contents
unit 1: michelangelo 1
Contract for the Pieta 2
Contract for the David 4
unit 2: luther 5
from To the Christian Nobility of the German Nation 6
Martin Luther
from The Freedom of a Christian 26
Martin Luther
Preface to the Wittenberg Hymnal, 1524 58
Martin Luther
Preface to Georg Rhau's Symphoniae iucundae, 1538 60
Martin Luther
Hymn: A Mighty Fortress Is Our God 65
Martin Luther
Hymn: We All Believe in One True God 67
Martin Luther
Letter to Jodocus Jonas on Luther, May 10, 1521 70
Erasmus
Adrian VI's Instruction to Francesco Chieregati, 1522 82
Pope Adrian VI
unit 3: elizabeth I 89
Speeches of Queen Elizabeth 90
Elizabeth the Student 108
Roger Ascham
A Pope's
Admiration 110
The Venetian Ambassador
The Elizabethan Injunctions, 1559 111
Elizabeth: Selected Speeches, Letter, Poems, Prayers 129
Selected Poems 146
Sir Walter Raleigh
from The
Yale Edition of the Shorter Poems of Edmund Spenser 149
Edmund Spenser
from The Lady of May 157
Sir Philip Sidney
Edict Expelling the Moors 159
from Sultan Murad Ill's Letter to Elizabeth, c. 1580 160
from Elizabeth's Letter to Sultan Mehmed III, 1601 164
from The Merchant of Venice 166
William Shakespeare
unit 4: galileo 169
from Dialogue on the Great World
Systems 170
Galileo Galilei
Letters from Mario Guiducci and Benedetto Castelli 206
The Trial of Galileo 210
unit 5: jefferson 217
Introduction to John Locke 218
from The Second Treatise of
Government 219
John Locke
from Notes on the State of Virginia 245
Thomas Jefferson
Selected Letters 250
Thomas Jefferson
unit 6: beethoven 257
The Giant Astride the Centuries 258
Philip G. Downs
Beethoven's Instrumental Music 287
ETA. Hoffmann
Musical Terms 294
What to Listen for in Music 297
Aaron Copland
unit 7: darwin 313
from The Voyage of the Beagle 317
Charles Darwin
from The Origin of Species 330
Charles Darwin
from Charles Darwin's Autobiography 345
Responses to The Origin of Species 354
from The New Oxford Annotated Bible: Genesis 1 and 2 361
The Evanescence of Evil 365
Herbert Spencer
The Concentration of Wealth: Its Economic Justification 371
William Graham Sumner
from Sunshine and Storm in Rhodesia 378
Frederick Courteney Selous
Nordic Thinking and the German Rebirth 384
Hans F. K. Gunther
from The Argument of the Origin 386
Gertrude Himmelfarb
Some History Should Be Repeated 395
Carl Feldbaum
Ought We Do What We Can Do? 399
Sheryl Gay Stolberg
from The Age of Spiritual Machines 403
Ray Kurzweil
unit 8: carnegie 405
How I Served My Apprenticeship 406
Andrew Carnegie
from Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie 415
An Employer's View of the Labor Question 430
Andrew Carnegie
A Workingman s Prayer for die Masses 442
Anonymous
"The Incident" of the 6th of July 443
The Situation at Homestead 448
Homestead and Its Perilous Trades—Impressions of a Visit 452
Hamlin Garland
Popular Illusions about Trusts 465
Andrew Carnegie
from Looking Backward (1889) 477
Edward Bellamy
from Revolution: The Evolution of Socialism (1894) 483
Henry Demarest Lloyd
from Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie 491
Homestead as Seen by One of Its Workmen 505
L.W.
unit 9: freud 517
unit 10: picasso 519
The Cubist War 520
Stephen Kern
from Picasso on Art—Two Statements by Picasso 545
Dore Ashton
from The Composition of Music 555
Igor Stravinsky
from Picasso's Guernica 561
Ellen C. Oppler
unit 11: ellington 577
from Music Is My Mistress (1973) 578
Edward Kennedy Ellington
Homage to Duke Ellington on His Birthday 600
Ralph Ellison
Dream Boogie 607
Langston Hughes
Jazzonia 608
Langston Hughes
Morning After 609
Langston Hughes
The Weary Blues 610
Langston Hughes
New St. Louis Blues 612
Sterling Brown
Jazz Fantasia 613
Carl Sandburg
Am/Trak 614
Amiri Baraka
221st Chorus (from Mexico City Blues) 621
Jack Kerouac
239th Chorus (from Mexico City Blues) 622
Jack Kerouac
Dear John, Dear Coltrane 623
Michael Harper
Ellington Indigos 625
Aleda Shirley
The Day Duke Raised; May 24th, 1974 627
Quincy Troupe
from Music Is My Mistress 629
Edward Kennedy Ellington
unit 12: camus 665
from The Rebel 666
Albert Camus