Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1901-01-10
INFLUENTIAL BOOKS
THE TEN MOST POTENT OF THE
CENTURY.
LISTS ARE SUGGESTED
Works Worthy of the Title Epoch
Making-Faust Named by Two Crit
lcs-Origin of the Species Heads
Bryce's Catalogue.

The editor of the Outlook recently
wrote to a number of representative
scholars, preachers, thinkers, etc., and
asked them this question: What 10
books of the century have most inf1u-
enced it's thought and activities" And
there are published in the December
number of that magazine the answers
returned to the question.
The answers, without the accom-
panying comments, read in this fash
ion:
James Bryce: Darwin's Origin Of
Species, Goethe's Faust, Hegels His
tory of Philosophy, Wordsworth's Ex-
cursion, MazZinfs Duties of Man, Karl
Marks Das Kapital, De Maistre's LIE
Pape, Tocqueville's Democracy in
America, Nautilus Population, Hugo,s
LIE sMiserables.
Faust, Darwin's Origin of Species,
Tocquevilles Democracy in America,
Bryce's American Commonwealth,
John Ruskin's Modern Painters, the
works of Scott and Victor Hugo, Ten
nyson's In Memoriam, Remains Life of
Jesus.
Henry Van Dyke: Wordsworth's
Lyrical Ballads, Scott's Waverley,
Coleridge's Aids to Reflection, Car
lyle's Sartor Resartus, Emerson's Es-
says, Ruskin's Modern Painters, Mills
System of Logic, Darwin's Origin of
Tn
George A. Gordon: Goethe's Faust,
HegeFs Logic, Carlyle's French Revo-
luton, Tennysons In Memoriam, OAR
wins Origin of Species, Comics Social
Philosophy, Webster's Speeches, EN-
erson's Essays, Mrs. Stoves Uncle
Toms Cabin, Green's Introduction to
Hume.
Arthur T. Hadley: Napoleon Civil
Code, Goethe's Faust, HegePs Ency-
clopedia of the Philosophical Sciences,
Schopenhauer's World as Will. Froe-
bells Education of Man, Sainte-Beuve's
Mondays, Mrs. Stoves Uncle Toms
Cabin, Spencer's Principles of Psychol-
ogy, Darwin's Origin of Species, Re-
mans Life of Jesus.
G. Stanley Hall: Darwin's Origin Of
Species, Hegels Logic, Strauss Life
of Jesus, Horace Mann's Educational
Reports, Mrs. Stoves Uncle Toms
abin, Carlyle's French Revolution,
Wagner's Niebelungen Lied, Ibsen's
plays.
William De Witt Hyde: Hegel's
Logic, Comics Positive Philosophy,
Lyells Principles of Geology, Darwin's
Origin of Species, Spencer's Synthetic
Philosophy, Carlyle's Sartor Resartus,
Emerson's Essays, Ruskin's Modern
Painters, Mrs Stoves Uncle Toms
Cabin, Brownings poems.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson: The
works of Scott, Heine, Wordsworth,
Hegel, Robert Owen, Darwin, Emer-
son, Tolstoi, Hawthorne, Browning.
It will be observed here, in the first
place, that Thomas Wentworth Hig-
ginson rules himself out of the count
by his inattention to the question. The
question did not have reference to the
10 thinkers, but to the 10 books that
have most influenced the thought and
activities of the century; and Mr.. Hig-
ginson has not answered the question
at all, as answer was expected. 1t is
a vastly easier thing to name the 10
thinkers who have had most influence
upon their own or a following epoch
than to name 10 books which have
most influenced thought, opinion and
action.
We would take the liberty of sug.
costing two books, neither of which is
written in any of the above lists, but
both of which have made a wonderful
impress on the thought of the last half
of the century Cardinal Newman's
Apologize has probably made more PEG.
pie grapple with their own consciences
over the subject of a religion than any
life-drama tina tever was written; and
John Stuart Mills Essay on Liberty
has opened the eyes of thousands to
the varied forms of slavery that still
obtain in (what we have proudly fan.
cied to be- our most enlightened and
most emancipated circles, social and
political.
But the selection of l. st of the 10
specially epoch-making books of the
nineteenth century is not the easy task
which it looks.-New Orleans Times.
Democrat