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Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1: Prelude: 'Who Is RICHARD CONGREVE?' It Will Be Asked -- 'Cut Your Throats' for Grandmother's 'Ditchwater' -- 'Worshippers of His Madness' -- A 'Social Cuckoo'? -- A 'Mass of Wounds and Bruises, Ending in Death' -- References -- Chapter 2: Things About a Highly Strung Evangelist, 1818-1838 -- Old Clothes -- School of 'High Glee', 'Hateful in Many Ways, and Loveable in None' -- The Family Table and Fishing Hole -- Manly Christian 'Fighting' Muscles Versus 'Immoral Boyishness' -- Tracts on Spiritual Independence -- Lonely Quadrangles and 'Social Fathers' -- 'Conceited Boys' -- Chapel of Compulsory Evangelicalism -- References -- Chapter 3: Once Timorous, Now a 'Very Dangerous' Infidel, 1838-1845 -- A Ghostly Chair and a 'maiden sword' -- The Congreve Quartet and the 'evil' Examinations -- The 'struggle for oneself' -- Poison-Pen Papers on Tax and Tracts -- A 'national calamity', 'banquette of diligence', and a 'heretic' -- A 'very dangerous infidel' of Christian Society -- Embracing a 'hopeless species of infidelity' -- The 'cock of the school' -- References -- Chapter 4: A 'Man of Fiery Temperament', 1845-1852 -- A 'Dreadful' Man Under the 'Greatest Heat' -- Marooned on Hero Island with Atheism in 'an English Dress' -- A 'Political Art', a 'Faulty and Untenable' One -- A 'Death-Blow to Class Legislation' -- The 'Fiery Rocket' Man Misfires -- Regions of Imminent Peril, and a Happy 'Humanity Lecturer' -- In Between 'Mumbo Jumbo' and the 'Presence of a Master' -- Awaiting 'Some New Pilot' of a 'Philosophic Priesthood' -- In Defence of the 'Balaks of Manchester', the 'Great Instrument of Our Ruin' -- 'Savage Snarls' at the 'Ignorant Bumpkin' -- References -- Chapter 5: Leader of a 'Slightly Terrorist School of Philanthropists', 1852-1857.
One Last Week Under a Cloud of 'Dissatisfaction with All Things' -- Oh 'Evil' Oxford, the 'Frightful Waste of Time' -- A 'Nervous Experiment' in 'the Preaching of the Day' -- A 'Truly Eloquent Lecturer', 'Free from All Pedantry' -- A 'New Line of Country' or 'Hot Undigested Philosophy' -- A 'Dreary Suburb' with All Too 'Chatty' Visitors -- Symptoms of a 'Warped' Mind -- By 'No Means a Trustworthy Guide' -- A Moment of 'Saddest Aberration' -- A 'Most Grievous Blow' -- References -- Chapter 6: Comtist 'Vicar' and 'Accuser of the Nation', 1857-1866 -- Holding on to 'God's Creatures' -- A Fanatic of 'worthlessness and folly' -- Fulfilling 'the Scripture' of a 'childish and dismal' Socialism -- An Artery Divided Above the 'Wandsworth Temple of Humanity' -- A 'Comtist Coterie' and Other 'fruits of his studies' -- A Building Strike 'their congregations would not tolerate' -- 'Devil' Minister of an 'Impracticable' Working-Class Gospel -- 'Whitewash' Philosophizing of History -- 'Almost incapable of supporting the struggle' -- A Hunched Up 'Recreant Priest' of International Workingmen -- The Poorest Martyr's Privileges -- References -- Chapter 7: On a 'Sort of Celebrity or Peculiarity' of an 'Atheistical Monastery', 1866-1877 -- A 'Distinguished Person' with 'Lame' Cromwellian Plans -- An 'Illiberal and Narrow-Minded' Petition -- A 'Little Bubble of Interest' -- Beastly, in a 'Wild, Incoherent Rhapsody' -- A 'Shallow Pretender' and His 'Stubborn Donkey' -- A Marble Tablet 'Violently Rejected' -- 'Fiery Placards' of a Holy 'War-Monger' -- Of a Whimsical 'Atheistical Monastery' or a 'Mad-House' -- References -- Chapter 8: 'Pope' of Back-Parlour 'Ambiguities and Illusions', 1877-1899 -- Distilling 'reason out of nightmares' -- Raising a Storm by 'mumbling Catholic rites in a sordid hole' -- From a Man Who 'Hates' Clerics but Urges Unity.
British 'Barbarians' and the Opioid Epidemic -- On a 'Cold-Blooded' Man of 'Perverse Conclusions' -- When 'the Comtists cannot recognise us as saints' -- A Leading 'Hysterical Humanitarian' -- 'Idle Boasts' and 'parodies of Christian worship'? -- A 'graceful, if somewhat tardy, recognition' -- The 'faintest hope of support' Once More -- 'St. Paul of the gospel of Humanity … alone against the world' -- References -- Index.
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The Hidden Language of Symbols
