# The Harvard Classics Vol. 51

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THE HARVARD CLASSICS
The Five-Foot Shelf of Books
THE HARVARD CLASSICS EDITED BY CHARLES W. ELIOT, LL.D.
Lectures on The Harvard Classics
By William Allan Neilson, Ph.D.
GENERAL EDITOR
AND THE FOLLOWING ASSOCIATE EDITORS
P. F. Collier & Son Corporation NEW YORK
Copyright, 1914
By P. F. Collier & Son
MANUFACTURED IN U. S. A.
CONTENTS :
| | | PAGE |
| History | History | 7 |
| I. | General Introduction. By Robert Matteson Johnston, M. A. (Cantab.), Assistant Professor of Modern History in Harvard University. | 7 |
| II. | Ancient History. By William Scott Ferguson, Ph. D., Professor of History in Harvard University. | 23 |
| III. | The Renaissance. By Murray Anthony Potter, Ph. D., Assistant Professor of Romance Languages in Harvard University. | 30 |
| IV. | The French Revolution. By Robert Matteson Johnston, M. A. (Cantab.) | 36 |
| V. | The Territorial Development of the United States. By Frederick Jackson Turner, Ph. D., LL. D., Litt. D., Professor of History in Harvard University. | 41 |
| Poetry | Poetry | 48 |
| I. | General Introduction. By Carleton Noyes, A. M., formerly Instructor in English in Harvard University. | 48 |
| II. | Homer and the Epic. By Charles Burton Gulick, Ph. D., Professor of Greek in Harvard University, and (1911­­­­–1912) in the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. | 66 |
| III. | Dante. By Charles Hall Grandgent, A. B., Professor of Romance Languages in Harvard University. | 71 |
| IV. | The Poems of John Milton. By Ernest Bernbaum, Ph.D., Instructor in English in Harvard University. | 76 |
| V. | The English Anthology. By Carleton Noyes, A. M. | 81 |
| Natural Science | Natural Science | 87 |
| I. | General Introduction. By Lawrence Joseph Henderson, M. D., Assistant Professor of Biological Chemistry in Harvard University. | 87 |
| II. | Astronomy. By Lawrence Joseph Henderson, M. D. | 105 |
| III. | Physics and Chemistry. By Lawrence Joseph Henderson, M. D. | 110 |
| IV. | The Biological Sciences. By Lawrence Joseph Henderson, M. D. | 115 |
| V. | Kelvin on “Light” and “The Tides.” By William Morris Davis, M. E., Ph. D., Sc. D., Sturgis-Hooper Professor of Geology, Emeritus, in Harvard University, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Exchange Professor to the University of Berlin and to the Sorbonne. | 120 |
| Philosophy | Philosophy | 125 |
| I. | General Introduction. By Ralph Barton Perry, Ph. D., Professor of Philosophy, Harvard University. | 125 |
| II. | Socrates, Plato, and the Roman Stoics. By Charles Pomeroy Parker, B. A. (Oxon.), Professor of Greek and Latin, Harvard University. | 143 ​ |
| III. | The Rise of Modern Philosophy. By Ralph Barton Perry, Ph. D. | 148 |
| IV. | Introduction to Kant. By Ralph Barton Perry, Ph. D. | 153 |
| V. | Emerson. By Chester Noyes Greenough, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of English, Harvard University. | 158 |
| Biography | Biography | 163 |
| I. | General Introduction. By William Roscoe Thayer, A. M., Knight of the Order of the Crown of Italy, editor of Harvard Graduates' Magazine. | 163 |
| II. | Plutarch. By William Scott Ferguson, Ph. D., Professor of Modern History, Harvard University. | 181 |
| III. | Benvenuto Cellini. By Chandler Rathfon Post, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Greek, Harvard University. | 186 |
| IV. | Franklin and Woolman. By Chester Noyes Greenough, Ph. D., Assistant Professor of English, Harvard University. | 191 |
| V. | John Stuart Mill. By O. M. W. Sprague, A.M., Ph.D., Edmund Cogswell Converse Professor of Banking and Finance, Harvard University. | 196 |
| Prose Fiction | Prose Fiction | 201 |
| I. | General Introduction. By William Allan Neilson, Ph. D., Author of "The Origins and Sources of The Court of Love," "Essentials of Poetry," editor of "The Chief Elizabethan Dramatists," etc., general editor of "The Tudor Shakespeare," "The Types of English Literature." | 201 |
| II. | Popular Prose Fiction. By Fred Norris Robinson, Ph. D., Professor of English, Harvard University. | 219 |
| III. | Malory. By Gustavus Howard Maynadier, Ph. D., Instructor in English, Harvard University. | 224 |
| IV. | Cervantes. By J. D. M. Ford, Ph. D., Smith Professor of the French and Spanish Languages, Harvard University, corresponding member Royal Spanish Academy (Madrid) and Hispanic Society of America. | 230 |
| V. | Manzoni. By J. D. M. Ford, Ph. D. | 235 |
| Criticism and the Essay | Criticism and the Essay | 239 |
| I. | General Introduction. By Bliss Perry, L. H. D., Litt D., LL. D., Professor of English Literature, Harvard University, formerly editor Atlantic Monthly, Harvard Lecturer at the University of Paris. | 239 |
| II | What the Middle Ages Read. By William Allan Neilson, Ph. D. | 254 |
| III. | Theories of Poetry. By Bliss Perry, L. H. D., Litt. D., LL. D. | 259 |
| IV. | Æsthetic Criticism in Germany. By William Guild Howard, A. M., Assistant Professor of German, Harvard University. | 266 |
| V. | The Composition of a Criticism. By Ernest Bernbaum, Ph. D., Instructor in English, Harvard University. | 271 |
| Education | Education | 276 |
| I. | General Introduction. By Henry Wyman Holmes, A.M., Assistant Professor of Education, Harvard University. | 276 ​ |
| II. | Francis Bacon. By Ernest Bernbaum, Ph.D., Instructor in English, Harvard University. | 292 |
| III. | Locke and Milton. By Henry Wyman Holmes, A. M., Assistant Professor of Education, Harvard University. | 297 |
| IV. | Carlyle and Newman. By Frank W. C. Hersey, A. M., Instructor in English, Harvard University. | 304 |
| V. | Huxley on Science and Culture. By A. O. Norton, A. M., Professor of Education in Wellesley College. | 309 |
| Political Science | Political Science | 314 |
| I. | General Introduction. By Thomas Nixon Carver, Ph. D., LL. D., David G. Wells Professor of Political Economy, Harvard University. | 314 |
| II. | Theories of Government in the Renaissance. By O. M. W. Sprague, A. M., Ph. D., Edmund Cogswell Converse Professor of Banking and Finance, Harvard University. | 332 |
| III. | Adam Smith and the "Wealth of Nations." By Charles J. Bullock, Ph. D., Professor of Economics, Harvard University. | 337 |
| IV. | The Growth of the American Constitution. By William Bennett Munro, LL. B., Ph. D., LL. D., Professor of Municipal Government, Harvard University. | 342 |
| V. | Law and Liberty. By Roscoe Pound, Ph.D., LL. M., Carter Professor of General Jurisprudence, Harvard University. | 347 |
| Drama | Drama | 352 |
| I. | General Introduction. By George Pierce Baker, A. B., Professor of Dramatic Literature, Harvard University. | 352 |
| II. | Greek Tragedy. By Charles Burton Gulick, Ph. D., Professor of Greek, Harvard University, and (1911-1912) in the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. | 369 |
| III. | The Elizabethan Drama. By William Allan Neilson, Ph. D. | 374 |
| IV. | The Faust Legend. By Kuno Francke, Ph. D., LL. D., Professor of the History of German Culture, and Curator Germanic Museum, Harvard University. | 379 |
| V. | The Modern English Drama. By Ernest Bernbaum, Ph. D., Instructor in English, Harvard University. | 384 |
| Voyages and Travel | Voyages and Travel | 389 |
| I. | General Introduction. By Roland Burrage Dixon, A. M., Ph. D., Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Harvard University. | 389 |
| II. | Herodotus on Egypt. By George H. Chase, Ph. D., Assistant Professor of Classical Archaeology, Harvard University. | 407 |
| III. | The Elizabethan Adventures. By William Allan Neilson, Ph. D. | 412 |
| IV. | The Era of Discovery. By William Bennett Munro, LL. B., Ph. D., LL. D., Professor of Municipal Government, Harvard University. | 417 |
| V. | Darwin's Voyage of the Beagle. By George Howard Parker, S. D., Professor of Zoology, Harvard University. | 422 |
| Religion | Religion | 427 |
| I. | General Introduction. By Ralph Barton Perry, Ph. D., Professor of Philosophy, Harvard University. | 427 ​ |
| II. | Buddhism. By Charles Rockwell Lanman, Ph. D., LL. D., Professor of Sanskrit in Harvard University. | 446 |
| III. | Confucianism. By Alfred Dwight Sheffield, A. M., Instructor in Wellesley College. | 451 |
| IV. | Greek Religion. By Clifford Herschel Moore, Ph. D., Professor of Latin in Harvard University, Professor in American School of Classical Studies in Rome, 1905-6. | 457 |
| V. | Pascal. By Charles Henry Conrad Wright, M. A., Professor of French in Harvard University. | 462 |
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