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by Bart Schultz


  –; Henry’s courtship of, ; S as

  Symonds, –

  supportive of, ; and move to Newnham,

  Sidgwick, Arthur: M as assembled by, with

  –; response to Marshall on potential

  EMS, ; as close to S, and champion of

  of women, ; as trained for

  Greek love, , ; becomes Oxford

  independence, ; feminism of,

  classicist, , ; follows S to Rugby, ;

  summarized, , –; cautious

  and Ad Eundem, ; as Cambridge friend

  reformism of, ; compared to Jowett,

  of Myers, ; and Symonds circle, ,

  , , –; with S and women

  ; as an Apostle, ; and Platonic

  students, ; connections of, as benefiting

  revival, ; and Symonds, Myers, ;

  Newnham, ; and feminist critique of,

  and Oxford, ; meeting with Symonds in

  ; as conversationalist, ; edits

  Dresden, ; Symonds’s attraction to,

  International Right and Wrong with Bryce,

  ; on Symonds’s depression, ; and

  endorses S’s anti-Machiavellianism, ;

  the censoring of Symonds’s letters, ;

  consults Bryce, Dicey on publication of

  Symonds on recklessness of, –; and

  DEP, –; versus S on Boer War,

  S’s sexual life, ; reaction to “Eudiades,”

  –; to Ward on S’s life, optimism,

  –; wants S to travel in Greece, ;

  ; and the SPR’s investigation of

  and S’s depression, ; and duty of

  Palladino, –; and the Piper case, ,

  procreation, ; and Home Rule

  –; and S’s educational reformism,

  controversy, ; and Savile Club, ; to

  ; with S on final visit to Oxford, ;

  Wilson on S’s life review, ; S advises to

  and M’s exposure of Apostles, –;

  write, ; and M’s exposure of the

  and S’s funeral, –; on S and herself

  Apostles, ; see also Greek love;

  as “grey” people, –; travels to Egypt

  Symonds, J. A.

  after S’s death, ; work on M, exchanges

  Sidgwick, Eleanor Mildred (née Balfour): on

  with Brown, –; and M’s evasiveness,

  S and biblical miracle tales, ; as Henry’s

  ; and posthumous letters of S, Myers,

  collaborator, ; M as assembled by, with

  –; and cross-correspondence

  AS, ; and psychical research, , ; and

  communications from S, Myers, Gurney,

  original interests of SPR, –; and

  –; see also feminism; Newnham

  other members of S Group, ; and birth

  College; psychical research

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  Sidgwick, Ethel, on EMS, 

  and Dewey, ; and discussion group

  Sidgwick, Henry: ME as his greatest work, ,

  model, ; academic reformism of, ; as

  ; life priorities of, –, –;

  “pure white light,” ; and love of

  casuistical reflections of, , ; concern

  discussion, ; as talker, Maitland on,

  with integrity of, ; concern with

  –; as teacher, Sorley on, ; found dull

  hypocrisy of, ; on deepest problems of

  by Russell and Moore, ; as talker, Bryce

  human life, , , ; genius for friendship of,

  on, –; Socratic wit of, ; E. E. C.

  ; “Autobiographical Fragment” of, ; as

  Jones on, ; Balfour as victim of wit of,

  bookish remnant, ; resignation crisis of, ;

  ; as experiment in living, ; and deepest

  as last representative of classical

  problems, ; on philosophy, ; as

  utilitarianism, ; and Russell, ;

  tension-filled experiment, ; and elitism,

  continuity with J. S. Mill, ; feminism of,

  ; and true metaphysic, ; as shaped by

  ; death of, ; burial at Terliung Place of,

  Cambridge, –; and Trinity College, ;

  ; A. Balfour on death of, –;

  Benson as first mentor of, ; resignation

  contested metaethics of, ; complex

  crisis of, years of storm and stress, ;

  metaethics of, ; as in line with Mill’s

  distinguishes himself at Rugby, ; record

  utilitarianism, ; Bryce on utilitarianism

  of academic success of, ; makes Fellow of

  of, ; Rawls on, , ; serves cause of

  Trinity College, ; and Apostles, –;

  Greek love, ; antipathy to Whewell, ;

  first decade at Cambridge, ; as slow to

  Moore exonerates of naturalistic fallacy,

  appreciate Mill’s feminism, ; early life of,

  ; appropriates Kantian universalizability,

  –; ancestry of, , ; and early

  ; on total versus average utility, ;

  ghost-seeing tendencies, ; health of, ;

  dismissed by Bloomsbury, ; and M, ; a

  and tendency to depression, ; impotence

  “Pope” of the Apostles, , , ; Moore’s

  of, ; early Apostolic tendencies of, ;

  debt to GSM lectures, –; Donagan on, ;

  and Ural Mountains game, ; as good

  Broad on, ; and model of critical inquiry,

  with children, ; poetic aspirations of, ;

  ; and dualism of practical reason, ; as

  attends school in Blackheath, ; sent to

  having no confidence in egoism, –; on

  Rugby, ; meets Dakyns, ; meets C.

  fostering “spirit of justice,” ; on

  Bowen, ; meets Green, ; meets

  socialism, ; and psychical research, ;

  Kitchener, ; meets Bernard, ; meets

  and depth psychology, ; and experiments

  Tawney, ; studies with Evans brothers,

  in living, –; and questions of sexual

  ; C. Bowen’s reminiscence of, ; E. W.

  identity, ; and Greek love and closest

  Benson as first mentor of, ; moves into

  friends, ; and epistemology of the closet,

  “Blue House” in Rugby, ; difficult

  ; and esoteric morality, ; and

  relations with Benson of, , �
��–;

  hypocrisy, ; and reputation for honesty,

  Cambridge changes, ; problematic

  ; and charge of Government House

  Rugby ideal of, ; on E. W. Benson’s

  utilitarianism, ; political theory and

  mentality, ; goes to Trinity, ; lifetime at

  practice of ignored, ; and imperialist

  Cambridge of, –;  illness of, ;

  colleagues of, ; reception of as too

  Maitland on sympathetic nature of, –;

  limited, ; Moore calls wicked, ; life of

  on sympathy and psychical research, ;

  as illuminating work of, ; and Whitman’s

  friendship with Symonds of, ; early

  formule, ; and Habermasian account of

  Cambridge diaries and commonplace book

  public spheres, ; talk as making him

  of, –; on dangers of hypochondria, ;

  what he was, ; and Millian struggle, ;

  O. Browning on powers of concentration

  Podmore on talk of, ; adult life spent at

  of, ; Comtism of, ; differs from Hume,

  Cambridge, becomes Knightbridge

  ; as skeptical of Benthamite harmony of

  Professor, ; as philosopher-educator, ;

  interests, ; Apostolic/Socratic quest of,

  agrees with Mill’s critique of Oxbridge, ;

  , –; falls away from Benson, ;

  as not like Carlyle, ; part of new school of

  becomes academic liberal, ; on his

  academics, ; on ultimate meaning of

  conversion to Mill and Comte, –,

  education, ; adopts Socratic method, ;

  –; differs with Benson over Essays and

  A. Balfour on teaching of, ; on meaning

  Reviews, ; and Apostolic vision, , ;

  of culture, ; continuity with J. S. Mill

  influence of Maurice on, , ;

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  aligns himself with G. Grote, –,

  –; on Clough’s Socratic skepticism,

  –; years of storm and stress and sexual

  ; resignation crisis of, –; ME as

  issues, ; on Maguire’s Platonic Ethics, ;

  result of resignation crisis, ; to Dakyns

  Green calls a positivist, ; and Comte on

  about hypocrisy, ; Mayor advises about

  need for religion, ; critique of Zeller, ;

  resignation, ; and Crockett motto, ;

  versus German classicists, ; on Sophists,

  his resignation as not Millian, ; his

  –; as between Mill and Dewey, ;

  resignation as not Mauricean, ; A. H.

  and wine, ; poems of, ; and method

  Clough’s importance to him, –; to

  of indirection, ; and Mauricean elitism,

  B. Clough about poet’s sympathy, ;

  ; and academic reform, –; on

  elective affinity with Clough, –;

  classics in education, –; endorses Mill

  resignation of, and Clough’s example, ;

  on education, ; criticizes Oxford, ;

  as ambivalent toward Mill, Comte,

  vision of philosophy, –; loves

  –; to J. S. Mill about subscription,

  Tennyson’s “The Voyager,” ; to Noel on

  –; on importance of subscription

  the “Absolute,” ; opposes relativism, ;

  issue, ; formal resignation of, ; to

  joins Platonic revival, –; and reform of

  mother about his resignation, , ; to

  Moral Sciences Tripos, –; agonizes

  B. Clough about his resignation, –;

  over possible effects of his skepticism, ,

  to Dakyns about his resignation, value of

  ; linguistic studies of, –; impact of

  truth, –; Cambridge as his

  Renan on, ; and Noel’s orientalism, ,

  salvation, ; to sister about his pamphlet,

  ; on contrast between perfection and

  CS, ; Whewell’s influence on, –;

  sympathy, ; on Seeley’s Ecce Homo,

  Mill sees utilitarianism of CS, encourages,

  –; on Strauss, ; on challenge of

  ; Gladstone admired, ; link between

  miracles, ; and quest for unity, –;

  his resignation crisis and feminism, ;

  seeks freedom from Church of England,

  and Ad Eundem, ; to sister about

  –; belief in theism of, , ; on role of

  pessimism, ; tries to make Seeley an

  religion, ; on three theological

  Apostle, ; and father figures, ; on

  orientations, –; three-way tension of

  psychology and philosophy, ; on

  his turbulent years, ; critique of orthodox

  dualism of practical reason, ; influence

  Christianity, ; on value of historical

  on Dickenson, ; on Mill’s significance,

  criticism, –; on Mansel, –; debt to

  influence, ; on Mill’s Representative

  Strauss and Renan, ; on Maurice and

  Government, population theory, –;

  Hutton, –; on Goethe, –; and

  enthusiasm for semipopular press, ;

  experiments in ethics and intuitive theism,

  “Pursuit of Culture” on definition of

  ; on prayer, ; and psychical research,

  “culture,” ; and Noel’s resignation of

  –, ; and Myers and psychical

  court position, –; and ideal of Right,

  research, –; scriptural mottos of, ,

  ; epigraph to ME, ; Chadwick on

  ; on  Apostolic succession, ;

  his views, –; nature of skepticism of,

   diary of, ; and worries about loving

  ; to Dakyns about secret of life, ;

  truth, –; rule against excessive

  and quest for certainty, ; on ME as

  introspection, ; positions at Cambridge,

  failure, ; to Pearson about Mill’s death,

  ; and commitment to Grote Club/

  importance, ; obituary of Mill,

  Apostles, –; and various reform

  –; interest in utilitarianism, ; to

  efforts, –; and skepticism and politics,

  Dakyns about ME, dualism, –; on

>   ; on political economy, art patronage,

  Bain as honest utilitarian, ; on Comte as

  ; on education, –; on reasons for

  paradoxical, ; Schneewind’s

  joining Freemasons, ; compared to M.

  interpretation of ME of, –,

  Arnold, –; and education with

  –, ; how different from Mill,

  personal touch, ; Symonds brings out

  –; to Dakyns about friendship,

  best in, ; to Noel about Seeley’s Jesus,

  secret of Universe, ; and signficance of

  –; to Dakyns about Seeley’s Jesus, ;

  friendship, ; to Browning about death

  to Dakyns about sympathy, ; to Minnie

  of Cowell, ; and problems with

  about ghosts, ; to Dakyns about

  Millianism, –; to Dakyns on

  spiritualism, ; elements of his reformism,

  limits of practical reason, ;

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  Sidgwick, Henry ( cont.)

  Cowell, ; on personal identity, –;

  on meaning of “methods” of ethics,

  to Myers on Goethe’s translation of

  –; his ME praised by Rawls,

  Iphigenia, ; work on Phantasms, ; on

  –; changes across editions of ME,

  religious significance of Phantasms,

  –; Brink’s externalist interpretation

  –; on Myers, Gurney, and

  of, ; on free will versus determinism,

  production of Phantasms, –; on

  –; and independence of moral

  telepathy and personal knowledge, ; as

  theory, ; and construction of ethical

  inferior to EMS in scientific ability,

  theory, ; and ME on “right” versus

  –; his talent for history of ideas, ;

  “good,” –; Baldwin on naturalistic

  on Tennyson’s “In Memoriam,” –;

  fallacy and, ; Hurka compares to

  on Dakyns’s sympathetic character, ;

  Moore, –; and stock comparison to

  Podmore on love of truth of, ; to EMS

 

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