EDWARD FITZGERALD _Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam_ 180 ROBERT BROWNING _Rabbi Ben Ezra_ 197 _An Epistle_ 204 _Caliban upon Setebos_ 214 _A Grammarian's Funeral_ 224 _Why I am a Liberal_ 228 _Fears and Scruples_ 229 _Epilogue to "Asolando"_ 231 _Prospice_ 232 ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON _Wages_ 233 _The Higher Pantheism_ 233 _Flower in the Crannied Wall_ 234 _In Memoriam_ 235 _Crossing the Bar_ 239 GEORGE MEREDITH _Lucifer in Starlight_ 240 WILLIAM E. HENLEY _Invictus_ 241 THOMAS HARDY _New Year's Eve_ 242 RALPH WALDO EMERSON _Civilization_ 244 _Illusions_ 255 _Fate_ 268 WALT WHITMAN _Song of the Open Road_ 300 _Crossing Brooklyn Ferry_ 313 _A Song of Joys_ 320 INTRODUCTION BY HENRY GREENLEAF PEARSON "The Voice of Science in Nineteenth-Century Literature" is a volume of selections put together for use in the third term of a course in English and History offered to the second-year students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The plan of the year's work provides for a study of the record made in English literature by the great movements of thought that distinguished the nineteenth century. First John Stuart Mill's essays on "Liberty" and "Representative Government" furnish an interpretation of the political currents of thought in the first half of the century. Carlyle's "Past and Present," which is read in the second third of the year, is an analysis of economic and social problems in the same period; in the third term the profound effect of science on the thought of the age receives illustration in the writings here brought together.