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CONTENTS.
CHAPTER PAGE
I. Looking Inward 7
II. Looking Backward 18
III. How We Encourage Research 31
IV. A Man Surprised at His Originality . . 44 V. A Too Deferential Man 52
VI. Only Temper 59
VII. A Political Molecule 66
VIII. The Watch-Dog of Knowledge 70
IX. A Half-Breed 77
X. Debasing the Moral Currency 84
XI. The Wasp Credited with the Honeycomb . 90
XII. "So Young" 101
XIII. How We Come to Give Ourselves False Testimonials, and Believe in Them . . 106
XIV. The Too Ready Writer 114
XV. Diseases of Small Authorship 122
XVI. Moral Swindlers 131
XVII. Shadows of the Coming Race 139
XVIIL The Modern Hep! Hep! Hep! 145