Cambridge English Prose Texts consists of volumes devoted to substantial selections from non-fictional English prose of the late sixteenth to the mid nineteenth centuries.

1. Natural Theology (1802), Chapters 1-3 William Paley; 2. Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation (1844), Chapter 14, 'Hypothesis of the Development of the Vegetable and Animal Kingdoms' Robert Chambers; 3. The Testimony of the Rocks (1857), Lecture Fifth, 'Geology in its Bearings on the Two Theologies', Part I Hugh Miller; 4. On the Origin of Species (1859), Chapter 14, 'Recapitulation and Conclusion' Charles Darwin; 5. 'On the Mosaic Cosmogony', Essays and Reviews (1860) Charles Goodwin; 6. Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley (1903), vol. 1, Chapter 1,'1859-1860' Leonard Huxley; 7. The Descent of Man (1871), Chapter 21, `General Summary and Conclusion' Charles Darwin; 8. 'The Belfast Address', Nature, 20 August 1874 John Tyndall; 9. The Relations between Religion and Science (1884.), Lecture VI, 'Apparent Collision between Religion and the Doctrine of Evolution'; and Lecture VIII, `The Conclusion of the Argument' Frederick Temple.