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The [Lecture] Series will also assist many readers to cultivate “a taste for serious reading of the highest quality outside of The Harvard Classics as well as within them.”

—Introductory Notes

Charles W.
Eliot

Harvard Classics, Vol. 51

Lectures on the Harvard Classics

William Allan Neilson, General Editor

CONTENTS

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NEW YORK: P.F. COLLIER & SON COMPANY, 1909–14
NEW YORK: BARTLEBY.COM, 2001

Editors
Introductory Notes
History General Introduction, by Professor Robert Matteson Johnston Ancient History, by Professor William Scott Ferguson The Renaissance, by Professor Murray Anthony Potter The French Revolution, by Professor Robert Matteson Johnston The Territorial Development of the United States, by Professor Frederick Jackson Turner
Poetry General Introduction, by Carleton Noyes Homer and the Epic, by Professor Charles Burton Gulick Dante, by Professor Charles Hall Grandgent The Poems of John Milton, by Dr. Ernest Bernbaum The English Anthology, by Carleton Noyes
Natural Science General Introduction, by Professor Lawrence J. Henderson Astronomy, by Professor Lawrence J. Henderson Physics and Chemistry, by Professor Lawrence J. Henderson The Biological Sciences, by Professor Lawrence J. Henderson Kelvin on “Light” and “The Tides”, by Professor W. M. Davis
Philosophy General Introduction, by Professor Ralph Barton Perry Socrates, Plato, and the Roman Stoics, by Professor Charles Pomeroy Parker The Rise of Modern Philosophy, by Professor Ralph Barton Perry Introduction to Kant, by Professor Ralph Barton Perry Emerson, by Professor Chester Noyes Greenough
Biography General Introduction, by William Roscoe Thayer Plutarch, by Professor W. S. Ferguson Benvenuto Cellini, by Professor Chandler Rathfon Post Franklin and Woolman, by Professor Chester Noyes Greenough John Stuart Mill, by Professor O. M. W. Sprague
Prose Fiction General Introduction, by Professor W. A. Neilson Popular Prose Fiction, by Professor F. N. Robinson Malory, by Dr. G. H. Maynadier Cervantes, by Professor J. D. M. Ford Manzoni, by Professor J. D. M. Ford
Criticism and the Essay General Introduction, by Professor Bliss Perry What the Middle Ages Read, by Professor W. A. Neilson Theories of Poetry, by Professor Bliss Perry Æsthetic Criticism in Germany, by Professor W. G. Howard The Composition of a Criticism, by Dr. Ernest Bernbaum
Education General Introduction, by Professor H. W. Holmes Francis Bacon, by Dr. Ernest Bernbaum Locke and Milton, by Professor H. W. Holmes Carlyle and Newman, by Frank Wilson Cheney Hersey Huxley on Science and Culture, by Professor A. O. Norton
Political Science General Introduction, by Professor Thomas Nixon Carver Theories of Government in the Renaissance, by Professor O. M. W. Sprague Adam Smith and “The Wealth of Nations”, by Professor Charles J. Bullock The Growth of the American Constitution, by Professor W. B. Munro Law and Liberty, by Professor Roscoe Pound
Drama General Introduction, by Professor George Pierce Baker Greek Tragedy, by Professor Charles Burton Gulick The Elizabethan Drama, by Professor W. A. Neilson The Faust Legend, by Professor Kuno Francke Modern English Drama, by Dr. Ernest Bernbaum
Voyages and Travel General Introduction, by Professor R. B. Dixon Herodotus on Egypt, by Professor George H. Chase The Elizabethan Adventurers, by Professor W. A. Neilson The Era of Discovery, by Professor W. B. Munro Darwin’s Voyage of the Beagle, by Professor George Howard Parker
Religion General Introduction, by Professor R. B. Perry Buddhism, by Professor C. R. Lanman Confucianism, by Alfred Dwight Sheffield Greek Religion, by Professor Clifford Herschel Moore Pascal, by Professor C. H. C. Wright

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