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[429:19] Translation by Jowett. Quoted by Laurie in his _Pre-Christian Education_, p. 213.

[430:20] Bacon: _Advancement of Learning_, Book I.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

The references contained in this bibliography have been selected on the score of availability in English for the general reader and beginning student of philosophy. But I have sought wherever possible to include pa.s.sages from the great philosophers and men of letters. These are placed first in the list, followed by references to contemporary writers and secondary sources.

CHAPTER I, THE PRACTICAL MAN AND THE PHILOSOPHER.

PLATO: _Republic_, especially Book VII. Translations by Jowett and Vaughan. _Theaetetus_, 172 ff. Translation by Jowett.

ARISTOTLE: _Ethics_, Book X. Translation by Welldon.

MARCUS AURELIUS: _Thoughts._ Translation by Long.

EPICTETUS: _Discourses._ Translation by Long.

BACON: _The Advancement of Learning._

EMERSON: _Representative Men--Plato; or the Philosopher._ _Conduct of Life--Culture._ _Essays, Second Series--Experience._

ROYCE, JOSIAH: _Spirit of Modern Philosophy._ Introduction.

HIBBEN, J. G.: _Problems of Philosophy._ Introduction.

CHAPTER II, POETRY AND PHILOSOPHY.

PLATO: _Republic_, Books II and III. Translation by Jowett. (Criticism of the poets as demoralizing.)

WORDSWORTH: _Observations Prefixed to the Second Edition of the Lyrical Ballads._

Sh.e.l.lEY: _Defence of Poetry._

EVERETT, C. C.: _Poetry, Comedy, and Duty._ (discussion of the Philosophy of Poetry.) _Essays, Theological and Literary._ (On the Poetry of Emerson, Goethe, Tennyson, Browning.)

CAIRD, EDWARD: _Literature and Philosophy._ (Wordsworth, Dante, Goethe, etc.)

ROYCE, JOSIAH: _Studies of Good and Evil._ Essay on _Tennyson and Pessimism_.

SANTAYANA, GEORGE: _Poetry and Religion._ (Philosophy of poetry; Greek Poetry, Shakespeare, etc.)

SNEATH, E. H.: _Philosophy in Poetry: A Study of Sir John Davies's Poem, "Nosce Teipsum."_

CHAPTERS III AND IV, RELIGION.

PLATO: _Republic_, Book III. Translations by Jowett and Vaughan.

(Criticism of religion from the stand-point of morality and politics.)

ST. AUGUSTINE: _Confessions._ Translation by Pusey. (Doc.u.ment of religious experience.)

THOMAS a KEMPIS: _Imitation of Christ._ Translation by Stanhope.

(Mediaeval programme of personal religion.)

SPINOZA: _Theological-political Treatise._ Translation by Elwes. (One of the first great pleas for religious liberty and one of the first attempts to define the _essential_ in religion.)

KANT: _Critique of Pure Reason--the Canon of Pure Reason_. Translation by Max Muller. _Critique of Practical Reason._ Translation by Abbott in _Theory of Ethics_. (Defines religion as the province of faith, distinguishes it from knowledge, and relates it to morality.)

SCHLEIERMACHER: _On Religion._ _Speeches to its Cultured Despisers._ Translation by Oman. (Ponderous, dogmatic in its philosophy, but profound and sympathetic in its understanding of religion.)

ARNOLD: _Literature and Dogma._ (On the essence of religion as exemplified in Judaism and Christianity.)

SABATIER, A.: _Outlines of a Philosophy of Religion based on Psychology and History._ Translation by Seed. _Religions of Authority and the Religion of the Spirit._ Translation by Houghton. (These books emphasize the essential importance of the believer's att.i.tude to G.o.d.)

JAMES, WILLIAM: _The Varieties of Religious Experience._ (A rich storehouse of religion, sympathetically interpreted.)

EVERETT, C. C.: _The Psychological Elements of Religious Faith._ (A study in the definition and meaning of religion.)

CAIRD, EDWARD: _Evolution of Religion._ (Indoctrinated with the author's idealistic philosophy.)

FIELDING, H.: _The Hearts of Men._ (A plea for the universal religion.

Special feeling for Indian religions.)

HARNACK, A.: _What is Christianity?_ Translation by Saunders. (Attempt to define the _essence_ of Christianity.)

PALMER, G. H.: _The Field of Ethics_, Chapters V and VI. (On the relation of ethics and religion.)

BROWN, W. A.: _The Essence of Christianity._ (Special study of the definition of religion.)

JASTROW, M.: _The Study of Religion._ (Method of history and psychology of religion.)

SMITH, W. ROBERTSON: _The Religion of the Semites._ (Excellent study of tribal religions.)

CLARKE, W. N.: _What Shall We Think of Christianity?_ (An interpretation of Christianity.)

LEUBA, J. H.: _Introduction to a Psychological Study of Religion._ In _The Monist_, Vol. XI, p. 195.

STARBUCK, E. D.: _The Psychology of Religion._