THE LONDON SATURDAY JOURNAL. "OH for the coming of that glorious time When, prizing knowledge as her noblest wealth An obligation, on her part, to teach Them who are born to serve her and obey."-WORDSWORTH. VOLUME I. Nos. I. TO XXVI.-JANUARY TO JUNE. LONDON: WILLIAM SMITH, 113, FLEET STREET; FRASER AND CRAWFORD, EDINBURGH; AND CURRY AND CO., DUBLIN. MDCCCXXXIX R CONTENTS OF VOLUME I. iv vi vii The Past and the Future-aspect of Eng- lish Society about the beginning of the reign of George the Second-imaginary resuscitation of Daniel Defoe Classification of the operative influences at work on English society and character during the past century-The Religious Influences Whitfield and Wesley What Methodism did for our social cha- Expansion of the Religious Influences, and their combination in societies for great The Infidel Influences also expanding, but The Political Influences-Blackstone and -great number of eminent men who sprang from the mid- dle and lower classes-changes produced Literary Influences, extension of Educa- tion, &c.-the rhetorical age of litera- ture-the Della Cruscan poetic mania -publication of Scott's novels Origin of the Edinburgh Review-founda- tion of geological science-agitation re- specting popular education-the Useful What the diffusion of useful knowledge The Christian should be a politician- Britain intended, under Providence, as a REASON AND REVELATION-the progress of man not a necessary result of his orga- nization, but a proof of the providence WAR AND PEACE-a glance at the history and philosophy of war, and the prospects EUROPEAN INFLUENCE IN THE EAST-re- 141 HINTS ABOUT THE INVISIBLE WORLD- 253 181 353 An Incident in the Café d'Orleans 406 A Journey with the Jews from Brody to 360 Curious Construction of Malay Houses 394 Discovery of Petra . 182 Description of Petra 49 A Voyage on the Nile 115 . 127 139 169 Daniel De Foc 3 |