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Moore, –; on hedonistic
on tolerating people, ; to Myers on
interpretation of “good,” –; on
friendship, dangers of skepticism, ; and
hedonism versus perfectionism, –;
the great Either/Or, ; metaphysical
on Bentham’s definition of “good,” ; on
friends of, –; and Kantian-Hegelian
determinate reason, –; on indirect
project, –; and similarities to Green,
pursuit of happiness, –; and moral
Jowett, –; Green as bridge to,
schizophrenia, –; debt to Plato and
–; early friendship with Green,
Aristotle, ; on Martineau, ; and
“Reminiscences” of, ; versus Green on
modern utility theory, interpersonal
German philosophy, ; exchanges with
comparisons, ; on Whewell, Aristotle,
Bradley and Green, ; and London
and common sense, –; studies
School of Ethics and Social Philosophy,
Hegel, ; Schneewind on Kantianism of,
; Green on ME and, –; on
–; intuitionism of, ; versus
Green’s metaphysics, –; on
Butler on dualism, ; on Calderwood,
unoriginality of Bradley, ; critique of
–; critique of Whewell on truth,
Green on utilitarianism, –, ;
–; compared to Mill, –;
Green as topic of his final lecture, –;
Schneewind on intuitionism of, versus
on idealist neglect of feeling, ; to
innateness, ; minimal antinaturalism of,
Dakyns on Green’s hypocrisy, ;
; and four tests for avoiding error,
response to Marshall’s attack, –; on
–; on ME as primarily Cartesian,
Green’s work as reproducing old problems,
–; and list of self-evident principles,
–; on Kant’s transcendental “I,”
–; resignation crisis reflected in his
Kantian conception of the self, –;
philosophical concerns, , ;
and Symonds, ; and Oxford, ;
philosophy and politics, ; closeness to
supports Symonds for Oxford
Myers, –; and Myers’s theism, ;
Professorship, –; as part of
on Gurney, –; and origins of
Symonds circle, ; Symonds on
Newnham, –, ; to mother about
skepticism of, ; as advisor to Symonds
spiritualism, ME, ; to mother about
on casuistry, –; as regular visitor to
EMS, ; and birth of SPR, –;
Davos, ; elective affinities with
growing prestige in s, ; addresses
Symonds, –; and Symonds’s new
SPR on avoiding frauds, –;
casuistry, ; and Byronic gloom, ;
psychical research and obsession with
meets Symonds in Dresden, ; becomes
hypocrisy, ; James on, ; and Mazzini
intimate friends with Symonds, ;
story, ; on G. A. Smith, ; on
Symonds to, on theism, deepest problems,
evidence for telepathy, ; on meeting
; and Brown’s biography of Symonds,
with Theosophists, ; calls Blavatsky a
; to Symonds on their friendship, ;
“Great Woman,” ; to Bryce about
comments on Russell’s student papers,
Olcott and Theosophy, ; suspicions
–; on utility of public’s believing
about Blavatsky, ; his confidence in
Green, ; and philosophy of language,
psychical research shaken, ; on
; invited to Harvard, ; debt to
Salovyoff’s A Modern Priestess of Isis,
Symonds on view of culture, education,
–; racism of, compared to Myers’s,
; evidence about sexual life of, ;
–; and paranormal experiences with
friends as champions of Greek love, ;
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supports O. Browning, ; on Noel,
SPR, ; and Symonds on the new
–; and Shelley as link to Noel,
religion, ; and scientific psychology,
Symonds, –; sexuality of, ,
–; later depression of, –; as a
–; on “My Friends,” ; Noel to,
reformer, Lidgett on, –; worries
on asceticism, hypocrisy, ; passionate
about his effect on Myers, Symonds,
exchanges with Dakyns, –; to
–; and death of Gurney, ; work
Dakyns about Meta Benfey, –, ;
on General Board of Studies, –; on
exchanges with Noel on marriage, ,
Noel and poetry, ; on social role of
–; M as downplaying his criticism
poetry, Whitman, –; rivalry with
of commonsense morality, ; vision of
Davies, –; contributions to Royal
sympathetic unity, ; Symonds to, about
Commission on Secondary Education,
Moor, Jowett, ; and Symonds’s crisis in
–; and move for full
Cannes, ; Symonds on his reaction to
membership for women in university,
“A Problem in Greek Ethics,” –; to
Tullberg on, –, –; and
Dakyns on Symonds’s crisis, –; and
continuing conservatism of Cambridge,
death of Cowell, ; and Symonds on
–; unwritten works on Mill,
happiness, ; Symonds to, on skepticism,
feminism, –; exchanges with Initial
God, positivism, –; Symonds
Society on equality of women, marriage,
discusses poetry with, ; proposes Lelio
sympathy, –, –; praises
as subject for Symonds, ; Symonds on
Mill’s “On Liberty,” “Subjection of
entrusting his homoerotic writin
gs to, ;
Women,” –; to Browning on
Grosskurth on his reaction to “Eudiades,”
working with women, ; defense of
–; Symonds on resignation crisis of,
Millian feminism against J. F. Stephen,
–; Dakyns to, on publication of
; critique of Courthope, ; courtship
Symonds’s poetry, ; Symonds to, about
of EMS, –; supportive of EMS,
his Clough essay, ; to Noel on Green,
; and death of Symonds, move to
Locke, Kant, Butler, and personal identity,
Newnham, –; Tullberg on
; Symonds to, about Whitman, ;
educational activities of, ; his pride in
Symonds to, on Dakyns, genesis of “Love
his students, ; and Marshall’s invidious
and Death,” –; Symonds to, on
comparison to Green, ; evolution of his
death of his poetic itch, black box, ; to
views on political equality for women,
Symonds on publication of homoerotic
–; his Millianism about progress of
verse, –; to Dakyns on inspiration
civilization, women, education, , ;
of Symonds, ; to Noel on Many Moods,
on M. Fawcett, ; his feminism as
; Symonds describes as the sun,
indebted to Eliot, –; feminism of,
–; exchanges with Noel on deepest
summarized, , –; and student
problems, –; robustness of, ;
life at Newnham, –; and
Symonds on depression of, ; Symonds
architecture of Newnham, –; and
to, on reception of ME, –; interest
construction of Sidgwick Avenue, ;
in Symonds as a case, ; reaction to
cautious reformism of, ; and Brown’s
potential scandal of “Rhaetica,” –,
biography of Symonds, ; M. Marshall
–; exchanges with Dakyns on what
on, as teacher, ; cheered by talk with
might have been, –; exchanges with
women students, , ; impatience of,
Symonds, Noel, and Dakyns and concern
–; book exchange with Symonds,
with deepest problems, ; and Symonds
; refuses to utter Apostles Creed, ;
and symmetrical people, –; midlife
on Noel’s poetry, ; and Horace, ; on
crisis and journal exchanges with
teacher training as a university subject,
Symonds, –; and changes across
–; excessive talk of, and EMS, ;
editions of ME, ; and death of Janet
significance of political and economic
Symonds, –; as bored with SPR,
writings of, ; three major works of in
; to Symonds on Goethe, ; as bored
Mauricean style, –; and ME on
with Cambridge, –; works with
marriage, sexual purity, –; and ME
Symonds on aesthetics, –;
compared to Moore’s Principia on lust,
Symonds’s complaints about his criticisms,
; and ME on suicide, –; versus
–; remains in Cambridge, with
Moore on suicide, ; compared to
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changing political context, support for
Green, Jowett, ; against Benthamite
Indian Civil Service, ; letter to Lytton
laissez faire, ; as Government House
when preparing EP, –; racism and
utilitarian, ; worries about revitalizing
imperialism of letter to Lytton, –;
civilization, ; and ME versus Spencer’s
imperialism most evident in EP, ; as
Absolute Ethics, ; on utilitarianism and
anti-Machiavellianism in foreign policy,
politics, –; versus Mallot on
–; to Dakyns on Mill’s population
economic redistribution, justice, ;
theory, ; review of Cairnes on
quoted by Dicey on Mill, socialism, ;
colonization, –; racism of, –;
his MEA essays on socialism, limits of
Bryce’s work as key to racism of, –;
laissez faire, –; on Spencer and
to Bryce on race, ; offensive slang of,
natural right, –; on “Scope and
; versus Bryce on socialism, ;
Method of Economic Science,” –;
support for Pearson, ; review of
on Bentham and declining marginal utility,
National Life and Character, , –;
; EP on ethical socialism, ; and PPE,
on his long friendship with Pearson,
EP, and DEP as companion works,
–; on Pearson and sociology, ;
influenced by Mill, ; to Pearson on
and Bryce, Pearson, compared to Mill, ;
Seeley’s scheme for history and politics,
racism of his home life, ; compared to
; and work for Charity Organization
Bryce, Pearson, ; DEP on concept of
Society, –; as practical political
race, –; on Ormathwaite, ; and
economist, ; argument of PPE,
DEP, EMS, –; complex nature of
–; his teaching as “concentrating
his political indepedence, ; as expert on
fog,” ; finishes PPE in Rome, ; as
taxation schemes, ; excessive subtlety of
close to socialist legacy of Mill, Maurice,
his scheme for university finance, ; to
; comparison of ME, EP, and PPE, ;
Lady Welby on precision of thought, PPE,
compared to Mill as a public intellectual,
; on Maine’s antidemocratic writing,
–; PPE on bimetallism, ; urges
; on “right to labour,” ; to
Symonds not to read PPE, ; meets
Patterson on sharing the disillusionment
Balfour’s Manchester Conservative
of idealists, ; supreme faith in Western
Association, ; PSR on ethics, politics,
&n
bsp; civilization, ; opposition to Boer War,
and philosophy, –; on the aims of
–; on Spencer’s partiality, ; as
EP, comparison to PPE, ME, –; and
public figure in s, ; work with royal
analytical method of EP, –; long
commissions, –; continuity of his
gestation of EP, DEP, –; to Bryce on
life project, ; work for ethical societies,
EP as too English, ; sends proofs of EP
PE, –; his PE, essay on
to Bryce, Dicey, Maitland, ; misgivings
“Unreasonable Action,” ; cannot resist
about Gladstone, Liberal Party, –;
Synthetic Society, , ; friends with
on Platonic myths, ; and Home Rule
W. Ward, ; to Balfour on Haldane’s
controversy, –; EMS on his plans
Hegelianism, ; on naturalism and
for the study of politics, –; on
reverence, ; later work on reason and
democracy, –; his vision of politics,
authority, –; on special
political leadership, ; to Browning on
characteristics of his philosophy, –;
educating all classes, –; to Foxwell
to Ward on enduring disagreement,
on Hyndman, ; to Dakyns on Islam,
common sense, –; later work on
; to G. Young on China, ; as
theism, PSR, –; to Ward on
practical educational reformer, –;
sociology and theism, ; to Myers about
his socialism, ; his debt to Maine and
Tyrell, Synthetic Society, ; “On the
Seeley, ; his early links to Seeley,
Nature of the Evidence for Theism,”
academic reform, –; advises
–; EMS to Ward on hopefulness of
publication of and writes introduction to
his life, ; as proto-pragmatist, ; to
Seeley’s Introduction to Political Science,
Creighton on moral judgment, ;
–; compared to Maine, Seeley, ,
“Pursuit of Culture” on art and evil, ;
, ; M, DEP, EP on his support for
and psychical research in s, ; on the
continuing federation –; his