Thomas H. Huxley
THE HARVARD CLASSICS
EDITED BY CHARLES W ELIOT LL D
ESSAYS
ENGLISH AND AMERICAN
WITH INTRODUCTIONS, NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS
"DR ELIOT'S FIVE-FOOT SHELF OF BOOKS"
P F COLLIER & SON
NEW YORK
[Transcriber's note: This book contains a number of Greek fragments.Most of these fragments (the smaller ones) were transliterated intotheir English equivalents using the guidelines in Project Gutenberg's"Greek How-To". The three largest fragments were scanned and insertedinto the HTML version of this e-book as images. Those three fragmentsare all in Matthew Arnold's "The Study of Poetry" section of this book,with translations (not transliterations) of them in footnotes 3, 4, and5.]
Copyright 1910
BY P. F. COLLIER & Son
Copyright 1886
BY JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
By arrangement with
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
Copyright 1889
BY THE TRAVELERS INSURANCE COMPANY
OF HARTFORD, CONN.
Copyright 1891
BY THE TRAVELERS INSURANCE COMPANY
CONTENTS
JONATHAN SWIFT
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY
THE IDEA OF A UNIVERSITY
I. WHAT IS A UNIVERSITY?
II. SITE OF A UNIVERSITY
III. UNIVERSITY LIFE AT ATHENS
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN
THE STUDY OF POETRY
MATTHEW ARNOLD
SESAME AND LILIES
LECTURE I—SESAME: OF KINGS' TREASURIES
LECTURE II—LILIES: OF QUEENS' GARDENS
JOHN RUSKIN
JOHN MILTON
WALTER BAGEHOT
SCIENCE AND CULTURE
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY
RACE AND LANGUAGE
EDWARD AUGUSTUS FREEMAN
TRUTH OF INTERCOURSE
SAMUEL PEPYS