The Harvard Classics

by Charles William Eliot

Essays, Civil And Moral and The New Atlantis by Francis Bacon
Areopagitica and Tractate On Education by John Milton
Religio Medici by Sir Thomas Browne
With Introductions and Notes

347 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1909

About the author

Charles William Eliot was an American academic who was selected as Harvard's president in 1869. He transformed the provincial college into the preeminent American research university. Eliot served the longest term as president in the university's history.