William Edward Hartpole Lecky

The Map of Life


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       William Edward Hartpole Lecky

      The Map of Life

      Conduct and Character

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4057664612021

       THE MAP OF LIFE

       CHAPTER I

       CHAPTER II

       CHAPTER III

       CHAPTER IV

       CHAPTER V

       CHAPTER VI

       CHAPTER VII

       CHAPTER VIII

       CHAPTER IX

       CHAPTER X

       CHAPTER XI

       CHAPTER XII

       THE MANAGEMENT OF CHARACTER

       CHAPTER XIII

       MONEY

       CHAPTER XIV

       MARRIAGE

       CHAPTER XV

       SUCCESS

       CHAPTER XVI

       TIME

       CHAPTER XVII

       'THE END'

      THE STATESMAN

      Duty of a statesman when the interests and wishes of his nation conflict

       Nature and extent of political trusteeship

       Temperance questions

       Legitimate and illegitimate time-serving

       Education questions

       Inconsistency in politics—how far it should be condemned

       The conduct of Peel in 1829 and 1845

       The conduct of Disraeli in 1867

       Different degrees of weight to be attached to party considerations

       Temptations to war

       Temptations of aristocratic and of democratic governments

       Necessity of assimilating legislation

       Legislation violating contracts.—Irish land legislation

       Questions forced into prominence for party objects

       The judgment of public servants who have committed indefensible acts

       The French coup d'état of 1851 Judgments passed upon it Probable multiplication of coups d'état Governor Eyre The Jameson raid How statesmen should deal with political misdeeds The standard of international morals—questions connected with it The ethics of annexation Political morals and public opinion

       CHAPTER XI

      Moral compromise in the Church Difficulties of reconciling old formularies with changed beliefs Cause of some great revolutions of belief.—The Copernican system.—Discovery of Newton The antiquity of the world, of death, and of man The Darwinian theory Comparative mythology.—Biblical criticism.—Scientific habits of thought General incorporation of new ideas into the Church Growth of the sacerdotal spirit The two theories of the Reformation Modern Ritualism Its various elements of attraction Diversity of teaching has not enfeebled the Church Its literary activity.—Proofs that the Church is in touch with educated laymen Its political influence—how far this is a test of vitality Its influence on education Its spiritual influence How far clergymen who dissent from parts of its theology can remain within it Newman on a Latitudinarian establishment Obligations imposed on the clergy by the fact of Establishment Attitude of laymen towards the Church Increasing sense of the relativity of belief This tendency strengthens with age The conflict between belief and scepticism Power of religion to undergo transformation Probable influence of the sacerdotal spirit on the Church

       CHAPTER XII

      THE MANAGEMENT OF CHARACTER

      A sound judgment of our own characters essential to moral improvement

       Analogies between character and taste

       The strongest desire generally prevails, but desires may be modified

       Passions and habits

       Exaggerated regard for the future.—A happy childhood

       Choice of pleasures.—Athletic games

       The intellectual pleasures

       Their tendency to enhance other pleasures.—Importance of specialisation

       And of judicious selection

       Education may act specially on the desires or on the will

       Modern education and tendencies of the former kind

       Old Catholic training mainly of the will.—Its effects

       Anglo-Saxon types in the seventeenth century

       Capriciousness of willpower—heroism often succumbs to vice

       Courage—its varieties and inconsistencies

       The circumstances of life the school of will.—Its place in character

       Dangers of an early competence.—Choice of work

       Choice of friends.—Effect of early friendship on character