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] |
THE
INTELLECTUAL LIFE.