John Morley "Critical Miscellanies" Volume II continues his take a look at of many intellectual topics that began with the splendid British statesman and literary critic. This collection of writings by way of Morley explores literature, philosophy, and political thoughts, showing how knowledgeable and professional he was at evaluation. In Volume II, Morley continues to look deeply into important human beings and thoughts of his time, giving clever exams and feedback. The articles cover a wide range of subjects, displaying how flexible Morley is as a thinker. Morley become acknowledged for having a sharp mind and a command of words, whether he was reading works via well-known authors or analyzing philosophical ideas. As with the primary book, Morley works in Volume II are characterised through how they relate to the late 1800s social and cultural scene. The essays add to the intellectual communique in their time by means of speaking approximately cutting-edge, hard troubles and showing how the writer is worried with how thoughts are changing. Overall, "Critical Miscellanies" Volume II suggests how John Morley had an enduring effect at the intellectual currents of his time. It offers readers quite a few facts approximately literature, philosophy, and the crucial issues of the past due 1800s.

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Critical Miscellanies (Vol 2 of 3) Essay 1: Vauvenargues by John Morley One of the most important phases of French thought in the great century of its illumination is only thoroughly intelligible, on condition that in studying it we keep constantly in mind the eloquence, force, and genius of Pascal. He was the greatest and most influential representative of that way of viewing human nature and its circumstances, which it was one of the characteristic glories of the eighteenth century to have rebelled against and rejected. More than a hundred years after the publication of the Pensées, Condorcet thought it worth while to prepare a new edition of them, with annotations, protesting, not without a certain unwonted deference of tone, against Pascal's doctrine of the base and desperate estate of man. Voltaire also had them reprinted with notes of his own, written in the same spirit of vivacious deprecation, which we may be sure would have been even more vivacious, if Voltaire had not remembered that he was speaking of the mightiest of all the enemies of the Jesuits. Apart from formal and specific dissents like these, all the writers who had drunk most deeply of the spirit of the eighteenth century, lived in a constant ferment of revolt against the clear-witted and vigorous thinker of the century before, who had clothed mere theological mysteries with the force and importance of strongly entrenched propositions in a consistent philosophy. We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.