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The condition of England

Chapter 23: INDEX
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A reflective survey of contemporary England that diagnoses social conditions, institutions, and cultural life. The author examines ruling classes, suburban habits, urban masses, those confined by poverty or institutions, and the countryside, while assessing the influences of science, literature, and religion. Combining observation, statistics, and moral critique, the work weighs material progress and public comforts against persistent inequality, cultural anxieties, and an overconfident sense of security, and closes with cautious reflections on likely directions for national development.

INDEX

Airships, 217

American wealth, 30;
athletics, 135;
diseased activity, 136;
begging in, 182, 183

Aristocracy, intellectual failure of, 28

Arnold, Matthew, quotation from, 6, 14, 25, 219, 265


Baby, crying, 187

Bagehot, 30, 284

“Bankruptcy of Science,” 213

Barnett, Canon, 141, 274

Bell, Lady, At the Works, 106, 107, 109

Belloc, 19, 240

Birmingham, Bishop of, 88

Blake, 244

Bonfield, Miss, 168

“Boodler” not disapproved, 153

Booth, Charles, on religion in London, 268

Bray, Reginald, “The Town Child,” 136, 139

Butler, 265

Butler, Samuel, 283


Canyon, Arizona, 286

Carlyle, quotation from, 6, 22, 47, 99, 219, 276

“Castle Haven,” 32

Châteaubriand, 222

Chesterton, G. K., 241

Child Labour, effect of, 162

Clarion and Clarionette, 143, 154

“Conquerors, the,” 56

Corruption, Civic, 153

Crooks, Mr. Will, 144, 145, 146, 147

Crowd, the, 118, 119, 293;
strong man’s contempt for, 123;
in America, 123

“Cup Tie” and dying workman, 134


Davies, W. H., 180, 181, 182, 183

Democracy, 136, 141

Dill, Dr., 301

Disease, victory over, 224

Dolling, 268


Electioneering, the new, 128

Ensor, Mr., 150, 179, 207, 263


Family, limitation of, 86, 87, 103;
budgets, 101;
variations in, 102;
working class and middle class contrasted, 139;
“F. sanctity” rashly used in argument, 140

Flowers, workmen’s ignorance of, 263

Flying, developments of, 217, 290

Football crowds, 131

France, Anatole (Ile des Penguins), 294-295, 300;
M. Bergeret, 302

Froissart, 193


Galsworthy, The Island Pharisees, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55

Gladstone, 21

Grayson, Mr., M.P., 143


Half-Timers, 162

Hardy, Thomas, 232

Henderson, Mr., M.P., 143

Henley, W. E., quotation from, 49

Horton, Dr., on religion, 271

Housing of the Poor, 99, 100

Hueffer, F. M., Spirit of the People, 14, 35, 270


Infantile death-rate, 161


Jefferies, Richard, 248, 249, 250, 251, 252, 253

Jowett, Mr., M.P., 143

Juvenal, 61


Kennedy, Bart, 178, 180

Kipling, quotation from, 287

Kipps, 170, 171, 286


Lamb, Charles, 131

Land, love of, 193

Life Worship, 249, 251

Living-in, 161, 165;
moral effect of, 167;
employers on, 166

Loane, Miss, 112, 115

London County Council, Hôtel de Ville, 23;
elections, 69

Lord of Latimer Street, 116

Lowes, Dickinson, 283

Lyons, Neil, 184


Mallock, 41

Medieval craftsmen country people, English, 200

Meredith, quotation from, 6

Morris, quotation from, 6;
Socialism of, 257, 258


Newton’s law of motion, 284

Noise of the machines, awful when it stops, 137


Papacy, Sidney Smith on, 265

Peckham election, 126

Plutocracy, the, 40, 41

“Populace,” 15

Press, the Sunday, 3

Prévost, M. Marcel, 56, 57, 58, 59


Rescue Home, youth of inmates, 160

Religion, middle classes and, 75;
indifference to, 267;
Booth on, 269;
drink and, 271;
Ward, 272;
class feeling and, 272

Renan, 118

Reynolds, Stephen, A Poor Man’s House, 113-116

Rights of way, only in England, 201

Robert Thorne,” 78

Roman building, 24;
vice but splendour, 46

Ruskin, quotation from, 6, 111


Sailor at midnight, 187

Scott, James, R.A., 231

“Season, the,” 44

Security, conviction of, 8, 280, 282, 288

Shaw, Mr. Bernard, 237, 238, 239

Shop assistants, 164

Sidgwick, Henry, 276

Sinclair, Upton, 30, 31, 32

Small holdings, 194

Smith, Sidney, on Papacy, 265

Snowden, Mr., 142

Socialism, aristocracy under, 64;
among the middle classes, 34;
among the working classes, 148, 149

Southey on the city, 136

Standard of living, alteration in, 11, 21, 39

Stevenson, R. L., 245

Strike, railway, 16

Suffragettes, 84, 119, 122, 127

Super-wealth, 20, 26

“Surrey Labourer,” 196

Sweating, instances of, 160, 161, 174;
character of workers, 173


Taine, 270

Tavannes, 48

Teachers, elementary, 83

Ties of family, where strongest, 139

Tolstoy, 213

Treherne, Thomas, 243, 248, 250

Tramps, 178

Tyranny in villages, 193, 205, 206


Victorian Age, 5

Village, decaying life of, 12, 65, 190, 191, 192, 193

Viviani, M., quotation from, 155


Wells, H. G., quotation from New Worlds for Old, 149;
war in the air, 220, 290;
Tono-Bungay, 237;
Utopia, 282

Wordsworth on the City, 136

Workhouse, labourer’s dislike of, 197