LECTURES ON THE HARVARD CLASSICS

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LECTURES ON THE HARVARD CLASSICS

INTRODUCTORY NOTES

HISTORY

I. GENERAL INTRODUCTION

THE LEADERSHIP OF GREECE

THE DOMINATION OF ROME

THE CONTRIBUTION OF THE JEWS

THE CHRISTIANIZING OF ROME

THE FALL OF ROME

THE RISE OF ISLAM

THE FEUDAL SYSTEM

THE RENAISSANCE

FRANCE AND ENGLAND

SPAIN AND THE HOUSE OF HAPSBURG

THE FOUNDING OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE

MODERN EUROPE

II. ANCIENT HISTORY

THE INDIVIDUALISM OF GREECE

SPARTA—ATHENS—THEBES

MACEDON

THE RISE OF ROME

THE ACHIEVEMENTS OF JULIUS AND AUGUSTUS CæSAR

III. THE RENAISSANCE

THE INDIVIDUALISM OF THE RENAISSANCE

THE REVIVAL OF CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY

THE RENAISSANCE CURIOSITY

THE AGE OF DISCOVERY

THE WORSHIP OF BEAUTY

IV. THE FRENCH REVOLUTION

THE CONTRASTS OF THE REVOLUTION

HISTORIES OF THE REVOLUTION

THE REVOLUTION OF IDEAS

VOLTAIRE’S DARING

AN ENGLISH VIEW OF THE REVOLUTION

BURKE ON MARIE ANTOINETTE

V. THE TERRITORIAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE UNITED STATES

THE BOUNDARIES OF THE NEW NATION

THE STRUGGLE FOR THE MISSISSIPPI

EXTENSION OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS

ACQUISITION OF FLORIDA AND TEXAS

TO THE PACIFIC

THE ISLAND POSSESSIONS AND THE PANAMA CANAL

POETRY

I. GENERAL INTRODUCTION

THE ORIGIN AND COURSE OF NARRATIVE POETRY

CHARACTERISTICS OF PRIMITIVE POETRY

THE GROWTH OF INDIVIDUALISM

THE RISE OF THE LYRIC

THE SCOPE OF THE LYRIC

THE ELEMENTS OF POETIC FORM

THE NATURE AND SOURCE OF RHYTHM

THE EFFECT OF RHYTHM

THE WORD-ELEMENT IN POETRY

THE ONENESS OF CONTENT AND FORM

II. HOMER AND THE EPIC

THE PREDECESSORS OF HOMER

THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE EPIC

THE TROY OF HISTORY

THE STRUCTURE OF THE “ODYSSEY”

THE AUTHORSHIP OF THE HOMERIC POEMS

III. DANTE

THE PLAN OF THE “DIVINE COMEDY”

THE MEDIÆVAL VIEW OF THE WORLD

THE LEARNING AND LITERARY CHARACTERISTICS OF DANTE

LITERARY FASHIONS OF THE MIDDLE AGES

DANTE’S CONCEPTION OF LOVE

IV. THE POEMS OF JOHN MILTON

THE SOURCES OF MILTON’S GREATNESS

MILTON AS PROPHET

THE THEME OF “PARADISE LOST”

MILTON’S VIEW OF HUMAN NATURE

V. THE ENGLISH ANTHOLOGY

THE KINDS OF POETRY

NATURAL SCIENCE

I. GENERAL INTRODUCTION

ANTHROPOLOGY

ANCIENT SCIENCE

RISE OF MODERN SCIENCE

NEWTON’S “PRINCIPIA”

HARVEY AND THE CIRCULATION OF THE BLOOD

THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY

THE NINETEENTH CENTURY

THE BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

THE ORGANIZATION OF RESEARCH

SCIENCE AND THE STATE

THE GROWTH OF SPECIALIZATION

THE UNIFICATIONS OF SCIENCE

II. ASTRONOMY

HIPPARCHUS AND THE PTOLEMAIC SYSTEM

THE COPERNICAN THEORY

GALILEO AND NEWTON

SPECTRUM ANALYSIS

III. PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY

THE ACHIEVEMENTS OF ARCHIMEDES

LAVOISIER AND THE RISE OF MODERN CHEMISTRY

THE WAVE THEORY OF LIGHT

THE WORK OF FARADAY

IV. THE BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

THE QUESTION OF SPONTANEOUS GENERATION

THE CELL THEORY AND FERMENTATION

IMPORTANCE OF THE WORK OF PASTEUR

TOXINS, ANTITOXINS, AND IMMUNITY

V. KELVIN ON “LIGHT” AND “THE TIDES”

THE ESSAYS AS STATEMENTS OF SCIENTIFIC RESULTS

THE ESSAYS AS EXAMPLES OF SCIENTIFIC METHOD

THE MERE OBSERVER versus THE THEORIZER

THE ESSAYS AS MODELS OF EXPOSITION

PHILOSOPHY

I. GENERAL INTRODUCTION

PHILOSOPHY AND EFFICIENCY

PHILOSOPHY AND COMMON SENSE

PHILOSOPHY AND THE PRACTICAL

PHILOSOPHY AND GENERALIZATION

PHILOSOPHY AND THE TANGIBLE

OUR UNCONSCIOUS PHILOSOPHIZING

DOUBT

PHILOSOPHY AND ART

PHILOSOPHY AND SCIENCE

THE PROBLEM OF ETHICS

THE PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION

METAPHYSICS

THE THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE

II. SOCRATES, PLATO, AND THE ROMAN STOICS

SOCRATES AND ANAXAGORAS

SOCRATES AND THE PYTHAGOREANS

THE MISSION OF SOCRATES

SOCRATES AND PLATO

ZENO AND STOICISM

THE ROMAN STOICS

III. THE RISE OF MODERN PHILOSOPHY

THE COPERNICAN DISCOVERY

THE CONTRIBUTION OF GALILEO

MODERN EMPIRICISM

MODERN RATIONALISM

IV. INTRODUCTION TO KANT

REVOLT AGAINST PURE EMPIRICISM AND PURE RATIONALISM

REASSERTION OF THE SPIRITUAL

THE KANTIAN REVOLUTION

THE SPHERE OF THE WILL

THE FOLLOWERS OF KANT

V. EMERSON

EMERSON AS LAY PREACHER

EMERSON AND CALVINISM

THE OVER-SOUL

NATURE

THE PAST

SOCIETY

EMERSON’S UNIVERSALITY

HIS STYLE

BIOGRAPHY

I. GENERAL INTRODUCTION

BIOGRAPHY NOT MERE EULOGY

THE PLEASURE OF BIOGRAPHY

THE DIFFICULTY OF BIOGRAPHICAL WRITINGC

CULTIVATING THE TASTE FOR BIOGRAPHY

THE VARIETY OF BIOGRAPHY

DR. JOHNSON AND HIS CIRCLE

THE VALUE OF AUTOBIOGRAPHY

THE RELATION OF BIOGRAPHY TO HISTORY

THE RELATION OF BIOGRAPHY TO FICTION

THE ART OF BIOGRAPHY

II. PLUTARCH

PLUTARCH’S SUPERSTITION

HIS CURIOSITY AND HIS PATRIOTISM

SCIENTIFIC AND PHILOSOPHIC BIOGRAPHY IN ANTIQUITY

PLUTARCH’S OWN CONTRIBUTION TO HIS “LIVES”

III. BENVENUTO CELLINI

CELLINI AS A TYPE OF RENAISSANCE INDIVIDUALISM

THE CORRECTNESS OF HIS ESTIMATE OF HIMSELF

CELLINI’s MORALITY

VALUE OF THE “AUTOBIOGRAPHY”

IV. FRANKLIN AND WOOLMAN

THE BREAKING DOWN OF PURITANISM

FRANKLIN’S METHODS IN LITERATURE AND SCIENCE

FRANKLIN IN POLITICS

FRANKLIN’S MORALS AND RELIGION

JOHN WOOLMAN’S RELIGION

WOOLMAN AND SLAVERY

V. JOHN STUART MILL

THE SUPPOSED ADVANTAGES OF PRECOCITY

THE DEFECTS OF MILL’S EDUCATION

THE STARVING OF EMOTION

MILL’S CONTRIBUTION TO UTILITARIANISM AND LIBERALISM

PROSE FICTION

I. GENERAL INTRODUCTION

EARLY FORMS OF FICTION

THE RISE OF THE NOVEL

NOVEL AND DRAMA

DEFOE AND RICHARDSON

FIELDING, SMOLLETT, STERNE, GOLDSMITH

FICTION IN THE ROMANTIC MOVEMENT

GENTEEL REALISM—THE NOVEL OF MANNERS

THE GREATER VICTORIANS

SCIENCE AND PHILOSOPHY IN THE NOVEL

THE PURPOSE OF FICTION

THE NOVEL WITH A PURPOSE

KINDS OF REALISM

ARTISTIC VERSUS LITERAL TRUTH

THE AUTHOR’S PHILOSOPHY OF LIFE

DEFENSE OF THE NOVEL WITH A PURPOSE

THE VALUE OF FICTION

THE METHODS OF FICTION

II. POPULAR PROSE FICTIONBY PROFESSOR F. N. ROBINSON

THE MEANING OF “POPULAR”

THE MODERN TASTE FOR POPULAR LITERATURE

INFLUENCE OF POPULAR UPON ARTISTIC LITERATURE

CHARACTERISTICS OF POPULAR NARRATIVE

III. MALORY

LEGEND AND ROMANCE

THE HISTORICAL AND THE LEGENDARY ARTHUR

THE HISTORY OF THE GRAIL LEGEND

IV. CERVANTES

LITERARY ACTIVITY OF CERVANTES

THE EXEMPLARY TALES

THE PURPOSE AND SIGNIFICANCE OF “DON QUIXOTE”

V. MANZONI

LIFE OF MANZONI

MANZONI AS A POET AND CRITIC

I PROMESSI SPOSI

CRITICISM AND THE ESSAY

I. GENERAL INTRODUCTION

IMPORTANCE OF THE ESSAY IN LITERARY CRITICISM

WHAT IS AN ESSAY?

THE CRITICAL ESSAY

NATIONAL CHARACTER IN THE ESSAY

THE HISTORY OF THE WORD “ESSAY”

THE FIRST MODERN ESSAYISTS

THE ANTIQUITY OF THE ESSAY

EFFECT OF THE RENAISSANCE ON THE ESSAY

THE BOOKISH ESSAY

THE ESSAY AS EXPRESSIVE OF CURIOSITY ABOUT LIFE

THE AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY

ESSAYS AS HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS

ARISTOTLE AND THE CRITICAL ESSAY

CRITICAL TRADITION AND THE ESSAY

TYPES OF CRITICISM

THE UNION AND MERGING OF TYPES OF CRITICISM

II. WHAT THE MIDDLE AGES READ

THE EVIDENCE AS TO MEDIÆVAL TASTE IN LITERATURE

THE PREPONDERANCE OF DIDACTIC LITERATURE

THE GOLDEN LEGEND

LITERATURE OF ENTERTAINMENT

THE TROJAN LEGEND AND THE ÆNEID

CAXTON ON MALORY

III. THEORIES OF POETRY

SIR PHILIP SIDNEY

DRYDEN AS CRITIC

WORDSWORTH AND COLERIDGE

PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

EDGAR ALLAN POE

WHITMAN ON AMERICA AND POETRY

MATTHEW ARNOLD

IV. ÆSTHETIC CRITICISM IN GERMANY

THE RISE OF ÆSTHETIC CRITICISM

LESSING

BURKE

BAUMGARTEN

SCHILLER

V. THE COMPOSITION OF A CRITICISM

A DOMINANT IDEA

METHODICAL ARRANGEMENT

ILLUSTRATIONS

COMPARISON AND CONFLICT OF OPINION

EDUCATION

I. GENERAL INTRODUCTION

THE SOCIAL NATURE OF THE MODERN IDEAL

THE EDUCATIONAL PROBLEM CONCRETE, NOT ABSTRACT

RELATIVE NATURE OF “THE FUNDAMENTALS”

THE AIM OF EDUCATION SOCIALLY CONSIDERED

EDUCATION AND FREEDOM

VOCATIONAL EDUCATION

THE NEED FOR GENERAL EDUCATION

ECONOMIC PRESSURE IN EDUCATION

THE LINE OF ADVANCE IN EDUCATION

(a) IN THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

(b) IN THE SECONDARY SCHOOL

(c) IN THE COLLEGE

II. FRANCIS BACON

BACON NOT PREOCCUPIED WITH SCIENCE

DISTINCTION BETWEEN HIS ESSAYS AND HIS OTHER WORKS

BACON NOT A CYNIC

BACON AS A PRACTICAL ADVISER

HOW BACON TRAINS THE MIND

HIS ESPECIAL SERVICE TO-DAY

III. LOCKE AND MILTON

COMENIUS AND “THE GREAT DIDACTIC”

SCOPE OF THE TREATISES OF LOCKE AND MILTON

MILTON ON AIM AND METHOD IN EDUCATION

LOCKE ON THE EDUCATION OF A GENTLEMAN

IV. CARLYLE AND NEWMAN

NEWMAN AND THE OXFORD MOVEMENT

CARLYLE AND HIS TEACHING

THE DOCTRINE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS

V. HUXLEY ON SCIENCE AND CULTURE

HUXLEY’s OPPONENTS: (1) THE BUSINESS MEN

(2) THE CLASSICAL TRADITION

(3) THE THEOLOGIANS

HUXLEY’S APPEAL TO THE BUSINESS WORLD

HIS APPEAL TO THE UNIVERSITY MEN

HIS STYLE AND PERSONALITY

POLITICAL SCIENCE

I. GENERAL INTRODUCTION

EARLY CONCEPTIONS OF PUBLIC ECONOMICS

MERCANTILISTS AND PHYSIOCRATS

THE MEANING OF WEALTH

THE MEANING OF ECONOMY

THE LAW OF VARIABLE PROPORTIONS

THE CONFLICT OF INTERESTS BETWEEN MAN AND MAN

THE CONFLICT OF MAN WITH NATURE

THE INTERNAL CONFLICT OF INTERESTS

THE PROBLEM OF EVIL

THE ORIGIN OF INSTITUTIONS

THE FUNDAMENTAL POSITION OF ECONOMICS

ECONOMIC COMPETITION

II. THEORIES OF GOVERNMENT IN THE RENAISSANCE

THE RENAISSANCE SPIRIT IN MACHIAVELLI AND MORE

CONTRAST IN METHOD

MACHIAVELLI’S LIMITATIONS

THE IMAGINARY COMMONWEALTH AS A FORM OF POLITICAL CRITICISM

THE “UTOPIA” AND MODERN CONDITIONS

III. ADAM SMITH AND “THE WEALTH OF NATIONS”

THE UNDERLYING THEORY OF SMITH’S PHILOSOPHY

HIS CONCEPTION OF WEALTH AND OF POLITICAL ECONOMY

PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION

THE NATURE AND USE OF CAPITAL

HIS THEORY OF TRADE

PUBLIC FINANCE

IV. THE GROWTH OF THE AMERICAN CONSTITUTION

THE BEGINNINGS OF AMERICAN GOVERNMENT

THE BREACH WITH ENGLAND

THE FEDERAL CONSTITUTION

STRENGTHENING THE UNION; TERRITORIAL EXPANSION; AND FOREIGN POLICY

V. LAW AND LIBERTY

THE AIM OF LAW (1) IN PRIMITIVE SOCIETIES

(2) IN GREECE AND ROME

(3) BEFORE AND AFTER THE REFORMATION

REASON AND NATURAL RIGHTS

THE MODERN SOCIAL POINT OF VIEW

DRAMA

I. GENERAL INTRODUCTION

THE DRAMA AND PUBLIC TASTE

HOW TO READ A PLAY

THE ESSENTIALS OF DRAMA

THE NATURE OF TRAGEDY

MELODRAMA

THE STORY PLAY

HIGH COMEDY, LOW COMEDY, AND FARCE

SOCIAL BACKGROUND OF DRAMA

MODERN PSYCHOLOGY AND SOCIOLOGY IN THE DRAMA

THE MENACE OF VAUDEVILLE AND MOVING PICTURES

THE DRAMA IN MODERN EDUCATION

HOW THE LEVEL OF DRAMATIC ART IS DETERMINED

THE INFLUENCE OF THE STAGE ON THE DRAMA

DEVELOPMENT OF THE MODERN STAGE

THE COSMOPOLITANISM OF MODERN DRAMA

II. GREEK TRAGEDY

THE ORIGIN OF DRAMA IN GREECE

THE FIRST THEATER

ÆSCHYLUS, THE FATHER OF TRAGEDY

SOPHOCLES

EURIPIDES

III. THE ELIZABETHAN DRAMA

THE DRAMA BEFORE SHAKESPEARE

THE CHRONICLE HISTORY

ELIZABETHAN TRAGEDY

ELIZABETHAN COMEDY

IV. THE FAUST LEGEND

THE ELIZABETHAN “DOCTOR FAUSTUS”

THE LEGEND IN GERMAN POPULAR DRAMA

THE VERSION OF LESSING

GOETHE’S EARLIER AND LATER TREATMENTS

V. MODERN ENGLISH DRAMA

GOLDSMITH AND “SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER”

SHERIDAN AND “THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL”

DRYDEN AND “ALL FOR LOVE”

SHELLEY AND “THE CENCI”

BYRON AND “MANFRED”

BROWNING AND “A BLOT IN THE ’SCUTCHEON”

VOYAGES AND TRAVEL

I. GENERAL INTRODUCTION

PREHISTORIC TRAVEL

THE MOTIVE OF THE TRUE EXPLORER

THE MOTIVE OF CONQUEST

THE MOTIVE OF RELIGION

THE COMMERCIAL MOTIVE

THE SCIENTIFIC MOTIVE

THE FIRST PERIOD OF RECORDED TRAVEL

THE SECOND PERIOD—PILGRIMS AND MISSIONARIES

MOHAMMEDAN PROPAGANDA

THE VIKINGS AND THE CRUSADERS

THE EXTENSION OF THE MONGOL EMPIRE

THE ROUTE TO THE INDIES

THE EPOCH OF AMERICAN EXPLORATION

THE PERIOD OF SCIENTIFIC TRAVEL

METHODS OF TRAVEL

THE PLEASURES AND PROFITS OF TRAVEL

II. HERODOTUS ON EGYPT

THE SUBJECT OF THE HISTORY OF HERODOTUS

THE RANGE AND PURPOSE OF HIS TRAVELS

THE VERACITY OF HERODOTUS

THE RELIGIOUS ELEMENT IN HERODOTUS

III. THE ELIZABETHAN ADVENTURERS

THE EXPANSION OF ELIZABETHAN ENGLAND

THE SPANISH MAIN

CONTRIBUTIONS TO GEOGRAPHY

BEHAVIOR OF THE EXPLORERS

THE STYLE OF THE NARRATIVES

IV. THE ERA OF DISCOVERY

THE VOYAGES OF COLUMBUS

PLANTING NEW NATIONS IN AMERICA

VIRGINIA AND NEW ENGLAND

INTERIOR EXPLORATION AND TRADE

V. DARWIN’S VOYAGE OF THE BEAGLE

THE OCCASION OF THE VOYAGE

THE TRAINING OF A NATURALIST

PRACTICAL RESULTS OF THE VOYAGE

SPECULATIVE RESULTS OF THE VOYAGE

RELIGION

I. GENERAL INTRODUCTION

OTHER MEN’S BIBLES

NATURAL versus POSITIVE RELIGION

COMPARATIVE RELIGION

THE PSYCHOLOGY OF RELIGION

THE ORIGIN OF RELIGION

TYPES OF DEITY

THE IDEA OF A SUPREME DEITY

THE RELIGION OF RENUNCIATION

RELIGION AND SCIENCE

RELIGION AND MORALITY

II. BUDDHISM

THE BIRTHS OF BUDDHA

THE TEACHINGS OF BUDDHA

BUDDHISM AND OTHER RELIGIONS

III. CONFUCIANISM

THE TEACHING OF CONFUCIUS

THE GROWTH OF CONFUCIAN INFLUENCE

IV. GREEK RELIGION

RELIGION IN HOMER AND HESIOD

GROWTH OF PERSONAL RELIGION

RELIGION IN GREEK TRAGEDY

V. PASCAL

PASCAL AND JANSENISM

THE “PROVINCIAL LETTERS”

THE “THOUGHTS”

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