Excerpt from Social Political Ideas of Some Representative Thinkers of the Victorian Age: A Series of Lectures Delivered at King's College, University of London, During the Session 1931-32 College series Of studies Of social and political idealists. Eight volumes are now in the hands of the public, covering the whole process Of European thought from St Augustine to_ Matthew Arnold. I Sincerely hope that the careful examination by experts of the ideas of some Six dozen Of the leading thinkers of the Christian era may prove to be permanently valuable to students who are concerned to pene trate beneath the surface of historical events and to discover the hidden movements Of the mind, of which many outstanding events are the mere external manifestations. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.