Publisher's Synopsis
Contents: The Victorian Age, 1837-1901; Thomas Carlyle; Herbert Spencer and the Individualists; Sir Henry Maine and the Historical Jurists; Alexis de Tocqueville and Democracy; Karl Marx and Social Philosophy; T. H. Green and the Idealists; Matthew Arnold and the Educationists; Walter Bagehot and the Social Psychologists; Taine and the Nationalists; Appendix: The Development of a Psychological Approach to Politics in English Speculation before 1869.