"Why touch upon such themes? perhaps some friend
      May ask, incredulous; and to what good end?
      Why drag again into the light of day
      The errors of an age long passed away?
      I answer: For the lesson that they teach;
      The tolerance of opinion and of speech."--Longfellow
      
  Contents:
  Prefatory Notice: In Presenting to the Public the Author of PAUSE!
  Part I: Hypotheses
  
    He That Hath Eyes
    A Grain of Dust
    Holy Fire
    Idolatry
    Quetzalcoatl
  
  Part II: Theorem
  
    Tumuli and Roses
    Feet of Clay
    Justice
    Sebek-Ra
    The Bronze Mirror (from a French manuscript)
  
  Part III: Parables
  
    The Spirit Visible
    Under the Cloak
    Pan and the Pagan
    The Socialist
    What Is, Is