/lit/ - Literature

>>304 (OP) 
Can you illuminate for us why it's superior to later texts? I'm guessing things like 'niggertoes' have an entry, jewish involvement in slave trade, a distinction between hebrew / israelite / jew is made, etc.?

>>305
yeah there has got to be some pre retcon redpills in them.

I have PDFs of Encyclopedia Britannica 1878 and Chambers' Encyclopedia 1901.  I really should hit the thrift stores and try to find an actual set from way back when

>>304 (OP) 
I heard there are copy’s of encyclopedias post 1945 that do not have the holocaust as an entry . I think they started adding it late 70s

This is how I feel about Webster’s (Second) New International. It’s just a fine dictionary of the English language and it’s all sorts of encyclopedic and teaches all sorts about etymology and history and the like.
As a lawfag, I hate the descriptivist dictionaries that give you plainly false entries on the basis that some retards use the word incorrectly so now the word means two opposite things. Comprise is one, modify another, I really don’t mind that Websters 3d included “aint” though the addition of slang is far less controversial and problematic for elquence than the orangatanization of language by definition shifting

>>305
>>306
im surprised i have yet to see anyone mention a definitive old non zogged encyclopedia set yet anywhere on 4chan over the years, im sure theres an objective answer out there to, there has to be 1 autist out there who either owns a ton of sets and has compared them all, but the chances of them being here would be pretty low

>>519
Interesting, AI seems to agree that the Encyclopædia Britannica, particularly its celebrated 11th Edition (1910-1911). is the best pre internet set someone can have. Although it also says this While later editions (like the famous 15th Edition's "Macropædia," "Micropædia," and "Propædia" structure introduced in 1974) were also highly respected for their accuracy and comprehensive nature, they adopted a more modern, objective, and concise style, losing some of the literary flair of the 11th.