INDEX

Aeneid (Virgil), 217

Aeschylus, 220

Andromeda Strain, The, (Crichton), 60

Animal Farm (Orwell), 212

Apollonius, 258

Apology (Plato), 280

Aquinas, Thomas, 86, 121, 156, 242, 276–77

Archimedes, 258

Aristophanes, 219

Aristotle, 64, 71, 78, 80, 85, 86, 88, 91, 143, 144, 145, 156, 159, 169, 183, 194, 202, 207, 235, 242, 246, 264, 273, 275–76, 278, 281, 286, 325, 403–5

Arithmetic of Infinities (Wallis), 366

Art of Fiction, The (Henry James), 208

Articles of Confederation, 170, 358

As You Like It (Shakespeare), 37

Augustine, 64, 241

Autobiography (J. S. Mill), 359

Bacon, Francis, 19, 138

Barnett, Lincoln, 261, 262

Berkeley, George, 274

Bhagavad-Gita, 339

Bible, 218, 287, 288

Boethius, 374

Boswell, James, 239

Brave New World (Huxley), 212

Burke, Edmund, 192

Byron, George Gordon, Lord, 217

Capital (Marx), 68, 81, 144

Cervantes, Miguel de, 138

Charterhouse of Parma, The (Stendhal), 301

Chaucer, Geoffrey, 176

Cicero, Marcus Tullius, 274, 374

City of God, The (Augustine), 64

Civil Government, Second Treatise on (Locke), 68, 170

Clarke, Arthur C., 60

Closing Circle, The (Commoner), 261

Collier, Jeremy, 79

Commoner, Barry, 261, 262

Communist Manifesto (Marx and Engles), 68, 144, 192

Compleat Angler, The (Walton), 240

Confessions (Augustine), 241

Confessions (Rousseau), 241

Consolatio Philosophiae (Boethius), 374

Convivio (Dante), 373, 374

Coral Reefs (Darwin), 389

Crime and Punishment (Dostoevsky), 79

Critique of Judgment (Kant), 282

Critique of Practical Reason (Kant), 67, 144

Critique of Pure Reason (Kant), 67, 85, 144, 282

Dante Alighieri, 201, 217, 246, 355, 379–86

Darwin, Charles, 61, 62, 71, 81, 92, 104, 129, 155, 249, 334, 355, 371, 387–97

De Amicitia (Cicero), 374

De Monarchia (Dante), 375

De Vulgari Eloquentia (Dante), 374

Declaration of Independence, 41, 42, 358

Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Gibbon), 41, 42, 358

Descartes, René, 64, 277, 365

Descent of Man, The (Darwin), 62, 387, 390

Dewey, John, 159

Divine Comedy (Dante), 201, 217, 355, 371, 375, 376–87

Don Juan (Byron), 217

Donne, John, 240

Dostoevsky, Fyodor, 79

Eddington, A. S., 101

Einstein, Albert, 63, 249

Elements of Chemistry (Lavoisier), 253–54

Elements of Geometry (Euclid), 63, 64, 159, 205, 255, 256, 258

Elements of Law (Hobbes), 157

Elements of Political Economy (J. S. Mill), 360

Eliot, T. S., 223

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 212, 282

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 181, 362

Epictetus, 160

Essay Concerning Human Understanding, An (Locke), 68, 72, 73, 82

Essay on the Principle of Population (Malthus), 397

Essays (Montaigne), 241

Ethics, Nicomachean (Aristotle), 80, 88, 91, 144, 169, 275, 281, 403

Ethics (Spinoza), 69, 278

Euclid, 64, 103, 104, 106, 107, 121, 128, 133, 159, 205, 255, 256, 258, 277, 365

Euripides, 220

Evolution of Physics, The (Einstein and Infeld), 63

Expression of Emotions in Man and Animals, The (Darwin), 390

Faraday, Michael, 240

Faraday the Discoverer (Tyndall), 240

Faulkner, William, 60

Faust (Goethe), 241

Federalist Papers, 170, 358

Fielding, Henry, 79, 219

First Circle, The (Solzhenitsyn), 212

Foundations of Geometry (Hilbert), 64

Freud, Sigmund, 72, 287

Galileo Galilei, 71, 104, 128, 130, 249, 260, 273, 278, 364

Gateway to the Great Books, 340

Geometry (Descartes), 64, 365

Gibbon, Edward, 33, 62, 155

Gilbert, William, 260

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 241

Golden Treasury, The, (Palgrave), 340

Gone with the Wind (Mitchell), 60, 301

Grapes of Wrath, The (Steinbeck), 60

Great Books of the Western World, 321, 340, 355, 358, 364, 371, 387, 403

Hamlet (Shakespeare), 37, 93, 215, 218, 219

Harvey, William, 131, 260

Heartbreak House (Shaw), 220

Heinlein, Robert A., 60

Herbert, George, 240

Herodotus, 80, 359

Hilbert, David, 64

Hippocrates, 260

Historical Account of Two Notable Corruptions of the Scriptures (Newton), 368

History of India (James Mill), 359

Hobbes, Thomas, 64, 127, 157, 164, 194

Holy Bible, 218, 287, 288

Homer, 78, 176, 217, 241, 331, 338

How We Think (Dewey), 159

Hume, David, 155

Huxley, Aldous, 212

Huxley, T. H., 390

Huygens, Christiaan, 364, 367

I Ching, 339

Idea of Progress (C. Van Doren), 317

Iliad (Homer), 176, 217

Illustrations of British Insects (Stephen), 388

Infeld, Leopold, 63

Introduction to Mathematics (Whitehead), 261, 262

Introduction to Poetry (M. Van Doren), 340

James, Henry, 208

James, William, 63, 72

Jefferson, Thomas, 42

Journal (Darwin), 389

Joyce, James, 79

Julius Caesar (Shakespeare), 37

Kant, Immanuel, 67, 85, 144, 275, 276, 278, 279, 281–82

Kepler, Johannes, 273, 365

Koran, 287, 325

Latini, Brunetto, 372

Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent, 253, 254

Leaves of Grass (Whitman), 242

Leviathan (Hobbes), 64, 194

Life of Johnson (Boswell), 239

Lives (Walton), 240

Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans (Plutarch), 240, 241

Locke, John, 68, 72, 73, 82, 127, 133, 170, 367, 368

Lucretius, 279

Lyell, Charles, 388, 389, 390

Machiavelli, Niccolò, 117, 118, 127, 157, 194

MacLeish, Archibald, 227

Magic Mountain, The (Mann), 318

Main Street (Lewis), 60

Malthus, Thomas Robert, 390

Mann, Horace, 22

Mann, Thomas, 318

Mao Tse-tung, 287

Marcus Aurelius, 160

Marvell, Andrew, 226, 227

Marx, Karl, 68, 81, 144, 192, 287

Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy [Principia] (Newton), 71, 251, 364, 367, 369

Mémoires (Marmontel), 360

Mendel, Gregor Johann, 155

Metaphysics (Aristotle), 275

Middletown (Lynd), 60

Mill, James, 359

Mill, John Stuart, 355, 358–62

Milton, John, 33, 217, 241

Molière (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin), 220

Montaigne, Michel de, 11, 127, 241, 242, 247, 268

Montesquieu, Charles de Secondat, Baron de, 170

Naked Lunch (Burroughs), 60

Nature of the Physical World, The (Eddington), 101

Newton, Isaac, 71, 73, 104, 128, 249, 251, 254, 258, 259, 273, 331, 334, 355, 364–69

Nicomachean Ethics (Aristotle), 80, 88, 91, 144, 169, 275, 281, 403

Nicomachus, 258

Nietzsche, Friedrich, 278

1984 (Orwell), 212

Norton, Charles Eliot, 376

Observations on the Prophecies of Daniel and the Apocalypse (Newton), 368

Odyssey (Homer), 78, 176, 217

Oedipus Rex (Sophocles), 221

On Liberty (J. S. Mill), 358, 361

On the Motion of the Heart (Harvey), 131

On the Nature of Things (Lucretius), 279

On the Origin of Inequality (Rousseau), 403

On Political Economy (Rousseau), 403

On the Soul (Aristotle), 275

On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties and on the Perpetuation of Varieties and Spheres by Natural Means of Selection (Darwin and Wallace), 390

One Hundred Modern Poems (Rodman), 340

O’Neill, Eugene, 221

Optics (Newton), 71, 259, 364, 367

Oresteia (Aeschylus), 221

Organon (Aristotle), 281, 360

Origin of Species, The (Darwin), 62, 71, 81, 92, 129, 155, 355, 387, 390–96

Orwell, George, 212

Othello (Shakespeare), 203

Oxford Book of English Verse, 340

Oxford English Dictionary, 176

Palgrave, Francis Turner, 339

Paradise Lost (Milton), 33, 217, 241

Pensées (Pascal), 278

Physics (Aristotle), 71, 275, 281

Plato, 79, 144, 145, 241, 242, 260, 270, 274, 275, 276, 278, 280, 281

Pliny, 179

Plutarch, 240, 241

Poetics (Aristotle), 78, 143, 275, 403

Politics (Aristotle), 64, 159, 194, 275, 355, 403, 404–6

Pope, Alexander, 11

Portnoy’s Complaint (Roth), 60

Prelude, The (Wordsworth), 217

Prince, The (Machiavelli), 117, 157, 194

Principia [Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy] (Newton), 71, 73, 258, 264, 367, 368

Principles of Geology, The (Lyell), 388

Principles of Political Economy (J. S. Mill), 361

Principles of Psychology (James), 63, 72

Protagoras (Plato), 280–81

Proust, Marcel, 127

Racine, Jean, 221

Rationale of Judicial Evidence (Bentham), 361

Reader’s Digest, 247

Representative Government (J. S. Mill), 358, 361

Republic (Plato), 241, 282

Rhetoric (Aristotle), 403

Rodman, Selden, 340

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 64, 170, 241, 403, 406–8

Science, 261

Scientific American, 261

Scott, Walter, 138

Selection in Relation to Sex (Darwin), 390

Seventeenth Century Background, The (Willey), 245

Seventh Letter (Plato), 280

Shakespeare, William, 37, 85, 93, 176, 215, 219, 220, 224, 225, 246, 334

Shaw, George Bernard, 220, 250

Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage, together with the Sense of Antiquity upon this Argument (Collier), 79

Smith, Adam, 38, 64, 81, 104, 144

Social Contract, The (Rousseau), 64, 170, 355, 403, 406–8

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander, 212

Sophocles, 220, 221

Spinoza, Baruch, 69, 155, 156, 277, 278

Spirit of Laws, The (Montesquieu), 170, 403

Stendhal (Marie Henri Beyle), 301, 302

Subjection of Women, The (J. S. Mill), 359

Summa Theologica (Aquinas), 121, 242, 276, 277

Symposium (Plato), 144

System of Logic, A (J. S. Mill), 361

Theory of Moral Sentiments, The (Adam Smith), 144

Thomas, Dylan, 223

Thoughts on Parliamentary Reform (J. S. Mill), 361

Thucydides, 234, 235, 236, 243

Thus Spake Zarathustra (Nietzsche), 278

“To His Coy Mistress” (Marvell), 226

Tolstoy, Leo, 127, 174, 214, 215, 233, 301

Tom Jones (Fielding), 79, 219

Treatise on Light (Huygens), 364

Two New Sciences (Galileo), 71, 130–31, 260

Tyndall, John, 240

Ulysses (Joyce), 79

U.S. Constitution, 86, 87, 88, 89, 170, 358

Universe and Dr. Einstein, The, (Barnett), 60, 261, 262

Utilitarianism (J. S. Mill), 358, 361

Van Doren, Mark, 201

Variation of Plants and Animals under Domestication, The (Darwin), 390

Virgil, 217

Vita Nuova, La (Dante), 372

Wallace, A. R., 390

Walton, Izaak, 240

War and Peace (Tolstoy), 213, 214, 215, 301

Wealth of Nations (Adam Smith), 38, 64, 81, 144

Westminster Review, 361

What Men Live By (Tolstoy), 174

White, E. B., 212

Whitehead, Alfred North, 261, 262, 274

Whitman, Walt, 242

Willey, Basil, 245, 280

Wordsworth, William, 217

Wren, Christopher, 367

“You, Andrew Marvell” (MacLeish), 227