The Intellectual Life

by Philip Gilbert Hamerton

CONTENTS.

PART I.
THE PHYSICAL BASIS.
CHAPTER		PAGE
I.	To a young man of letters who worked excessively	[17]
II.	To the same	[22]
III.	To a student in uncertain health	[27]
IV.	To a muscular Christian	[42]
V.	To a student who neglected bodily exercise	[47]
VI.	To an author in mortal disease	[53]
VII.	To a young man of brilliant ability, whohad just taken his degree	[57]
PART II.
THE MORAL BASIS.
I.	To a moralist who had said that there wasa want of moral fibre in the intellectual,especially in poets and artists	[67]
II.	To an undisciplined writer	[80]
III.	To a friend who suggested the speculation“which of the moral virtues was mostessential to the intellectual life”	[91]
IV.	To a moralist who said that intellectualculture was not conducive to sexualmorality	[98]
PART III.
OF EDUCATION.
I.	To a friend who recommended the authorto learn this thing and that	[104]
II.	To a friend who studied many things	[110]
III.	To the same	[120]
IV.	To a student of literature	[130]
V.	To a country gentleman who regrettedthat his son had the tendencies of adilettant	[134]
VI.	To the principal of a French college	[137]
VII.	To the same	[143]
VIII.	To a student of modern languages	[149]
IX.	To the same	[153]
X.	To a student who lamented his defectivememory	[165]
XI.	To a master of arts who said that a certaindistinguished painter was half-educated	[170]
PART IV.
THE POWER OF TIME.
I.	To a man of leisure who complained ofwant of time	[176]
II.	To a young man of great talent and energywho had magnificent plans for the future	[185]
III.	To a man of business who desired to makehimself better acquainted with literature,but whose time for reading waslimited	[200]
IV.	To a student who felt hurried and driven	[207]
V.	To a friend who, though he had no profession,could not find time for his variousintellectual pursuits	[212]
PART V.
THE INFLUENCES OF MONEY.
I.	To a very rich student	[216]
II.	To a genius careless in money matters	[224]
III.	To a student in great poverty	[239]
PART VI.
CUSTOM AND TRADITION.
I.	To a young gentleman who had firmly resolvednever to wear anything but a graycoat	[246]
II.	To a conservative who had accused theauthor of a want of respect for tradition	[254]
III.	To a lady who lamented that her son hadintellectual doubts concerning the dogmasof the church	[263]
IV.	To the son of the lady to whom the precedingletter was addressed	[269]
V.	To a friend who seemed to take credit tohimself, intellectually, from the natureof his religious belief	[276]
VI.	To a Roman Catholic friend who accusedthe intellectual class of a want of reverencefor authority	[280]
PART VII.
WOMEN AND MARRIAGE.
I.	To a young gentleman of intellectualtastes, who, without having as yet anyparticular lady in view, had expressed,in a general way, his determination toget married	[285]
II.	To a young gentleman who contemplatedmarriage	[291]
III.	To the same	[299]
IV.	To the same	[306]
V.	To the same	[312]
VI.	To a solitary student	[322]
VII.	To a lady of high culture who found itdifficult to associate with persons ofher own sex	[325]
VIII.	To a lady of high culture	[330]
IX.	To a young man of the middle class, welleducated, who complained that it wasdifficult for him to live agreeably withhis mother, a person of somewhat authoritativedisposition, but uneducated	[333]
PART VIII.
ARISTOCRACY AND DEMOCRACY.
I.	To a young English nobleman	[341]
II.	To an English democrat	[358]
PART IX.
SOCIETY AND SOLITUDE.
I.	To a lady who doubted the reality of intellectualfriendships	[374]
II.	To a young gentleman who lived much infashionable society	[379]
III.	To the same	[384]
IV.	To the same	[391]
V.	To a young gentleman who kept entirelyout of company	[397]
VI.	To a friend who kindly warned the authorof the bad effects of solitude	[402]
PART X.
INTELLECTUAL HYGIENICS.
I.	To a young author whilst he was writinghis first book	[415]
II.	To a student in the first ardor of intellectualambition	[422]
III.	To an intellectual man who desired anoutlet for his energies	[431]
IV.	To the friend of a man of high culturewho produced nothing	[441]
V.	To a student who felt hurried and driven	[446]
VI.	To an ardent friend who took no rest	[451]
VII.	To the same	[456]
VIII.	To a friend (highly cultivated) who congratulatedhimself on having entirelyabandoned the habit of reading newspapers	[466]
IX.	To an author who appreciated contemporaryliterature	[470]
X.	To an author who kept very irregularhours	[476]
PART XI.
TRADES AND PROFESSIONS.
I.	To a young gentleman of ability and culturewho had not decided about his profession	[488]
II.	To a young gentleman who had literaryand artistic tastes, but no profession	[499]
III.	To a young gentleman who wished to devotehimself to literature as a profession	[504]
IV.	To an energetic and successful cottonmanufacturer	[513]
V.	To a young Etonian who thought of becominga cotton-spinner	[522]
PART XII.
SURROUNDINGS.
I.	To a friend who often changed his place ofresidence	[530]
II.	To a friend who maintained that surroundingswere a matter of indifference to athoroughly occupied mind	[539]
III.	To an artist who was fitting up a magnificentnew studio	[546]

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