A century of intellectual development.
Publisher: Blackwood
Published: 1907
Place of publication: Edinburgh
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
Subjects: Browning, Robert, 1812-1889.; Burns, Robert, 1759-1796; Carlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881; Eliot, George, 1819-1880.; Hamilton, William, Sir, 1788-1856; Mill, John Stuart, 1806-1873; Spencer, Herbert, 1820-1903; Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809-1892.; English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Philosophy, Modern -- History; Learning and scholarship
Table of contents: title: The starting-point; French Revolution; Revolution thinkers and their work; The mechanismm of the universe; The constitution of matter; The evolution theory; The Utilitarian school; The philosophy of John Stuart Mill; Hamilton and Carlyle as philosophers; Spencer and the evolution philosophy; The German philosophic movement; Political economy and socialism; The evolution of literature; Burns and the revolution spirit; The literature of reaction; The literature of revolt; George Eliot and the evolution spirit; The philosophy of Robert Browning; Tennyson and modern thought; The evolution of religious thought: Evangelicalism; The Broad Church Movement; Later phases of religious thought; Index.