First Published in 1926
PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN
CONTENTS
| PART I | ||
| THE ENGLISH NATION | ||
| CHAPTER | PAGE | |
| I. | PHILOLOGY AND THE ARYANS | [3] |
| II. | THE SETTLEMENT OF EUROPE | [20] |
| III. | ENGLAND BEFORE THE REFORMATION | [35] |
| IV. | MODERN ENGLAND | [50] |
| PART II | ||
| THE WESTERN OUTLOOK | ||
| V. | MYTH | [71] |
| VI. | PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION | [85] |
| VII. | DEVOTION | [107] |
| VIII. | EXPERIMENT | [128] |
| IX. | PERSONALITY AND REASON | [145] |
| X. | MECHANISM | [167] |
| XI. | IMAGINATION | [185] |
| BIBLIOGRAPHY | [205] | |
| INDEX | [209] | |
PART I
THE ENGLISH NATION
CHAPTER I
PHILOLOGY AND THE ARYANS
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If somebody showed us a document which he said was an unpublished letter of Dr. Johnson’s, and on reading it through we came across the word “telephone”, we should be fairly justified in sending him about his business. The fact that there was no such thing as a telephone until many years after Johnson’s death would leave no doubt whatever in our minds that the letter was not written by him. If we cared to go farther, we could say with equal certainty that the letter was written since the beginning of the nineteenth century, when the telephone was invented.