In this influential lecture delivered at Cambridge University in 1895, philosopher and statesman Arthur J. Balfour offers a scathing critique of the cultural and moral decay of fin-de-si cle Britain. With its nuanced analysis of the forces behind social and intellectual decline, Decadence remains a must-read for scholars of Victorian and Edwardian cultural history. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and...
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