Duty of a statesman when the interests and wishes of his nation conflict
Nature and extent of political trusteeship
Temperance questions
Legitimate and illegitimate time-serving
Education questions
Inconsistency in politics—how far it should be condemned
The conduct of Peel in 1829 and 1845
The conduct of Disraeli in 1867
Different degrees of weight to be attached to party considerations
Temptations to war
Temptations of aristocratic and of democratic governments
Necessity of assimilating legislation
Legislation violating contracts.—Irish land legislation
Questions forced into prominence for party objects
The judgment of public servants who have committed indefensible acts
The French coup d'état of 1851
Judgments passed upon it
Probable multiplication of coups d'état
Governor Eyre
The Jameson raid
How statesmen should deal with political misdeeds
The standard of international morals—questions connected with it
The ethics of annexation
Political morals and public opinion
[CHAPTER XI]
Moral compromise in the Church
Difficulties of reconciling old formularies with changed beliefs
Cause of some great revolutions of belief.—The Copernican system.—Discovery of Newton
The antiquity of the world, of death, and of man
The Darwinian theory
Comparative mythology.—Biblical criticism.—Scientific habits of thought
General incorporation of new ideas into the Church
Growth of the sacerdotal spirit
The two theories of the Reformation
Modern Ritualism
Its various elements of attraction
Diversity of teaching has not enfeebled the Church
Its literary activity.—Proofs that the Church is in touch with educated laymen
Its political influence—how far this is a test of vitality
Its influence on education
Its spiritual influence
How far clergymen who dissent from parts of its theology can remain within it
Newman on a Latitudinarian establishment
Obligations imposed on the clergy by the fact of Establishment
Attitude of laymen towards the Church
Increasing sense of the relativity of belief
This tendency strengthens with age
The conflict between belief and scepticism
Power of religion to undergo transformation
Probable influence of the sacerdotal spirit on the Church
[CHAPTER XII]
THE MANAGEMENT OF CHARACTER
A sound judgment of our own characters essential to moral improvement
Analogies between character and taste
The strongest desire generally prevails, but desires may be modified
Passions and habits
Exaggerated regard for the future.—A happy childhood
Choice of pleasures.—Athletic games
The intellectual pleasures
Their tendency to enhance other pleasures.—Importance of specialisation
And of judicious selection
Education may act specially on the desires or on the will
Modern education and tendencies of the former kind
Old Catholic training mainly of the will.—Its effects
Anglo-Saxon types in the seventeenth century
Capriciousness of willpower—heroism often succumbs to vice
Courage—its varieties and inconsistencies
The circumstances of life the school of will.—Its place in character
Dangers of an early competence.—Choice of work
Choice of friends.—Effect of early friendship on character
Mastery of will over thoughts.—Its intellectual importance
Its importance in moral culture
Great difference among men in this respect
Means of governing thought
The dream power—its great place in life
Especially in the early stages of humanity
Moral safety valves—danger of inventing unreal crimes
Character of the English gentleman
Different ways of treating temptation
[CHAPTER XIII]
MONEY
Henry Taylor on its relation to character
Difference between real and professed beliefs about money
Its relation to happiness in different grades of life
The cost of pleasures
Lives of the millionaires
Leaders of Society
The great speculator
Expenditure in charity.—Rules for regulating it
Advantages and disadvantages of a large very wealthy class in a nation
Directions in which philanthropic expenditure may be best turned