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Nonfiction · 1876

The Unseen World, and Other Essays

John Fiske

Reading time
about 7 h
Length
99,125 words · 349 pages
Structure
19 chapters · 1 front-matter section
Language
English
Era
Victorian

The Unseen World, and Other Essays, first published in 1876, has been pulled into the Bibliomancer archive: the complete text, carefully cleaned and typeset, free to read online. Its editorial introduction is still being prepared.

Contents

  1. Dedication
  2. Part First
  3. Part Second
  4. II — “The to-Morrow of Death.”
  5. III — The Jesus of History
  6. IV — The Christ of Dogma
  7. V — A Word About Miracles
  8. VI — Draper on Science and Religion
  9. VII — Nathan the Wise
  10. VIII — Historical Difficulties
  11. IX — The Famine of 1770 in Bengal
  12. X — Spain and the Netherlands
  13. XI — Longfellow’s Dante
  14. Canto V — , line 84:—
  15. Canto XVII — , line 42:—
  16. Canto XVII — , line 25:—
  17. Canto V — , line 51:—
  18. Canto XXXI — , line 131:—
  19. XII — Paine’s “St. Peter.”
  20. XIII — A Philosophy of Art
  21. XIV — Athenian and American Life

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John Fiske

1842–1901 · Victorian

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