Page:Impressions of Theophrastus Such. Essays and leaves from a note-book.djvu/9

 CONTENTS.

THEOPHRASTUS SUCH.

CHAPTER PAGE

I. Looking Inward 7

II. Looking Backward 18

III. How We Encourage Research 31

IV. A Man Surprised at His Originality. . 44 V. A Too Deferential Man 52

VI. Only Temper 59

VII. A Political Molecule 66

VIII. The Watch-Dog of Knowledge 70

IX. A Half-Breed 77

X. Debasing the Moral Currency 84

XI. The Wasp Credited with the Honeycomb. 90

XII. "So Young" 101

XIII. How We Come to Give Ourselves False Testimonials, and Believe in Them. . 106

XIV. The Too Ready Writer 114

XV. Diseases of Small Authorship 122

XVI. Moral Swindlers 131

XVII. Shadows of the Coming Race 139

XVIIL The Modern Hep! Hep! Hep! 145