cs--Two Books: _Labor and the Popular
Welfare_ and _Aristocracy and Evolution_--Letters from Herbert
Spencer

CHAPTER XIV

RELIGIOUS PHILOSOPHY AND FICTION 270

The So-called Anglican Crisis--_Doctrine and Doctrinal
Disruption_--Three Novels: _A Human Document_, _The Heart of
Life_, _The Individualist_--Three Works on the Philosophy of
Religion: _Religion as a Credible Doctrine_, _The Veil of the
Temple_, _The Reconstruction of Belief_--Passages from _The Veil
of the Temple_

CHAPTER XV

_From the Highlands to New York_ 292

Summer on the Borders of Caithness--A Two Months' Yachting
Cruise--The Orkneys and the Outer Hebrides--An Unexpected
Political Summons

CHAPTER XVI

POLITICS AND SOCIETY IN AMERICA 308

Addresses on Socialism--Arrangements for Their
Delivery--American Society in Long Island and New
York--Harvard--Prof. William James--President
Roosevelt--Chicago--Second Stay in New York--New York to
Brittany--_A Critical Examination of Socialism_--Propaganda in
England

CHAPTER XVII

THE AUTHOR'S WORKS SUMMARIZED 335

A Boy's Conservatism--Poetic Ambitions--The Philosophy of
Religious Belief--The Philosophy of Industrial
Conservatism--Intellectual Torpor of Conservatives--Final
Treatises and Fiction

CHAPTER XVIII

LITERATURE AND ACTION 343

Literature as Speech Made Permanent--All Written Speech Not
Literature--The Essence of Literature for Its Own Sake--Prose as
a Fine Art--Some Interesting Aspects of Literature as an End in
Itself--Their Comparative Triviality--No Literature Great Which
Is Not More Than Literature--Literature as a Vehicle of
Religion--Lucretius--_The Reconstruction of Belief_

INDEX 373

ILLUSTRATIONS

ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE _Frontispiece_

ROBERT BROWNING _Facing p. 30_

THOMAS CARLYLE " 64

JOHN RUSKIN " 86

OUIDA " 126

CARDINAL MANNING " 134

HERBERT SPENCER " 266

THEODORE ROOSEVELT " 318

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