Chapter 27

PLATO: _Republic_, Books II and III. Translation by Jowett. (Criticism of the poets as demoralizing.)

WORDSWORTH: _Observations Prefixed to the Second Edition of the Lyrical Ballads._

SHELLEY: _Defence of Poetry._

EVERETT, C. C.: _Poetry, Comedy, and Duty._ (discussion of the Philosophy of Poetry.) _Essays, Theological and Literary._ (On the Poetry of Emerson, Goethe, Tennyson, Browning.)

CAIRD, EDWARD: _Literature and Philosophy._ (Wordsworth, Dante, Goethe, etc.)

ROYCE, JOSIAH: _Studies of Good and Evil._ Essay on _Tennyson and Pessimism_.

SANTAYANA, GEORGE: _Poetry and Religion._ (Philosophy of poetry; Greek Poetry, Shakespeare, etc.)

SNEATH, E. H.: _Philosophy in Poetry: A Study of Sir John Davies's Poem, "Nosce Teipsum."_

CHAPTERS III AND IV, RELIGION.

PLATO: _Republic_, Book III. Translations by Jowett and Vaughan. (Criticism of religion from the stand-point of morality and politics.)

ST. AUGUSTINE: _Confessions._ Translation by Pusey. (Document of religious experience.)

THOMAS À KEMPIS: _Imitation of Christ._ Translation by Stanhope. (Mediæval programme of personal religion.)

SPINOZA: _Theological-political Treatise._ Translation by Elwes. (One of the first great pleas for religious liberty and one of the first attempts to define the _essential_ in religion.)

KANT: _Critique of Pure Reason--the Canon of Pure Reason_. Translation by Max Müller. _Critique of Practical Reason._ Translation by Abbott in _Theory of Ethics_. (Defines religion as the province of faith, distinguishes it from knowledge, and relates it to morality.)

SCHLEIERMACHER: _On Religion._ _Speeches to its Cultured Despisers._ Translation by Oman. (Ponderous, dogmatic in its philosophy, but profound and sympathetic in its understanding of religion.)

ARNOLD: _Literature and Dogma._ (On the essence of religion as exemplified in Judaism and Christianity.)

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SABATIER, A.: _Outlines of a Philosophy of Religion based on Psychology and History._ Translation by Seed. _Religions of Authority and the Religion of the Spirit._ Translation by Houghton. (These books emphasize the essential importance of the believer's attitude to God.)

JAMES, WILLIAM: _The Varieties of Religious Experience._ (A rich storehouse of religion, sympathetically interpreted.)

EVERETT, C. C.: _The Psychological Elements of Religious Faith._ (A study in the definition and meaning of religion.)

CAIRD, EDWARD: _Evolution of Religion._ (Indoctrinated with the author's idealistic philosophy.)

FIELDING, H.: _The Hearts of Men._ (A plea for the universal religion. Special feeling for Indian religions.)

HARNACK, A.: _What is Christianity?_ Translation by Saunders. (Attempt to define the _essence_ of Christianity.)

PALMER, G. H.: _The Field of Ethics_, Chapters V and VI. (On the relation of ethics and religion.)

BROWN, W. A.: _The Essence of Christianity._ (Special study of the definition of religion.)

JASTROW, M.: _The Study of Religion._ (Method of history and psychology of religion.)

SMITH, W. ROBERTSON: _The Religion of the Semites._ (Excellent study of tribal religions.)

CLARKE, W. N.: _What Shall We Think of Christianity?_ (An interpretation of Christianity.)

LEUBA, J. H.: _Introduction to a Psychological Study of Religion._ In _The Monist_, Vol. XI, p. 195.

STARBUCK, E. D.: _The Psychology of Religion._