CONTENTS
| PAGE | ||
| Introductory Note | vii | |
| Biographical Sketch by R. W. Emerson | 1 | |
| The Service: Qualities of the Recruit | 35 | |
| Paradise (to be) Regained | 38 | |
| Herald of Freedom | 70 | |
| Wendell Phillips before the Concord Lyceum | 76 | |
| Thomas Carlyle and his Works | 81 | |
| Civil Disobedience | 131 | |
| Slavery in Massachusetts | 171 | |
| A Plea for Captain John Brown | 197 | |
| The Last Days of John Brown | 237 | |
| After the Death of John Brown | 249 | |
| Life without Principle | 253 | |
| The Prometheus Bound of Æschylus | 288 | |
| Translations from Pindar | 337 | |
| Poems. | ||
| | Inspiration | 358 |
| | Pilgrims | 359 |
| | To a Stray Fowl | 360 |
| | The Black Knight | 361 |
| | The Moon | 362 |
| | Omnipresence | 363 |
| | Inspiration | 363 |
| | Prayer | 363 |
| | Mission | 364 |
| | Delay | 364 |
