INDEX.
- A.
- Ability, inherited, 4
- sporadic, not inherited, 5
- driven out, 3, 4, 8, 21
- favoured by war, 98
- Administration depends on character, 1
- Advance checked by communism, 20, 21
- checked by education, 73–75
- due to individual, 78, 80
- gained by saving waste, 79
- Agriculture, elaboration of, 101
- to be saved from townsmen, 54
- Amusement, passion for, 20, 82, 83
- Anarchism, product of great states, 67
- Armaments, big, needful, 98
- war by, 97
- Artificial conditions encourage variation, 5
- Athletics, needed by the unfit, 82
- Atrophy of mind, 7–9
- Aurelian, 36
- Automatic lives of majority, 79
- B.
- Barbaric society, complex, 21
- Bartholomew's Day, 1662, 41
- Benevolence, scope of, v.
- Betting, 19
- Birth rate, waste of high, 85
- Bricklayers' Union, influence of, 31
- Building, dear in England, 31
- Bye-laws, value of, 44
- C.
- Capacity, see Ability.
- Capital used for income, 47
- Capitalists, result of diminishing, 50
- Catastrophes produced by small causes, 42
- Cattle, competition among, 25
- Change, gradual, to be allowed, 43
- effect of, 13, 63
- violent, injurious, 41
- Character, the basis of society, 1
- production of, 2
- subject to natural law, 2
- low type at present, 15–19
- killed by municipalising, 26
- grown by experience, 74
- Checks, better use of, 99
- Children, later more able, 86
- maintenance of, 8, 60, 86–88
- Chinese labour, need for, 93–95
- Civil war, results of, 39–41
- Civilisation a means of diversity, 68
- Clubs, benefit of, 92
- Collections, dispersal of, 46
- Colonising result of primogeniture, 45, 46
- Combinations, must be voluntary, 91
- Combined labour, wasteful, 90
- Committees, mind of, 9
- Commons rule alone, 39–41
- weakness of, 43
- Communal organisation of early Europe, 22
- Communication, results of, 56, 66, 98
- Communism a bar to useful variation, 20, 21
- and early Christianity, 24
- and fatalism, 25, 26
- and labour, 90
- Compensation for accidents, 58
- Competition, necessity of, 3, 10
- dislike of, 10
- among cattle, 25
- Continuity of work, power of, 80, 81
- Co-operation a main line of advance, 92
- Cox, Mr. Harold, 55
- Crimes, survivals of early life, 73
- Criminals to be sorted into communities, 73
- Cromwell an arbitrary ruler, 40
- value of, in anarchy, 40, 41
- D.
- Death duties, effect of, 44, 46
- Despotism, a refuge from anarchy, 41
- Devolution of the Roman Empire, 36
- Diocletian, decree of prices, 37, 38
- Disciples, early, hard-weeded, 24
- Diseases of bodies politic, vi., 19
- Diversity, need of, 65–77, 100
- of moral standards, 67, 68
- of types required, 69
- dangerous form of, 70
- still existing, 71–3
- of marriage laws, 71, 72
- Dulness of observation, 16, 17
- E.
- Education, a bar to advance, 73–76
- experiments needed, 75
- variety of, needed, 75, 76
- Elections, waste by, 100
- Emigration beneficial, 13
- harmful, 13, 14
- Environment subject to man, 3
- Equatorial races, future of, 103
- Escape of the capable, 8
- Extremes of condition appear together, 5
- F.
- Factions of the Civil War, 39, 40
- Farm colonies, 8
- Fatalism and communism, 26
- Federations must prevail, 100
- Five-mile Act, 40
- France, ability drained from, 4
- cost of Revolution in, 41
- Free-trade only possible with bounties, 52
- Free-will a subject of normal variation, 2
- G.
- Gallienus, 35
- German immigration, 15
- Government cannot tax its own payments, 49
- Gracchus, cheap com of, 29
- Gradual changes to be allowed, 43
- H.
- Happiness based on character, 2
- Health, saving of, 79, 80
- Housing problem, cause of, 31
- Huguenots closely weeded, 24
- expulsion of, 4
- I.
- Illustrated papers, 18
- Immigration, 14, 15
- Income tax, effect on trade, 47–49
- Individual thought essential, 9
- Individualism a line of advance, 91
- Infant life, saving of, 60
- Inspection, abuse of, 99
- Intellect, limitations of, 17
- Intolerance of Puritans, 39–41, 70
- gain and loss of, 66
- Investments, foreign, demand for, 48
- Ireland, emigration injuring, 14
- land-holding in, 53
- Italian labour abroad, 93
- J.
- Janus, the peace bringer, vii.
- Japanese too industrious, 93
- L.
- Labour, combined, wasteful, 90
- in the tropics, 56
- Land in Ireland, 53
- state ownership of, 53–55
- equal values of, 56
- Laws impartial to all residents, 94
- Life, infant, saving of, 60
- Life-duties, effect of, 49
- Lighting system faulty, 17
- Little-Italy party, 35–37
- Loans, risks of, 55
- Local administration, variety in, 44
- London County Council, 17, 55
- Low races pass under higher, 1
- M.
- Malignants deprived, 41
- Man subjugates environment, 3
- permanence of type of, 10–12
- final type of, 100–102
- Marriage ceremony, period of, 72
- laws, diversity of, 71, 72
- temporary, 84
- Medical examination of children, 87
- Mencius quoted, 7
- Mental changes similar to physical, 2–7
- qualities inherited, 4
- growth encouraged by use, 6
- growth to old age, 6
- Merovings, degradation of, 7
- Middle-class waste, 61
- Mind subject to natural variation, 2–7
- variability induced, 6
- arrested at various ages, 6
- atrophy of, 7–9
- unchanged in nature, 11–12
- Monopolies, 9, 96
- Moral standard typical of a society, 68
- Morality, relative standard of, 67–68
- Municipalising enterprises, 26
- N.
- Nationalisation of land, 53–55
- Nationalities, use of various, 93
- New Testament teaching, 23, 24
- Norse poor law, 22, 86
- O.
- Officialism, 9
- Old age pensions, 59
- Oman, Prof., 29
- P.
- Pasts have all been present, vii.
- Patriotism killed by separate groups, 71
- Permanence of type of man, 10–12
- Peters, Carl, opinion of, 20
- Physical changes similar to mental, 2–7
- Pleasures, low type of, 17–19
- Polybius on history, iv.
- Poverty results from opportunity, 5
- Prayer, Book of Common, proscribed, 40
- Present time, apparent importance of, vii.
- Prices, consequence of regulating, 37, 38
- Primogeniture diminished, 45
- effect of, 45, 46
- Private enterprise most effective, 9
- Prodigal son, his rights, 24
- Profits to be earned from wealth, 30–32
- Profit-sharing, 92, 99
- Proletariat, support of, 30–32
- Property parted in life, 44, 49
- Proscriptions, disastrous effect of, 4
- Provinces parted from Rome, 36
- R.
- Radicalism contrary to evolution, 42
- Railway stations, faulty, 16
- Railways, effects of, 56, 66
- Rapidity, gain by, 81
- Reasoning interest obliterated, 74
- Regulation pattern men, 74
- Relatives, responsibility of, 22, 89
- Remedy for the incapable, 8
- Renewal of population, 83
- Rentoul, Dr., 87
- Responsibility without rule, 86
- Retaliation in trade war, 97
- Retrograde characters ruined by help, 7
- Ruling faculty of man, 3
- S.
- Scrapping of machines and men, 85
- Seebohm, Dr., 22
- Selection the means of elevation, 3, 20
- repressed by communism, 20–27
- Slavery not fatal to Rome, 34
- Sloth a deadly sin, 16
- now compulsory, 16
- Socialism, use of word, 23
- Society, barbaric complexity, 21
- a mixture of stages, 72
- final type of, 100–103
- Sport, 18, 19
- States, large, a result of speed, 66
- Submerged tenth, 6, 14, 69, 88
- Survivals of earlier stages, 72, 73
- T.
- Taxation in death duties, 44–46
- on capital, 47
- on trade, 47–50
- in life duties, 49
- immoral, 50, 51
- should be felt, 52
- limitations of, 92
- Taxation of extravagance, 52
- Tenth, submerged, 6, 14, 69
- Theologic morality, 68
- Thought, lack of, at present, 16
- Town, type of, 57
- Townsman favoured, 28
- Trade unionism and sloth, 16, 81
- in Rome, 29–34
- compulsory, 30–34
- and the poor, 30, 31
- assessment of tax, 32
- Transit, rapid, result of, 56–58
- Trust-man class, 62
- Trusts, creation of, 49
- U.
- Unfit, treatment of, 87–89
- Uniformity, evils of, 65, 67
- Unintellectual character, source of, 74
- Utilitarian morality, 67
- V.
- Variability induced, 6
- Variation produced by artificial conditions, 5
- needed for advance, 65, 69
- about one centre, 70
- Vice not fatal to Rome, 34
- Violent changes injurious, 39–41
- W.
- Wages, equality of, 8
- Waltzing quoted, 34
- War by trade, 95
- by armaments, 97
- by violence, 98
- favours best stocks, 98
- causes, permanent, 99
- Waste, taxation of, 52
- the bar to advance, 79
- Wealth held by different classes, 60
- White labour dreads competition, 94, 95
- Work, distaste for, 20, 81
- power of, 80, 81
- to be adapted to the person, 81, 82
- Workmen, atrophy among, 8
- Workmen's Compensation Act, 58
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