ON THE PRINCIPLES OF POLITICAL KNOWLEDGE.

Three systems

of political

justice, or

Three theories

on the origin of

Government.

VOL. I. ESSAYS I—IV. pp. 221—278.

VOL. II. ESSAYS I—XII. pp. 1–204.

Vol. I.

Essays I-IV.

pp. 221-278.

Vol. II.

Essay I.

pp. 1-27.

Personal retro-
spect.

Essay II.

pp. 28-35.

FIRST SECTION.

Political

Reform.

EssaysIII-V.

pp. 36-87.

Essay

I. System of Hobbes: fear and the

force of custom: confutation.

II. Do. continued: spirit of law: use
of the phrase, original contract.'

System of expedience and pru-

dence-adopted: system of the

pure reason motives for expos-

ing its falsehood.

III

IV. Statement of the system: Rous-

seau's Social Contract,' and

Paine's' Rights of Man:' French

physiocratic philosophers: Cart-
wright: confutation.

I. Cartwright party-spirit: Jaco-

bins and Anti-Jacobins: injudi-

cious treatment of the former by

the latter.

II. The author never a Jacobin: pan-
tisocracy peace of Amiens, its
character and good effects.

III. Vulgar errors respecting taxes and
taxation true principles: na-
tional debt.

IV. Classes of political reformers: elec-
tive franchise.

V. Catechism preparatory to examina-

tion of the principles of the

English Government: letter of

Decatur's, and anecdotes illus-

trative of principles.

International Law. Essays VI-X. pp. 88-166.

Principles of political conduct. Essay XI. pp. 167-185.

True love of

liberty. Essay XII.

pp. 186-204.

FIRST SECTION.

Principles of true biography. Essay II. pp. 233-244.

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SECOND LANDING-PLACE.

VOL. II. ESSAYS I-IV. pp. 207–261. Miseries of misgovernment in a country nominally free. Essay I. pp. 207-232.

XII. Address delivered at Bristol in 1795.

I. Tale of Maria Eleonora Schöning.

II. Spirit of anecdote-mongering condemned: extract from R. North's Life of Lord Keeper Guilford.

Miscellaneous.
Essays

III. and IV.

pp. 245-261.

Introduction.

pp. 1-50.

SECOND SECTION.

ON THE GROUNDS OF MORALS AND RELIGION, AND THE DISCI-

PLINE OF THE MIND REQUISITE FOR A TRUE UNDER-

STANDING OF THE SAME.

VOL. III. ESSAYS I-XI. pp. 1-216.

Dignity and

necessity of

speculative phi-

losophy, and a

history of its

decline.

Essays I-III.
pp. 53-107.

Essay

III. Fable of Irus (Buonaparte) and
Toxaris: Christmas within, and..
out of, doors in North Germany:
extract from Mr. Wordsworth's

MS. poem.

IV. Rabbinical tales.

Letter from Mathetes (Professor
Wilson and Mr. A. Blair): in-
ternal and external difficulties to

a mind endeavouring to esta-

blish itself on sure principles,

moral and intellectual: answer

by The Friend (Mr. Words-

worth): advice and caution.

Essay

I. Relation of morality and reli-

gion pamphlets of the age of

Charles I. extract: sanity of..

true genius distinction between

genius, talent, sense, and clever-

ness: relative character of the

national mind of Germany, Eng-

land, and France.

:

II. Self-interest and conscience :

ethics not founded on utility:

honour universal assent a pre-

sumption of truth: ground of be-
lief in miracles: true Christian

enthusiasm: mysteries of faith
not to be explained by mere
human analogies: Taylor's lati-
tudinarianism.

III. Greek sophists: their character
and principles: separation of
ethics from religion: the author's
convictions of the nature and
results of the history of the last
century and a half.

Principles of
the Science of
Method.
(continued.)

Existence of
luck or fortune

under the
Christian
scheme.
Essay I.
pp. 219-225.

Essay

the education of man: their dis-
coveries in the region of the
pure intellect and success in the
arts of imagination contrasted
with their crude essays in the
investigation of physical laws
and phænomena : Romans: He-
brews the mid-point of a line,
toward which the Greeks as the
ideal, and the Romans as the
material, pole were approximat-
ing,-Christianity the synthesis.
XI. Trade and Literature essential to a
nation: consequences of the com-
mercial spirit preponderating:
difference of ultimate aims in
men and nations: evidence of
objective reality in man himself:
nature and man, union and dif-
ference: mere being in its es-
sence: the idea, whence origi-
nated revelation: God: the
material world made for man:
universal laws for the whole
tempered by particular laws for
the individual in nature and
man: causation: invisible nexus:
ground of union: difference be-
tween the reason and the under-
standing what they can respec-
tively achieve: method of the
will religious faith.

THIRD LANDING-PLACE.

VOL. III. ESSAYS I-VI. pp. 219.-301.

I. Fortune favors fools: different
meanings of the proverb: luck
has a real existence in human
affairs how: invidious use of
the phrase.

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