The Philosophy of Disenchantment

by Edgar Saltus

By the same Author.
BALZAC.
A Study.
With a Bibliography of Balzac's
Writings, and a Portrait.
Crown 8vo, gilt top, $1.25.
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & CO.
Publishers,
BOSTON.

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THE PHILOSOPHY OF
DISENCHANTMENT

BY
EDGAR EVERTSON SALTUS
In Arkadien geboren sind wir Alle
Schiller

BOSTON
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY
New York: 11 East Seventeenth Street,
The Riverside Press, Cambridge
1887

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Copyright, 1885,
By EDGAR EVERTSON SALTUS.
All rights reserved.
The Riverside Press, Cambridge:
Electrotyped and printed by H. O. Houghton & Co.

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[CONTENTS.]

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CHAPTER I.
The Genesis of Disenchantment	[1]
CHAPTER II.
The High Priest of Pessimism	[36]
CHAPTER III.
The Sphinx's Riddle	[77]
CHAPTER IV.
The Borderlands of Happiness	[124]
CHAPTER V.
The Great Quietus	[163]
CHAPTER VI.
Is Life an Affliction?	[208]

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