Includes bibliographical references (p. [194]-197) and index
Introduction : the English type -- Englishmen underground ; or, The case of the abdicated playwright -- Hobbes against the world -- Locke, life, language -- Hume on the use and abuse of scepticism for life -- "Some have suspected me of Darwinism" -- The impossible John Stuart Mill -- How Monsieur George Eliot added insult to injury -- Wrong but romantic -- Shakespeare, Sterne, and stage -- The great American who loved the world.
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