Ideas and beliefs of the Victorians; an historic revaluation of the Victorian Age.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: [London] Sylvan Press [1949]Description: 448 p. 22 cmSubject(s): DDC classification:
  • 942.081
LOC classification:
  • DA550 .T5
Contents:
Foreword / Harman Grisewood -- Introducing the ideas and beliefs of the Victorians / G.M. Trevelyan, Bertrand Russell, Lord David Cecil, Christopher Dawson -- Origins and development of the idea of progress / John Bowle, Basil Willey -- Macaulay and the sense of optimism / G.M. Trevelyan -- 1851 and the visibility of progress / E.L. Woodward -- 1851 -- a new age, a new style / John Summerson -- The mood of doubt / Humphry House -- Fabian socialism / H.J. Laski -- Herbert Spenser -- progress and freedom / Frederick Copleston, S.J. -- The evangelical discipline / Canon Charles Smyth -- Evangelicalism of the nonconformists / Gordon Rupp -- The Tractarian movement, church revival and reform / Alec Vidler -- The Tractarians' successors: the influence of the contemporary mood / T.M. Parker -- Newman and Roman Catholicism / Monsignor Ronald Knox -- The new morality / H. g. Nicholas -- The Victorian attitude to evil and personal responsibility / D.M. MacKinnon -- The strands of unbelief / Noel Annan -- Qualities of George Eliot's unbelief / Humphry House -- Unbelief and science / J. Bronowski -- Man and nature / Canon C.E. Raven -- Evolution and human progress / Julian Huxley -- Geology changes the outlook / F. Sherwood Taylor -- Archaeology links geology to history / Glyn E. Daniel -- Science and philosophy / A.J. Ayer -- Physical science and the beliefs of the Victorians / N.F. Mott -- Man and nature: some artists' views / Humphry House -- Man and nature / Herbert Dingle, Canon V.A. Demant, L.L. Whyte -- The humanitarians / Christopher Dawson -- Emancipation of women / R. Glynn Grylls -- The emancipation of women: its motives and achievements / Viola Klein -- Toleration / Bertrand Russell -- The social conscience and the ideas of Ruskin / Lord Lindsay of Birker -- The aristocratic idea / Douglas Woodruff -- Victorian democracy: good luck or good management / K.B. Smellie -- Radical democracy in the Victorian era / H.N. Brailsford -- The development of education / E. Salter Davies. The Victorian conception of wealth / Graham Hutton -- The idea of empire / J.W. Davidson, Alfred Cobban The liberal mind in Victorian England / G.M. Young -- The Victorian family / H.L. Beales -- Victorian ideas of sex / H.L. Beales, Edward Glover -- Fin de Siecle / Lord David Cecil -- Personal responsibility / G.D.H. Cole -- The onus of state action / Guy Chapman -- Anthropology -- the Victorian synthesis and modern relativism / Daryll Forde -- The recession of liberalism / R.C.K. Ensor -- Benjamin Jowett / Geoffrey Faber -- The proconsuls / Jack Simmons -- The leaders of collectivist thought / H.J. Laski -- The testament of change / R.H.S. Crossman -- Continuity and contrast / D.M. MacKinnon, R.H.S. Crossman, K.B. Smellie, M. Polanyi.
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Foreword / Harman Grisewood -- Introducing the ideas and beliefs of the Victorians / G.M. Trevelyan, Bertrand Russell, Lord David Cecil, Christopher Dawson -- Origins and development of the idea of progress / John Bowle, Basil Willey -- Macaulay and the sense of optimism / G.M. Trevelyan -- 1851 and the visibility of progress / E.L. Woodward -- 1851 -- a new age, a new style / John Summerson -- The mood of doubt / Humphry House -- Fabian socialism / H.J. Laski -- Herbert Spenser -- progress and freedom / Frederick Copleston, S.J. -- The evangelical discipline / Canon Charles Smyth -- Evangelicalism of the nonconformists / Gordon Rupp -- The Tractarian movement, church revival and reform / Alec Vidler -- The Tractarians' successors: the influence of the contemporary mood / T.M. Parker -- Newman and Roman Catholicism / Monsignor Ronald Knox -- The new morality / H. g. Nicholas -- The Victorian attitude to evil and personal responsibility / D.M. MacKinnon -- The strands of unbelief / Noel Annan -- Qualities of George Eliot's unbelief / Humphry House -- Unbelief and science / J. Bronowski -- Man and nature / Canon C.E. Raven -- Evolution and human progress / Julian Huxley -- Geology changes the outlook / F. Sherwood Taylor -- Archaeology links geology to history / Glyn E. Daniel -- Science and philosophy / A.J. Ayer -- Physical science and the beliefs of the Victorians / N.F. Mott -- Man and nature: some artists' views / Humphry House -- Man and nature / Herbert Dingle, Canon V.A. Demant, L.L. Whyte -- The humanitarians / Christopher Dawson -- Emancipation of women / R. Glynn Grylls -- The emancipation of women: its motives and achievements / Viola Klein -- Toleration / Bertrand Russell -- The social conscience and the ideas of Ruskin / Lord Lindsay of Birker -- The aristocratic idea / Douglas Woodruff -- Victorian democracy: good luck or good management / K.B. Smellie -- Radical democracy in the Victorian era / H.N. Brailsford -- The development of education / E. Salter Davies. The Victorian conception of wealth / Graham Hutton -- The idea of empire / J.W. Davidson, Alfred Cobban The liberal mind in Victorian England / G.M. Young -- The Victorian family / H.L. Beales -- Victorian ideas of sex / H.L. Beales, Edward Glover -- Fin de Siecle / Lord David Cecil -- Personal responsibility / G.D.H. Cole -- The onus of state action / Guy Chapman -- Anthropology -- the Victorian synthesis and modern relativism / Daryll Forde -- The recession of liberalism / R.C.K. Ensor -- Benjamin Jowett / Geoffrey Faber -- The proconsuls / Jack Simmons -- The leaders of collectivist thought / H.J. Laski -- The testament of change / R.H.S. Crossman -- Continuity and contrast / D.M. MacKinnon, R.H.S. Crossman, K.B. Smellie, M. Polanyi.