Man’s Search for Values ed. Thomas H. W. Martin, Dorothy Chamberlin & Irmgard Wieler (Gage Publishing, 1987, 0-7715-1181-7, 326pp, hc, an)
Reissue (Gage Publishing 1966) associational anthology. Ninth printing.
- viii · Preface · Maurice Gibbons · pr (r)
- x · Values · Albert Camus · ms from The Rebels (r)
- 1 · Man and Society
- 1 · Freewill · Louis Ginsberg · pm The Fiddlehead Summer 1965
- 1 · The Individual and Society
- 1 · The Wanderer · translated by Burton Raffel · pm Poems from the Old English by Burton Raffel, Bison Books, 1960
translated from the Anglo-Saxon (The Exeter Book, late 10th century).
- 3 · Tales from the Gulistan · Muslihu’d din Sa’di · ex (r)
- 5 · A Man’s a Man for a’ That · Robert Burns · pm Stewart and Meikle, 1799
- 6 · All the World’s a Stage · William Shakespeare · pm from As You Like It, Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies by William Shakespeare, Edward Blount and William and Isaac Jaggard, 1623
- 6 · “Alas! This Is Not What I Thought Life Was” · Percy Bysshe Shelley · pm (r)
- 7 · The Melancholy Hussar of the German Legion · Thomas Hardy · ss The London Magazine September 1903, as “The Melancholy Hussar”
- 16 · “Tell Me, Where is Fancy Bred?”
- 16 · The Old Story · Marcus Argentarius; translated by Edwin Arlington Robinson · pm Collected Poems by Edwin Arlington Robinson, Macmillan, 1921
- 16 · Sonnet LXI · Michael Drayton · pm (r)
from Idea.
- 16 · Sonnet CXVI · William Shakespeare · pm (r)
- 17 · After Long Silence · William Butler Yeats · pm (r)
from The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats.
- 17 · An Immortality · Ezra Pound · pm The Smart Set September 1913
- 17 · In the Sun · Miriam Waddington · pm (r)
from The Season’s Lovers.
- 18 · A Cup of Tea · Katherine Mansfield · ss The Story-teller May 1922
- 22 · A Girl with Ambition · Morley Callaghan · ss This Quarter Autumn/Winter 1925
- 26 · The Prince · Jacob Zilber · ss Tamarack Review
- 32 · Ambition · Raymond Knister · pm (r)
from The Collected Poems of Raymond Knister.
- 33 · Stress and Conflict
- 33 · The Science of Custom · Ruth Benedict · ar (r)
from Patterns of Culture.
- 41 · On Tolerance · François Marie Arouet de Voltaire; translated by Joseph McCabe · ar (r)
from Selected Works of Voltaire.
- 42 · Collective Guilt · Kahlil Gibran · ms from The Prophet, Knopf, 1923
- 43 · Sweet Content · Thomas Dekker · pm (r)
- 43 · Song to the Men of England · Percy Bysshe Shelley · pm The Chartist Circular #4, October 19 1839
- 44 · It Is an Easy Thing · William Blake · pm (r)
from The Four Zoas: Book Two.
- 44 · Robert Owen · Friedrich Engels · ar (r)
- 47 · Grave New World · Norman Ward · ar (r)
from Mice in the Beer.
- 48 · Duty
- 48 · Ode to Duty · William Wordsworth · pm (r)
- 49 · Voluntaries: III · Ralph Waldo Emerson · pm (r)
- 49 · Beauty and Duty · Ellen Sturgis Hooper · pm (r)
- 49 · Kind of an Ode to Duty · Ogden Nash · pm The Saturday Evening Post February 23 1935
- 51 · A Talk Among Leisured People · Count Leo Tolstoy; translated by Aylmer Maude · ms (r)
from Works Vol XV.
- 52 · The Mass Mind · Arthur Joyce Cary · ar (r)
- 54 · The Sporting Spirit · George Orwell · ar (r)
from Shooting an Elephant.
- 57 · Hunger · Laurence Binyon · pm (r)
- 57 · Joseph, The Provider · [uncredited] · ex from The Bible (r)
- 59 · The Gamut of Hunger · José de Castro · ar 1952
from The Geography of Hunger.
- 62 · The Shadow of Captain Bligh · Hugh MacLennan · ar (r)
from Thirty and Three.
- 65 · To Toussaint L’Ouverture · William Wordsworth · pm (r)
- 65 · Who Should Be a Slave? · Abraham Lincoln · ar (r)
from an address to an Indian Regiment.
- 66 · The Little Black Boy · William Blake · pm Songs of Innocence by William Blake, 1789
- 66 · Keep Your Own Things · Irene Baird · pm North
- 68 · Babiy Yar · Yevgeny Yevtushenko; translated by Robin Milner-Gulland & Peter Levi · pm (r)
from Yevtushenko, Selected Poems.
- 69 · The Individual and the State
- 69 · From Break of Day · translated by Henry H. Hart · pm (r)
from The Hundred Names.
- 69 · The Needs of the State · Plato; translated by Benjamin Jowett · ex from The Republic (r)
- 73 · Prescription for Political Administration · Cicero; translated by Walter Miller · ex from The Offices (r)
- 77 · The Man of Law · Geoffrey Chaucer · ss The Canterbury Tales by Geoffery Chaucer, William Caxton, 1478
- 78 · My Body in the Walls Captived · Sir Walter Raleigh · pm (r)
- 79 · Lawyers [Gulliver] · Jonathan Swift · ex from Travels Into Several Remote Nations of the World, Benjamin Motte, 1726
- 80 · The Prisoner of Chillon: A Fable · Lord Byron · pm (r)
- 85 · Law Like Love · W. H. Auden · pm (r)
from Collected Shorter Poems.
- 86 · Court of General Sessions · Raymond Souster · pm (r)
from The Colour of the Times.
- 86 · Promoting a New Nationality · Sir Georges Étienne Cartier · ar (r)
- 89 · The Organization of the Empire · Joseph Howe · ex 1866
- 90 · A New Vision of History and the Heart · Révérend Père Jacques Monet, S.J. · ar The Globe and Mail September 22 1965
- 91 · The World State · G. K. Chesterton · pm G.K.’s Weekly March 21 1925, uncredited.
- 92 · The Dinosaur · Bert Leston Taylor · pm The Chicago Tribune 1912
- 92 · Civil Service Civilities · Farley Mowat · ex from Never Cry Wolf (r)
- 95 · Leadership and Initiative
- 95 · Reaching Toward Humanity · Joseph K. Hart · ar 1951
from Education in the Humane Community, Harper, 1951.
- 99 · The Steady Work of Reason · Gilbert Highet · ex from The Art of Teaching, Knopf, 1950
- 103 · The Manchu Scholar · Lewis C. Walmsley · ar (r)
- 105 · The Scholar in the Narrow Street · Tso Ssu; translated by Arthur Waley · pm (r)
- 105 · Solomon Exhorteth to the Study of Wisdom · [uncredited] · ex from The Bible (r)
- 106 · A Song of the Open Road · translated by John Addington Symonds · pm (r)
- 107 · How Gargantua Was Instructed · François Rabelais; translated by Sir Thomas Urquhart · ex (r)
- 110 · As the Twig Is Bent · Alexander Pope · pm from Moral Essays (r)
- 111 · The Wonderful Book · Jean Jacques Rousseau; translated by Dorothy Chamberlin · ex from Émile, Book III (r)
- 112 · Of Children · Kahlil Gibran · pm from The Prophet, Knopf, 1923
- 113 · The Proverb · Marcel Aymé; translated by Norman Denny · ss The London Magazine July 1956
- 119 · About Crows · John Ciardi · pm The Saturday Evening Post 1961
- 120 · The Moth and the Star · James Thurber · vi The New Yorker February 18 1939
- 121 · The White Knight · Eric Nicol · vi (r)
from Shall We Join the Ladies.
- 122 · Man and War
- 122 · Most Lovely · Sappho · pm (r)
- 122 · Attitudes to War
- 122 · Arjuna’s Dilemma · translated by Shree Purohit Swami · ex from The Geeta (r)
- 125 · Song of Harold Harfager · Sir Walter Scott · pm (r)
- 126 · Ordinance, Prophecy and Precept · [uncredited] · ex from The Bible (r)
- 127 · The Battle of Brunanburh · translated by Burton Raffel · pm from The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (r)
- 128 · Visages of War
- 128 · The Nefarious War · Li Po; translated by Shigeyoshi Obata · pm (r)
- 128 · Achilles to the King of Ithaca · Samuel Hazo · pm College English January 1965
- 128 · When a Man Hath No Freedom to Fight for at Home · Lord Byron · pm Letters and Journals of Lord Byron ed. Thomas Moore, J. & J. Harper, 1830
- 129 · Channel Firing · Thomas Hardy · pm (r)
- 129 · War Song · John Davidson · pm (r)
- 129 · The Castle · Michael Roberts · pm (r)
from Orlon Marches.
- 130 · Three Trumpets—and a Tuba!
- 130 · Nicias, to His Army in Retreat from Syracuse · Thucydides; translated by Benjamin Jowett · ms (r)
- 130 · Cateline, to His Troops, on the Eve of His Defeat · C. C. Salustius; translated by Thomas Heywood · ms 1608
- 131 · A Second Crusade! · Saint Bernard · ms 1146
- 132 · Frederick the Great, to His Officers Before the Battle of Leuthen · Frederick the Great; translated by Franz Theodor Kugler · ms (r)
- 133 · How Sir Mordred Presumed · Sir Thomas Malory · ex from The Hoole Book of Kyng Arthur and of His Noble Knyghtes of the Rounde Table, William Caxton, 1485
- 134 · The Chivalric Ideal · Alfred, Lord Tennyson · pm from The Coming of Arthur (r)
- 136 · Some Adventures of Don Quixote · Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra; translated by Charles Jarvis · ex 1742; abridged from Don Quixote de la Mancha.
- 144 · Actualities of War
- 144 · The Scimitar of Islam · Harold Lamb · ex from Suleiman the Magnificent, Doubleday, 1951
- 148 · By What Means a Prince May Become Esteemed · Niccolò Machiavelli · ex from The Prince (r)
- 149 · The Slaughter of the Esquimaux · Samuel Hearne · ar (r)
- 153 · Wretched Man · John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester · pm from Satire LXIV (r)
- 153 · The Trumpeter · Thomas Raddall · ss The Saturday Evening Post January 17 1942
- 161 · Two Friends · Guy de Maupassant; translated by Dorothy Chamberlin · ss (r)
- 164 · Pro Patria
- 164 · To the Lord General Cromwell · John Milton · pm (r)
- 164 · A Soldier · Sir John Suckling · pm (r)
- 164 · To Lucasta, on Going to the Wars · Richard Lovelace · pm Lucasta by Richard Lovelace, 1649
- 165 · Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington · Alfred, Lord Tennyson · ex (r)
- 167 · Ode: Written in 1746 · William Collins · pm (r)
- 167 · The Soldier · Rupert Brooke · pm 1914 & Other Poems by Rupert Brooke, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1915
- 167 · Dulce et Decorum Est · Wilfred Owen · pm Poems by Wilfred Owen, Chatto and Windus, 1920
- 168 · Schweik, The Good Soldier, Intervenes in the Great War · Jaroslav Hasek; translated by Paul Selver · ex from The Good Soldier Schweik (r)
- 172 · Civil War · Mikhail Sholokhov; translated by Stephen Garry · ex from And Quiet Flows the Don, Knopf, 1934
- 180 · The Sniper · Liam O’Flaherty · ss The New Leader January 12 1923
- 182 · Conflict · F. R. Scott · pm (r)
from Overture.
- 183 · The Treason of Kenneth Edward · Rebecca West · ex from The Meaning of Treason (r)
- 188 · Last Letters · [uncredited] · lt from Last Letters from Stalingrad (r)
- 190 · Cannon · Edmund Spenser · ex from The Faerie Queene, William Ponsonby, 1590
- 191 · The Fury of Aerial Bombardment · Richard Eberhart · pm (r)
from Burr Oaks.
- 191 · The Raid · William Everson · pm 1948
from The Residual Years, New Directions, 1948.
- 192 · Benny, The War in Europe and Myerson’s Daughter Bella · Mordecai Richler · ss The Montrealer 1957
- 196 · Peace in our Time
- 196 · Accursed! · Homer; translated by Alexander Pope · pm from The Iliad (r)
- 196 · Combat Liberalism · Mao Tse-Tung · ar (r)
- 199 · War and Pacifism · Woodrow Wyatt · iv 1960 [Ref. Lord Bertrand Russell]
from Bertrand Russell Speaks His Mind, World Publishing Co, 1960.
- 202 · Fame · Edward Young · pm from Satire VII (r)
- 202 · To Posterity · Bertolt Brecht; translated by H. R. Hays · pm (r)
from Selected Poems of Bertolt Brecht.
- 204 · Science, the Destroyer or Creator? · Jacob Bronowski · ar (r)
from The Common Sense of Science.
- 209 · Sonnet XVI: To Kosciusko · John Keats · pm Poems by John Keats, C & J Ollier, 1817
- 209 · Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth · Arthur Hugh Clough · pm The Crayon August 1855, as “The Struggle”
- 210 · Reflections on War
- 210 · On Reading the War Diary of a Defunct Ambassador · Siegfried Sassoon · pm 1947
from Collected Poems.
- 210 · Nationality · Dame Mary Gilmore · pm (r)
from New Land—New Voices.
- 210 · Brave Old World · Elisabeth Lambert · pm (r)
- 211 · Man and the Unknown
- 211 · The Unknown · Omar Khayyam · ex from The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (r)
- 211 · Mysteries of the Universe
- 211 · Out of the Whirlwind · [uncredited] · ex from The Bible (r)
- 213 · The Protagoras Myth · Plato; translated by J. A. Stewart · ex from The Dialogues, Macmillan, 1905
- 215 · No Single Thing Abides · Titus Lucretius; translated by W. H. Mallock · pm (r)
- 216 · Concepts of Space
- 216 · Ode · Joseph Addison · pm The Spectator August 23 1712
- 216 · The Infinite · Giacomo Leopardi; translated by R. C. Trevelyan · pm 1941
from Translations from Leopardi, Cambridge University Press, 1941.
- 216 · Prometheus Unbound · Percy Bysshe Shelley · ex (r)
- 217 · To the Memory of Sir Isaac Newton · James Thomson · ex (r)
- 217 · When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer · Walt Whitman · pm Drum-Taps by Walt Whitman, Peter Eckler, 1865
- 217 · For the Conjunction of Two Planets · Adrienne Cecile Rich · pm (r)
from A Change of World.
- 218 · The Revolution Is Prepared · W. E. K. Middleton · ar (r)
- 221 · The Naked World · Rene Sully Prudhomme; translated by William Dock · pm (r)
- 221 · Riddles of the Past
- 221 · A Merchant Digs for Trojan Gold · C. W. Ceram; translated by E. B. Garside · ex from Gods, Graves, and Scholars, Knopf, 1951
- 233 · We Have Been Here Before · Morris Bishop · pm (r)
from Spilt Milk.
- 234 · Bronze Wood · Carl Sandburg · vi 1940
from Home Front Memo, Harcourt, Brace & World, 1940.
- 235 · The Singing Silence · Eva-Lis Wuorio · ss The Saturday Evening Post March 23 1963
- 238 · Perplexities of the Present
- 238 · Wisdom and Ignorance · Decimus Junius Juvenalis; translated by Samuel Johnson · pm from Satire X (r)
- 238 · E=mc2 · Morris Bishop · pm The New Yorker October 26 1946
- 239 · Of Suspicion · Sir Francis Bacon · ms (r)
- 239 · Men Say They Know Many Things · Henry David Thoreau · pm (r)
- 239 · What’s the Railroad to Me · Henry David Thoreau · pm (r)
- 240 · Science vs. Luck · Samuel Clemens · ar The Galaxy October 1870
- 241 · Homily for a Troubled Time · Bernard DeVoto · ar (r)
- 245 · Desert Places · Robert Frost · pm The Complete Poems of Robert Frost by Robert Frost, Henry Holt, 1949
- 245 · Mental Mechanisms · John Lovett Doust · ar (r)
- 248 · Courage and Fear
- 248 · The Ballad of John Henry · [uncredited] · pm (r)
- 250 · Invictus · William Ernest Henley · pm Book of Verses by William Ernest Henley, David Nutt, 1888
- 250 · Fear · Julian Huxley · pm (r)
from The Captive Shrew.
- 250 · Before · William Ernest Henley · pm (r)
- 250 · To Fight Aloud Is Very Brave · Emily Dickinson · pm (r)
- 251 · Conjectures of the Future
- 251 · Prophecies
- 251 · Men Rashly Mounting · Guillaume de Salluste du Bartas · pm (r)
- 251 · Out of Step · E. J. Pratt · pm (r)
from Collected Poems of E.J. Pratt.
- 251 · The Last Man · Thomas Campbell · pm (r)
- 252 · The City of the End of Things · Archibald Lampman · pm The Atlantic Monthly March 1894
- 253 · The Man in Asbestos: An Allegory of the Future · Stephen Leacock · ss Nonsense Novels by Stephen Leacock, Lane, 1911
- 258 · Meteor · John Wyndham · nv Amazing Stories March 1941, as “Phoney Meteor” by John Beynon
- 266 · Go Fly a Saucer · David McCord · pm 1953
from The Old Bateau and Other Poems, Little, Brown, 1953.
- 267 · The Obsolescence of Man · Arthur C. Clarke · ar Playboy July 1961, as “Machina ex Deus”
- 274 · The Feeling of Power · Isaac Asimov · ss If February 1958
- 279 · John Thomas’s Cube · John Leimert · ss The Atlantic Monthly August 1945
- 284 · Hi-Yo, Hi-Yo, Discernible Today · Maxwell Anderson · pm The New Yorker May 1 1948
- 285 · The Inner Quest
- 285 · Dover Beach · Matthew Arnold · pm New Poems by Matthew Arnold, 1867
- 285 · Secret Places · Charlotte Brontë · pm 1846
from Evening Solace.
- 286 · The Shape of Wonder · N. J. Berrill · ar 1955
from Man’s Emerging Mind, Dodd, Mead, 1955.
- 294 · In Search of the Flame Dancers · Rosita Forbes · ar (r)
- 296 · The Other Side of the Hedge · E. M. Forster · ss The Independent November 1904
- 299 · Sonnet VII · John Donne · pm (r)
- 300 · The World · Henry Vaughan · pm (r)
- 301 · Light Shining out of Darkness · William Cowper · pm (r)
- 301 · “I Saw Eternity the Other Night” · W. Arthur Boggs · pm College English November 1964
- 302 · The Village Atheist · Edgar Lee Masters · pm 1916
from The Spoon River Anthology, Macmillan, 1916.
- 302 · Mysticism · W. Somerset Maugham · ex from The Summing Up (r)
- 303 · Bontshe, the Silent · Isaac Peretz; translated by Dr. Angelo S. Rappoport · ss (r)
- 307 · Exeunt
- 307 · Facing Death · Chih Ming; translated by Henry W. Hart · pm (r)
from The Hundred Names.
- 307 · Journey’s End · Humbert Wolfe · pm (r)
from The Unknown Goddess.
- 307 · Death the Leveler · James Shirley · pm (r)
- 307 · Speaking about Death · A. J. M. Smith · pm (r)
from Collected Poems.
- 308 · Master of My Fate · Brian Hocking · ex from Biology or Oblivion (r)
- 313 · Prayer Before Birth · Louis MacNeice · pm (r)
from Collected Poems 1925-48.
- 314 · Chronology · [uncredited] · ms (r)
- 323 · Index of Authors and Translators · [uncredited] · ix (r)
- 325 · Index of Titles · [uncredited] · ix (r)
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