The setting forth -- Of children and kittens -- Getting at the truth : the nature of intellect in act -- The mystery of nature and the brooding breast of love -- Of natural rights and natural law : a speculative beginning -- The problem of getting to know natural rights from natural law -- Concerning the impieties of aberrant will -- Loving the South, at a growing distance -- The specialization of applied prosody -- Angelism and the poet's made world -- Ownership vs. stewardship : signposts at the parting of ways -- The "cranky" distinction between poetry and religion