# Decadence Henry Sidgwick memorial lecture, 1908

Author: Balfour, Arthur James, 1848-1930

Genre: Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/68219

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## Summary

I must begin what I have to say with a warning and an apology. I must warn you that the present essay makes no pretence to be an adequate treatment of some compact and limited theme; but rather resembles those wandering trains of thought, where we allow ourselves the luxury of putting wide-ranging questions, to which our ignorance forbids any confident reply. I apologise for adopting a course which thus departs in some measure from familiar precedent. I admit its perils. But it is just possible that when a subject, or group of subjects, is of great inherent interest, even a tentative, and interrogative, treatment of it may be worth attempting.

## Chapters

- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/decadence-henry-sidgwick-memorial-lecture-1908-68219/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/decadence-henry-sidgwick-memorial-lecture-1908-68219/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/decadence-henry-sidgwick-memorial-lecture-1908-68219/chapters/3/index.md)