Chapter I: Preface

OF the papers contained in this volume "Taormina" was published in the _Century Magazine_; the others are new. The intention of the author was to illustrate how poetry, politics, and religion are the flowering of the same human spirit, and have their feeding roots in a common soil, "deep in the general heart of men."

COLUMBIA COLLEGE,

February 22, 1809.

CONTENTS

TAORMINA

A NEW DEFENCE OF POETRY

DEMOCRACY

THE RIDE

TAORMINA