Part 1

THE BEST of the WORLD'S CLASSICS

RESTRICTED TO PROSE

HENRY CABOT LODGE Editor-in-Chief

FRANCIS W. HALSEY Associate Editor

With an Introduction, Biographical and Explanatory Notes, etc.

In Ten Volumes

Vol. VII

CONTINENTAL EUROPE--I

Funk & Wagnalls Company New York and London Copyright, 1909, by Funk & Wagnalls Company

The Best of the World's Classics

VOL. VII

CONTINENTAL EUROPE--I

CONTENTS

VOL. VII--CONTINENTAL EUROPE--I

EARLY CONTINENTAL WRITERS

354--1380

ST. AURELIUS AUGUSTINE--(Born in Numidia, Africa, in 354; died in 430.)

Imperial Power for Good and Bad Men.

(From Book IV, Chapter III, of "De Civitate Dei")

ANICIUS BOETHIUS--(Born about 475, died about 524.)

The Highest Happiness.

(From "The Consolations of Philosophy." Translated by Alfred the Great)

ST. THOMAS AQUINAS--(Born near Aquino, Italy, probably in 1225; died in 1274.)

A Definition of Happiness.

(From the "Ethics")

THOMAS À KEMPIS--(Born in Rhenish Prussia about 1380, died in the Netherlands in 1471.)

Of Eternal Life and of Striving for It.

(From "The Imitation of Christ")