CONTENTS

I. USES OF GREAT MEN

II. PLATO; OR, THE PHILOSOPHER

PLATO: NEW READINGS

III. SWEDENBORG; OR, THE MYSTIC

IV. MONTAIGNE; OR, THE SKEPTIC

V. SHAKSPEARE; OR, THE POET

VI. NAPOLEON; OR, THE MAN OF THE

WORLD

VII. GOETHE: OR, THE WRITER

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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

From a bust by Sidney M. Morse in 1859

PLATO

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Frontispiece

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From a bust in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Made from the original in the Berlin Museum
EMANUEL SWEDENBORG

From the portrait by Kraft in the National Gallery at
Gripsholm Palace, Sweden. The photograph was

loaned by the Massachusetts New Church Union,
Boston

MICHAEL DE MONTAIGNE

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150

From the engraving by Thomas de Leu

WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE

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From the Chandos portrait in the National Portrait
Gallery, London

NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

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From an engraving in the collection of George H.
Mifflin after a miniature by Jean Baptiste Paulin
Guerin in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

At the age of 79. From the painting by Joseph
Karl Stieler. The photograph was loaned by Pro-
fessor Hugo Münsterberg

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