Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. 1. By Coniston Water 1
5. 2. Brought Up by Hand: The Moral Point of English Public Schools 34
6. 3. Oxford and the Admiralty: The Science of Human Affairs; God and the Devil 63
7. 4. Against the Realists: Liberalism and the Italians 101
8. 5. On Hadrian’s Wall: “Question-and-Answer Logic” 139
9. 6. The Idea of the Ideas: The New Science 180
10. 7. “Fighting in the Daylight”: Metaphysics against Fascism 210
11. 8. The Valley of the Shadows: Java, Oxford, Greece 247
12. 9. The Passionate Man’s Pilgrimage: On Barbarism and Civilisation 288
13. 10. The Time of the Preacher: Collingwood’s Resurrection 314
14. Abbreviations 349
15. Notes 351
16. Index 377