Author:
Francis, Richard, 1945-
Imprint:New Haven : Yale University Press, c2010.
Descriptionviii, 321 p. : ports. ; 25 cm.
Note:Part I. The seed -- ch. 1 . To reproduce perfect men -- ch. 2. Now I know what thought is -- ch. 3. A joy in a winding sheet -- ch. 4. Fabling of worlds -- ch. 5. Rembrandt's pot -- Part II. The fruit -- ch. 6. Hesitations at the plunge -- ch. 7. The mind yields, falters, and fails -- ch. 8. The little wicket gate -- ch. 9. The principle of inverse ratio -- ch. 10. Diffusive illitimable benevolence -- ch. 11. The new waves curl -- ch. 12. Utter subjection of the body -- ch. 13. The consociate family life -- ch. 14. Penniless pilgrimages -- ch. 15. Softly doth the sun descend -- ch. 16. Nectar in a sieve -- ch. 17. Cain and Abel -- ch. 18. Tumbledown Hall.