Contents[1] [Volume Three]
Project Gutenberg EPUB3 edition
Parrington, Vernon Louis
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I. The Victorian Mood—A genial optimism
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1. Sociology and the Enlightenment: Condorcet, Comte, and the gospel of progress
194
2. Biology and the Enlightenment: Spencer and the philosophy of anarchism
197
3. The End of the Hopes of the Enlightenment
202
II. The School of Spencer—John Fiske
203
II. The Skepticism of the House of Adams: The flower of the sturdy New England character. They fail to adjust to the Gilded Age
212
I. Charles Francis Adams—The Business Failure
213
II. Henry Adams—Intellectual
214
III. Brooks Adams—Rebel
227
III. Victorian Realism: In the eighties realism begins to excite interest and the movement gets under way, though the American taste is still romantic. The psychology of the dispersion marking America
237
I. [William James and Pragmatism]
II. Henry James and the Nostalgia of Culture
239
III. William Dean Howells and the Realism of the Commonplace
241
Book Two: The Old and the New: Storm Clouds
Part I
The Middle Border Rises
I. The Plight of the Farmer
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I. Democratic Reactions to Plutocracy: The Middle Border suffers. Two moods: Buoyancy, depression—the farmer deflated. The economic problem
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II. The Farmer Considers Politics: His intellectual equipment—homespun theories derided by the schools. The movement of organization: The Grange, The Alliance, Populism. The flare-up of the nineties—the doctrine of more corn and less hell
263
III. The Greenback Movement: The laissez-faire theory abandoned by English economists. American spokesmen: John Sherman, David A. Wells, Eleazar Lord. Diverse theories of money—the intrinsic-value theory and the quantitative theory. The money question a heritage of the Civil War—a debtor class and an appreciating standard of value
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IV. Greenbackism and Peter Cooper
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V. [Bi-metallism: A heritage of Jacksonian democracy: Ignatius Donnelly, “Coin” Harvey]