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Impressions of Theophrastus Such (Version 2)

The ruminations and reflections of a minor scholar. - Summary by Mark Leder (6 hr 57 min)

Chapters

Chapter One: Looking Inward

30:03

Chapter Two: Looking Backward

35:03

Chapter Three: How We Encourage Research

33:58

Chapter Four: A Man Surprised at his Originality

19:17

Chapter Five: A Too Deferential Man

19:10

Chapter Six: Only Temper

17:12

Chapter Seven: A Political Molecule

10:20

Chapter Eight: The Watch-dog of Knowledge

18:01

Chapter Nine: A Half-breed

17:00

Chapter Ten: Debasing the Moral Currency

17:06

Chapter Eleven: The Wasp Credited with the Honeycomb

28:39

Chapter Twelve: "So young!"

13:21

Chapter Thirteen: How We Come to Give Ourselves False Testimonials, and Believe…

21:11

Chapter Fourteen: The Too Ready Writer

21:21

Chapter Fifteen: Diseases of Small Authorship

23:07

Chapter Sixteen: Moral Swindlers

20:59

Chapter Seventeen: Shadows of the Coming Race

14:26

Chapter Eighteen: The Modern Hep! Hep! Hep!

57:12