Critical MiscellaniesBoD – Books on Demand, 2022 M09 29 - 388 pages Reprint of the original, first published in 1871. |
Contents
3 Substantial perfecting of nature and society | 3 |
Perfectibility | 5 |
Its merits | 43 |
Sent in 1802 as minister to St Petersburg | 48 |
CARLYLE | 66 |
Rousseau and Mr Carlyle | 77 |
His omission of the idea of Progress | 79 |
His ideas on Prayer | 101 |
Insists on the revival of the papal power as the essential condition of | 166 |
Views Christianity from the statesmans point of view | 172 |
Comparative progressiveness of the moral and intellectual elements | 205 |
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