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Selected Chapters
19 chapters
A MODERN SYMPOSIUM
A MODERN SYMPOSIUM
dropcap-s OME of my readers may have heard of a club known as the Seekers. It is now extinct; but in its day it was famous, and included a number of men prominent in politics or in the professions. We used to meet once a fortnight on the Saturday night, in London during the winter, but in the summer usually at the country house of one or other of the members, where we would spend the week-end together. The member in whose house the meeting was held was chairman for the evening; and after the pap
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War: Its Nature, Cause and Cure
War: Its Nature, Cause and Cure
Cr. 8vo. Third Impression Cloth 3s. 6d., paper 2s. 6d. "Mr. Lowes Dickinson's book, with its nervous provocative style, its clear and vivid presentation of facts, is a contribution for which we owe him gratitude."— The Spectator...
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Justice and Liberty
Justice and Liberty
Cr. 8vo. New Impression 6s. The following are among the chapter headings of this remarkable work: Forms of Society, The Institution of Marriage, The Institution of Property, Government, The Importance of Political Ideals as Guides to Practice, The Relation of Ideals to Facts....
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Religion
Religion
Fcap. 8vo. Fifth Impression 1s. 6d. Mr. Lowes Dickinson's main object is to raise the question of the relation of Religion to Knowledge. Believing that all Knowledge must be attained by the method of science, he shows that a broad agnosticism is not of necessity inconsistent with the religious attitude, which may prove of definite help in the conduct of life....
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Letters from John Chinaman
Letters from John Chinaman
Fcap. 8vo. Ninth Impression 1s. 6d. In the form of letters the author explains China to the European. No less important, however, is the presentation of our own civilization as viewed by an outsider whose standards are not those which, from birth, we have been accustomed to take for granted....
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Appearances
Appearances
Cr. 8vo. 6s. A series of articles recording impressions of travel in America and Asia. In a concluding essay the author suggests that the civilization of India implies an outlook fundamentally different from that of the West, and that, essentially, the other countries of the Far East are nearer to the West than to India....
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An Essay on the Civilizations of India, China and Japan
An Essay on the Civilizations of India, China and Japan
Fcap. 8vo. Third Edition 2s. The report of the author's travels as a Fellow of the Albert Kahn Travelling Fellowship. He shows the general spirit and character of the civilizations of India, China and Japan and suggests the probable effects of their contact with the civilization of the West....
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