The University of Chicago Certain Movements in England and America of the Seventeenth Century to the Modern Ideals of A DISSERTATION SUBMITTED TO THE FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF ARTS AND LITERATURE DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY BY GEORGE TILDEN COLMAN CALIFORNIA Private Edition, Distributed By THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO LIBRARIES CHICAGO, ILLINOIS 1917 L. C. NOTE The aim of the author has been to trace the course of the development of social ideals in England and America during the eighteenth and ninteenth centuries and to show that these ideals have been a basal factor in furthering economic, political, religious, and intellectual freedom for the masses of mankind. It has not been possible within the scope of this work to treat of the influence which men of letters have exerted. The broad sympathies of a Dickens and an Eliot among the novelists, of Burns, Tennyson, Coleridge, and the Brownings among the poets and of Ruskin and Carlyle among the essayists have been a great force in softening the hearts of men. But to treat with any adequacy the social teachings of the world of literature would require an additional volume of equal proportions with the present one. Herein the author has sought only to follow out the evolution of the social ideal through the chief economic, religious, and philosophical movements. The advancement of learning, the development of science is found to be the underlying basis responsible for this gradual transformation in the motives which the human heart has valued. 376878 |