Also by EDWARD CARPENTER The Art of Creation Essays on the Self and its Powers
Reading edition
Crown 8vo, Cloth, gilt top, 266 pp. 5s. net.
The Book is an attempt to explain the Creative process in the light of modern (and ancient) thought. It suggests—as the title would indicate—that the Creation of the World, like a work of Art, proceeds by perfectly definite laws from inner states of being and feeling to outer manifestation; and that Man himself, as soon as he understands, can take part in this art of creation. The book is both theoretical and practical. In its pages there is a reconcilement of Spirit and Matter, of Plato and Darwin, of Religion and Physiology, of the Gods and Evolution; and the chapters on Creation and Transformation lead on to the development of the highest orders of knowledge and power in mankind.
Manchester Guardian.—“Written with great simplicity and charm, and no thoughtful reader who takes it up will fail to find interest and profit in it.”
LONDON: GEORGE ALLEN
Other Works by the same Author
TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: Complete Poems. Library Edition, 1905, cloth, gilt edge, 506 pages, 3s. 6d. net.
The Same, Pocket Edition, India paper, with limp binding and gilt edge, 3s. 6d. net.
ENGLAND’S IDEAL and other Papers on Social Subjects. Fourth Edition, 1902, 176 pages, cloth, 2s. 6d.; paper, 1s.
CIVILISATION: ITS CAUSE AND CURE, essays on Modern Science, &c. Eighth Edition, 1906, 176 pages, cloth, 2s. 6d.; paper, 1s.
LOVE’S COMING OF AGE: a series of papers on the Relations of the Sexes. Fourth Edition, 1903, 168 pages, cloth, 3s. 6d. net.
ANGELS’ WINGS: Essays on Art and Life, with nine full-page plates, cloth gilt, 248 pages, 6s.
ADAM’S PEAK TO ELEPHANTA: sketches in Ceylon and India. New Edition, 1903, cloth gilt, 4s. 6d.
THE STORY OF EROS AND PSYCHE, with first book of Homer’s Iliad done into English, and frontispiece, cloth gilt, 2s. 6d.
IOLÄUS: An Anthology of Friendship. Printed in red and black inks, with ornamental initials and side notes; cloth, gilt edge, 2s. 6d. net.
CHANTS OF LABOUR: a Songbook for the People, edited by Edward Carpenter. With frontispiece and cover by Walter Crane. Paper, 1s.
AN UNKNOWN PEOPLE: pamphlet on intermediate types of men and women, price 6d. net.
PRISONS, POLICE, AND PUNISHMENT: an Inquiry into the Causes and Treatment of Crime and Criminals. Crown 8vo, cloth, 2s. net.
EDWARD CARPENTER: The Man and His Message. Pamphlet by Tom Swan, with two portraits and copious extracts from the above works, price 6d. net.