THE GROWTH OF THOUGHT
AS AFFECTING THE PROGRESS OF SOCIETY.

By William Withington.

1851.




Contents.


Part I.
Introductory.

Life Defined. Intellectual Culture and Intellectual Life,
Distinguished. Human Life, a Problem. The Evil to be Managed.
Self-Love Considered under a Three-fold Aspect. Three Agencies for
meliorating the Human Condition. The Growth of Thought, Slow; and oft
most in unexpected quarter.

Part II.

Welfare as dependent on the Social Institutions. Limited Aim of the
Received Political Economy. An Enlightened Policy but the Effective
Aim at managing Self-Love, directed towards Present Goods, vulgarly
understood. The Political Fault of the Papacy. Its Substantial
Correction by the Reformation. Republicanism carried from Religion
into Legislation; still without a clear perception of its Principle.