter 16 (1941), p. 571, as reported in Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations (1989).
“Life is writing. The sole purpose of mankind is to engrave the thoughts of divinity onto the tablets of nature.”
— Friedrich Schlegel, “On Philosophy: To Dorothea,” in Theory as Practice (1997), p. 420.
“I think writing, my writing, is a species of mediumship. I become the person.”
— Virginia Woolf, A Writer's Diary, 1937-07-11

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