Gravenhurst, or Thoughts on Good and Evil
William Henry Smith
18 chapters · 6 h 36 min · English
Read by czandra, Rosemary McDonald (1938-2025), Mike W
Religion · Philosophy
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In which an English country gentlemen records his and his friends' conversational observations on misery and happiness, leaning ultimately on faith and God. Readable and gentle in presentation, with by-the-by observations on the sexes, animals, comfort, and so on. (Summary by Czandra)
Chapters
1 Introduction part 1 20 min 2 Introduction part 2 23 min 3 Introduction part 3 21 min 4 Exposition chapter 1: Pain and Painful Emotion 11 min 5 Chapter 2: Too much evil 16 min 6 Chapter 3: Moral evil 17 min 7 Chapter 4: Remedial evils 16 min 8 Chapter 5: The irremediable 15 min 9 Conversation 1: Inequality of happiness 27 min 10 Conversation 2 : Crime and its punishment 21 min 11 Conversation 3: The Rainbow 32 min 12 Conversation 4: The development of Human Society Inseparable from Contest and Division; part 1 25 min 13 Conversation 4: The development of Human Society Inseparable from Contest and Division; part 2 29 min 14 Conversation 5: Explanatory hints on several topics, part 1 23 min 15 Conversation 5: Explanatory hints on several topics, part 2 30 min 16 Conversation 6: The whole is one, part 1 24 min 17 Conversation 6: The whole is one, part 2 24 min 18 Conversation 6: The whole is one, part 3 24 min
