SOCIETY IN COUNTRY HOUSES 142 A Few Country Houses of Various Types--Castles and Manor Houses from Cornwall to Sutherland CHAPTER IX FROM COUNTRY HOUSES TO POLITICS 168 First Treatise on Politics--Radical Propaganda--First Visit to the Highlands--The Author Asked to Stand for a Scotch Constituency CHAPTER X A FIVE MONTHS' INTERLUDE 194 A Venture on the Riviera--Monte Carlo--Life in a Villa at Beaulieu--A Gambler's Suicide--A Gambler's Funeral CHAPTER XI "THE OLD ORDER CHANGES" 209 Intellectual Apathy of Conservatives--A Novel Which Attempts to Harmonize Socialist Principles with Conservative CHAPTER XII CYPRUS, FLORENCE, HUNGARY 226 A Winter in Cyprus--Florence--Siena--Italian Castles--Cannes--Some Foreign Royalties--Visit During the Following Spring to Princess Batthyany in Hungary CHAPTER XIII TWO WORKS ON SOCIAL POLITICS 255 The Second Lord Lytton at Knebworth--"Ouida"--Conservative Torpor as to Social Politics--Two Books: _Labor and the Popular Welfare_ and _Aristocracy and Evolution_--Letters from Herbert Spencer CHAPTER XIV RELIGIOUS PHILOSOPHY AND FICTION 270 The So-called Anglican Crisis--_Doctrine and Doctrinal Disruption_--Three Novels: _A Human Document_, _The Heart of Life_, _The Individualist_--Three Works on the Philosophy of Religion: _Religion as a Credible Doctrine_, _The Veil of the Temple_, _The Reconstruction of Belief_--Passages from _The Veil of the Temple_ CHAPTER XV _From the Highlands to New York_ 292 Summer on the Borders of Caithness--A Two Months' Yachting Cruise--The Orkneys and the Outer Hebrides--An Unexpected Political Summons CHAPTER XVI POLITICS AND SOCIETY IN AMERICA 308 Addresses on Socialism--Arrangements for Their Delivery--American Society in Long Island and New York--Harvard--Prof. William James--President Roosevelt--Chicago--Second Stay in New York--New York to Brittany--_A Critical Examination of Socialism_--Propaganda in England CHAPTER XVII THE AUTHOR'S WORKS SUMMARIZED 335 A Boy's Conservatism--Poetic Ambitions--The Philosophy of Religious Belief--The Philosophy of Industrial Conservatism--Intellectual Torpor of Conservatives--Final Treatises and Fiction CHAPTER XVIII LITERATURE AND ACTION 343