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._ SHELLEY: _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. (Document of religious experience.) THOMAS À KEMPIS: _Imitation of Christ._ Translation by Stanhope. (Mediæval 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 Müller. _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 attitude to God.) JAMES, WILLIAM: _The Varieties of Religious Experience._ (A rich storehouse of religion, sympathetically interpreted.)