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| Introduction | | [ix] |
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| Matthew Arnold |
| The Function of Criticism | | [1] |
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| Sir Michael Foster |
| The Growth of Science in the Nineteenth Century | | [22] |
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| Thomas Huxley |
| Three Hypotheses Respecting the History of Nature | | [52] |
| On the Physical Basis of Life | | [69] |
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| John Tyndall |
| Scope and Limit of Scientific Materialism | | [93] |
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| John Henry, Cardinal Newman |
| Christianity and Physical Science | | [104] |
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| Robert Louis Stevenson |
| Pulvis et Umbra | | [108] |
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| John Ruskin |
| The Mystery of Life and its Arts | | [116] |
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| Matthew Arnold |
| Marcus Aurelius | | [146] |
| Dover Beach | | [170] |
| Morality | | [171] |
| Self-Dependence | | [172] |
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| Arthur Hugh Clough |
| All is Well | | [174] |
| To Spend Uncounted Years of Pain | | [174] |
| Say Not the Struggle Nought Availeth | | [175] |
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| Algernon Charles Swinburne |
| The Garden of Proserpine | | [176] |
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| Edward Fitzgerald |
| Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam | | [180] |
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| Robert Browning |
| Rabbi Ben Ezra | | [197] |
| An Epistle | | [204] |
| Caliban upon Setebos | | [214] |
| A Grammarian’s Funeral | | [224] |
| Why I am a Liberal | | [228] |
| Fears and Scruples | | [229] |
| Epilogue to “Asolando” | | [231] |
| Prospice | | [232] |
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| Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
| Wages | | [233] |
| The Higher Pantheism | | [233] |
| Flower in the Crannied Wall | | [234] |
| In Memoriam | | [235] |
| Crossing the Bar | | [239] |
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| George Meredith |
| Lucifer in Starlight | | [240] |
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| William E. Henley |
| Invictus | | [241] |
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| Thomas Hardy |
| New Year’s Eve | | [242] |
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| Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Civilization | | [244] |
| Illusions | | [255] |
| Fate | | [268] |
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| Walt Whitman |
| Song of the Open Road | | [300] |
| Crossing Brooklyn Ferry | | [313] |
| A Song of Joys | | [320] |