Contents

Contents

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A Visit to Carlyle in 1868

1

Early Morning in January

14

March

16

June

18

August

20

The End of October

22

November

25

The Break-up of a Great Drought

28

Spinoza

32

Supplementary Note on the Devil

58

Injustice

62

Time Settles Controversies

64

Talking about our Troubles

66

Faith

70

Patience

74

An Apology

78

Belief, Unbelief, and Superstition

83

Judas Iscariot

87

Sir Walter Scott’s Use of the Supernatural

96

September, 1798

99

Some Notes on Milton

110

The Morality of Byron’s Poetry.  “The Corsair”

125

Byron, Goethe, and Mr. Matthew Arnold

133

A Sacrifice

149

The Aged Three

152

Conscience

153

The Governess’s Story

160

James Forbes

170

Atonement

174

My Aunt Eleanor

180

Correspondence between George, Lucy, M.A., and Hermione Russell, B.A.

200

Mrs. Fairfax

218