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Past and Present

by Thomas Carlyle

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  1. 1Book I — Proem
  2. 2Chapter II — The Sphinx
  3. 3Chapter III — Manchester Insurrection
  4. 4Chapter IV — Morrison’s Pill
  5. 5Chapter V — Aristocracy of Talent
  6. 6Chapter VI — Hero-Worship
  7. 7Book II — The Ancient Monk
  8. 8Chapter II — St. Edmundsbury
  9. 9Chapter III — Landlord Edmund
  10. 10Chapter IV — Abbot Hugo
  11. 11Chapter V — Twelfth Century
  12. 12Chapter VI — Monk Samson
  13. 13Chapter VII — The Canvassing
  14. 14Chapter VIII — The Election
  15. 15Chapter IX — Abbot Samson
  16. 16Chapter X — Government
  17. 17Chapter XI — The Abbot’s Ways
  18. 18Chapter XII — The Abbot’s Troubles
  19. 19Chapter XIII — In Parliament
  20. 20Chapter XIV — Henry of Essex
  21. 21Chapter XV — Practical-Devotional
  22. 22Chapter XVI — St. Edmund
  23. 23Chapter XVII — The Beginnings
  24. 24Book III — The Modern Worker
  25. 25Chapter II — Gospel of Mammonism
  26. 26Chapter III — Gospel of Dilettantism
  27. 27Chapter IV — Happy
  28. 28Chapter V — The English
  29. 29Chapter VI — Two Centuries
  30. 30Chapter VII — Over-Production
  31. 31Chapter VIII — Unworking Aristocracy
  32. 32Chapter IX — Working Aristocracy
  33. 33Chapter X — Plugson of Undershot
  34. 34Chapter XI — Labour
  35. 35Chapter XII — Reward
  36. 36Chapter XIII — Democracy
  37. 37Chapter XIV — Sir Jabesh Windbag
  38. 38Chapter XV — Morrison Again
  39. 39Book IV — Horoscope
  40. 40Chapter II — Bribery Committee
  41. 41Chapter III — The One Institution
  42. 42Chapter IV — Captains of Industry
  43. 43Chapter V — Permanence
  44. 44Chapter VI — The Landed
  45. 45Chapter VII — The Gifted
  46. 46Chapter VIII — The Didactic
  47. 47Summary and Index Summary

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