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LIBRARY
OF
THE
WORLD'S BEST LITERATURE
Ancient and Modern
CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER
EDITOR
HAMILTON WRIGHT MABIE, LUCIA GILBERT RUNKLE,
GEORGE H. WARNER
ASSOCIATE EDITORS
THIRTY VOLUMES
VOL. IX
NEW YORK
R. S. PEALE AND J. A. HILL
PUBLISHERS
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2697
V. 9
COPYRIGHT 1897
BY R. S. PEALE AND J. A. HILL
All rights reserved
HE WERTER COMPAME
PRINTERS DE
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THE ADVISORY COUNCIL
CRAWFORD H. TOY, A. M. , LL. D. ,
Professor of Hebrew, HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Cambridge, Mass.
THOMAS R. LOUNSBURY, LL. D. , L. H. D. ,
Professor of English in the Sheffield Scientific School of
YALE UNIVERSITY, New Haven, Conn.
WILLIAM M. SLOANE, PH. D. , L. H. D. ,
Professor of History and Political Science,
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, Princeton, N. J.
BRANDER MATTHEWS, A. M. , LL. B. ,
Professor of Literature, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, New York City.
JAMES B. ANGELL, LL. D. ,
President of the UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN, Ann Arbor, Mich.
WILLARD FISKE, A. M. , Ph. D. ,
Late Professor of the Germanic and Scandinavian Languages
and Literatures,
CORNELL UNIVERSITY, Ithaca, N. Y.
EDWARD S. HOLDEN, A. M. , LL. D. ,
Director of the Lick Observatory, and Astronomer,
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, Berkeley, Cal.
ALCÉE FORTIER, LIT. D. ,
Professor of the Romance Languages,
TULANE UNIVERSITY, New Orleans, La.
WILLIAM P. TRENT, M. A. ,
Dean of the Department of Arts and Sciences, and Professor of
English and History,
UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH, Sewanee, Tenn.
PAUL SHOREY, Ph. D. ,
Professor of Greek and Latin Literature,
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, Chicago, Ill.
WILLIAM T. HARRIS, LL. D. ,
United States Commissioner of Education,
BUREAU OF EDUCATION, Washington, D. C.
soba
MAURICE FRANCIS EGAN, A. M. , LL. D. ,
Professor of Literature in the
CatholIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA, Washington, D. C.
504533
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
VOL. IX
LIVED
PAGE
4865
JOHN WILLIAM DRAPER
1811-1882
The Vedas and their Theology (“The Intellectual Develop-
ment of Europe')
Primitive Beliefs Dismissed by Scientific Knowledge
(same)
The Koran (same)
MICHAEL DRAYTON
1563-1631 4877
Sonnet
The Ballad of Agincourt
Queen Mab's Excursion (Nymphidia, the Court of Faery')
4885
GUSTAVE DROZ
1832-1895
How the Baby Was Saved (“The Seamstress's Story')
A Family New-Year's (Monsieur, Madame, and Bébé')
Their Last Excursion (Making an Omelette')
4897
HENRY DRUMMOND
1851-
The Country and Its People (Tropical Africa)
The East-African Lake Country (same)
White Ants (same)
4913
WILLIAM DRUMMOND OF HAWTHORNDEN 1585–1649
Sextain
Degeneracy of the World
Madrigal
Briefness of Life
Reason and Feeling
The Universe
On Death (Cypress Grove')
JOHN DRYDEN
1631-1700
4919
BY THOMAS R. LOUNSBURY
From The Hind and the Panther
To My Dear Friend Mr. Congreve
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LIVED
PAGE
JOHN DRYDEN — Continued :
Ode to the Pious Memory of Mrs. Anne Killigrew
A Song
Lines Printed under Milton's Portrait
Alexander's Feast; or, The Power of Music
Achitophel (Absalom and Achitophel')
4951
MAXIME DU CAMP
1822-
Street Scene during the Commune ('The Convulsions of
Paris)
ALEXANDRE DUMAS, SENIOR
1802-1870
4957
BY ANDREW LANG
The Cure for Dormice that Eat Peaches (“The Count of
Monte Cristo)
The Shoulder of Athos, the Belt of Porthos, and the
Handkerchief of Aramis (“The Three Musketeers')
Defense of the Bastion St. -Gervais (same)
Consultation of the Musketeers (same)
The Man in the Iron Mask ('The Viscount of Bra-
gelonne')
A Trick is Played on Henry III. by Aid of Chicot (“The
Lady of Monsoreau)
ALEXANDRE DUMAS, JUNIOR
1824-1895
5001
BY FRANCISQUE SARCEY
The Playwright Is Born—and Made (Preface to “The
Prodigal Father)
An Armed Truce (A Friend to the Sex')
Two Views of Money (The Money Question
M. De Remonin's Philosophy of Marriage ('L'Étrangère')
Reforming a Father (The Prodigal Father')
Mr. and Mrs. Clarkson (L'Étrangère')
1834-1896
5041
GEORGE DU MAURIER
At the Heart of Bohemia (“Trilby ')
Christmas in the Latin Quarter (same)
“Dreaming True » ('Peter Ibbetson')
Barty Josselin at School ('The Martian')
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LIVED
PAGE
14657-1530?
5064
WILLIAM DUNBAR
The Thistle and the Rose
From The Golden Targe)
No Treasure Avails Without Gladness
1811-1894
5069
JEAN VICTOR DURUY
The National Policy (History of Rome')
Results of the Roman Dominion (same)
1856–1877
5075
TORU DUTT
Jogadhya Uma
Our Casuarina-Tree
John S. Dwight
1813-1893
5084
Music as a Means of Culture
Georg Moritz EBERS
1837-
The Arrival at Babylon (An Egyptian Princess')
5091
1832–
5101
JOSÉ ECHEGARAY
From Madman or Saint? )
From The Great Galeoto)
THE EDDAS
5113
BY WILLIAM H. CARPENTER
Thor's Adventures on his Journey to the Land of the
Giants (“Snorra Edda')
The Lay of Thrym ('Elder Edda')
Of the Lamentation of Gudrun over Sigurd Dead: First
Lay of Gudrun
Waking of Brunhilde on the Hindfell by Sigurd (Morris's
'Story of Sigurd the Völsung')
5145
Alfred EDERSHEIM
1825-1889
The Washing of Hands (“The Life and Times of Jesus
the Messiah')
5151
MARIA EDGEWORTH
1767-1849
Sir Condy's Wake (Castle Rackrent')
Sir Murtagh Rackrent and His Lady (same)
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LIVED
PAGE
5162
ANNE CHARLOTTE LEFFLER EDGREN
1849-1893
Open Sesame
A Ball in High Life (‘A Rescuing Angel')
JONATHAN EDWARDS
1703-1758
5175
BY EGBERT C. SMYTH
From Narrative of His Religious History
« Written on a Blank Leaf in 1723"
The Idea of Nothing (“Of Being ')
The Notion of Action and Agency Entertained by Mr.
Chubb and Others (Inquiry into the Freedom of the
Will)
Excellency of Christ
Essence of True Virtue ('The Nature of True Virtue ')
GEORGES EEKHOUD
1854-
5189
Ex-Voto
Kors Davie
5215
EDWARD EGGLESTON
1837-
Roger Williams, the Prophet of Religious Freedom (The
Beginners of a Nation')
EGYPTIAN LITERATURE
5225
BY FRANCIS LLEWELLYN GRIFFITH AND
KATE BRADBURY GRIFFITH
a
The Shipwrecked Sailor Songs to the Harp
Story of Sanehat
From an Epitaph
The Doomed Prince
From Dialogue Between a
Story of the Two Brothers
Man and His Soul
Story of Setna
(The Negative Confession'
Stela of Piankhy
Teaching of Amenemhat
Inscription of Una
The Prisse Papyrus: Instruction
Songs of Laborers
of Ptahhetep
Love Songs: Love-Sickness; From the Maxims of Any'
The Lucky Doorkeeper; Instruction of Dauf
Love's Doubts; The Un- Contrasted Lots of Scribe and
successful Bird-Catcher
Fellâh
Hymn to l'sertesen III. Reproaches to a Dissipated Stu-
Hymn to the Aten
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Hymns to Amen Ra
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LIVED
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5345
Joseph von EICHENDORFF
1788–1857
From Out of the Life of a Good-for-Nothing'
Separation
Lorelei
GEORGE ELIOT
1819-1880
5359
BY CHARLES WALDSTEIN
The Final Rescue ('The Mill on the Floss ')
Village Worthies (Silas Marner )
The Hall Farm (Adam Bede')
Mrs. Poyser “Has Her Say Out” (same)
The Prisoners (Romola')
« Oh, May Join the Choir Invisible »
Ralph Waldo EMERSON
1803-1882
5421
BY RICHARD GARNETT
The Times
Each and All
Friendship
The Rhodora
Nature
The Humble-Bee
Compensation
The Problem
Love
Days
Circles
Musketaquid
Self-Reliance
From the Threnody)
History
Concord Hymn
Ode Sung in the Town Hall, Concord, July 4, 1857
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LIST OF PORTRAITS
IN VOL. IX
John William Draper
Michael Drayton
Gustave Droz
Henry Drummond
William Drummond of Hawthornden
John Dryden
Maxime Du Camp
Alexandre Dumas, Senior
Alexandre Dumas, Junior
George Du Maurier
Victor Duruy
John S. Dwight
Georg Ebers
Maria Edgeworth
Jonathan Edwards
Edward Eggleston
George Eliot
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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JOHN WILLIAM DRAPER
(1811-1882)
he subject of this sketch was born at St. Helen's, near Liver-
pool, England, on the 5th of May, 1811. His earliest educa-
tion was obtained at a Wesleyan Methodist school, but after
a time he came under private teachers, with whose help he made
rapid progress in the physical sciences, thus showing in his boyhood
the natural bent of his mind and the real strength of his intellect.
He afterwards studied for a time at the University of London, but
in 1833 came to the United States, and three years later graduated at
the University of Pennsylvania with the
degree of M. D. In 1839 he was elected to
the chair of chemistry in the University of
New York, a position which he held until
his death in 1882.
Draper's contributions to science were
of a high order. He discovered some of
the facts that lie at the basis of spectrum
analysis; he was one of the first successful
experimenters in the art of photography;
and he made researches in radiant energy
and other scientific phenomena. He pub-
lished in 1858 a treatise on Human Physi- John William DRAPER
ology,' which is a highly esteemed and
widely used text-book. He died on the 4th of January, 1882.
Draper's chief contributions to literature are three works: (His-
tory of the Intellectual Development of Europe' (1863), a History
of the American Civil War' (1867-1870), and "The History of the
Conflict between Religion and Science, which appeared in the Inter-
national Scientific Series in 1873. Of these works, the one
intellectual development of Europe is the ablest, and takes a place
beside the works of Lecky and Buckle as a contribution to the his-
tory of civilization. The history of the Civil War was written too
soon after the events described to have permanent historical value.
(The History of the Conflict between Religion and Science) is a
judicial presentation of the perennial controversy from the standpoint
of the scientist.
Draper's claims to attention as a philosophic historian rest mainly
on his theory of the influence of climate on human character and
VIII-305
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JOHN WILLIAM DRAPER
development. He maintains that “For every climate, and indeed for
every geographical locality, there is an answering type of humanity”;
and in his history of the American Civil War, as well as in his work
on the intellectual development of Europe, he endeavored to prove
that doctrine. Another theory which is prominent in his principal
work is, that the intellectual development of every people passes
through five stages; namely, I, the Age of Credulity; 2, the Age of
Inquiry; 3, the Age of Faith; 4, the Age of Reason; 5, the Age of
Decrepitude. Ancient Greece, he thinks, passed through all those
stages, the age of reason beginning with the advent of physical
science. Europe as a whole has now also entered the age of reason,
which as before he identifies with the age of physical science; so that
everywhere in his historical works, physical influences and the scien-
tific knowledge of physical phenomena are credited with most of the
progress that mankind has made. Draper has left a distinct mark
upon the scientific thought of his generation, and made a distinct and
valuable contribution to the literature of his adopted country.
THE VEDAS AND THEIR THEOLOGY
From History of the Intellectual Development of Europe. Copyright 1876,
by Harper & Brothers
THE
HE Vedas, which are the Hindu Scriptures, and of which there
are four, — the Rig, Yagust, Saman, and Atharvan,- are
asserted to have been revealed by Brahma. The fourth is
however rejected by some authorities, and bears internal evidence
of a later composition, at a time when hierarchical power had
become greatly consolidated. These works are written in an
obsolete Sanskrit, the parent of the more recent idiom. They
constitute the basis of an extensive literature, Upavedas, Angas,
etc. , of connected works and commentaries. For the most part
they consist of hymns suitable for public and private occasions,
prayers, precepts, legends, and dogmas. The Rig, which is the
oldest, is composed chiefly of hymns; the other three of litur-
gical formulas. They are of different periods and of various
authorship, internal evidence seeming to indicate that if the later
were composed by priests, the earlier were the production of
military chieftains. They answer to a state of society advanced
from the nomad to the municipal condition. They are based
upon an acknowledgment of a universal Spirit, pervading all
things. Of this God they therefore necessarily acknowledge the
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( The
unity: “There is in truth but one Deity, the Supreme Spirit,
the Lord of the universe, whose work is the universe. ”
God above all gods, who created the earth, the heavens, and
waters. ” The world, thus considered as an emanation of God,
is therefore a part of him; it is kept in a visible state by his
energy, and would instantly disappear if that energy were for a
moment withdrawn. Even as it is, it is undergoing unceasing
transformations, everything being in a transitory condition.
moment a given phase is reached, it is departed from, or ceases.
In these perpetual movements the present can scarcely be said
to have any existence, for as the Past is ending, the Future has
begun.
In such a never-ceasing career all material things are urged,
their forms continually changing, and returning as it were through
revolving cycles to similar states. For this reason it is that we
may regard our earth and the various celestial bodies as having
had a moment of birth, as having a time of continuance, in
which they are passing onward to an inevitable destruction; and
that after the lapse of countless ages similar progresses will be
made, and similar series of events will occur again and again.
But in this doctrine of universal transformation there is some-
thing more than appears at first. The theology of India is
underlaid with Pantheism. God is One because he is All. ” The
Vedas, in speaking of the relation of nature to God, make use of
the expression that he is the material as well as the cause of the
universe, “the clay as well as the Potter. ” They convey the
idea that while there is a pervading spirit existing everywhere,
of the same nature as the soul of man, though differing from it
infinitely in degree, visible nature is essentially and inseparably
connected therewith; that as in man the body is perpetually
undergoing changes, perpetually decaying and being renewed, - or
as in the case of the whole human species, nations come into
existence and pass away,-- yet still there continues to exist what
may be termed the universal human mind, so forever associated
and forever connected are the material and the spiritual. And
under this aspect we must contemplate the Supreme Being, not
merely as a presiding intellect, but as illustrated by the parallel
case of man, whose mental principle shows no tokens except
through its connection with the body: so matter, or nature, or
the visible universe, is to be looked upon as the corporeal mani-
festation of God.
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JOHN WILLIAM DRAPER
PRIMITIVE BELIEFS DISMISSED BY SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE
From History of the Intellectual Development of Europe. Copyright 1876,
by Harper & Brothers
A
S MAN advances in knowledge, he discovers that of his primi-
tive conclusions some are doubtless erroneous, and many
require better evidence to establish their truth incontest-
ably. A more prolonged and attentive examination gives him
reason, in some of the most important particulars, to change his
mind.
He finds that the earth on which he lives is not a floor
covered over with a starry dome, as he once supposed, but a
globe self-balanced in space.
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LIBRARY
OF
THE
WORLD'S BEST LITERATURE
Ancient and Modern
CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER
EDITOR
HAMILTON WRIGHT MABIE, LUCIA GILBERT RUNKLE,
GEORGE H. WARNER
ASSOCIATE EDITORS
THIRTY VOLUMES
VOL. IX
NEW YORK
R. S. PEALE AND J. A. HILL
PUBLISHERS
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97
2697
V. 9
COPYRIGHT 1897
BY R. S. PEALE AND J. A. HILL
All rights reserved
HE WERTER COMPAME
PRINTERS DE
RRON
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THE ADVISORY COUNCIL
CRAWFORD H. TOY, A. M. , LL. D. ,
Professor of Hebrew, HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Cambridge, Mass.
THOMAS R. LOUNSBURY, LL. D. , L. H. D. ,
Professor of English in the Sheffield Scientific School of
YALE UNIVERSITY, New Haven, Conn.
WILLIAM M. SLOANE, PH. D. , L. H. D. ,
Professor of History and Political Science,
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, Princeton, N. J.
BRANDER MATTHEWS, A. M. , LL. B. ,
Professor of Literature, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, New York City.
JAMES B. ANGELL, LL. D. ,
President of the UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN, Ann Arbor, Mich.
WILLARD FISKE, A. M. , Ph. D. ,
Late Professor of the Germanic and Scandinavian Languages
and Literatures,
CORNELL UNIVERSITY, Ithaca, N. Y.
EDWARD S. HOLDEN, A. M. , LL. D. ,
Director of the Lick Observatory, and Astronomer,
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, Berkeley, Cal.
ALCÉE FORTIER, LIT. D. ,
Professor of the Romance Languages,
TULANE UNIVERSITY, New Orleans, La.
WILLIAM P. TRENT, M. A. ,
Dean of the Department of Arts and Sciences, and Professor of
English and History,
UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH, Sewanee, Tenn.
PAUL SHOREY, Ph. D. ,
Professor of Greek and Latin Literature,
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, Chicago, Ill.
WILLIAM T. HARRIS, LL. D. ,
United States Commissioner of Education,
BUREAU OF EDUCATION, Washington, D. C.
soba
MAURICE FRANCIS EGAN, A. M. , LL. D. ,
Professor of Literature in the
CatholIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA, Washington, D. C.
504533
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
VOL. IX
LIVED
PAGE
4865
JOHN WILLIAM DRAPER
1811-1882
The Vedas and their Theology (“The Intellectual Develop-
ment of Europe')
Primitive Beliefs Dismissed by Scientific Knowledge
(same)
The Koran (same)
MICHAEL DRAYTON
1563-1631 4877
Sonnet
The Ballad of Agincourt
Queen Mab's Excursion (Nymphidia, the Court of Faery')
4885
GUSTAVE DROZ
1832-1895
How the Baby Was Saved (“The Seamstress's Story')
A Family New-Year's (Monsieur, Madame, and Bébé')
Their Last Excursion (Making an Omelette')
4897
HENRY DRUMMOND
1851-
The Country and Its People (Tropical Africa)
The East-African Lake Country (same)
White Ants (same)
4913
WILLIAM DRUMMOND OF HAWTHORNDEN 1585–1649
Sextain
Degeneracy of the World
Madrigal
Briefness of Life
Reason and Feeling
The Universe
On Death (Cypress Grove')
JOHN DRYDEN
1631-1700
4919
BY THOMAS R. LOUNSBURY
From The Hind and the Panther
To My Dear Friend Mr. Congreve
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PAGE
JOHN DRYDEN — Continued :
Ode to the Pious Memory of Mrs. Anne Killigrew
A Song
Lines Printed under Milton's Portrait
Alexander's Feast; or, The Power of Music
Achitophel (Absalom and Achitophel')
4951
MAXIME DU CAMP
1822-
Street Scene during the Commune ('The Convulsions of
Paris)
ALEXANDRE DUMAS, SENIOR
1802-1870
4957
BY ANDREW LANG
The Cure for Dormice that Eat Peaches (“The Count of
Monte Cristo)
The Shoulder of Athos, the Belt of Porthos, and the
Handkerchief of Aramis (“The Three Musketeers')
Defense of the Bastion St. -Gervais (same)
Consultation of the Musketeers (same)
The Man in the Iron Mask ('The Viscount of Bra-
gelonne')
A Trick is Played on Henry III. by Aid of Chicot (“The
Lady of Monsoreau)
ALEXANDRE DUMAS, JUNIOR
1824-1895
5001
BY FRANCISQUE SARCEY
The Playwright Is Born—and Made (Preface to “The
Prodigal Father)
An Armed Truce (A Friend to the Sex')
Two Views of Money (The Money Question
M. De Remonin's Philosophy of Marriage ('L'Étrangère')
Reforming a Father (The Prodigal Father')
Mr. and Mrs. Clarkson (L'Étrangère')
1834-1896
5041
GEORGE DU MAURIER
At the Heart of Bohemia (“Trilby ')
Christmas in the Latin Quarter (same)
“Dreaming True » ('Peter Ibbetson')
Barty Josselin at School ('The Martian')
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vii
LIVED
PAGE
14657-1530?
5064
WILLIAM DUNBAR
The Thistle and the Rose
From The Golden Targe)
No Treasure Avails Without Gladness
1811-1894
5069
JEAN VICTOR DURUY
The National Policy (History of Rome')
Results of the Roman Dominion (same)
1856–1877
5075
TORU DUTT
Jogadhya Uma
Our Casuarina-Tree
John S. Dwight
1813-1893
5084
Music as a Means of Culture
Georg Moritz EBERS
1837-
The Arrival at Babylon (An Egyptian Princess')
5091
1832–
5101
JOSÉ ECHEGARAY
From Madman or Saint? )
From The Great Galeoto)
THE EDDAS
5113
BY WILLIAM H. CARPENTER
Thor's Adventures on his Journey to the Land of the
Giants (“Snorra Edda')
The Lay of Thrym ('Elder Edda')
Of the Lamentation of Gudrun over Sigurd Dead: First
Lay of Gudrun
Waking of Brunhilde on the Hindfell by Sigurd (Morris's
'Story of Sigurd the Völsung')
5145
Alfred EDERSHEIM
1825-1889
The Washing of Hands (“The Life and Times of Jesus
the Messiah')
5151
MARIA EDGEWORTH
1767-1849
Sir Condy's Wake (Castle Rackrent')
Sir Murtagh Rackrent and His Lady (same)
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LIVED
PAGE
5162
ANNE CHARLOTTE LEFFLER EDGREN
1849-1893
Open Sesame
A Ball in High Life (‘A Rescuing Angel')
JONATHAN EDWARDS
1703-1758
5175
BY EGBERT C. SMYTH
From Narrative of His Religious History
« Written on a Blank Leaf in 1723"
The Idea of Nothing (“Of Being ')
The Notion of Action and Agency Entertained by Mr.
Chubb and Others (Inquiry into the Freedom of the
Will)
Excellency of Christ
Essence of True Virtue ('The Nature of True Virtue ')
GEORGES EEKHOUD
1854-
5189
Ex-Voto
Kors Davie
5215
EDWARD EGGLESTON
1837-
Roger Williams, the Prophet of Religious Freedom (The
Beginners of a Nation')
EGYPTIAN LITERATURE
5225
BY FRANCIS LLEWELLYN GRIFFITH AND
KATE BRADBURY GRIFFITH
a
The Shipwrecked Sailor Songs to the Harp
Story of Sanehat
From an Epitaph
The Doomed Prince
From Dialogue Between a
Story of the Two Brothers
Man and His Soul
Story of Setna
(The Negative Confession'
Stela of Piankhy
Teaching of Amenemhat
Inscription of Una
The Prisse Papyrus: Instruction
Songs of Laborers
of Ptahhetep
Love Songs: Love-Sickness; From the Maxims of Any'
The Lucky Doorkeeper; Instruction of Dauf
Love's Doubts; The Un- Contrasted Lots of Scribe and
successful Bird-Catcher
Fellâh
Hymn to l'sertesen III. Reproaches to a Dissipated Stu-
Hymn to the Aten
dent
Hymns to Amen Ra
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LIVED
PAGE
5345
Joseph von EICHENDORFF
1788–1857
From Out of the Life of a Good-for-Nothing'
Separation
Lorelei
GEORGE ELIOT
1819-1880
5359
BY CHARLES WALDSTEIN
The Final Rescue ('The Mill on the Floss ')
Village Worthies (Silas Marner )
The Hall Farm (Adam Bede')
Mrs. Poyser “Has Her Say Out” (same)
The Prisoners (Romola')
« Oh, May Join the Choir Invisible »
Ralph Waldo EMERSON
1803-1882
5421
BY RICHARD GARNETT
The Times
Each and All
Friendship
The Rhodora
Nature
The Humble-Bee
Compensation
The Problem
Love
Days
Circles
Musketaquid
Self-Reliance
From the Threnody)
History
Concord Hymn
Ode Sung in the Town Hall, Concord, July 4, 1857
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LIST OF PORTRAITS
IN VOL. IX
John William Draper
Michael Drayton
Gustave Droz
Henry Drummond
William Drummond of Hawthornden
John Dryden
Maxime Du Camp
Alexandre Dumas, Senior
Alexandre Dumas, Junior
George Du Maurier
Victor Duruy
John S. Dwight
Georg Ebers
Maria Edgeworth
Jonathan Edwards
Edward Eggleston
George Eliot
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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JOHN WILLIAM DRAPER
(1811-1882)
he subject of this sketch was born at St. Helen's, near Liver-
pool, England, on the 5th of May, 1811. His earliest educa-
tion was obtained at a Wesleyan Methodist school, but after
a time he came under private teachers, with whose help he made
rapid progress in the physical sciences, thus showing in his boyhood
the natural bent of his mind and the real strength of his intellect.
He afterwards studied for a time at the University of London, but
in 1833 came to the United States, and three years later graduated at
the University of Pennsylvania with the
degree of M. D. In 1839 he was elected to
the chair of chemistry in the University of
New York, a position which he held until
his death in 1882.
Draper's contributions to science were
of a high order. He discovered some of
the facts that lie at the basis of spectrum
analysis; he was one of the first successful
experimenters in the art of photography;
and he made researches in radiant energy
and other scientific phenomena. He pub-
lished in 1858 a treatise on Human Physi- John William DRAPER
ology,' which is a highly esteemed and
widely used text-book. He died on the 4th of January, 1882.
Draper's chief contributions to literature are three works: (His-
tory of the Intellectual Development of Europe' (1863), a History
of the American Civil War' (1867-1870), and "The History of the
Conflict between Religion and Science, which appeared in the Inter-
national Scientific Series in 1873. Of these works, the one
intellectual development of Europe is the ablest, and takes a place
beside the works of Lecky and Buckle as a contribution to the his-
tory of civilization. The history of the Civil War was written too
soon after the events described to have permanent historical value.
(The History of the Conflict between Religion and Science) is a
judicial presentation of the perennial controversy from the standpoint
of the scientist.
Draper's claims to attention as a philosophic historian rest mainly
on his theory of the influence of climate on human character and
VIII-305
on the
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4866
JOHN WILLIAM DRAPER
development. He maintains that “For every climate, and indeed for
every geographical locality, there is an answering type of humanity”;
and in his history of the American Civil War, as well as in his work
on the intellectual development of Europe, he endeavored to prove
that doctrine. Another theory which is prominent in his principal
work is, that the intellectual development of every people passes
through five stages; namely, I, the Age of Credulity; 2, the Age of
Inquiry; 3, the Age of Faith; 4, the Age of Reason; 5, the Age of
Decrepitude. Ancient Greece, he thinks, passed through all those
stages, the age of reason beginning with the advent of physical
science. Europe as a whole has now also entered the age of reason,
which as before he identifies with the age of physical science; so that
everywhere in his historical works, physical influences and the scien-
tific knowledge of physical phenomena are credited with most of the
progress that mankind has made. Draper has left a distinct mark
upon the scientific thought of his generation, and made a distinct and
valuable contribution to the literature of his adopted country.
THE VEDAS AND THEIR THEOLOGY
From History of the Intellectual Development of Europe. Copyright 1876,
by Harper & Brothers
THE
HE Vedas, which are the Hindu Scriptures, and of which there
are four, — the Rig, Yagust, Saman, and Atharvan,- are
asserted to have been revealed by Brahma. The fourth is
however rejected by some authorities, and bears internal evidence
of a later composition, at a time when hierarchical power had
become greatly consolidated. These works are written in an
obsolete Sanskrit, the parent of the more recent idiom. They
constitute the basis of an extensive literature, Upavedas, Angas,
etc. , of connected works and commentaries. For the most part
they consist of hymns suitable for public and private occasions,
prayers, precepts, legends, and dogmas. The Rig, which is the
oldest, is composed chiefly of hymns; the other three of litur-
gical formulas. They are of different periods and of various
authorship, internal evidence seeming to indicate that if the later
were composed by priests, the earlier were the production of
military chieftains. They answer to a state of society advanced
from the nomad to the municipal condition. They are based
upon an acknowledgment of a universal Spirit, pervading all
things. Of this God they therefore necessarily acknowledge the
1
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JOHN WILLIAM DRAPER
4867
( The
unity: “There is in truth but one Deity, the Supreme Spirit,
the Lord of the universe, whose work is the universe. ”
God above all gods, who created the earth, the heavens, and
waters. ” The world, thus considered as an emanation of God,
is therefore a part of him; it is kept in a visible state by his
energy, and would instantly disappear if that energy were for a
moment withdrawn. Even as it is, it is undergoing unceasing
transformations, everything being in a transitory condition.
moment a given phase is reached, it is departed from, or ceases.
In these perpetual movements the present can scarcely be said
to have any existence, for as the Past is ending, the Future has
begun.
In such a never-ceasing career all material things are urged,
their forms continually changing, and returning as it were through
revolving cycles to similar states. For this reason it is that we
may regard our earth and the various celestial bodies as having
had a moment of birth, as having a time of continuance, in
which they are passing onward to an inevitable destruction; and
that after the lapse of countless ages similar progresses will be
made, and similar series of events will occur again and again.
But in this doctrine of universal transformation there is some-
thing more than appears at first. The theology of India is
underlaid with Pantheism. God is One because he is All. ” The
Vedas, in speaking of the relation of nature to God, make use of
the expression that he is the material as well as the cause of the
universe, “the clay as well as the Potter. ” They convey the
idea that while there is a pervading spirit existing everywhere,
of the same nature as the soul of man, though differing from it
infinitely in degree, visible nature is essentially and inseparably
connected therewith; that as in man the body is perpetually
undergoing changes, perpetually decaying and being renewed, - or
as in the case of the whole human species, nations come into
existence and pass away,-- yet still there continues to exist what
may be termed the universal human mind, so forever associated
and forever connected are the material and the spiritual. And
under this aspect we must contemplate the Supreme Being, not
merely as a presiding intellect, but as illustrated by the parallel
case of man, whose mental principle shows no tokens except
through its connection with the body: so matter, or nature, or
the visible universe, is to be looked upon as the corporeal mani-
festation of God.
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4868
JOHN WILLIAM DRAPER
PRIMITIVE BELIEFS DISMISSED BY SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE
From History of the Intellectual Development of Europe. Copyright 1876,
by Harper & Brothers
A
S MAN advances in knowledge, he discovers that of his primi-
tive conclusions some are doubtless erroneous, and many
require better evidence to establish their truth incontest-
ably. A more prolonged and attentive examination gives him
reason, in some of the most important particulars, to change his
mind.
He finds that the earth on which he lives is not a floor
covered over with a starry dome, as he once supposed, but a
globe self-balanced in space. The crystalline vault, or sky, is
recognized to be an optical deception. It rests upon the earth
nowhere, and is no boundary at all; there is no kingdom of hap-
piness above it, but a limitless space adorned with planets and
suns. Instead of a realm of darkness and woe in the depths on
the other side of the earth, men like ourselves are found there,
pursuing, in Australia and New Zealand, the innocent pleasures
and encountering the ordinary labors of life. By the aid of such
lights as knowledge gradually supplies, he comes at last to dis-
cover that this our terrestrial habitation, instead of being a
chosen, a sacred spot, is only one of similar myriads, more nu-
merous than the sands of the sea, and prodigally scattered through
space.
Never, perhaps, was a more important truth discovered.
the visible evidence was in direct opposition to it. The earth,
which had hitherto seemed to be the very emblem of immobility,
was demonstrated to be carried with a double motion, with pro-
digious velocity, through the heavens; the rising and setting of
the stars were proved to be an illusion; and as respects the size
of the globe, it was shown to be altogether insignificant when
compared with multitudes of other neighboring ones — insignifi.
cant doubly by reason of its actual dimensions, and by the
countless numbers of others like it in form, and doubtless like it
the abodes of many orders of life.
And so it turns out that our earth is a globe of about twenty-
five thousand miles in circumference. The voyager who circum-
navigates it spends no inconsiderable portion of his life in
accomplishing his task. It moves round the sun in a year, but
at so great a distance from that luminary that if seen from him,
it would look like a little spark traversing the sky. It is thus
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JOHN WILLIAM DRAPER
4869
recognized as one of the members of the solar system. Other
similar bodies, some of which are of larger, some of smaller
dimensions, perform similar revolutions round the sun in appro-
priate periods of time.
If the magnitude of the earth be too great for us to attach to
it any definite conception, what shall we say of the compass of
the solar system? There is a defect in the human intellect,
which incapacitates us for comprehending distances and periods
that are either too colossal or too minute. We gain no clearer
insight into the matter, when we are told that a comet which
does not pass beyond the bounds of the system may perhaps be
absent on its journey for more than a thousand years. Dis-
tances and periods such as these are beyond our grasp. They
prove to us how far human reason excels imagination; the one
measuring and comparing things of which the other can form no
conception, but in the attempt is utterly bewildered and lost.
But as there are other globes like our earth, so too there are
other worlds like our solar system.
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Ancient and Modern
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EDITOR
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THE ADVISORY COUNCIL
CRAWFORD H. TOY, A. M. , LL. D. ,
Professor of Hebrew, HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Cambridge, Mass.
THOMAS R. LOUNSBURY, LL. D. , L. H. D. ,
Professor of English in the Sheffield Scientific School of
YALE UNIVERSITY, New Haven, Conn.
WILLIAM M. SLOANE, PH. D. , L. H. D. ,
Professor of History and Political Science,
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, Princeton, N. J.
BRANDER MATTHEWS, A. M. , LL. B. ,
Professor of Literature, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, New York City.
JAMES B. ANGELL, LL. D. ,
President of the UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN, Ann Arbor, Mich.
WILLARD FISKE, A. M. , Ph. D. ,
Late Professor of the Germanic and Scandinavian Languages
and Literatures,
CORNELL UNIVERSITY, Ithaca, N. Y.
EDWARD S. HOLDEN, A. M. , LL. D. ,
Director of the Lick Observatory, and Astronomer,
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, Berkeley, Cal.
ALCÉE FORTIER, LIT. D. ,
Professor of the Romance Languages,
TULANE UNIVERSITY, New Orleans, La.
WILLIAM P. TRENT, M. A. ,
Dean of the Department of Arts and Sciences, and Professor of
English and History,
UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH, Sewanee, Tenn.
PAUL SHOREY, Ph. D. ,
Professor of Greek and Latin Literature,
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, Chicago, Ill.
WILLIAM T. HARRIS, LL. D. ,
United States Commissioner of Education,
BUREAU OF EDUCATION, Washington, D. C.
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Professor of Literature in the
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
VOL. IX
LIVED
PAGE
4865
JOHN WILLIAM DRAPER
1811-1882
The Vedas and their Theology (“The Intellectual Develop-
ment of Europe')
Primitive Beliefs Dismissed by Scientific Knowledge
(same)
The Koran (same)
MICHAEL DRAYTON
1563-1631 4877
Sonnet
The Ballad of Agincourt
Queen Mab's Excursion (Nymphidia, the Court of Faery')
4885
GUSTAVE DROZ
1832-1895
How the Baby Was Saved (“The Seamstress's Story')
A Family New-Year's (Monsieur, Madame, and Bébé')
Their Last Excursion (Making an Omelette')
4897
HENRY DRUMMOND
1851-
The Country and Its People (Tropical Africa)
The East-African Lake Country (same)
White Ants (same)
4913
WILLIAM DRUMMOND OF HAWTHORNDEN 1585–1649
Sextain
Degeneracy of the World
Madrigal
Briefness of Life
Reason and Feeling
The Universe
On Death (Cypress Grove')
JOHN DRYDEN
1631-1700
4919
BY THOMAS R. LOUNSBURY
From The Hind and the Panther
To My Dear Friend Mr. Congreve
## p. 4858 (#16) ############################################
vi
LIVED
PAGE
JOHN DRYDEN — Continued :
Ode to the Pious Memory of Mrs. Anne Killigrew
A Song
Lines Printed under Milton's Portrait
Alexander's Feast; or, The Power of Music
Achitophel (Absalom and Achitophel')
4951
MAXIME DU CAMP
1822-
Street Scene during the Commune ('The Convulsions of
Paris)
ALEXANDRE DUMAS, SENIOR
1802-1870
4957
BY ANDREW LANG
The Cure for Dormice that Eat Peaches (“The Count of
Monte Cristo)
The Shoulder of Athos, the Belt of Porthos, and the
Handkerchief of Aramis (“The Three Musketeers')
Defense of the Bastion St. -Gervais (same)
Consultation of the Musketeers (same)
The Man in the Iron Mask ('The Viscount of Bra-
gelonne')
A Trick is Played on Henry III. by Aid of Chicot (“The
Lady of Monsoreau)
ALEXANDRE DUMAS, JUNIOR
1824-1895
5001
BY FRANCISQUE SARCEY
The Playwright Is Born—and Made (Preface to “The
Prodigal Father)
An Armed Truce (A Friend to the Sex')
Two Views of Money (The Money Question
M. De Remonin's Philosophy of Marriage ('L'Étrangère')
Reforming a Father (The Prodigal Father')
Mr. and Mrs. Clarkson (L'Étrangère')
1834-1896
5041
GEORGE DU MAURIER
At the Heart of Bohemia (“Trilby ')
Christmas in the Latin Quarter (same)
“Dreaming True » ('Peter Ibbetson')
Barty Josselin at School ('The Martian')
## p. 4859 (#17) ############################################
vii
LIVED
PAGE
14657-1530?
5064
WILLIAM DUNBAR
The Thistle and the Rose
From The Golden Targe)
No Treasure Avails Without Gladness
1811-1894
5069
JEAN VICTOR DURUY
The National Policy (History of Rome')
Results of the Roman Dominion (same)
1856–1877
5075
TORU DUTT
Jogadhya Uma
Our Casuarina-Tree
John S. Dwight
1813-1893
5084
Music as a Means of Culture
Georg Moritz EBERS
1837-
The Arrival at Babylon (An Egyptian Princess')
5091
1832–
5101
JOSÉ ECHEGARAY
From Madman or Saint? )
From The Great Galeoto)
THE EDDAS
5113
BY WILLIAM H. CARPENTER
Thor's Adventures on his Journey to the Land of the
Giants (“Snorra Edda')
The Lay of Thrym ('Elder Edda')
Of the Lamentation of Gudrun over Sigurd Dead: First
Lay of Gudrun
Waking of Brunhilde on the Hindfell by Sigurd (Morris's
'Story of Sigurd the Völsung')
5145
Alfred EDERSHEIM
1825-1889
The Washing of Hands (“The Life and Times of Jesus
the Messiah')
5151
MARIA EDGEWORTH
1767-1849
Sir Condy's Wake (Castle Rackrent')
Sir Murtagh Rackrent and His Lady (same)
## p. 4860 (#18) ############################################
viii
LIVED
PAGE
5162
ANNE CHARLOTTE LEFFLER EDGREN
1849-1893
Open Sesame
A Ball in High Life (‘A Rescuing Angel')
JONATHAN EDWARDS
1703-1758
5175
BY EGBERT C. SMYTH
From Narrative of His Religious History
« Written on a Blank Leaf in 1723"
The Idea of Nothing (“Of Being ')
The Notion of Action and Agency Entertained by Mr.
Chubb and Others (Inquiry into the Freedom of the
Will)
Excellency of Christ
Essence of True Virtue ('The Nature of True Virtue ')
GEORGES EEKHOUD
1854-
5189
Ex-Voto
Kors Davie
5215
EDWARD EGGLESTON
1837-
Roger Williams, the Prophet of Religious Freedom (The
Beginners of a Nation')
EGYPTIAN LITERATURE
5225
BY FRANCIS LLEWELLYN GRIFFITH AND
KATE BRADBURY GRIFFITH
a
The Shipwrecked Sailor Songs to the Harp
Story of Sanehat
From an Epitaph
The Doomed Prince
From Dialogue Between a
Story of the Two Brothers
Man and His Soul
Story of Setna
(The Negative Confession'
Stela of Piankhy
Teaching of Amenemhat
Inscription of Una
The Prisse Papyrus: Instruction
Songs of Laborers
of Ptahhetep
Love Songs: Love-Sickness; From the Maxims of Any'
The Lucky Doorkeeper; Instruction of Dauf
Love's Doubts; The Un- Contrasted Lots of Scribe and
successful Bird-Catcher
Fellâh
Hymn to l'sertesen III. Reproaches to a Dissipated Stu-
Hymn to the Aten
dent
Hymns to Amen Ra
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LIVED
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5345
Joseph von EICHENDORFF
1788–1857
From Out of the Life of a Good-for-Nothing'
Separation
Lorelei
GEORGE ELIOT
1819-1880
5359
BY CHARLES WALDSTEIN
The Final Rescue ('The Mill on the Floss ')
Village Worthies (Silas Marner )
The Hall Farm (Adam Bede')
Mrs. Poyser “Has Her Say Out” (same)
The Prisoners (Romola')
« Oh, May Join the Choir Invisible »
Ralph Waldo EMERSON
1803-1882
5421
BY RICHARD GARNETT
The Times
Each and All
Friendship
The Rhodora
Nature
The Humble-Bee
Compensation
The Problem
Love
Days
Circles
Musketaquid
Self-Reliance
From the Threnody)
History
Concord Hymn
Ode Sung in the Town Hall, Concord, July 4, 1857
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LIST OF PORTRAITS
IN VOL. IX
John William Draper
Michael Drayton
Gustave Droz
Henry Drummond
William Drummond of Hawthornden
John Dryden
Maxime Du Camp
Alexandre Dumas, Senior
Alexandre Dumas, Junior
George Du Maurier
Victor Duruy
John S. Dwight
Georg Ebers
Maria Edgeworth
Jonathan Edwards
Edward Eggleston
George Eliot
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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JOHN WILLIAM DRAPER
(1811-1882)
he subject of this sketch was born at St. Helen's, near Liver-
pool, England, on the 5th of May, 1811. His earliest educa-
tion was obtained at a Wesleyan Methodist school, but after
a time he came under private teachers, with whose help he made
rapid progress in the physical sciences, thus showing in his boyhood
the natural bent of his mind and the real strength of his intellect.
He afterwards studied for a time at the University of London, but
in 1833 came to the United States, and three years later graduated at
the University of Pennsylvania with the
degree of M. D. In 1839 he was elected to
the chair of chemistry in the University of
New York, a position which he held until
his death in 1882.
Draper's contributions to science were
of a high order. He discovered some of
the facts that lie at the basis of spectrum
analysis; he was one of the first successful
experimenters in the art of photography;
and he made researches in radiant energy
and other scientific phenomena. He pub-
lished in 1858 a treatise on Human Physi- John William DRAPER
ology,' which is a highly esteemed and
widely used text-book. He died on the 4th of January, 1882.
Draper's chief contributions to literature are three works: (His-
tory of the Intellectual Development of Europe' (1863), a History
of the American Civil War' (1867-1870), and "The History of the
Conflict between Religion and Science, which appeared in the Inter-
national Scientific Series in 1873. Of these works, the one
intellectual development of Europe is the ablest, and takes a place
beside the works of Lecky and Buckle as a contribution to the his-
tory of civilization. The history of the Civil War was written too
soon after the events described to have permanent historical value.
(The History of the Conflict between Religion and Science) is a
judicial presentation of the perennial controversy from the standpoint
of the scientist.
Draper's claims to attention as a philosophic historian rest mainly
on his theory of the influence of climate on human character and
VIII-305
on the
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4866
JOHN WILLIAM DRAPER
development. He maintains that “For every climate, and indeed for
every geographical locality, there is an answering type of humanity”;
and in his history of the American Civil War, as well as in his work
on the intellectual development of Europe, he endeavored to prove
that doctrine. Another theory which is prominent in his principal
work is, that the intellectual development of every people passes
through five stages; namely, I, the Age of Credulity; 2, the Age of
Inquiry; 3, the Age of Faith; 4, the Age of Reason; 5, the Age of
Decrepitude. Ancient Greece, he thinks, passed through all those
stages, the age of reason beginning with the advent of physical
science. Europe as a whole has now also entered the age of reason,
which as before he identifies with the age of physical science; so that
everywhere in his historical works, physical influences and the scien-
tific knowledge of physical phenomena are credited with most of the
progress that mankind has made. Draper has left a distinct mark
upon the scientific thought of his generation, and made a distinct and
valuable contribution to the literature of his adopted country.
THE VEDAS AND THEIR THEOLOGY
From History of the Intellectual Development of Europe. Copyright 1876,
by Harper & Brothers
THE
HE Vedas, which are the Hindu Scriptures, and of which there
are four, — the Rig, Yagust, Saman, and Atharvan,- are
asserted to have been revealed by Brahma. The fourth is
however rejected by some authorities, and bears internal evidence
of a later composition, at a time when hierarchical power had
become greatly consolidated. These works are written in an
obsolete Sanskrit, the parent of the more recent idiom. They
constitute the basis of an extensive literature, Upavedas, Angas,
etc. , of connected works and commentaries. For the most part
they consist of hymns suitable for public and private occasions,
prayers, precepts, legends, and dogmas. The Rig, which is the
oldest, is composed chiefly of hymns; the other three of litur-
gical formulas. They are of different periods and of various
authorship, internal evidence seeming to indicate that if the later
were composed by priests, the earlier were the production of
military chieftains. They answer to a state of society advanced
from the nomad to the municipal condition. They are based
upon an acknowledgment of a universal Spirit, pervading all
things. Of this God they therefore necessarily acknowledge the
1
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4867
( The
unity: “There is in truth but one Deity, the Supreme Spirit,
the Lord of the universe, whose work is the universe. ”
God above all gods, who created the earth, the heavens, and
waters. ” The world, thus considered as an emanation of God,
is therefore a part of him; it is kept in a visible state by his
energy, and would instantly disappear if that energy were for a
moment withdrawn. Even as it is, it is undergoing unceasing
transformations, everything being in a transitory condition.
moment a given phase is reached, it is departed from, or ceases.
In these perpetual movements the present can scarcely be said
to have any existence, for as the Past is ending, the Future has
begun.
In such a never-ceasing career all material things are urged,
their forms continually changing, and returning as it were through
revolving cycles to similar states. For this reason it is that we
may regard our earth and the various celestial bodies as having
had a moment of birth, as having a time of continuance, in
which they are passing onward to an inevitable destruction; and
that after the lapse of countless ages similar progresses will be
made, and similar series of events will occur again and again.
But in this doctrine of universal transformation there is some-
thing more than appears at first. The theology of India is
underlaid with Pantheism. God is One because he is All. ” The
Vedas, in speaking of the relation of nature to God, make use of
the expression that he is the material as well as the cause of the
universe, “the clay as well as the Potter. ” They convey the
idea that while there is a pervading spirit existing everywhere,
of the same nature as the soul of man, though differing from it
infinitely in degree, visible nature is essentially and inseparably
connected therewith; that as in man the body is perpetually
undergoing changes, perpetually decaying and being renewed, - or
as in the case of the whole human species, nations come into
existence and pass away,-- yet still there continues to exist what
may be termed the universal human mind, so forever associated
and forever connected are the material and the spiritual. And
under this aspect we must contemplate the Supreme Being, not
merely as a presiding intellect, but as illustrated by the parallel
case of man, whose mental principle shows no tokens except
through its connection with the body: so matter, or nature, or
the visible universe, is to be looked upon as the corporeal mani-
festation of God.
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JOHN WILLIAM DRAPER
PRIMITIVE BELIEFS DISMISSED BY SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE
From History of the Intellectual Development of Europe. Copyright 1876,
by Harper & Brothers
A
S MAN advances in knowledge, he discovers that of his primi-
tive conclusions some are doubtless erroneous, and many
require better evidence to establish their truth incontest-
ably. A more prolonged and attentive examination gives him
reason, in some of the most important particulars, to change his
mind.
He finds that the earth on which he lives is not a floor
covered over with a starry dome, as he once supposed, but a
globe self-balanced in space.
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HAMILTON WRIGHT MABIE, LUCIA GILBERT RUNKLE,
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THE ADVISORY COUNCIL
CRAWFORD H. TOY, A. M. , LL. D. ,
Professor of Hebrew, HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Cambridge, Mass.
THOMAS R. LOUNSBURY, LL. D. , L. H. D. ,
Professor of English in the Sheffield Scientific School of
YALE UNIVERSITY, New Haven, Conn.
WILLIAM M. SLOANE, PH. D. , L. H. D. ,
Professor of History and Political Science,
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, Princeton, N. J.
BRANDER MATTHEWS, A. M. , LL. B. ,
Professor of Literature, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, New York City.
JAMES B. ANGELL, LL. D. ,
President of the UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN, Ann Arbor, Mich.
WILLARD FISKE, A. M. , Ph. D. ,
Late Professor of the Germanic and Scandinavian Languages
and Literatures,
CORNELL UNIVERSITY, Ithaca, N. Y.
EDWARD S. HOLDEN, A. M. , LL. D. ,
Director of the Lick Observatory, and Astronomer,
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, Berkeley, Cal.
ALCÉE FORTIER, LIT. D. ,
Professor of the Romance Languages,
TULANE UNIVERSITY, New Orleans, La.
WILLIAM P. TRENT, M. A. ,
Dean of the Department of Arts and Sciences, and Professor of
English and History,
UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH, Sewanee, Tenn.
PAUL SHOREY, Ph. D. ,
Professor of Greek and Latin Literature,
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, Chicago, Ill.
WILLIAM T. HARRIS, LL. D. ,
United States Commissioner of Education,
BUREAU OF EDUCATION, Washington, D. C.
soba
MAURICE FRANCIS EGAN, A. M. , LL. D. ,
Professor of Literature in the
CatholIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA, Washington, D. C.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
VOL. IX
LIVED
PAGE
4865
JOHN WILLIAM DRAPER
1811-1882
The Vedas and their Theology (“The Intellectual Develop-
ment of Europe')
Primitive Beliefs Dismissed by Scientific Knowledge
(same)
The Koran (same)
MICHAEL DRAYTON
1563-1631 4877
Sonnet
The Ballad of Agincourt
Queen Mab's Excursion (Nymphidia, the Court of Faery')
4885
GUSTAVE DROZ
1832-1895
How the Baby Was Saved (“The Seamstress's Story')
A Family New-Year's (Monsieur, Madame, and Bébé')
Their Last Excursion (Making an Omelette')
4897
HENRY DRUMMOND
1851-
The Country and Its People (Tropical Africa)
The East-African Lake Country (same)
White Ants (same)
4913
WILLIAM DRUMMOND OF HAWTHORNDEN 1585–1649
Sextain
Degeneracy of the World
Madrigal
Briefness of Life
Reason and Feeling
The Universe
On Death (Cypress Grove')
JOHN DRYDEN
1631-1700
4919
BY THOMAS R. LOUNSBURY
From The Hind and the Panther
To My Dear Friend Mr. Congreve
## p. 4858 (#16) ############################################
vi
LIVED
PAGE
JOHN DRYDEN — Continued :
Ode to the Pious Memory of Mrs. Anne Killigrew
A Song
Lines Printed under Milton's Portrait
Alexander's Feast; or, The Power of Music
Achitophel (Absalom and Achitophel')
4951
MAXIME DU CAMP
1822-
Street Scene during the Commune ('The Convulsions of
Paris)
ALEXANDRE DUMAS, SENIOR
1802-1870
4957
BY ANDREW LANG
The Cure for Dormice that Eat Peaches (“The Count of
Monte Cristo)
The Shoulder of Athos, the Belt of Porthos, and the
Handkerchief of Aramis (“The Three Musketeers')
Defense of the Bastion St. -Gervais (same)
Consultation of the Musketeers (same)
The Man in the Iron Mask ('The Viscount of Bra-
gelonne')
A Trick is Played on Henry III. by Aid of Chicot (“The
Lady of Monsoreau)
ALEXANDRE DUMAS, JUNIOR
1824-1895
5001
BY FRANCISQUE SARCEY
The Playwright Is Born—and Made (Preface to “The
Prodigal Father)
An Armed Truce (A Friend to the Sex')
Two Views of Money (The Money Question
M. De Remonin's Philosophy of Marriage ('L'Étrangère')
Reforming a Father (The Prodigal Father')
Mr. and Mrs. Clarkson (L'Étrangère')
1834-1896
5041
GEORGE DU MAURIER
At the Heart of Bohemia (“Trilby ')
Christmas in the Latin Quarter (same)
“Dreaming True » ('Peter Ibbetson')
Barty Josselin at School ('The Martian')
## p. 4859 (#17) ############################################
vii
LIVED
PAGE
14657-1530?
5064
WILLIAM DUNBAR
The Thistle and the Rose
From The Golden Targe)
No Treasure Avails Without Gladness
1811-1894
5069
JEAN VICTOR DURUY
The National Policy (History of Rome')
Results of the Roman Dominion (same)
1856–1877
5075
TORU DUTT
Jogadhya Uma
Our Casuarina-Tree
John S. Dwight
1813-1893
5084
Music as a Means of Culture
Georg Moritz EBERS
1837-
The Arrival at Babylon (An Egyptian Princess')
5091
1832–
5101
JOSÉ ECHEGARAY
From Madman or Saint? )
From The Great Galeoto)
THE EDDAS
5113
BY WILLIAM H. CARPENTER
Thor's Adventures on his Journey to the Land of the
Giants (“Snorra Edda')
The Lay of Thrym ('Elder Edda')
Of the Lamentation of Gudrun over Sigurd Dead: First
Lay of Gudrun
Waking of Brunhilde on the Hindfell by Sigurd (Morris's
'Story of Sigurd the Völsung')
5145
Alfred EDERSHEIM
1825-1889
The Washing of Hands (“The Life and Times of Jesus
the Messiah')
5151
MARIA EDGEWORTH
1767-1849
Sir Condy's Wake (Castle Rackrent')
Sir Murtagh Rackrent and His Lady (same)
## p. 4860 (#18) ############################################
viii
LIVED
PAGE
5162
ANNE CHARLOTTE LEFFLER EDGREN
1849-1893
Open Sesame
A Ball in High Life (‘A Rescuing Angel')
JONATHAN EDWARDS
1703-1758
5175
BY EGBERT C. SMYTH
From Narrative of His Religious History
« Written on a Blank Leaf in 1723"
The Idea of Nothing (“Of Being ')
The Notion of Action and Agency Entertained by Mr.
Chubb and Others (Inquiry into the Freedom of the
Will)
Excellency of Christ
Essence of True Virtue ('The Nature of True Virtue ')
GEORGES EEKHOUD
1854-
5189
Ex-Voto
Kors Davie
5215
EDWARD EGGLESTON
1837-
Roger Williams, the Prophet of Religious Freedom (The
Beginners of a Nation')
EGYPTIAN LITERATURE
5225
BY FRANCIS LLEWELLYN GRIFFITH AND
KATE BRADBURY GRIFFITH
a
The Shipwrecked Sailor Songs to the Harp
Story of Sanehat
From an Epitaph
The Doomed Prince
From Dialogue Between a
Story of the Two Brothers
Man and His Soul
Story of Setna
(The Negative Confession'
Stela of Piankhy
Teaching of Amenemhat
Inscription of Una
The Prisse Papyrus: Instruction
Songs of Laborers
of Ptahhetep
Love Songs: Love-Sickness; From the Maxims of Any'
The Lucky Doorkeeper; Instruction of Dauf
Love's Doubts; The Un- Contrasted Lots of Scribe and
successful Bird-Catcher
Fellâh
Hymn to l'sertesen III. Reproaches to a Dissipated Stu-
Hymn to the Aten
dent
Hymns to Amen Ra
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ix
LIVED
PAGE
5345
Joseph von EICHENDORFF
1788–1857
From Out of the Life of a Good-for-Nothing'
Separation
Lorelei
GEORGE ELIOT
1819-1880
5359
BY CHARLES WALDSTEIN
The Final Rescue ('The Mill on the Floss ')
Village Worthies (Silas Marner )
The Hall Farm (Adam Bede')
Mrs. Poyser “Has Her Say Out” (same)
The Prisoners (Romola')
« Oh, May Join the Choir Invisible »
Ralph Waldo EMERSON
1803-1882
5421
BY RICHARD GARNETT
The Times
Each and All
Friendship
The Rhodora
Nature
The Humble-Bee
Compensation
The Problem
Love
Days
Circles
Musketaquid
Self-Reliance
From the Threnody)
History
Concord Hymn
Ode Sung in the Town Hall, Concord, July 4, 1857
## p. 4862 (#20) ############################################
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LIST OF PORTRAITS
IN VOL. IX
John William Draper
Michael Drayton
Gustave Droz
Henry Drummond
William Drummond of Hawthornden
John Dryden
Maxime Du Camp
Alexandre Dumas, Senior
Alexandre Dumas, Junior
George Du Maurier
Victor Duruy
John S. Dwight
Georg Ebers
Maria Edgeworth
Jonathan Edwards
Edward Eggleston
George Eliot
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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4865
JOHN WILLIAM DRAPER
(1811-1882)
he subject of this sketch was born at St. Helen's, near Liver-
pool, England, on the 5th of May, 1811. His earliest educa-
tion was obtained at a Wesleyan Methodist school, but after
a time he came under private teachers, with whose help he made
rapid progress in the physical sciences, thus showing in his boyhood
the natural bent of his mind and the real strength of his intellect.
He afterwards studied for a time at the University of London, but
in 1833 came to the United States, and three years later graduated at
the University of Pennsylvania with the
degree of M. D. In 1839 he was elected to
the chair of chemistry in the University of
New York, a position which he held until
his death in 1882.
Draper's contributions to science were
of a high order. He discovered some of
the facts that lie at the basis of spectrum
analysis; he was one of the first successful
experimenters in the art of photography;
and he made researches in radiant energy
and other scientific phenomena. He pub-
lished in 1858 a treatise on Human Physi- John William DRAPER
ology,' which is a highly esteemed and
widely used text-book. He died on the 4th of January, 1882.
Draper's chief contributions to literature are three works: (His-
tory of the Intellectual Development of Europe' (1863), a History
of the American Civil War' (1867-1870), and "The History of the
Conflict between Religion and Science, which appeared in the Inter-
national Scientific Series in 1873. Of these works, the one
intellectual development of Europe is the ablest, and takes a place
beside the works of Lecky and Buckle as a contribution to the his-
tory of civilization. The history of the Civil War was written too
soon after the events described to have permanent historical value.
(The History of the Conflict between Religion and Science) is a
judicial presentation of the perennial controversy from the standpoint
of the scientist.
Draper's claims to attention as a philosophic historian rest mainly
on his theory of the influence of climate on human character and
VIII-305
on the
## p. 4866 (#24) ############################################
4866
JOHN WILLIAM DRAPER
development. He maintains that “For every climate, and indeed for
every geographical locality, there is an answering type of humanity”;
and in his history of the American Civil War, as well as in his work
on the intellectual development of Europe, he endeavored to prove
that doctrine. Another theory which is prominent in his principal
work is, that the intellectual development of every people passes
through five stages; namely, I, the Age of Credulity; 2, the Age of
Inquiry; 3, the Age of Faith; 4, the Age of Reason; 5, the Age of
Decrepitude. Ancient Greece, he thinks, passed through all those
stages, the age of reason beginning with the advent of physical
science. Europe as a whole has now also entered the age of reason,
which as before he identifies with the age of physical science; so that
everywhere in his historical works, physical influences and the scien-
tific knowledge of physical phenomena are credited with most of the
progress that mankind has made. Draper has left a distinct mark
upon the scientific thought of his generation, and made a distinct and
valuable contribution to the literature of his adopted country.
THE VEDAS AND THEIR THEOLOGY
From History of the Intellectual Development of Europe. Copyright 1876,
by Harper & Brothers
THE
HE Vedas, which are the Hindu Scriptures, and of which there
are four, — the Rig, Yagust, Saman, and Atharvan,- are
asserted to have been revealed by Brahma. The fourth is
however rejected by some authorities, and bears internal evidence
of a later composition, at a time when hierarchical power had
become greatly consolidated. These works are written in an
obsolete Sanskrit, the parent of the more recent idiom. They
constitute the basis of an extensive literature, Upavedas, Angas,
etc. , of connected works and commentaries. For the most part
they consist of hymns suitable for public and private occasions,
prayers, precepts, legends, and dogmas. The Rig, which is the
oldest, is composed chiefly of hymns; the other three of litur-
gical formulas. They are of different periods and of various
authorship, internal evidence seeming to indicate that if the later
were composed by priests, the earlier were the production of
military chieftains. They answer to a state of society advanced
from the nomad to the municipal condition. They are based
upon an acknowledgment of a universal Spirit, pervading all
things. Of this God they therefore necessarily acknowledge the
1
## p. 4867 (#25) ############################################
JOHN WILLIAM DRAPER
4867
( The
unity: “There is in truth but one Deity, the Supreme Spirit,
the Lord of the universe, whose work is the universe. ”
God above all gods, who created the earth, the heavens, and
waters. ” The world, thus considered as an emanation of God,
is therefore a part of him; it is kept in a visible state by his
energy, and would instantly disappear if that energy were for a
moment withdrawn. Even as it is, it is undergoing unceasing
transformations, everything being in a transitory condition.
moment a given phase is reached, it is departed from, or ceases.
In these perpetual movements the present can scarcely be said
to have any existence, for as the Past is ending, the Future has
begun.
In such a never-ceasing career all material things are urged,
their forms continually changing, and returning as it were through
revolving cycles to similar states. For this reason it is that we
may regard our earth and the various celestial bodies as having
had a moment of birth, as having a time of continuance, in
which they are passing onward to an inevitable destruction; and
that after the lapse of countless ages similar progresses will be
made, and similar series of events will occur again and again.
But in this doctrine of universal transformation there is some-
thing more than appears at first. The theology of India is
underlaid with Pantheism. God is One because he is All. ” The
Vedas, in speaking of the relation of nature to God, make use of
the expression that he is the material as well as the cause of the
universe, “the clay as well as the Potter. ” They convey the
idea that while there is a pervading spirit existing everywhere,
of the same nature as the soul of man, though differing from it
infinitely in degree, visible nature is essentially and inseparably
connected therewith; that as in man the body is perpetually
undergoing changes, perpetually decaying and being renewed, - or
as in the case of the whole human species, nations come into
existence and pass away,-- yet still there continues to exist what
may be termed the universal human mind, so forever associated
and forever connected are the material and the spiritual. And
under this aspect we must contemplate the Supreme Being, not
merely as a presiding intellect, but as illustrated by the parallel
case of man, whose mental principle shows no tokens except
through its connection with the body: so matter, or nature, or
the visible universe, is to be looked upon as the corporeal mani-
festation of God.
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JOHN WILLIAM DRAPER
PRIMITIVE BELIEFS DISMISSED BY SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE
From History of the Intellectual Development of Europe. Copyright 1876,
by Harper & Brothers
A
S MAN advances in knowledge, he discovers that of his primi-
tive conclusions some are doubtless erroneous, and many
require better evidence to establish their truth incontest-
ably. A more prolonged and attentive examination gives him
reason, in some of the most important particulars, to change his
mind.
He finds that the earth on which he lives is not a floor
covered over with a starry dome, as he once supposed, but a
globe self-balanced in space. The crystalline vault, or sky, is
recognized to be an optical deception. It rests upon the earth
nowhere, and is no boundary at all; there is no kingdom of hap-
piness above it, but a limitless space adorned with planets and
suns. Instead of a realm of darkness and woe in the depths on
the other side of the earth, men like ourselves are found there,
pursuing, in Australia and New Zealand, the innocent pleasures
and encountering the ordinary labors of life. By the aid of such
lights as knowledge gradually supplies, he comes at last to dis-
cover that this our terrestrial habitation, instead of being a
chosen, a sacred spot, is only one of similar myriads, more nu-
merous than the sands of the sea, and prodigally scattered through
space.
Never, perhaps, was a more important truth discovered.
the visible evidence was in direct opposition to it. The earth,
which had hitherto seemed to be the very emblem of immobility,
was demonstrated to be carried with a double motion, with pro-
digious velocity, through the heavens; the rising and setting of
the stars were proved to be an illusion; and as respects the size
of the globe, it was shown to be altogether insignificant when
compared with multitudes of other neighboring ones — insignifi.
cant doubly by reason of its actual dimensions, and by the
countless numbers of others like it in form, and doubtless like it
the abodes of many orders of life.
And so it turns out that our earth is a globe of about twenty-
five thousand miles in circumference. The voyager who circum-
navigates it spends no inconsiderable portion of his life in
accomplishing his task. It moves round the sun in a year, but
at so great a distance from that luminary that if seen from him,
it would look like a little spark traversing the sky. It is thus
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recognized as one of the members of the solar system. Other
similar bodies, some of which are of larger, some of smaller
dimensions, perform similar revolutions round the sun in appro-
priate periods of time.
If the magnitude of the earth be too great for us to attach to
it any definite conception, what shall we say of the compass of
the solar system? There is a defect in the human intellect,
which incapacitates us for comprehending distances and periods
that are either too colossal or too minute. We gain no clearer
insight into the matter, when we are told that a comet which
does not pass beyond the bounds of the system may perhaps be
absent on its journey for more than a thousand years. Dis-
tances and periods such as these are beyond our grasp. They
prove to us how far human reason excels imagination; the one
measuring and comparing things of which the other can form no
conception, but in the attempt is utterly bewildered and lost.
But as there are other globes like our earth, so too there are
other worlds like our solar system.
