A Defence of Poetry and Other Essays
On Love
What is love? Ask him who lives, what is life? ask him who adores, what is God? I know not the i...
On Life
Life and the world, or whatever we call that which we are and feel, is an astonishing thing. The ...
On a Future State
It has been the persuasion of an immense majority of human beings in all ages and nations that we...
On the Punishment of Death
A FRAGMENT The first law which it becomes a Reformer to propose and support, at the approach of ...
Speculations on Metaphysics
I—THE MIND It is an axiom in mental philosophy, that we can think of nothing which we have not p...
Speculations on Morals
I.—PLAN OF A TREATISE ON MORALS That great science which regards nature and the operations of th...
Essay on the Literature, the Arts, and the Manners of the Athenians
A FRAGMENT The period which intervened between the birth of Pericles and the death of Aristotle,...
On the Symposium, or Preface to the Banquet of Plato
A FRAGMENT The dialogue entitled The Banquet was selected by the translator as the most beautifu...
A Defence of Poetry
According to one mode of regarding those two classes of mental action, which are called reason an...