Produced by David Widger INDEX OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG WORKS OF JOHN FISKE Compiled by David Widger CONTENTS ## MYTHS AND MYTH-MAKERS ## THE UNSEEN WORLD AND OTHER ESSAYS POLITICAL IDEAS THE MEANING OF INFANCY ## THE BEGINNINGS OF NEW ENGLAND ## THE DESTINY OF MAN ## THE WAR OF INDEPENDENCE ## THE DISCOVERY OF AMERICA, Vol. 1 (of 2) ## CRITICAL PERIOD AMERICAN HISTORY LIFE EVERLASTING ## THROUGH NATURE TO GOD ## A CENTURY OF SCIENCE AND OTHER ESSAYS ## THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION TOBACCO AND ALCOHOL, It Does Pay to Smoke ## OLD VIRGINIA AND HER NEIGHBOURS, Vol. 1 (of 2) ## OLD VIRGINIA AND HER NEIGHBOURS, Vol. 2 (of 2) ## IDEA OF GOD--MODERN KNOWLEDGE TABLES OF CONTENTS OF VOLUMES MYTHS AND MYTH-MAKERS Old Tales and Superstitions Interpreted by Comparative Mythology By John Fiske CONTENTS PREFACE. MYTHS AND MYTH-MAKERS. I. THE ORIGINS OF FOLK-LORE. II. THE DESCENT OF FIRE. III. WEREWOLVES AND SWAN-MAIDENS. IV. LIGHT AND DARKNESS. V. MYTHS OF THE BARBARIC WORLD. VI. JUVENTUS MUNDI. [150] VII. THE PRIMEVAL GHOST-WORLD. NOTE. FOOTNOTES: THE UNSEEN WORLD AND OTHER ESSAYS By John Fiske CONTENTS ESSAYS. I. THE UNSEEN WORLD. PART FIRST. PART SECOND. II. "THE TO-MORROW OF DEATH." III. THE JESUS OF HISTORY. IV. THE CHRIST OF DOGMA. V. A WORD ABOUT MIRACLES. VI. DRAPER ON SCIENCE AND RELIGION. VII. NATHAN THE WISE. VIII. HISTORICAL DIFFICULTIES. IX. THE FAMINE OF 1770 IN BENGAL. X. SPAIN AND THE NETHERLANDS. XI. LONGFELLOW'S DANTE. XII. PAINE'S "ST. PETER." XIII. A PHILOSOPHY OF ART. XIV. ATHENIAN AND AMERICAN LIFE. FOOTNOTES THE BEGINNINGS OF NEW ENGLAND Or The Puritan Theocracy In Its Relations To Civil And Religious Liberty By John Fiske 1892 CONTENTS PREFACE. DETAILED CONTENTS. THE BEGINNINGS OF NEW ENGLAND. CHAPTER I. THE ROMAN IDEA AND THE ENGLISH IDEA. CHAPTER II. THE PURITAN EXODUS. CHAPTER III. THE PLANTING OF NEW ENGLAND. CHAPTER IV. THE NEW ENGLAND CONFEDERACY. CHAPTER V. KING PHILIP'S WAR. CHAPTER VI. THE TYRANNY OF ANDROS. BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE. NOTES: THE DESTINY OF MAN VIEWED IN THE LIGHT OF HIS ORIGIN By John Fiske 1884 CONTENTS Man’s Place in Nature as affected by the Copernican Theory. As affected by Darwinism. On the Earth there will never be a Higher Creature than Man. The Origin of Infancy. The Dawning of Consciousness. Lengthening of Infancy and Concomitant Increase of Brain-Surface. Change in the Direction of the Working of Natural Selection. Growing Predominance of the Psychical Life. The Origins of Society and of Morality. Improvableness of Man. Universal Warfare of Primeval Men. First checked by the Beginnings of Industrial Civilisation. Methods of Political Development, and Elimination of Warfare. End of the Working of Natural Selection upon Man. Throwing off the Brute-Inheritance. The Message of Christianity. The Question as to a Future Life.