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.

Broadly stated, the central theme of the book is man's place in the
universe, considered in the light of the new knowledge and speculation as
to his origin and destiny which the study of science in the nineteenth
century has invoked. Some of the selections are more closely related to
this theme than are others. Between so