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I. Life, And The Conduct Of Life
The Sphinx,
Influences, . . -
Self-Development,
Know Thyself,
Work, -
Laborare est Orare,
Wages, -
Reward, ...
' Tools and the Man,' -
Nobility, .' . .
Happiness,
Unhappiness,
The Problem Solved,
The Everlasting Yea,
Consume your own Smoke,
INIanhood, - - -
The Ideal,
Silence and Speech,
The Unknown Great,
The Silent Men,
The Real Man, -
The World's Judgment of Men of
Good and Evil, ...
Hero and Valet,
Faults, ....
Misunderstandings,
Evil Resisted, -
Impossible,
The Goose, ...
Perseverance,
The Dunce, ...
The Gifted Man, -
The Conditions of Knowledge,
The Fox,
Stupidity,
The Enemy,
The Foolishest Man in the Earth,
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CONTENTS.
Marirund and Sheep, ...
Society, -••••• Companionship, - . - .
Biographic Interest in Art, ...
Gossip, _ - - - . «
The Sentimentalist, ....
Senlimentalism, , . . .
The Quack, - . . . -
Guliibihty a Blessing, . . -
Conscience, - . . . .
A Shifty Woman, ....
Herr Teufelsdrockh on the Necessity of Cloth, Gentlemen, ....
Politeness, .....
The Vulgar, ....
Riches and Gigmen, . . . -
Half and Halfness, ....
Herr Teufelsdrockh's Rejected Epitaph, - Man's Life a Poem, ....
A Place in History, - . -
Dr. Peasemeal on Ballet-Girls, The Public Speaker, ...
Dandies, .....
Professor Teufelsdr5ckh on the Dandaical Sect, Laughter, .....
Ridicule, .....
Ridicule the Test of Truth, ...
Nil Admirari, ....
Hero-Worship, .....
The Age of Romance, ...
Romance in Reality, ....
Nothing Insignificant, ...
Custom, .....
The Results of Man's Activity and Attainment, The Brotherhood of Mankind, ...
The Generations of Mankind, Past, Present and Future, ...
Beginnings, ....
Life a Dream, .....
The Passage of Mankind, ...
Childhood, Death. .....
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II.
PORTRAITS AND CHARACTERS.
Great Men, Dante,
His Intensity,
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CONTENTS,
Dante and Shakspeare, Shakspeare — His Supremacy, -
His Universality,
His Tranquillity and Mirthfulness,
His Catholic Spirit, Luther, - - . . »
Luther's Portrait, . . -
John Knox, - - . .
George Fox, ...
Mahomet, ....
His Sincerity,
His Way of Life, Cromwell, Hampden, Eliot, Pym, Oliver Cromvi^ell in 1652, Laud, ....
Frederich Wilhelm, Father of Frederick the Great, Frederick the Great, Frederick and Napoleon, August the Strong, King of Poland, Marechal de Saxe, ...
Napoleon, - - - .
Mirabeau, ....
Danton, ....
Camille Desmoulins, . - .
Robespierre, - - »
Cagliostro, ....
Voltaire, ....
Rousseau, ....
Goethe, ....
Equanimity, ...
His Character, • •
Schiller, ....
Richter, ....
Lessing, ....
Dr. Johnson, ...
His Affectionate Nature, Boswell, ....
Byron, .....
Cervantes and Byron, . •
Byron and Burns, • • .
Burns, - • . ^
Sir Walter Scott, - • .
Coleridge, ....
His Talk,
His Character,
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LITERATURE, AND THE LITERARY LIFE.
Literature,
The Power of Literature,
CONTENTS.
The Anarchy of Literature,
The Chaotic Condition of Literature,
The Art of Writing,
Books and Universities,
Boolis and the Church, -
Literature and Government,
Phases of Literature, - • -
Soldiers of Literature, ...
Organisation, ....
The Poverty of Literary Men,
Society^Money,
Poverty, - ■ - , -
Courage, ....
The Poet's Life, ....
Poet and Prophet, ...
Definition of Poetry, Music,
Rhythm and Melody, . . -
Conditions of Poetry, ...
Unconsciousness of Genius,
Easy Writing, ....
Some Very Ready Writers,
A Great Discovery to be Made in Literature,
Origin of Poetry, . - -
Progress of Poetry, ...
Reading, .....
Two Ways of Reviewing,
The Critic Fly, ....
The Faults of a Work of Art, -
The Study of Poetry, ...
Judgment of a Foreign Work, •
Scientific Criticism, ...
Derivation of Poetic Beauty,
Affectation in Literature — Byron, -
What is Affectation ? -
Singularity, ....
The Beaten Paths, . . -
Fame, True and False, ...
An Example, ....
The Love of Fame, . . -
The Vanity of Fame, . . -
History and Biography, ...
How History is Written,
Dignity of History, ...
What a Biography should be, -
Humour and Sensibility, ...
True Humour, ....
The Humourists, ....
J^ Talent for Description,
View-bunting, ....
Novel Writing, ....
The Nibelungen Lied, ...
CONTENTS.
The Koran, .....
The Book of Job, - . . - .
The Divine Comedy, ....
Burns's Poetry, . . - . .
Tarn O'Shanter, ....
The Jolly Beggars, - - - . -
Burns's Songs, - - - . -
Scott's Poetry, .....
The Latter Half of the XVIIIth Century— Werter,
Goethe's Werter, .....
Schiller's Poetry, ....
His Want of Humour, . . -
His Greatness, ....
Goethe and Schiller, ....
Mephistopheles, ....
IV. Religion
Paganism,^ . - . .
Theories about Paganism, Origin of Paganism, Scandinavian Anthology, The Tree Igdrasil, - - .
Odin, ....
The Soul of Norse Belief, .
Islam, ....
Growth of Mahometanism, Mediaeval Catholicism — Dante, Shakspeare's Religion, Reformation, ...
The Diet of Worms, Protestantism, ...
"No Popery," . . .
The Reformation and the Nations, Revival of Romanism, Formulas, ...
Forms, . . . .
Voltaire and Superstition, Religion in Danger, Movement and Change, Voltaire against Christianity, Christianity and Greek Philosophy, Stoicism, - - . .
Origin of Christianity, - Denial, . . . .
Free-Thinker, ...
The Disease of Metaphysics, Speculative Metaphysics,
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Belief, .....
State of Religion — Unbelief, Teaching Religion, ...
A New Clergy, - - . -
Church of England, ...
Creeds and Forms, ...
Roman Augurs Outdone, ...
Gospel of Mammonism — The English Hell, The Gospel of Dillettantism — The Dead-Sea Soul, .....
Morrison's Pill, ....
Methodism, . . . .
Religions and New Religions, Religion, ....
Creeds, .....
Worship, ....
Apes,
V. Eighteen Hundred Forty-eight
Democracy in 1848,
Republics, . • .
Governing, . . -
Governors, - ' -
How do Men Rise in Your Society
Talent, ...
Bad Government,
Vox Populi,
Voting, ....
Premier, - - ' -
Blockhead in Office,
Reform, ...
Hints to Good Government,
Reform begins at Home, -
From Within Outward,
Cromwell's Statue, -
Public Statues in England,
Modern Peerages, -
Modern Prisons,
Capital Punishment,
Sentimental Benevolence,
The Benevolent Platform Fever,
False Benevolence,
The Danger,
A Nation's History,
Modern Wars, ...
Parliamentary Debates,
Justice, ....
CONTENTS.
Education, -
The Uneducated Poor,
Await the Issue,
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