Missing: v.2, v.3, v.11-16, v.20, v.23-28, v.50.
Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents: v.1. The Great Conversation . – v.4.Homer. – v.5. Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes. – v.6. Herodotus, Thucydides – v.7. Plato. – v.8. Aristotle : I. – v.9. Aristotle : II. – v.10.Hippocrates, Gallen. – v.11. Euclid, Archimedes, Apollonius of Perga, Nichomachus. – v.12. Lucretius, Epictetus, M. Aurelius. – v.13. Virgil. – v.14. Plutarch. – v.15.Tacitus. – v.16. Ptolemy, Copernicus, Kepler. – v.17. Plotinus. – v.18. Augustine. – v.19. Thomas Aquinas : I. – v.20. Thomas Aquinas : II. –v.21. Dante. – v.22. Chaucer. – v.23. Machiavelli, Hobbes. – v.24. Rabelais. – v.25. Montaigne. – v.26. Shakespear I. – v.27. Shakespear II. – v.28. Gilbert, Galileo, Harvey. – v.29.Cervates. – v.30. Francis Bacon. – v.31. Descartes; Spinoza. – v.32. Milton. – v.33 Pascal. – v.34. Newton, Huygens. – v.35. Locke, Berkeley,Hume. – v.36. Swift; Sterne. – v.37. Fielding. – v.38. Montesquieu, Rousseau. 39. Adam Smith. – v. 40. Gibbon I. – v.41. Gibbon II. – v.42. Kant. – v.43. American state papers; The federalist; J.S. Mill. – v.44. Boswell. –
v.45. Lavoisier; Fourier; Faraday. – v.46. Hegel. – v.47. Goethe. – v.48. Melville. – .v49. Darwin. – v.51. Tolstoy. – v.52. Dostoevksy. – v.53. William James. – v.54. Freud.