Chapter VI

PROGRESS OF THE NATION FROM THE REVOLUTION TO 1760.

The Church after the Revolution--The Non-Jurors--The Act of
Toleration--Comprehension Bill--Laxity of Religion--The Wesleys
and Whitefield--Foundation of Methodism--Extension of the
Movement--Literature--Survivors of the Stuart Period--Prose
Writers: Bishop Burnet--Philosophers: Locke--Bishop
Berkeley, etc.--Novelists: Fielding, Richardson, Smollett,
and Sterne--Dr. Davenant--Bentley--Swift--Addison--Addison
and Steele--Bolingbroke--Daniel Defoe--Lady Mary
Wortley Montagu--Poets: Pope--His Prose Writings--Gay,
Prior, Young, etc.--James Thomson, Allan Ramsay,
Gray, and Minor Lights--Dramatists--Physical Science:
Astronomers--Mathematicians--Electricians--Chemists--Medical
Discoverers--Music: Purcell--Italian Music--Handel--Church
Music--The Academy of Ancient Music and other
Societies--Architecture--Wren and his Buildings--St. Paul's--His
Churches and Palaces--Vanbrugh--Gibbs--Hawksmoor--Minor
Architects--Painting and Sculpture: Lely and Kneller--Other Foreign
Painters and Decorators--Thornhill--Other English Artists--Hogarth
and his Works--Exhibition of British Artists--Sculptors--Shipping,
Colonies, Commerce, and Manufactures--Increase of Canals--Woollen
and Silk Trades--Irish Linens--Lace--Iron, Copper, and other
Industries--Increase of the large Towns 141