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1. Education: Huxley: "Science and culture" -- Arnold: "Literature and science" -- Spencer: practical knowledge -- Dickens: facts, the one thing needful -- Meredith: trial by education -- Eliot: "School-time" -- Hardy: Jude's Great expectations -- 2. Social welfare and the Industrial Revolution: Reform bills: electoral reform -- Smiles: the railway and progress -- Thackeray: stage-coach vs. railroad -- Dickens: the railroad in Stagg's gardens -- Carlyle: "Condition of England" question -- Ruskin: "The roots of honour" -- Morris: art and commerce -- Mill: proper functions of government -- Green: limiting laissez-faire -- Tennyson: "The steam threshing machine" -- Browning: "The cry of the children" -- Hopkins: "God's grandeur" -- 3. Religion: Keble: "National apostasy" -- Kingsley: rejoinder to Newman -- Newman: on Kingsley -- Colenso: the historical accuracy of the Old Testament -- Clough: "The latest Decalogue -- Bradlaugh: of atheism and atheists -- Besant: Victorian mysticism -- 4. Science: Athenaeum: debate on Darwin -- Huxley: Darwin explained -- Chambers: in the beginning and since then ... -- Butler: choice or chance in evolution? -- Tennyson: "Lucretius" -- Browning: "Caliban upon Setebos" -- Arnold: "Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse" -- Meredith: "The woods of Westermain" -- 5. Art: Morley: attack on Swinburne -- Rossetti: defense of Swinburne -- Hopkins: poets and poetry -- Pater: the bases of impressionism -- Wilde: Dorian Gray, aesthete -- Tennyson: "The higher pantheism" -- Swinburne: "The higher pantheism in a nutshell" -- Swinburne: the aesthetic lady -- Hilton:"Octopus" -- Fitzgerald: Turkish bards and English hedonists -- Browning: optimism -- Stephen: "Sincere flattery of R.B." -- Gilbert: Wilde with a lily in his hand. |
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