CONTENTS.
Thomas De Quincey
CHAPTER
PAGE
GENERAL INTRODUCTION
xi
I.
SUSPIRIA DE PROFUNDIS:
Introduction, with Complete List of the 'Suspiria'
1
1.
The Dark Interpreter
7
2.
The Solitude of Childhood
13
3.
Who is this Woman that beckoneth and warneth me from the Place where she is, and in whose eyes is Woeful Remembrance? I guess who she is
16
4.
The Princess who overlooked one Seed in a Pomegranate
22
5.
Notes for 'Suspiria'
24
II.
THE LOVELIEST SIGHT FOR WOMAN'S EYES
29
III.
WHY THE PAGANS COULD NOT INVEST THEIR GODS WITH ANY IOTA OF GRANDEUR
33
IV.
ON PAGAN SACRIFICES
39
V.
ON THE MYTHUS
43
VI.
DAVID'S NUMBERING OF THE PEOPLE—THE POLITICS OF THE SITUATION
47
VII.
THE JEWS AS A SEPARATE PEOPLE
62
VIII.
'WHAT IS TRUTH?' THE JESTING PILATE SAID—A FALSE GLOSS
68
IX.
WHAT SCALIGER SAYS ABOUT THE EPISTLE TO JUDE
71
X.
MURDER AS A FINE ART
77
XI.
ANECDOTES—JUVENAL
85
XII.
ANNA LOUISA
89
XIII.
SOME THOUGHTS ON BIOGRAPHY
100
XIV.
GREAT FORGERS: CHATTERTON AND WALPOLE, AND 'JUNIUS'
125
XV.
DANIEL O'CONNELL
132
XVI.
FRANCE PAST AND FRANCE PRESENT
143
XVII.
ROME'S RECRUITS AND ENGLAND'S RECRUITS
147
XVIII.
NATIONAL MANNERS AND FALSE JUDGMENT OF THEM
163
XIX.
INCREASED POSSIBILITIES OF SYMPATHY IN THE PRESENT AGE
165
XX.
THE PRINCIPLE OF EVIL
168
XXI.
ON MIRACLES
173
XXII.
'LET HIM COME DOWN FROM THE CROSS'
177
XXIII.
IS THE HUMAN RACE ON THE DOWN GRADE?
180
XXIV.
BREVIA: SHORT ESSAYS (IN CONNECTION WITH EACH OTHER):
1.
Paganism and Christianity—the Ideas of Duty and Holiness
185
2.
Moral and Practical
194
3.
On Words and Style
207
4.
Theological and Religious
226
5.
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