PUBLISHER’S NOTE
The nucleus of this collection was a privately printed volume for the use of the students in the sophomore course in English and History at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The volume was edited by Professor DeWitt C. Croissant, visiting professor of English at the Institute from George Washington University, Washington, D.C. The present volume, which contains some changes and additions, is edited by Robert E. Rogers, assistant professor of English at the Institute, who is, therefore, responsible for its present form.
CONTENTS
| PAGE | ||
| Introduction | [ix] | |
| Matthew Arnold | ||
| The Function of Criticism | [1] | |
| Sir Michael Foster | ||
| The Growth of Science in the Nineteenth Century | [22] | |
| Thomas Huxley | ||
| Three Hypotheses Respecting the History of Nature | [52] | |
| On the Physical Basis of Life | [69] | |
| John Tyndall | ||
| Scope and Limit of Scientific Materialism | [93] | |
| John Henry, Cardinal Newman | ||
| Christianity and Physical Science | [104] | |
| Robert Louis Stevenson | ||
| Pulvis et Umbra | [108] | |
| John Ruskin | ||
| The Mystery of Life and its Arts | [116] | |
| Matthew Arnold | ||
| Marcus Aurelius | [146] | |
| Dover Beach | [170] | |
| Morality | [171] | |
| Self-Dependence | [172] | |
| Arthur Hugh Clough | ||
| All is Well | [174] | |
| To Spend Uncounted Years of Pain | [174] | |
| Say Not the Struggle Nought Availeth | [175] | |
| Algernon Charles Swinburne | ||
| The Garden of Proserpine | [176] | |
| Edward Fitzgerald | ||
| Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam | [180] | |
| 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] | |
| Alfred, Lord Tennyson | ||
| Wages | [233] | |
| The Higher Pantheism | [233] | |
| Flower in the Crannied Wall | [234] | |
| In Memoriam | [235] | |
| Crossing the Bar | [239] | |
| George Meredith | ||
| Lucifer in Starlight | [240] | |
| William E. Henley | ||
| Invictus | [241] | |
| Thomas Hardy | ||
| New Year’s Eve | [242] | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | ||
| Civilization | [244] | |
| Illusions | [255] | |
| Fate | [268] | |
| Walt Whitman | ||
| Song of the Open Road | [300] | |
| Crossing Brooklyn Ferry | [313] | |
| A Song of Joys | [320] |