Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-356) and index.
Contents
Introduction: A Life Apart from Circumstantial Things -- 1. Self-Made Men, 1841-1862 -- 2. An Equal Chance in the Race of Life, 1861-1870 -- 3. The Land of Birds and Flowers, 1870-1879 -- 4. Restless Skepticism, 1880-1883 -- 5. A True National Philosophy, 1883-1887 -- 6. The Great Social Problem, 1886-1893 -- 7. Spencer-Smashing at Washington, 1894-1900 -- 8. Gulliver among the Lilliputians, 1900-1913 -- Conclusion: Glimpses of the Cosmos.