Contents

PAGE

Biographical Statement 1

I. Lord, What is Man? 9

II. Elementary Morality 24

III. The Germs of Erewhon and of Life and Habit 39

IV. Memory and Design 56

V. Vibrations 66

VI. Mind and Matter 74

VII. On the Making of Music, Pictures and Books 93

VIII. Handel and Music 110

IX. A Painter’s Views on Painting 135

X. The Position of a Homo Unius Libri 155

XI. Cash and Credit 168

XII. The Enfant Terrible of Literature 183

XIII. Unprofessional Sermons 200

XIV. Higgledy-Piggledy 215

XV. Titles and Subjects 229

XVI. Written Sketches 237

XVII. Material for a Projected Sequel to Alps and 259

Sanctuaries

XVIII. Material for Erewhon Revisited 288

XIX. Truth and Convenience 297

XX. First Principles 309

XXI. Rebelliousness 332

XXII. Reconciliation 346

XXIII. Death 353

XXIV. The Life of the World to Come 360

XXV. Poems 379

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