Impressions of Theophrastus Such
William Blackwood and Sons Edinburgh and London
MDCCCLXXIX
Suspicione si quis errabit sua, Et rapiet ad se, quod erit commune omnium, Stulte nudabit animi conscientiam. Huic excusatum me velim nihilominus: Neque enim notare singulos mens est mihi, Verum ipsam vitam et mores hominum ostendere. — Phaedrus.
I. LOOKING INWARD
II. LOOKING BACKWARD
III. HOW WE ENCOURAGE RESEARCH
IV. A MAN SURPRISED AT HIS ORIGINALITY
V. A TOO DEFERENTIAL MAN
VI. ONLY TEMPER
VII. A POLITICAL MOLECULE
VIII. THE WATCH-DOG OF KNOWLEDGE
IX. A HALF-BREED
George Eliot
IMPRESSIONS OF THEOPHRASTUS SUCH
GEORGE ELIOT
Second Edition
CONTENTS
I.
LOOKING INWARD.
II.
LOOKING BACKWARD.
III.
HOW WE ENCOURAGE RESEARCH.
IV.
A MAN SURPRISED AT HIS ORIGINALITY.
V.
A TOO DEFERENTIAL MAN.
VI.
ONLY TEMPER.
VII.
A POLITICAL MOLECULE.
VIII.
THE WATCH-DOG OF KNOWLEDGE
IX.
A HALF-BREED
X.
DEBASING THE MORAL CURRENCY.
XI.
THE WASP CREDITED WITH THE HONEYCOMB
XII.
"SO YOUNG!"
XIII.
HOW WE COME TO GIVE OURSELVES FALSE TESTIMONIALS, AND BELIEVE IN THEM.
XIV.
THE TOO READY WRITER
XV.
DISEASES OF SMALL AUTHORSHIP
XVI.
MORAL SWINDLERS.
XVII.
SHADOWS OF THE COMING RACE.
XVIII.
THE MODERN HEP! HEP! HEP!
THE END.