Book I
Chapter 1. Preliminary.
Considering our present advanced state of culture, and how the Torch of Science has now been bran...
Chapter 2. Editorial Difficulties.
If for a speculative man, "whose seedfield," in the sublime words of the Poet, "is Time," no conq...
Chapter 3. Reminiscences.
To the Author's private circle the appearance of this singular Work on Clothes must have occasion...
Chapter 4. Characteristics.
It were a piece of vain flattery to pretend that this Work on Clothes entirely contents us; that ...
Chapter 5. The World in Clothes.
"As Montesquieu wrote a Spirit of Laws," observes our Professor, "so could I write a Spirit of Cl...
Chapter 6. Aprons.
One of the most unsatisfactory Sections in the whole Volume is that on Aprons. What though stout ...
Chapter 7. Miscellaneous-Historical.
Happier is our Professor, and more purely scientific and historic, when he reaches the Middle Age...
Chapter 8. The World Out of Clothes.
If in the Descriptive-Historical portion of this Volume, Teufelsdrockh, discussing merely the Wer...
Chapter 9. Adamitism.
Let no courteous reader take offence at the opinions broached in the conclusion of the last Chapt...
Chapter 10. Pure Reason.
It must now be apparent enough that our Professor, as above hinted, is a speculative Radical, and...
Chapter 11. Prospective.
The Philosophy of Clothes is now to all readers, as we predicted it would do, unfolding itself in...