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Chicago, Illinois: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.
1963 (10 vol.)
Robert M. Hutchins and Mortimer J. Adler, Editors-in-Chief
Clifton Fadiman, Associate Editor

Volume 1: Introduction; Syntopical Guide

A LETTER TO THE READER

by Robert M. Hutchins, p. 1

INTRODUCTION

I. The Ways - and Whys - of Reading p. 15

II. The Imagination of Man [Volumes 2-5] p. 35

III. Man and Society [Volumes 6-7] p. 53

IV. Science and Mathematics [Volumes 8-9] p. 75

V. Philosophy [Volume 10] p. 89

VI. The Endless Journey p. 106

SYNTOPICAL GUIDE p. 109

APPENDICES

I. A Plan of Graded Reading p. 350

II. Recommended Novels p. 365

III. Recommended Anthologies of Poetry p. 370

Volume 2: Imaginative Literature I

Daniel DEFOE (1660-1731) p. 1

Robinson Crusoe p. 5

Rudyard KIPLING (1865-1936) p. 122

"Mowgli's Brothers" from The Jungle Book p. 126

Victor HUGO (1802-1885) p. 142

"The Battle with the Cannon" from Ninety-three p. 146

Guy De MAUPASSANT (1850-1893) p. 155

"Two Friends" p. 159

Ernest HEMINGWAY (1899-1961) p. 165

"The Killers" from Men without Women p. 169

Sir Walter SCOTT (1771-1832) p. 178

"The Two Drovers" from Chronicles of the Canongate p. 182

Joseph CONRAD (1857-1924) p. 206

"Youth" p. 210

VOLTAIRE (1694-1778) p. 237

Micromegas p. 241

Oscar WILDE (1854- 1900) p. 257

"The Happy Prince" from The Happy Prince and Other Tales p. 261

Edgar Allan POE (1809-1849)p. 269

"The Tell-Tale Heart" p. 273

"The Masque of the Red Death" p. 278

Robert Louis STEVENSON (1850-1894) p. 284

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde p. 288

Mark TWAIN (Samuel Clemens 1835-1910) p. 342

The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg p. 346

Charles DICKENS (1812-1870) p. 387

"A Full and Faithful Report of the Memorable Trial of Bardell against Pickwick" from The Pickwick Papers p. 391

Nikolai GOGOL (1809-1852) p. 449

"The Overcoat" p. 452

Samuel BUTLER (1835-1902) p. 479

"Customs and Opinions of the Erewhonians" from Erewhon p. 483

Sherwood ANDERSON (1876-1941) p. 507

"I'm a Fool" p. 511

ANONYMOUS p. 521

Aucassin and Nicolette (c. early 13th Century) p. 523

Volume 3: Imaginative Literature II

Stephen CRANE (1871-1900) p. 1

"The Open Boat" p. 5

Herman MELVILLE (1819-1891) p. 27

"Billy Budd" from Billy Budd, Sailor p. 31

Ivan BUNIN (1870-1953) p. 99

"The Gentleman from San Francisco" p. 102

Nathaniel HAWTHORNE (1804-1864) p. 124

"Rappaccini's Daughter" from Mosses from an Old Manse p. 128

George ELIOT (1819-1880) p. 153

"The Lifted Veil" 157

Lucius APULEIUS (fl. 2nd Century) p. 194

"Cupid and Psyche" from The Golden Ass p. 197

Ivan TURGENEV (1818-1883) p. 213

"First Love" p. 217

Fyodor DOSTOEVSKY (1828-1910) p. 272

"White Nights" p. 276

John GALSWORTHY (1867-1933) p. 320

"The Apple-Tree" p. 323

Gustave FLAUBERT (1821-1880) p. 368

"The Legend of St. Julian the Hospitaller" from Three Tales p. 371

F. Scott FITZGERALD (1869-1940) p. 393

"The Diamond as Big as the Ritz" from Tales of the Jazz Age p. 397

Honore De BALZAC (1799-1850) p. 432

"A Passion in the Desert" p. 436

Anton CHEKHOV (1860-1904) p. 448

"The Darling" p. 452

Isaac SINGER (b. 1904) p. 463

"The Spinoza of Market Street" p. 466

Alexander PUSHKIN (1799-1837) p. 481

"The Queen of Spades" p. 484

D. H. LAWRENCE (1885-1930) p. 508

"The Rocking-Horse Winner" from The Lovely Lady p. 512

Henry JAMES (1843-1916) p. 526

"The Pupil" p. 530

Thomas MANN (1875-1955) p. 569

"Mario and the Magician" from Stories of Three Decades p. 573

Isak DINESEN (1885-1962) p. 611

"Sorrow-Acre" from Winter's Tales p. 615

Leo TOLSTOY (1828-1910) p. 642

"The Death of Ivan Ilyitch" p. 646

"The Three Hermits" p. 700

"What Men Live By" p. 707

Volume 4: Imaginative Literature III

MOLIERE (1622-1673) p. 1

The Misanthrope p. 6

The Doctor in Spite of Himself p. 52

Richard SHERIDAN (1751-1816) p. 82

The School for Scandal p. 85

Henrik IBSEN (1828-1906) p. 160

An Enemy of the People p. 164

Anton CHEKHOV (1860-1904) p. 247

The Cherry Orchard p. 249

George Bernard SHAW (1856-1950) p. 295

The Man of Destiny p. 300

John M. SYNGE (1871-1909) p. 339

Riders to the Sea p. 342

Eugene O'NEILL (1888-1953) p. 353

The Emperor Jones p. 357

Volume 5: Critical Essays

Virginia WOOLF (1882-1941) p. 1

"How Should One Read a Book?" from The Second Common Reader p. 5

Matthew ARNOLD (1822-1888) p. 15

"The Study of Poetry" from The English Poets, T. H. Ward, Ed., p. 19

"Sweetness and Light" from Culture and Anarchy p. 42

Charles Augustin SAINTE-BEUVE (1804-1869) p. 62

"What Is a Classic?" p. 65

"Montaigne" p. 76

Sir Francis BACON (1561-1626) p. 90

"Of Beauty" from Essays, Civil and Moral p. 94

"Of Discourse" from Essays, Civil and Moral p. 95

"Of Studies" from Essays, Civil and Moral p. 97

David HUME (1711-1776) p. 99

"Of the Standard of Taste" from Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary p. 103

Arthur SCHOPENHAUER (1788-1860) p. 120

"On Style" from Essays in Ethics and Politics p. 124

"On Some Forms of Literature" from Essays in Ethics and Politics p. 137

"On the Comparative Place of Interest and Beauty in Works of Art" p. 143

Friedrich SCHILLER (1759-1805) p. 151

"On Simple and Sentimental Poetry" from Essays Aesthetical and Philosophical p. 155

Percy Bysshe SHELLEY (1792-1822) p. 212

"A Defence of Poetry" p. 216

Walt WHITMAN (1819-1892) p. 243

Preface to Leaves of Grass p. 247

William HAZLITT (1778-1830) p. 260

"My First Acquaintance with Poets" p. 264

"On Swift" p. 280

"Of Persons One Would Wish to Have Seen" p. 284

Charles LAMB (1775-1834) p. 296

"My First Play" p. 300

"Dream Children, a Reverie" p. 304

"Sanity of True Genius" p. 308

Samuel JOHNSON (1709-1784) p. 311

Preface to Shakespeare p. 316

Thomas DE QUINCEY (1785-1859) p. 354

"Literature of Knowledge and Literature of Power" p. 358

"On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth" p. 362

Thomas Stearns ELIOT (1888-1965) p. 367

"Dante" p. 371

"Tradition and the Individual Talent" from Selected Essays (New Ed.) p. 404

Volume 6: Man and Society I

John Stuart MILL (1806-1873) p. 1

"Childhood and Youth" from Autobiography p. 5

Mark TWAIN (Samuel Clemens 1835-1910) p. 48

"Learning the River" from Life an the Mississippi p. 50

Jean De LA BRUYERE (1645-1696) p. 99

"Characters" from A Book of Characters p. 102

Thomas CARLYLE (1795-1881) p. 106

'The Hero as King" from On Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History p. 110

Ralph Waldo EMERSON (1803-1882) p. 146

"Thoreau" p. 150

Nathaniel HAWTHORNE (1804-1864) p. 166

"Sketch of Abraham Lincoln" p. 168

Walt WHITMAN (1819-1892) p. 172

"Death of Abraham Lincoln" p. 174

Virginia WOOLF (1882-1941) p. 184

"The Art of Biography" from The Death of the Moth p. 186

XENOPHON (c. 430 B.C.-c. 355 B.C.) p. 193

"The March to the Sea" from The Persian Expedition p. 196

"The Character of Socrates" from Memorabilia p. 223

William H. PRESCOTT (1796-1859) p. 227

"The Land of Montezuma" from The Conquest of Mexico p. 231

Haniel LONG (1888-1956) p. 244

"The Power within Us" p. 246

PLINY the Younger (c. 61-c. 113) p. 262

"The Eruption of Vesuvius" from Letters p. 264

Cornelius TACITUS (c. 55-c. 120) p. 271

"The Life of Gnaeus Julius Agricola" p. 274

Francois GUIZOT (1787-1874) p. 299

"Civilization" from History of Civilization in Europe p. 302

Henry ADAMS (1838-1918) p. 318

"The United States in 1800" from History of the United States of America p. 322

John Bagnell BURY (1861-1927) p. 360

"Herodotus" from The Ancient Greek Historians p. 364

LUCIAN (c. 125-c. 190) p. 384

"The Way to Write History" p. 387

Great Documents p. 407

The English Bill of Rights (1689) p. 409

Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (1789) p. 412

The Virginia Declaration of Rights (1776) p. 415

The Declaration of Independence (1776) p. 418

Charter of the United Nations (1945) p. 422

Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) p. 452

Thomas PAINE (1737-1809) p. 457

"A Call to Patriots - December 23, 1776" from The Crisis p. 461

George WASHINGTON (1732-1799) p. 469

"Circular Letter to the Governors of All the States on Disbanding the Army" p. 474

"The Farewell Address" p. 484

Thomas JEFFERSON (1743-1826) p. 498

"The Virginia Constitution" from Notes on Virginia p. 502

"First Inaugural Address" p. 518

"Biographical Sketches" p. 522

Benjamin FRANKLIN (1706-1790) p. 529

"A Proposal for Promoting Useful Knowledge among the British Plantations in America" p. 533

"Proposals Relating to the Education of Youth in Pennsylvania" p. 536

Jean De CREVECOEUR (1735-1813) p. 543

"The Making of Americans" from Letters from an American Farmer p. 546

Alexis De TOCQUEVILLE (1805-1859) p. 560

"Observations on American Life and Government" from Democracy in America p. 564

Henry David THOREAU (1817-1862) p. 691

"Civil Disobedience" p. 695

"A Plea for Captain John Brown" p. 714

Abraham LINCOLN (1809-1865) p. 733

"Address at Cooper Institute" p. 737

"First Inaugural Address" p. 747

"Letter to Horace Greeley" p. 756

"Meditation on the Divine Will" p. 758

"The Gettysburg Address" p. 759

"Second Inaugural Address" p. 760

"Last Public Address" p. 762

Volume 7: Man and Society II

Sir Francis BACON (1561-1626) p. 1

"Of Youth and Age" from Essays, Civil and Moral p. 3

"Of Parents and Children" from Essays, Civil and Moral p. 5

"Of Marriage and Single Life" from Essays, Civil and Moral p. 7

"Of Great Place" from Essays, Civil and Moral p. 9

"Of Seditions and Troubles" from Essays, Civil and Moral p. 12

"Of Custom and Education" from Essays, Civil and Moral p. 18

"Of Followers and Friends" from Essays, Civil and Moral p. 20

"Of Usury" from Essays, Civil and Moral p. 22

"Of Riches" from Essays, Civil and Moral p. 25

Jonathan SWIFT (1667-1745) p. 28

"Resolutions when I Come to Be Old" p. 32

"An Essay on Modern Education" p. 33

"A Meditation upon a Broomstick" p. 40

"A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Ireland from Being a Burden to Their Parents or Country" p. 42

David HUME (1711-1776) p. 50

"Of Refinement in the Arts" from Essays, Moral, Political and Literary p. 52

"Of Money" from Essays, Moral, Political and Literary p. 62

"Of the Balance of Trade" from Essays, Moral, Political and Literary p. 72

"Of Taxes"from Essays, Moral, Political and Literary p. 85

"Of the Study of History" from Essays, Moral, Political and Literary p. 89

PLUTARCH (c. 46-120) p. 93

"Of Bashfulness" from Moralia p. 97

Robert Louis STEVENSON (1850-1894) p. 110

"The Lantern-Bearers" from Across the Plains p. 112

John RUSKIN (1819-1900) p. 122

"An Idealist's Arraignment of the Age" from Four Clavigera p. 126

William JAMES (1842-1910) p. 137

"On a Certain Blindness in Human Beings" p. 141

"The Energies of Men" p. 157

"Great Men and Their Environment" p. 171

Arthur SCHOPENHAUER (1788-1860) p. 195

"On Education" from Studies in Pessimism p. 197

Michael FARADAY p. 204

"Observations on Mental Education" from Lectures on Education p. 208

Edmund BURKE (1729-1797) p. 233

"Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol" p. 237

John C. CALHOUN (1782-1850) p. 272

"The Concurrent Majority" from A Disquisition on Government p. 276

Thomas Babington MACAULAY p. 291

"Machiavelli" from Critical and Historical Essays p. 295

VOLTAIRE (1694-1778) p. 330

"English Men and Ideas" from Letters on the English p. 332

DANTE Aligheri (1265-1321) p. 379

"On World Government" from De Monarchia p. 383

Jean Jacques ROUSSEAU (1712-1778) p. 400

"A Lasting Peace through the Federation of Europe" from A Lasting Peace through the Federation of Europe and the State of War p. 405

Immanuel KANT (1724-1804) p. 437

"Perpetual Peace" p. 441

Karl Von CLAUSEWITZ (1780-1831) p. 476

"What Is War?" from On War p. 479

Thomas Robert MALTHUS (1766-1834) p. 498

"The Principle of Population" from Population: The First Essay p. 502

Volume 8: Natural Science

Francis BACON (1561-1626) p. 1

"The Sphinx" from The Wisdom of the Ancients: A Series of Mythological Fables p. 2

John TYNDALL (1820-1893) p. 5

"Michael Faraday" from Faraday as a Discoverer p. 8

Eve CURIE (b. 1904) p. 29

"The Discovery of Radium" from Madame Curie p. 32

Charles Robert DARWIN (1809-1882) p. 43

"Autobiography" from Charles Darwin's Autobiography p. 47

Jean Henri FABRE (1823-1915) p. 94

"A Laboratory of the Open Fields" from The Life of the Fly p. 97

"The Sacred Beetle" from The Sacred Beetle and Others p. 105

Loren EISELEY (b. 1907) p. 120

"On Time" from The Immense Journey p. 123

Rachel L. CARSON (1907-1964) p. 130

"The Sunless Sea" from The Sea Around Us p. 132

J. B. S. HALDANE (1892-1964) p. 147

"On Being the Right Size" from Possible Worlds p. 149

Thomas Henry HUXLEY (1825-1895) p. 155

"On the Relations of Man to the Lower Animals" from Man's Place in Nature and Other Anthropological Essays p. 160

"On a Piece of Chalk" p. 205

Sir Francis GALTON (1822-1911) p. 223

"The Classification of Human Ability" from Hereditary Genius p. 227

Claued BERNARD (1813-1878) p. 262

"Experimental Considerations Common to Living Things and Inorganic Bodies" from An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine p. 266

Ivan Petrovich PAVLOV (1849-1936) p. 291

"Scientific Study of the So-called Psychical Processes in the Higher Animals" from Lectures on Conditioned Reflexes p. 294

Friedrich WOHLER (1800-1882) p. 310

"On the Artificial Production of Urea" p. 312

Sir Charles LYELL (1797-1875) p. 315

"Geological Evolution" from The Principles of Geology p. 319

GALILEO Galilei (1564-1642) p. 325

"The Starry Messenger" p. 330

Tommaso CAMPANELLA (1568-1639) p. 356

"Arguments for and against Galileo" from The Defense of Galileo p. 359

Michael FARADAY (1791-1867) p. 365

The Chemical History of a Candle p. 368

Dmitri MENDELEEV (1834-1907) p. 440

"The Genesis of a Law of Nature" from The Periodic Law of the Chemical Elements p. 442

H. L. F. Von HELMHOLTZ (1821-1894) p. 447

"On the Conservation of Force" p. 451

Albert EINSTEIN (1879-1955) & Leopold INFELD (1898-1968) p. 485

"The Rise and Decline of Classical Physics" from The Evolution of Physics p. 490

Sir Arthur EDDINGTON (1882-1944) p. 561

"The Running-Down of the Universe" from Nature and the Physical World p. 565

Sir James JEANS (1877-1946) p. 581

"Beginnings and Endings" from The Universe Around Us p. 585

Kees BOEKE (b. 1884)p. 597

"Cosmic View" p. 600

Volume 9: Natural Science

Lancelot HOGBEN (b. 1895) p. 1

"Mathematics, the Mirror of Civilization" from Mathematics for the Million p. 3

Andrew Russell FORSYTH (1858-1942) p. 24

"Mathematics, in Life and Thought" p. 26

Alfred North WHITEHEAD (1861-1947) p. 47

"On Mathematical Method" from An Introduction to Mathematics p. 51

"On the Nature of a Calculus" from A Treatise on Universal Algebra p. 68

Bertrand RUSSELL (1872-1970) p. 79

"The Study of Mathematics" from Mysticism and Logic p. 84

"Mathematics and the Metaphysicians" from Mysticism and Logic p. 95

"Definition of Number" from Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy p. 111

Edward KASNER (1878-1955) and James R. NEWMAN (1907-1966) p. 115

"New Names for Old" from Mathematics and the Imagination p. 121

"Beyond the Googol" from Mathematics and the Imagination p. 137

Tobias DANTZIG (1884-1956) p. 163

"Fingerprints" from Number: the Language of Science p. 165

"The Empty Column" from Number: the Language of Science p. 178

Leonhard EULER (1707-1783) p. 190

"The Seven Bridges of Konigsberg" p. 193

Norman Robert CAMPBELL (1880-1949) p. 202

"Measurement" from What Is Science? p. 204

"Numerical Laws and the Use of Mathematics in Science" from What Is Science? p. 222

William Kingdon CLIFFORD (1845-1879) p.239

"The Postulates of the Science of Space" from The Common Sense of the Exact Sciences p. 243

Henri POINCARE p. 260

"Space" from Science and Hypothesis p. 265

"Mathematical Creation" p. 294

"Chance" from Science and Method p. 305

Pierre Simon De LAPLACE (1749-1827) p. 321

"Probability" from A Philosophical Essay on Probabilities p. 325

Charles Sanders PEIRCE (1839-1914) p. 339

"The Red and the Black" p. 342

Volume 10: Philosophical Essays

John ERSKINE (1879-1951) p. 1

"The Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent" from The Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent p. 5

William Kingdon CLIFFORD (1845-1879) p. 14

"The Ethics of Belief" from Lectures and Essays p. 16

William JAMES (1842-1910) p. 37

"The Will to Believe" from The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy p. 39

"The Sentiment of Rationality" from The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy p. 58

John DEWEY (1859-1852) p. 88

"The Process of Thought" from How We Think p. 92

EPICURUS (c. 341 B.C.-c. 271 B.C.) p. 214

"Letter to Herodotus" p. 216

"Letter to Menoeceus" p. 230

EPICTETUS (c. 60-c. 138) p. 234

The Enchiridion p. 236

Walter Horatio PATER (1839-1894) p. 255

"The Art of Life" from The Renaissance p. 258

PLUTARCH (c. 46-120) p. 262

"Contentment" from Moralia p. 264

CICERO (106-43 B.C.) p. 282

"On Friendship" p. 286

"On Old Age" p. 317

Sir Francis BACON (1561-1626) p. 344

"Of Truth" from Essays, Civil and Moral p. 346

"Of Death" from Essays, Civil and Moral p. 348

"Of Adversity" from Essays, Civil and Moral p. 350

"Of Love" from Essays, Civil and Moral p. 351

"Of Friendship" from Essays, Civil and Moral p. 353

"Of Anger" from Essays, Civil and Moral p. 359

George SANTAYANA (1863-1952) p. 361

"Lucretius" from Three Philosophical Poets p. 365

"Goethe's Faust" from Three Philosophical Poets p. 391

Henry ADAMS (1838-1910) p. 420

"St. Thomas Aquinas" from Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres p. 422

VOLTAIRE (1694-1778) p. 451

"The Philosophy of Common Sense" from Philosophical Dictionary p. 453

John Stuart MILL (1806-1873) p. 475

"Nature" from Three Essays on Religion p. 477

Ralph Waldo EMERSON (1803-1882) p. 509

"Nature" from Essays, Second Series p. 512

""Self-Reliance" from Essays, First Series p. 525

"Montaigne; or, the Skeptic" from Representative Men p. 546

William HAZLITT (1778-1830) p. 563

"On the Feeling of Immortality in Youth" p. 565

Sir Thomas BROWNE (1605-1682) p. 571

"Immortality" from Urn-Burial p. 575

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