{"product_id":"2940013803107","title":"THE NEW ERA","description":"CONTENTS.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRICHARD WAGNER.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMODERN Music.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBY HENRY T. FINCK.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYouth-time; early ambitions as a composer.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWeber, his fascinator and first inspirer.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Der Freischütz\" and \"Euryanthe\" prototypes of his operas.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTheir supernatural, mythical, and romantic elements.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat he owed to his predecessors acknowledged in his essay on \"The Music\u003cbr\u003eof the Future\" (1860).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMarriage and early vicissitudes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Rienzi,\" \"The Novice of Palermo,\" and \"The Flying Dutchman\".\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWrites stories and essays for musical publications.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAfter many disappointments wins success at Dresden.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Tannhäuser\" and \"Lohengrin\".\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCompromises himself in Revolution of 1849 and has to seek safety in\u003cbr\u003eSwitzerland.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHere he conceives and partly writes the \"Nibelung Tetralogy\".\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDiscouragements at London and at Paris.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Siegfried\" and \"Tristan and Isolde\".\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFinds a patron in Ludwig II. of Bavaria.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNibelung Festival at Bayreuth.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Parsifal\" appears; death of Wagner at Vienna (1882).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBeethoven, Schubert, and Chopin.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOther eminent composers and pianists.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLiszt as a contributor to current of modern music.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBerlioz, Saint-Saëns, Tchaikovsky, Dvorák, Strauss, and Weber.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The Music of the Future\" the music of the present.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJOHN RUSKIN.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMODERN ART.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBY G. MERCER ADAM.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePassionate and luminous exponent of Nature's beauties.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHis high if somewhat quixotic ideal of life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStimulating writings in ethics, education, and political economy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrederic Harrison on Ruskin's stirring thoughts and melodious speech.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBirth and youth-time; Collingwood's \"Life\" and his own \"Praeterita\".\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDefence of Turner and what it grew into.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eArchitectural writings, lectures, and early publications.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInterest in Pre-Raphaelitism and its disciples.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGrowing fame; with admiring friends and correspondents.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn the public platform; personal appearance of the man.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEconomic and socialistic vagaries.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eF. Harrison on \"Ruskin as Prophet\" and teacher.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInspiring lay sermons and minor writings.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReformer and would-be regenerator of modern society.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAttitude towards industrial problems of his time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFounds the communal \"Guild of St. George\".\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePhilanthropies, and lecturings in \"Working Men's College\".\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDeath and epoch-making influence, in modern art.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHERBERT SPENCER.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE EVOLUTIONARY PHILOSOPHY.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBY MAYO W. HAZELTINE.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eConstructs a philosophical system in harmony with the theory of\u003cbr\u003eevolution.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBirth, parentage, and early career.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eScheme of his system of Synthetic Philosophy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHis \"Facts and Comments;\" views on party government, patriotism, and\u003cbr\u003estyle.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHis religious attitude that of an agnostic.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe doctrine of the Unknowable and the knowable.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"First Principles;\" progress of evolution in life, mind, society, and\u003cbr\u003emorality.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe relations of matter, motion, and force.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Principles of Biology;\" the data of; the development hypothesis.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe evolutionary hypothesis _versus_ the special creation hypothesis;\u003cbr\u003earguments.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCauses and interpretation of the evolution phenomena.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDevelopment as displayed in the structures and functions of individual\u003cbr\u003eorganisms.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Principles of Psychology;\" the evolution of mind and analysis of mental\u003cbr\u003estates.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Principles of Sociology;\" the adaptation of human nature to the social\u003cbr\u003estate.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEvolution of governments, political and ecclesiastical; industrial\u003cbr\u003eorganizations.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eQualifications; Nature's plan an advance, and again a retrogression.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSocial evolution; equilibriums between constitution and conditions.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAssisted by others in the collection, but not the systemization, of his\u003cbr\u003eillustrative material.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Principles of Ethics;\" natural basis for; secularization of morals.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGeneral inductions; his \"Social Statics\".\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRelations of Mr. Spencer and Mr. Darwin to the thought of the Nineteenth\u003cbr\u003eCentury.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHARLES DARWIN.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHIS PLACE IN MODERN SCIENCE.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBY MAYO W. HAZELTINE.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Darwinian hypothesis a rational and widely accepted explanation of\u003cbr\u003ethe genesis of organic life on the earth.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDarwin; birth, parentage, and education.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNaturalist on the voyage of the \"Beagle\".\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHis work on \"Coral Reefs\" and the \"Geology of South America\".\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eObservations and experiments on the transmutation of species.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContemporaneous work on the same lines by Alfred R. Wallace.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The Origin of Species\" (1859).","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47162788151536,"sku":"2940013803107","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013803107_p0.jpg?v=1763590410","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013803107","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}