Writing New England: An Anthology from the Puritans to the Present Book

	Preface
	Introduction
	Chronology
	From A Model of Christian Charity	3
	From A Brief Recognition of New England's Errand into the Wilderness	12
	Preface to God's Determinations Touching His Elect	21
	From The Christian Philosopher	23
	The Spider Letter	26
	"Forest Hymn"	32
	From Nature	36
	"Dialogue"	49
	From Two Years before the Mast	50
	From American Notebooks	53
	From the History of the Puritan Commonwealth	58
	"Four Trees upon a Solitary Acre"	60
	From The Maine Woods	61
	"The Oldest Inhabitant - The Weather of New England"	77
	"What Pragmatism Means"	80
	"Out, Out -"	94
	"The Snow Man"	96
	From The Outermost House	97
	"Mr. Edwards and the Spider"	101
	"Another Night in the Ruins"	103
	"Mayflies"	106
	From Christ the Fountain of Life	111
	"Before the Birth of One of Her Children"	115
	Personal Narrative	117
	"I Should Have Been Too Glad, I See"	130
	From The Education of Henry Adams	132
	From Darkwater	140
	"To Earthward"	145
	"In the Waiting Room"	147
	From The Richer, the Poorer	151
	From Uncle Tom's Cabin	159
	From The Morgesons	165
	From The Bostonians	168
	"Miniver Cheevy"	171
	From Literary Friends and Acquaintance	173
	"The Cambridge Ladies"	175
	From The Late George Apley	176
	From The Last Hurrah	181
	"Reunion"	184
	"Plumbing"	187
	From Parsons' Mill	193
	From New England's First Fruits	203
	Dogood Papers, No. 4	207
	From Conversations with Children	211
	From Christian Nurture	219
	From "Equality before the Law"	223
	Inaugural Address	229
	"The Function of a University"	234
	"Sex Education"	238
	Schoolmasters	249
	Letter to His Wife	259
	From The Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Proved	261
	Letters	269
	Letters concerning Brook Farm	273
	Argument before the Supreme Court in the Amistad Case	281
	"The Lady in the White Dress, Whom I Helped into the Omnibus"	286
	Speech in the United States Senate	288
	From Three Sermons	297
	"Battle-Hymn of the Republic"	306
	Transcendental Wild Oats	308
	From What Social Classes Owe to Each Other	321
	"Natural Law"	328
	Broadcast Address	333
	"The Green Fields of the Mind"	338
	Examination of Susanna Martin	343
	From Eulogy on King Philip	346
	From My Bondage and My Freedom	356
	"The Jewish Cemetery at Newport"	358
	From The Promised Land	361
	From "The Case of Sacco and Vanzetti"	373
	Journal Letters	381
	From Boston Adventure	387
	"The Lottery"	391
	"For the Union Dead"	399
	From The Autobiography of Malcolm X	402
	"Her Kind"	416
	From Death at an Early Age	418
	From Common Ground	422
	"Hamatreya"	433
	"A White Heron"	436
	From The American Scene	445
	"Maine Speech"	447
	Letter to The Cape Codder	450
	"Scenic View"	452
	Acknowledgments	455
	Index	461