PART I

CHAPTER PAGE

I. "_Hinter die Kirche blühe die blaue Blume der Zufriedenheit_" 3

II. _Of Thaddeus Bourn and his Purposes_ 11

III. _Of Morgan Map and his Purposes_ 24

IV. _In which Thaddeus uses the term "Moral Justification"_ 32

V. _Introducing Hamilton and Saint Mary's Organ_ 41

VI. _Introducing Gard Windham and the Brotherhood of Consolation_ 56

VII. _Introducing Moselle and Mavering_ 71

VIII. _Of Mrs. Mavering, and of the Philosophy of the Individual_ 85

IX. _Of Estates in Happiness_ 99

X. _Of Spring in Hamilton--Of Thaddeus's Opportunity to be Candid_ 118

XI. _The Whirlpool--Mr. Paulus's Reminiscences of Women_ 135