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Title: Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 3 of 3)
Essay 1: On Popular Culture

Author: John Morley

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Language: English

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CRITICAL MISCELLANIES

BY
JOHN MORLEY

VOL. III.
Essay 1: On Popular Culture

London
MACMILLAN AND CO., Limited
NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1904

ON POPULAR CULTURE

PAGE

Introduction 1

Importance of provincial centres 2

Report of the Midland Institute 4

Success of the French classes 5

Less success of English history 6

Value of a short comprehensive course 8

Dr. Arnold's saying about history 'traced backwards' 9

Value of a short course of general history 10

Value of a sound notion of Evidence 16

Text-books of scientific logic not adequate for popular objects 21

A new instrument suggested 21

An incidental advantage of it 23

General knowledge not necessarily superficial 25

Popular culture and academic organisation 25

Some of the great commonplaces of study 29

Conclusion 34

ON POPULAR CULTURE

AN ADDRESS DELIVERED AT THE TOWN HALL, BIRMINGHAM (OCTOBER 5,
1876), BY THE WRITER, AS PRESIDENT OF THE MIDLAND INSTITUTE.

The proceedings which have now been brought satisfactorily to