| Introduction | |
| Note on the Text | |
| Select Bibliography | |
| A Chronology | |
| From the Translation of David Friedrich Strauss's The Life of Jesus (Introduction: Criteria by which to Distinguish the Unhistorical in the Gospel Narrative) | 3 |
| Letter to Charles Bray (21 October 1846) | 11 |
| J. A. Froude's The Nemesis of Faith | 15 |
| R. W. Mackay's The Progress of the Intellect | 18 |
| Woman in France: Madame de Sable | 37 |
| From the Translation of Feuerbach's The Essence of Christianity (Concluding Application) | 69 |
| From the Translation of Spinoza's Ethics (On the Power of the Intellect, or, on Human Liberty) | 75 |
| Liszt, Wagner and Weimar | 82 |
| Charles Kingsley's Westward Ho! | 110 |
| Geraldine Jewsbury's Constance Herbert | 119 |
| Lord Brougham's Literature | 123 |
| The Morality of Wilhelm Meister | 129 |
| The Future of German Philosophy | 133 |
| Evangelical Teaching: Dr. Cumming | 138 |
| Tennyson's Maud | 171 |
| Margaret Fuller and Mary Wollstonecraft | 180 |
| Thomas Carlyle | 187 |
| German Wit: Heinrich Heine | 193 |
| Robert Browning's Men and Women | 234 |
| The Antigone and Its Moral | 243 |
| John Ruskin's Modern Painters, Vol. III | 247 |
| The Natural History of German Life | 260 |
| Silly Novels by Lady Novelists | 296 |
| How I Came to Write Fiction | 322 |
| From 'The Sad Fortunes of the Reverend Amos Barton' (Chapter 5) | 326 |
| From Adam Bede (Book II, Chapter 17) | 328 |
| A Word for the Germans | 333 |
| Address to Working Men by Felix Holt | 338 |
| Notes on Form in Art | 355 |
| Explanatory Notes | 360 |
Format: Paperback, 432 pages
