Past and PresentAn edited collection of Thomas Carlyle's seminal 19th century historical criticism of medieval history |
Contents
CHAP PAGE I Midas | 7 |
The Sphinx | 13 |
Manchester Insurrection | 20 |
Morrisons Pill | 28 |
Aristocracy of Talent | 32 |
HeroWorship | 38 |
BOOK II | 43 |
Jocelin of Brakelond | 45 |
CHAP PAGE I Phenomena | 139 |
Gospel of Mammonism | 147 |
Gospel of Dilettantism | 152 |
Happy | 155 |
The English | 159 |
Two Centuries | 167 |
OverProduction | 172 |
Unworking Aristocracy | 176 |
St Edmundsbury | 52 |
Landlord Edmund | 56 |
Abbot Hugo | 63 |
Twelfth Century | 68 |
Monk Samson | 72 |
The Canvassing | 78 |
The Election | 81 |
Abbot Samson | 88 |
Government | 94 |
The Abbots Ways | 98 |
The Abbots Troubles | 103 |
In Parliament | 108 |
Henry of Essex | 110 |
PracticalDevotional | 114 |
St Edmund | 121 |
The Beginnings | 128 |
BOOK III | 137 |
Working Aristocracy | 184 |
Plugson of Undershot | 189 |
Labour | 196 |
Reward | 201 |
Democracy | 209 |
Sir Jabesh Windbag | 221 |
Morrison Again | 224 |
BOOK IV | 237 |
Aristocracies | 239 |
Bribery Committee | 250 |
The One Institution | 255 |
Captains of Industry | 267 |
Permanence | 274 |
The Landed | 279 |
The Gifted | 285 |
The Didactic | 290 |
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