Moral nerve and the error of literary verdicts / by Furneaux Jordan
1901, First Edition. London : K. Paul, Trench, Trübner. Near fine copy in the original title-blocked pictorial cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #238126
Provenance; presentation bookplate from the Birmingham Medical Institute, being presented by Dr. Walker K. Judan. Physical description; xxiii, 141 p. ; 19 cm. Contents; Mind and matter : some guiding truths. -- Moral nerve : some guiding truths. -- Herbert Spencer as a moralist. -- Huxley as a moralist. -- Substitutional morals : the principle of punishment. -- Literary and scientific verdicts. -- The genesis of modern kindliness. -- Stuart Mill. -- Thomas Carlyle. -- The French revolution. -- Epoch-making incidents and persons. -- The slow change in the fundamental characteristics of peoples and individuals. -- Emerson on Napoleon. -- Goldwin Smith. -- Material prosperity and religion. -- Nerve forces as totalities. -- The evolution of the direct man (direct brain). Subjects; Ethics. Ethics - Physiological aspects. Character - Physiological aspects.
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