CHAPTER SECOND

The Novel (Continued)-Thackeray

Comparison between Dickens and Thackeray....

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223

III. Superiority of Thackeray as a Satirist.-Literary Snobs.... 231

II.-Portrait of Henry Esmond.-Historical Talent....

258

VII.-Estimate of Macaulay's Work.

VIII. Comparison of Macaulay with French Historians..

CHAPTER FOURTH

Philosophy and History-Carlyle

Part I.-Style and Mind

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SECTION

HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE

Part II.-Vocation

I.—The Appearance and Development of Original Minds........

II. Characteristics of the German Form of Mind..

III.-German Aptitude for General Ideas....

IV. Faults of the German Form of Thought.

V. How Ideas are Reshaped......

VI.-Growth of German Ideas in England..

Part III.-Philosophy, Morality, and Criticism

VII.-The Dangers of Enthusiasm.-Comparison of Carlyle and

Macaulay

CHAPTER FIFTH

Philosophy-Stuart Mill

I.-Lack of General Ideas.....

II. Why Metaphysics are Lacking..

III.-Mill's Philosophical Method

Part I.-Experience

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VII.-Theory of Induction

VIII.-Applications of the Theory of Induction.

IX.-The Province and Method of Deduction.....

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X.-Comparison of the Methods of Induction and Deduction... 388

XI.-Limits of Our Knowledge......

Part II.—Abstraction.

390

I.-Agreement of this Philosophy with the English Mind..... 394

II. The Nature of Abstraction.....

III.-Definitions Explain the Abstract Generating Elements of

.....

395

Things .....

397

IV.—The Basis of Proof in Syllogism is an Abstract Law.

V.-Axioms are Relations between Abstract Truths..

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400

III. Wherein Tennyson is at One with Nature.

414

IV. In Memoriam.-The Princess..

419

V. The Idylls of the King....

425

VI.-Comparison of English and French Society...

430

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