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Brains and Numbers
Elitism, Comtism, and Democracy in Mid-Victorian England
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This perceptive study of the English academic scene traces the emergence of Comtism in the university community and examines its expression in the ideas of Frederic Harrison and John Morley.
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Table of contents
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- Preface
- PART ONE: ACADEMIC RADICALS: 1840-68
- 1. Elitism, the Clerisy, and University Reform at Oxford
- 2. Seeking the Nation: 1848-67
- 3. The Alliance of Brains and Numbers
- PART TWO: COMTE IN AN ENGLISH SETTING
- 4. From Oxford to Comte
- 5. The Search for the Proletariat
- 6. Rhetoric and Respectability
- PART THREE: POLITICS AND THE INTELLECTUAL: JOHN MORLEY AND FREDERIC HARRISON
- 7. The Vocation of the Intellectual
- 8. The Retreat into Politics: John Morley
- 9. The Retreat from Politics: Frederic Harrison
- Epilogue: Innocence and Experience
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index