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Clean, human-written text from before the slop.

CleanSource is a curated library of pre-2022, public-domain texts — summarized, tagged, and bundled into themed packs you can drop straight into a RAG pipeline or simply read. Every word is human-authored and license-clear.

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Pre-2022 / human

Why clean source matters now

The open web is filling with machine-generated text. Training and grounding on it causes model collapse and quiet factual drift. CleanSource gives you a verifiable floor.

Provenance you can cite

Every text is US public domain, human-authored, and predates the generative-AI web. The bundle ships the attestation with it.

RAG-ready bundles

Editorial summary, tags, themes, and suggested chunking in one clean JSON manifest — point your embedder at it and go.

Curated, not scraped

Hand-picked canonical works across philosophy, science, economics, and literature. Quality over a dump of noise.

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Philosophy & Stoicism180

Meditations

Marcus Aurelius

The private notebook of a Roman emperor, written to himself as Stoic self-correction. Short, aphoristic entries on duty, mortality, anger, and accepting what is outside one's control. A clean, dense source of moral-reasoning prose untouched by modern editorializing.

#stoicism#philosophy#ethics
Philosophy & Stoicism375 BCE

The Republic

Plato

Plato's dialogue on justice, the ideal state, and the nature of knowledge, framed by the allegory of the cave. Dialectic question-and-answer structure makes it a rich corpus for reasoning-chain and argument-modeling tasks.

#philosophy#political-theory#dialectic
Philosophy & Stoicism1883

Thus Spake Zarathustra

Friedrich Nietzsche

Nietzsche's philosophical novel in prophetic, poetic prose — the Übermensch, eternal recurrence, and the revaluation of values, delivered as parable. Distinctive stylistic register, valuable for tone and rhetoric modeling.

#philosophy#existentialism#prose-poetry
Philosophy & Stoicism1886

Beyond Good and Evil

Friedrich Nietzsche

A critique of past philosophers and traditional morality, arguing for a philosophy of the future grounded in the will to power. Tight argumentative aphorisms across 296 numbered sections — well-chunked for retrieval.

#philosophy#ethics#epistemology
Science & Reason1859

On the Origin of Species

Charles Darwin

Darwin's foundational argument for evolution by natural selection, built from patient observation and careful inductive reasoning. A model of evidence-driven scientific prose for grounding RAG over primary-source science.

#science#biology#evolution
Science & Reason1916

Relativity: The Special and General Theory

Albert Einstein

Einstein's own popular exposition of special and general relativity, written for the general reader. Clear explanatory structure with worked thought-experiments — useful for technical-explanation and pedagogy datasets.

#science#physics#relativity

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