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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


                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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