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Title: Books and Culture

Author: Hamilton Wright Mabie

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BOOKS AND CULTURE

By

HAMILTON WRIGHT MABIE

NEW YORK:
PUBLISHED BY
DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY

MDCCCCVII

_Copyright, 1896_,

BY DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY,
_All rights reserved._

University Press:
JOHN WILSON AND SON, CAMBRIDGE, U.S.A.

To
EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I. MATERIAL AND METHOD 7

II. TIME AND PLACE 20

III. MEDITATION AND IMAGINATION 34

IV. THE FIRST DELIGHT 51

V. THE FEELING FOR LITERATURE 63

VI. THE BOOKS OF LIFE 74

VII. FROM THE BOOK TO THE READER 85

VIII. BY WAY OF ILLUSTRATION 95

IX. PERSONALITY 109

X. LIBERATION THROUGH IDEAS 121

XI. THE LOGIC OF FREE LIFE 132

XII. THE IMAGINATION 143

XIII. BREADTH OF LIFE 154

XIV. RACIAL EXPERIENCE 165

XV. FRESHNESS OF FEELING 174

XVI. LIBERATION FROM ONE'S TIME 185

XVII. LIBERATION FROM ONE'S PLACE 195

XVIII. THE UNCONSCIOUS ELEMENT 204

XIX. THE TEACHING OF TRAGEDY 217

XX. THE CULTURE ELEMENT IN FICTION 229

XXI. CULTURE THROUGH ACTION 239

XXII. THE INTERPRETATION OF IDEALISM 250

XXIII. THE VISION OF PERFECTION 260

XXIV. RETROSPECT 271

Chapter