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 A KEMPIS: _Imitation of Christ._ Translation by Stanhope.
(Mediaeval 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 Mueller. _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._