Leading Articles on Various Subjects

Leading Articles on Various Subjects

Hugh Miller, self-taught Scottish geologist and writer (1802-1856)


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Table of Contents

-01- About this book

-02- PREFACE

-03- INTRODUCTORY NOTE

-04- THOUGHTS ON THE EDUCATIONAL QUESTION

-05- CHAPTER FIRST. DISPUTES REGARDING THE MEANING EMBODIED BY CHALMERS IN HIS EDUCATIONAL DOCUMENT

-06- CHAPTER SECOND. RIGHT AND DUTY OF THE CIVIL MAGISTRATE TO EDUCATE THE PEOPLE

-07- CHAPTER THIRD. PARTIES TO WHOM THE EDUCATIONAL FRANCHISE MIGHT BE SAFELY EXTENDED

-08- CHAPTER FOURTH. OBJECTIONS URGED BY THE FREE CHURCH PRESBYTERY OF GLASGOW AGAINST THE EDUCATIONAL MOVEMENT

-09- CHAPTER FIFTH. UNSKILLED LABOURERS REMUNERATED AT A HIGHER RATE THAN MANY OF OUR FREE CHURCH TEACHERS

-10- CHAPTER SIXTH. OUR PREVIOUS STATEMENT REGARDING THE ACTUAL CONDITION OF THE FREE CHURCH EDUCATIONAL SCHEME ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY

-11- CHAPTER SEVENTH. GENERAL OUTLINE OF AN EDUCATIONAL SCHEME ADEQUATE TO THE DEMANDS OF THE AGE

-12- LORD BROUGHAM

-13- THE SCOTT MONUMENT

-14- THE LATE MR. KEMP

-15- ANNIE M’DONALD AND THE FIFESHIRE FORESTER

-16- MY GRANDMOTHER

-17- A HIGHLAND CLEARING

-18- THE POET MONTGOMERY

-19- CRITICISM-INTERNAL EVIDENCE

-20- THE SANCTITIES OF MATTER

-21- THE LATE REV. ALEXANDER STEWART

-22- THE CALOTYPE

-23- THE TENANT’S TRUE QUARREL

-24- CONCLUSION OF THE WAR IN AFFGHANISTAN

-25- PERIODICALISM

-26- THE VOICE OF WOE

-27- ANNUS MIRABILIS

-28- EFFECTS OF RELIGIOUS DISUNION ON COLONIZATION

-29- FINE-BODYISM

-30- ORGANSHIP

-31- BAILLIE’S LETTERS AND JOURNALS

-32- FIRST PRINCIPLES

-33- AN UNSPOKEN SPEECH

-34- DISRUPTION PRINCIPLES

-35- CHARACTERISTICS OF THE CRIMEAN WAR

-36- THE POETS OF THE CHURCH

-37- DISCOVERY OF THE NORTH-WEST PASSAGE

-38- PORTO SANTO, AS SEEN FROM THE NORTH OF MADEIRA

-39- THE ENCYCLOPÆDIA BRITANNICA

-40- A VISION OF THE RAILROAD

-41- THE TWO MR. CLARKS

-42- PULPIT DUTIES NOT SECONDARY

-43- DUGALD STEWART

-44- OUR TOWN COUNCILS

-45- SUTHERLAND AS IT WAS AND IS

-46- FOOTNOTES