The volume was edited by Professor
DeWitt C. Croissant, visiting professor of English at the Institute from
George Washington University, Washington, D.C. The present volume, which
contains some changes and additions, is edited by Robert E. Rogers,
assistant professor of English at the Institute, who is, therefore,
responsible for its present form.

CONTENTS

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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"_