The Everlasting Reality of Religion I. Deo erexit Voltaire 133 II. The Reign of Law, and the Greek Idea of God 147 III. Weakness of Materialism 152 IV. Religion's First Postulate: the Quasi-Human God 163 V. Religion's Second Postulate: the undying Human Soul 168 VI. Religion's Third Postulate: the Ethical Significance of the Unseen World 171 VII. Is the Substance of Religion a Phantom, or an Eternal Reality? 174 VIII.[Pg xv] The Fundamental Aspect of Life 177 IX. How the Evolution of Senses expands the World 182 X. Nature's Eternal Lesson is the Everlasting Reality of Religion 186 A CENTURY OF SCIENCE And Other Essays By John Fiske CONTENTS PAGE I. A Century of Science 1 II. The Doctrine of Evolution: its Scope and Purport 39 III. Edward Livingston Youmans 64 IV. The Part played by Infancy in the Evolution of Man 100 V. The Origins of Liberal Thought in America 122 VI. Sir Harry Vane 154 VII. The Arbitration Treaty 166 VIII. Francis Parkman 194 IX. Edward Augustus Freeman 265 X. Cambridge as Village and City 286 XI. A Harvest of Irish Folk-Lore 319 XII. Guessing at Half and Multiplying by Two 333 XIII. Forty Years of Bacon-Shakespeare Folly 350 XIV. Some Cranks and their Crotchets 405 Note 461 Index 467 THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION By John Fiske With Many Illustrations TWO VOLUMES IN ONE CONTENTS CHAPTER I THE BEGINNINGS PAGE Relations between the American colonies and the British government in the first half of the eighteenth century 1 The Lords of Trade 2 The governors’ salaries 3 Sir Robert Walpole 4 Views of the Lords of Trade as to the need for a union of the colonies 5 Weakness of the sentiment of union 6 The Albany Congress 6 Franklin’s plan for a federal union (1754) 7, 8 Rejection of Franklin’s plan 9 Shirley recommends a stamp act 10 The writs of assistance 11 The chief justice of New York 12 Otis’s “Vindication” 13 Expenses of the French War 14 Grenville’s resolves 15 Reply of the colonies 16 Passage of the Stamp Act 17 Patrick Henry and the Parsons’ Cause 18 Resolutions of Virginia concerning the Stamp Act 19, 20 The Stamp Act Congress 20-22 Declaration of the Massachusetts assembly 22 Resistance to the Stamp Act in Boston 23 And in New York 24 Debate in the House of Commons 25, 26 Repeal of the Stamp Act 26, 27 The Duke of Grafton’s ministry 28 Charles Townshend and his revenue acts 29-31 Attack upon the New York assembly 32 Parliament did not properly represent the British people 32, 33 Difficulty of the problem 34 Representation of Americans in Parliament 35 Mr. Gladstone and the Boers 36 Death of Townshend 37 His political legacy to George III. 37 Character of George III. 38, 39 English parties between 1760 and 1784 40, 41 George III. as a politician 42 His chief reason for quarrelling with the Americans 42, 43 CHAPTER II THE CRISIS Character of Lord North 44 John Dickinson and the “Farmer’s Letters” 45 The Massachusetts circular letter 46, 47 Lord Hillsborough’s instructions to Bernard 48