This essay, which won the Prince Consort Prize for 1950, treats of the revolutionary change in historical writing that followed the entry into England, early in the nineteenth century, of the ideas of Vico and of the German historical school. Chiefly through Coleridge's influence, eighteenth-century rationalist suppositions gave place in certain men to a fundamentally opposed, 'Romantic' philosophy, and so to a new kind of History. Mr. Forbes is particularly concerned with the part played in this revolution by the liberal Anglicans: Thomas Arnold, Headmaster of Rugby and Regius Professsor of...

Provides photographs of life and death masks. This book includes masks of William Wordsworth, Samuel Johnson, John Keats and William Blake. It also includes portraits that appear to exist in an ambiguous suspended state between life, death and sleep.

This is a study of Hume's political thought based on a survey of all his writings.