Chapter II: 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