Cambridge Essays 1888-99

Abbreviations
Introduction
Acknowledgements
Chronology

PART I. ADOLESCENT WRITINGS

1 Greek Exercises [1888-89] 3
Headnote to Essay Notebook (2-8) 22
2 How Far Does a Country's Prosperity Depend on Natural
Resources [1889] 24
3 Evolution as Affecting Modern Political Science [1889] 25
4 State-Socialism [1889] 27
5 The Advantages and Disadvantages of Party Government,
and the Conditions Necessary for Its Success [1889] 30
6 "The Language of a Nation Is a Monument to Which
Every Forcible Individual in the Course of Ages Has
Contributed a Stone." [1889] 33
7 Contentment; Its Good and Bad Points [1889] 35
8 Destruction Must Precede Construction [1889] 36

PART II. LATER PERSONAL WRITINGS

9 "A Locked Diary" [1890-941 41
10 Die Ehe [1893] 68
11 Self-Appreciation [1897] 72

PART III. APOSTOLIG ESSAYS

General Headnote 76
12 Can We Be Statesmen? 893] 78
13 Lövborg or Hedda [1894] 83
14 Cleopatra or Maggie Tulliver [1894] 90


15 Is Ethics a Branch of Empirical Psychology? [I 897] 99
16 Seems, Madam? Nay, It Is [1897] 105
17 Was the World Good before the Sixth Day? [1899] 112

PART IV. GRADUATE ESSAYS IN EPISTEMOLOGY AND
THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY

General Headnote to Parts IV and V 118
18 Paper on Epistemology I [1893] 120
19 Paper on Epistemology II [1893] 124
20 Paper on Bacon [1893] 131
21 Paper on History of Philosophy [1894] 140
22 Paper on Epistemology III [1894] 146
23 Paper on Descartes [1894] 151
24 A Critical Comparison of the Methods of Bacon, Hobbes
and DesCartes [1894] 155
25 Paper on Bacon [1894] 162
26 Paper on DesCartes I [1894] 169
27 Paper on Descartes II [1894] 178
28 Paper on Hobbes [1894] 185
29 On the Distinction between the Psychological and
Metaphysical Points of View [c. 1894] 195

PART V. GRADUATE ESSAYS IN ETHICS

30 On Pleasure [1893] 201
31 On the Foundations of Ethics [1893] 206
32 The Relation of What Ought to Be to What Is, Has Been
or Will Be [1893] 212
33 The Relation of Rule and End [1893] 215
34 On the Definition of Virtue [1893] 218
35 The Ethical Bearings of Psychogony [1894] 222
36 Ethical Axioms [I 894] 226
37 The Free-Will Problem from an Idealist Standpoint
[1895] 229
38 Note on Ethical Theory [c. 1896] 240
39 Are All Desires Equally Moral? [c.1896] 242

PART VI. FELLOWSHIP AND FIRST PROFESSIONAL PAPERS

General Headnote 246
40 Review of Heymans, Die Gesetze und Elemente des wissen-
schaftlichen Denkens [1895] 249


41 Observations on Space and Geometry [1895] 256
a Introduction 258
b Alternative or Supplementary Introduction 260
c Note. Ön the Meaning of Apriority as Applied
to Space 260
d Erhardt, Metaphysik , Kap. v, Pp. 226-258 263
42 The Logic of Geometry [1896] 266
43 Review of Lechalas, Étude sur l'espace et le Temps [1896] 287
44 The A Priori in Geometry [1896] 289

PART VII. POLITICAL ECONOMY

General Headnote 306
45 Note on Economic Thcory [c. 1895] 308
46 German Social Democracy, as a Lesson in Political
Tactics [1896] 310
47 The Uses of Luxury [1896] 319
48 Mechanical Morals and the Moral of Machinery [1896] 324
49 Review of Schmöle, Die Sozialdemokratischen
Gewerkschaften in Deutschland seft dem Erlasse des
Sozialisten-Gesetzes [1897] 329

APPENDICES

Outlines and Reports of Lectures 335
II What Shall I Read? 345
Author Index 366

ANNOTATION 373

TEXTUAL NOTES

Textual Principles and Methods 445
Guide to the Textual Notes 455

Bibliographical Index 501

General Index 529