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Title: Post-Prandial Philosophy

Author: Grant Allen

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Language: English

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POST-PRANDIAL
PHILOSOPHY

By GRANT ALLEN

AUTHOR OF
"THE EVOLUTIONIST AT LARGE," ETC.

LONDON: CHATTO & WINDUS
1894

PREFACE

These Essays appeared originally in _The Westminster Gazette_, and have
only been so far modified here as is necessary for purposes of volume
publication. They aim at being suggestive rather than exhaustive: I
shall be satisfied if I have provoked thought without following out each
train to a logical conclusion. Most of the Essays are just what they
pretend to be--crystallisations into writing of ideas suggested in
familiar conversation.

G. A.

Hind Head, _March_ 1894.

CONTENTS

PAGE

I. THE STRUGGLE FOR LIFE AMONG LANGUAGES 1

II. IN THE MATTER OF ARISTOCRACY 9

III. SCIENCE IN EDUCATION 18

IV. THE THEORY OF SCAPEGOATS 27

V. AMERICAN DUCHESSES 35

VI. IS ENGLAND PLAYED OUT? 44

VII. THE GAME AND THE RULES 53

VIII. THE ROLE OF PROPHET 61

IX. THE ROMANCE OF THE CLASH OF RACES 70

X. THE MONOPOLIST INSTINCTS 79

XI. "MERE AMATEURS" 87

XII. A SQUALID VILLAGE 95

XIII. CONCERNING ZEITGEIST 104

XIV. THE DECLINE OF MARRIAGE 112

XV. EYE _versus_ EAR 122

XVI. THE POLITICAL PUPA 130

XVII. ON THE CASINO TERRACE 138

XVIII. THE CELTIC FRINGE 147

XIX. IMAGINATION AND RADICALS 156

XX. ABOUT ABROAD