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Various. English Prose
English Prose
Table of Contents
PREFACE
F.W.R. G.R.E
I. THE PERSONAL LIFE
II. EDUCATION
III. RECREATION AND TRAVELS
IV. SOCIAL LIFE AND MANNERS
V. PUBLIC AFFAIRS
VI. SCIENCE
VII. NATURE
VIII. CONDUCT AND INNER LIFE
IX. LITERATURE AND ART
SUPPLEMENTARY READINGS
ENGLISH PROSE
SELF-RELIANCE[1]
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
FOOTNOTES:
EARLY EDUCATION AT HERNE HILL[2]
JOHN RUSKIN
FOOTNOTES:
A CRISIS IN MY MENTAL HISTORY[3]
JOHN STUART MILL
FOOTNOTES:
OLD CHINA[4]
CHARLES LAMB
FOOTNOTES:
WHAT IS EDUCATION?[9]
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY
FOOTNOTES:
KNOWLEDGE VIEWED IN RELATION TO LEARNING[11]
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN
FOOTNOTES:
LITERATURE AND SCIENCE[20]
MATTHEW ARNOLD
FOOTNOTES:
HOW TO READ[23]
FREDERIC HARRISON
FOOTNOTES:
ON GOING A JOURNEY[29]
WILLIAM HAZLITT
FOOTNOTES:
THE REGRETS OF A MOUNTAINEER[33]
LESLIE STEPHEN
FOOTNOTES:
BEHAVIOR[34]
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
FOOTNOTES:
MANNERS AND FASHION[37]
HERBERT SPENCER
FOOTNOTES:
TALK AND TALKERS[38]
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
FOOTNOTES:
THE SOCIAL VALUE OF THE COLLEGE-BRED[43]
WILLIAM JAMES
FOOTNOTES:
THE LAW OF HUMAN PROGRESS[44]
HENRY GEORGE
FOOTNOTES:
THE MORALS OF TRADE[47]
HERBERT SPENCER
FOOTNOTES:
ON THE PHYSICAL BASIS OF LIFE[48]
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY
FOOTNOTES:
COMPARISON OF THE MENTAL POWERS OF MAN AND THE LOWER ANIMALS[57]
CHARLES DARWIN
FOOTNOTES:
THE IMPORTANCE OF DUST: A SOURCE OF BEAUTY AND ESSENTIAL TO LIFE[61]
ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE
FOOTNOTES:
THE BATTLE OF THE ANTS[62]
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
FOOTNOTES:
A WIND-STORM IN THE FORESTS[64]
JOHN MUIR
FOOTNOTES:
WALDEN POND[65]
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
FOOTNOTES:
SELECTIONS FROM RUSKIN
A. LEAFAGE OF TREES[70]
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B. WATER[71]
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C. THE MOUNTAIN GLORY[72]
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D. SPLENDOURS OF SUNSET[73]
FOOTNOTES:
THE STOICS[74]
WILLIAM EDWARD HARTPOLE LECKY
FOOTNOTES:
THE ENTHUSIASM OF HUMANITY[75]
JOHN ROBERT SEELEY
FOOTNOTES:
LOYALTY AND INSIGHT[77]
JOSIAH ROYCE
FOOTNOTES:
POETRY FOR POETRY'S SAKE[78]
A.C. BRADLEY
FOOTNOTES:
GREEK TRAGEDY[79]
G. LOWES DICKINSON
FOOTNOTES:
SHAKESPEARE[81]
THOMAS CARLYLE
FOOTNOTES:
CHARLES LAMB[86]
WALTER PATER
FOOTNOTES:
DR. HEIDEGGER'S EXPERIMENT[89]
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
FOOTNOTES:
MARKHEIM[90]
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
FOOTNOTES:
SUPPLEMENTARY READINGS
WITH SOME TOPICS FOR DISCUSSION AND FOR COMPOSITION
I. THE PERSONAL LIFE
II. EDUCATION
III. RECREATION AND TRAVELS
IV. SOCIAL LIFE AND MANNERS
V. PUBLIC AFFAIRS
VI. SCIENCE
VII. NATURE
VIII. CONDUCT AND INNER LIFE
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A Series of Related Essays for the Discussion and Practice of the Art of Writing
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I suppose no man can violate his nature. All the sallies of his will are rounded in by the law of his being, as the inequalities of Andes and Himmaleh are insignificant in the curve of the sphere. Nor does it matter how you gauge and try him. A character is like an acrostic or Alexandrian stanza;—read it forward, backward, or across, it still spells the same thing. In this pleasing contrite wood-life which God allows me, let me record day by day my honest thought without prospect or retrospect, and, I cannot doubt, it will be found symmetrical, though I mean it not and see it not. My book should smell of pines and resound with the hum of insects. The swallow over my window should interweave that thread or straw he carries in his bill into my web also. We pass for what we are. Character teaches above our wills. Men imagine that they communicate their virtue or vice only by overt actions, and do not see that virtue or vice emit a breath every moment.
Fear never but you shall be consistent in whatever variety of actions, so they be each honest and natural in their hour. For of one will, the actions will be harmonious, however unlike they seem. These varieties are lost sight of when seen at a little distance, at a little height of thought. One tendency unites them all. The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks. This is only microscopic criticism. See the line from a sufficient distance, and it straightens itself to the average tendency. Your genuine action will explain itself and will explain your other genuine actions. Your conformity explains nothing. Act singly, and what you have already done singly will justify you now. Greatness always appeals to the future. If I can be great enough now to do right and scorn eyes, I must have done so much right before as to defend me now. Be it how it will, do right now. Always scorn appearances and you always may. The force of character is cumulative. All the foregone days of virtue work their health into this. What makes the majesty of the heroes of the senate and the field, which so fills the imagination? The consciousness of a train of great days and victories behind. There they all stand and shed an united light on the advancing actor. He is attended as by a visible escort of angels to every man's eye. That is it which throws thunder into Chatham's voice, and dignity into Washington's port, and America into Adams's eye. Honor is venerable to us because it is no ephemeris. It is always ancient virtue. We worship it to-day because it is not of to-day. We love it and pay it homage because it is not a trap for our love and homage, but is self-dependent, self-derived, and therefore of an old immaculate pedigree, even if shown in a young person.
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