IMPRESSIONS OF THEOPHRASTUS SUCH
GEORGE ELIOT
Second Edition
William Blackwood and Sons
Edinburgh and London
MDCCCLXXIX
"Suspicione si quis errabit sua, Et rapiet ad se, quod erit commune omnium, Stulte nudabit animi conscientiam Huic excusatum me velim nihilominus Neque enim notare singulos mens est mihi, Verum ipsam vitam et mores hominum ostendere" -Phaedrus
Contents
Chapter I: LOOKING INWARD
Chapter II: LOOKING BACKWARD
Chapter III: HOW WE ENCOURAGE RESEARCH
Chapter IV: A MAN SURPRISED AT HIS ORIGINALITY
Chapter V: A TOO DEFERENTIAL MAN
Chapter VI: ONLY TEMPER
Chapter VII: A POLITICAL MOLECULE
Chapter VIII: THE WATCH-DOG OF KNOWLEDGE
Chapter IX: A HALF-BREED
Chapter X: DEBASING THE MORAL CURRENCY
Chapter XI: THE WASP CREDITED WITH THE HONEYCOMB
Chapter XII: "SO YOUNG!" Chapter XIII: HOW WE COME TO GIVE OURSELVES FALSE TESTIMONIALS, AND BELIEVE IN THEM Chapter XIV: THE TOO READY WRITER Chapter XV: DISEASES OF SMALL AUTHORSHIP Chapter XVI: MORAL SWINDLERS Chapter XVII: SHADOWS OF THE COMING RACE Chapter XVIII: THE MODERN HEP! HEP! HEP!