A century of intellectual development
By: by Hector Macpherson
Publisher: W. Blackwood
Published: 1907
Place of publication: Edinburgh
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
Subjects: Intellectual life; Philosophy; History
Notes: "With the exception of the last three chapters, the contents of this volume appeared originally in 'The Edinburgh evening news.'"--Pref.
Table of contents: title: I. The starting-point: French revolution.; title: II. Revolution thinkers and their work.; title: III. The mechanism of the universe.; title: IV. The constitution of matter.; title: V. The evolution of theory.; title: VI. The utilitarian school.; title: VII. The philosophy of John Stuart Mill.; title: VIII. Hamilton and Carlyle as philosophers.; title: IX. Spencer and the evolution philosophy.; title: X. The German philosophic movement.; title: XI. Political economy and socialism.; title: XII. The evolution of literature.; title: XIII. Burns and the revolution spirit.; title: XIV. The literature of reaction.; title: XV. The literature of revolt.; title: XVI. George Eliot and the evolution spirit.; title: XVII. The philosophy of Robert Browning.; title: XVIII. Tennyson and modern thought.; title: XIX. The evolution of religious thought: Evangelicism.; title: XX. The Broad church movement.; title: XXI. Later phases of religious thought.