Chapter XXV: Part 25

Two Fabian booklets of mine entitled Socialism and Superior Brains and The Common Sense of Municipal Trading are still probably worth reading, as they are written from personal experience of both.

INDEX

BY BEATRICE WHITE, M.A.

Abatement, smoke, 145

Aberdeen, 262

Abernethy, John, 203

Ability, managerial, 67, 181;
to maintain discipline, 334, 335;
necessary to nationalize, 341

Abortion, 88;
surgical, 410

Abraham, 410

Access to rare books and pictures, 388

Accountants, 173, 176, 179, 225, 328

Acrobats, 205

Actors, 23, 169, 205, 419

Actresses, 22;
popular, 331

Acts of Parliament, 254, 299, 309, 322, 356, 371, 384, 412

Admiralty, the, 32, 274, 276

Adoption, compulsory, 413

Adulterators, 203

Adults, dysgenic, 436

Adventurers, 310

Advertisements, 135, 203, 310

Aerodromes, 402

Aeroplane lines, the, 388

Aeroplane pilots, 397

Aeroplanes, 313, 345, 402

Affiliation allowances, 200

Afforestation, 281

Africa, 52, 143, 150, 152, 154, 157, 409

African markets, 154

African “medicine”, 367

Agents, 166

Agitators, Socialistic, 305

Agnostics, 436, 438

Agricultural harvests, 240

Agricultural laborers, 204

Air services, 312, 313

Airships, 402

Albert Hall, the, 333

Alcohol, 395, 396, 397, 398

Alexander the Great, 54

Alfonso, King, 318, 371, 379

Alfred, King, 40, 309

Algeria, 152

Allah, 367

Alliances, 153

Allotment holders, 340

Almsgiving, 95

Ambassadors, 75

Ambulance porters, 52

America, 8, 57, 98, 120, 124, 142, 144, 154, 176, 188, 193, 194, 225,
275, 293, 294, 296, 306, 307, 314, 370, 374, 401, 409, 430,
431, 444, 466

America, United States of, 141, 369, 381, 396, 450;
anti-British feeling in, 158-159

American dollars, 256;
employers and financiers, methods of, 306, 307;
hotheads, 396;
plantations, 215;
presidents, 328, 381;
State Legislatures, 436;
statistics, 397;
villages, 217

Americans, the, 410

Amsterdam, 259

Amusements, 165

Ananias and Sapphira, 12

Anarchism, 445, 447

Anarchists, 94, 203, 220, 444, 446

Anarchy, 29-30, 381

Andes, the, 235

Anglican Churches, the, 404

Anglo-Catholics, 219, 346, 360

Anne, Queen, 139

Anti-clericalism, 439

Anti-clericals, 345

Anti-Russian scare, the 1924, 346

Anti-Socialists, 346

Apostles, the, 12, 13, 14, 19

Apostles’ creed, the, 308, 426

Apothecaries, 419

_Apprentice, The Sorcerer’s_, 157-61

Appropriation Act, the, 113

Arabian desert, the, 457

Arabs, the, 87

Archbishop Laud, 374, 430, 431, 439

Archbishops, 28, 93, 340, 436, 439

Architects, 169

Arcos, raid on, 223

Aristocracy, the landed, 214

Aristotle, 94

Armada, the, 321

Armaments, 144;
the race of, 154

Armistice, the, 156

Army, the, 31, 289

Arnold, Matthew, 98

Arnold, Whately, 272

Art, 30, 31, 39, 48, 157

Art of living, the, 60

Articles, the Thirty-nine, 425, 441, 445

Artificial happiness, 395, 398

Artificial overpopulation, 357, 409

Artists, 78, 81, 386

Asia, 89, 152;
British Empire in, 431

Asquith, Herbert Henry, 218

Assaults in school, 416

Assistants, shop, 78, 145, 163, 177, 334, 397, 446

Associated work, 73

Astor property, the, 8

Astronomer Royal, the, 3, 17

Astronomers, 16, 169, 327, 341

Astronomy, Copernican, 361

Asylums, lunatic, 33

Athanasian creed, the, 426

Atheists, 215, 345, 435

Athenian democracy, 453

Athens, 297

Athletes, champion, 398, 429

Atlantic, the, 106, 312

Attendants, picture gallery, 79

Augury, ancient, 367

Augustine, Saint, 92, 93, 441

Austin’s Lectures on Jurisprudence, 466

Australasia, 409

Australia, 89, 193, 194, 361;
uncles in, 67

Australians, the, 410

Austria, 263

Austrian Government, the, 255

Authority, 37-8;
and subordination, 337

Authors, 169, 172, 225

Averaging. _See_ Nationalization

Babies, 6, 384, 433;
superfluous, 410

Babylon, 372

Bachelors, 349

Baghdad, 314

Bagmen, 343

Baked-potato men, 184

Bakers, 9, 52, 266

Baldwin, Stanley, 218, 222

Balfour, Arthur James, 218

Bank of England, 167, 231, 244, 248, 249, 250, 259, 261, 292

Bank Holiday, 77, 81

Bank Holiday Acts, 322

Bank managers, 55, 268

Bank rate, the, 244, 249, 295

Bank transactions, 245

Banker-General, 273

Bankers, 131, 178, 181, 266, 268, 297

Banking, 243-51;
nationalization of, 35, 140, 181, 264-8, 386

Banks, 278;
Scottish and Irish, 259;
national and municipal, 140, 266

Baptism, 4, 424, 433

Barbers, 419

Bargemen, 21

Barges, 401

Barristers, _See_ Lawyers

Baronets, surgical, 332

Bass Rock ideal, the, 412

Bastille, the, 413

Battlefields, 87, 292

Battleships, 349

Beachcombers, 151

Beaconsfield, Earl of, 217

Becket, Thomas à, 430

Bedford, endowed schools of, 300

Bees, 86, 90

Beethoven, 414

Behaviour, 172, 173

Belgium, 153

Belief, differences of, 366, 367;
mostly bias, 460, 461

Bell, answering the, 78

Bench, the, 339

Bennett, Arnold, 469

Betterton, 419

Biarritz, 280

Bible, the, 189, 203, 233, 361, 374, 403, 424, 432, 459;
astronomy and biology of, 361;
of the working classes, 441

Bibles, 50, 143

Big business, 225;
capitalist, 308

Billiard markers, 397

Birmingham, 146, 214, 266, 271, 336;
municipal bank of, 266

Birth control, _See_ Contraception

Bishops, 434

Bismarck, 54, 165, 380, 381, 453

Blacklegs, 207

Blacksmiths, 27, 138;
village, 167, 386

Bloated aristocrats, 444

Blocks, parliamentary, 351

Blockmakers, parliamentary, 351

Boards, 353

Boatswains, 335

Boer ideal, the, 412

Bogey Bolshevism, 14

Bogies, 95

Bolsheviks, 65, 94, 110, 208, 270, 343, 368, 374, 444;
Communist, 375

Bolshevism, 113

Bombay Ginning Mills, 191

Bombing aeroplanes, 380

Bonar Law, Mr, 218

Bond Street, 278, 280, 399, 429

Book of Common Prayer, 406

Bookkeepers, 173, 225, 328, 397

Bookkeeping, 184

Bookmakers, 242

Bootle, 280

Bootlegging, 142

Bootmakers, 357

Boots, broken, 50

Borneo, 313

Borough Councils, 351

Borrovians, 220

Borrow, George, 219

Borrowing and hiring, 231, 232

Borrowing from and taxing capitalists, 290

Bound feet, 427

Bounderby, 303

Bountiful ladies, 65

Bourgeois, the, 369, 444

Bournemouth, 146, 278, 280, 372

Bourneville, 307, 375

Bourrienne, memoirs of, 328

Bourses, Continental, 243

Boy Scouts, 413

Bradlaugh, Charles, 435

Brahma, 367

Brains, proper social use of, 331

Bread, communization of, 15

Bread and circuses, 96

Breadwinning, 164, 197

Breaking a bank, 246

Breakwaters, 135

Bremerhaven, 154

Brewers, 177

Briand, Aristide, 351

Bricklayers, 167, 205, 208, 224, 356

Brickmakers, 23

Bridges, 391

Brigadiers, 357

Brigham Young, 380, 410, 411;
a Mormon Moses, 431

Bright, John, 190

Brighton, 134

Bristol, 143, 272

Britain, 311, 379, 431

British army and navy, 313;
brains, 311;
Commonwealth, 313;
courage, 311;
Empire, 253, 259, 313, 367;
in Asia, 431;
flag, 313;
genius, 311;
human nature, 330;
husbands, 406;
people, 313;
proletariat, 359;
proletarian voters, 369;
Museum, 16;
anti-Socialist governments, 287;
employers, 306;
Government, 255, 306;
race, 310;
Raj, 453;
religions, variety and incompatibility of, 425;
taxpayers, 313;
workman, 219;
turf, 236;
Socialists, 141;
Isles, 141;
Trade Unionists, 306

Brobdingnag, the King of, 155

Brummagem buttons, 214

Brunswick, Duke of, 369

Buccaneers, capitalist, 417

Bucket shops, 242

Buckingham Palace, 37, 118, 426

Buckle’s History of Civilization, 467

Budget, the, 285;
annual debates on, 286

Budgets, 384

Building societies, 129;
trades, 205

Bullion, 259

Bulls and bears, 241

Bumble, Mr, 413

Bunyan, John, 5, 298, 329;
his Simple, Sloth, and Presumption, 318

Bureaucracy. _See_ Civil Service Burglars, 457

Bus conductors, 251

Business, wholesale, 386;
private, 387, 388

Business ability, 131

Business man, the practical, 226, 249

Business men, 24, 130, 170, 171, 248

Business principles, 208

Butchers, 422

Butler, Samuel, 140

Byron, Lord, 344

Cabinet, the, 353, 354

Cabinet Ministers, 216, 348, 353

Cabinets, British, 348

Cablegrams, 136

Ca’canny, 208, 211

Cadbury, Mr, 307

Cæsar, Julius, 54, 380

Cæsars, 348

Cairnes, John Elliot, 467

Calculus, the, 422, 428

Calcutta Sweep, the, 67

Calvin, John, 431

Cambridge University, 169, 418, 429

Campbell-Bannerman, Sir Henry, 218

Canada, 89

Canadians, French, 159

Canals, 401

Candidates, the No-Compensation, 271

Candide, 462

Canossa, 430, 442

Canterbury, 430

Capel Court, 243

Capital, 33, 115, 127-31, 133;
export of, 140-44, 150;
definition of, 100;
driven abroad, 34-5;
homeless and at home everywhere, 140;
party of, 218;
levy, 227, 229, 230;
investing and “realizing”, 228;
taxation of, 277, 294;
domestic, 225-31

Capitalism, 10, 100-104, 185, 233, 368, 378, 459;
adventurous and experimental, 312;
diehard, 447;
Liberal constitutional, 447;
limitations of, 133-7;
mammonist morality of, 374;
in perpetual motion, 308-14;
on paper, 310;
a principle of, 331;
provides selfish motives for doing good, 300;
secular, 443;
ruthless, 314;
uncontrollable, 317;
well-established method of, 300;
runaway car of, 314-19

Capitalist and genius, the, 311

Capitalist morality, 200, 291, 359, 360;
law, 325;
system, one of worst vices of, 337;
papers, 116, 342;
Government and Opposition, 344;
crusade, 369;
exploitations of the taxpayers, 388, 389;
oligarchy, 431;
mankind detestable, 456;
and Socialist Governments, difference between, 390

Capitalists, 444;
dictatorship of, 376

Captains, navy, 70;
sea, 422

Cardinals, 436

Careerists, 95

Careers open to women, 174

Carlyle, Thomas, 5, 93;
his Past and Present, 424, 469;
Sartor Resartus, 425;
Shooting Niagara, 469

Carnegie, Andrew, 37, 332

Carnegie charities, 160

Carpenters, 23, 69, 205, 356, 399;
village, 167

Carriage of mails oversea, 388

Carriers, village, 387, 388, 389

C.O.D. parcel post, 271, 272

Casual labor, 118-20

Casual people, 73

Cathedrals, the, 438

Catholic Church, the, 441

Catholic theoracy, 442

Catholicism, 185

Catholics, 68, 93, 445

Celibacy, 407

Chambermaids, 149

Chancellor of the Exchequer, 113, 121, 227, 276, 281,
285, 287, 290, 295

Chanceries, 353

Change, continuous, 2;
constructive, must be parliamentary, 380-86

Changes, social, 39

Chaplains, 185

Charabancs, 164, 165, 312

Character, 26

Charity, 95, 144

Charlemagne, 433

Charles I, King, 321, 345, 371, 405

Charles, II, King, 305, 329, 345

Chartists, 444

Charwomen, 17, 35, 78, 79, 84, 105, 118, 119, 146, 198, 234, 342, 420

Chauffeurs, 75

Cheap and nasty, 139

Cheltenham, 146

Chemists, 310, 312, 327, 341

Cheques and clearing houses, 261

Cheques and Bills, 265

Chicago municipal elections, 159

Chicago pork kings, 343

Child-bearing, 74, 88, 176, 196

Child fanciers, 415

Child farming, 415

Child labor, 192

Child life, organization of, 413

Children, 53, 76, 360, 361, 362, 363, 392, 393, 423, 428, 436, 460;
and parents, 134, 193, 364, 366, 408;
and young persons overworked, 309;
bearing and rearing of, 74, 196, 326;
cost of, 87-8;
exposure of female, 89;
illegitimate, 200, 410;
institutional treatment of, 413;
matter-of-fact, 363;
Roman Catholic, 365;
ugly, 55

Children’s ordinary human rights, disregard of, 415

Children’s religion, dictated by parents, 360

Children’s wages, 196

China, 34, 142, 151, 194, 365, 374, 406

Chocolate creams, 145, 146

Cholera epidemics, 189, 427

Christ, 4, 54, 69, 94, 98, 367, 368, 424, 433, 441;
the mother of, 432

Christ Scientist, the Church of, 329, 431, 433

Christian Science, 433

Christian Scientists, 432

Christian Socialists, 458

Christianity, 89, 92, 143;
early, 459

Christians, 93, 313, 367, 369;
early, 89, 92

Christmas, 63;
cards, 156

Church, the, 32, 49, 64, 174, 254, 429, 461

Church Catechism, 424, 425

Church of England, the, 15, 17, 28, 32, 49, 215, 329, 360, 366,
374, 425, 434, 435, 438, 439, 441, 445, 457

Church of Jenner and Pasteur Scientists, the new, 433

Church livings, 215

Church rates, 436

Church of Rome, 431, 433, 434, 442

Church, school and Press, 63-5

Church schools, 204

Church and State, quarrel between, 429

Churches, the, 218, 407, 409, 410, 412;
attitude towards marriage, 89;
dangerous pretensions of, 432

Churches, the Free, 176, 435

Churchill, Winston, 317

Churchmen, 54, 190, 218, 345, 434

Cinemas, 163, 164

Cinematography, 175

Circumcision, 4, 433

Citizens, 391

City bosses, 346

City corporations, 351

City offices, 176, 324

Civil servants, 170, 171, 174, 262, 282, 340, 375, 382

Civil Service, the, 32, 60, 97, 105, 174, 185, 274, 384, 391

Civilians no longer spared in war, 175

Civilization a disease, 127

Clandestine Communism and confiscation, 287

Clares, the Poor, 41

Class distinctions, 420

Class hatred, 456

Class splits in the professions, 205

Class struggle, the, 58, 218

Class war, the, 187, 218, 372, 373

Clearing houses, 261

Cleopatra, 333

Clergymen, 23, 27, 35, 36, 52, 63, 169, 173, 176, 185, 194, 215, 425,
434, 446, 456, 458, 461

Clerical staffs, 356

Clerks, 75, 80, 173, 176, 182, 184, 203, 210, 245, 264, 404;
and clerking, 182

Clever women, 23

Clothes, 66, 163, 404;
Sunday, 156

Clubs, 418

Clydeside Scots, 441

Coal, cost under capitalism, 107-9;
how to cheapen, 109;
harvests, 240;
commission, 274;
mines, 133;
nationalization of, 266, 274, 297, 383, 386, 388;
owners, 274, 276, 297, 313, 322;
supply, 375

Coalmaster-General, wanted a, 109

Cocktails, 341

Coinage, debasement of, 253, 254;
value of gold coinage fixes itself, 259

College education, 36

Colonels, 37, 357

Colonies, British, 159

Colored labor, 146

Colored persons, 75

Columbus, 139

Combinations of workers, 204

Commandments, the Ten, 97, 127, 308, 384

Commercial civilization, 319;
profiteers, 383

Commercialism, 399

Commissioners of Inland Revenue, 394

Commissions fixing prices, 224

Common creed of the nation, formation of the, 426

Common people, the, 317

Common sense and prejudice, 426

Commonwealths, 158, 450

Communisms, 11-13, 14, 113, 117, 134, 185, 368, 445;
clandestine, 16;
reduces need for pocket money, 262;
parochial, 302;
Christian morality of, 374;
a development of existing economic civilization, 375

Communist, present connotation of, 446

Communist schools, 360

Communist-Anarchists, 445

Communistic monstrosities, our, 287

Communists, 94, 444, 446;
pseudo-Bolshevist, 345

Companies and trusts, 231

Companions, lady, 174

Company promotion, 237

Compensation for expropriation, 113

Compensation for nationalization, 268-274

Compensation really distributed confiscation, 270-71

Competitive method in industry, wasteful, 271, 272;
inadmissable in case of ubiquitous services, 273

Composers, 339

Compromisers, timid, 346

Compulsory schooling, 375

Compulsory social service, 356, 357, 358

Conduct, difficulty of teaching, 363

Confectionery, 165

Confidence tricksters, 395

Confiscated income must be immediately redistributed, 288

Confiscation, 113;
without compensation, 276-7;
with a vengeance, 290

Conscience, the national, 393

Conscientious objectors, 449;
objection, 450

Conscription, 154, 156, 289

Conservatism, 313, 447

Conservative Act of 1867, 452

Conservative Governments, 389

Conservative Party, 38, 103, 184

Conservatives, 93, 216, 217, 218, 220, 344

Consols, 177

Conspiracies _alias_ Trade Unions, 209

Constables, police, 38

Constantinople, 314

Constitution for the Socialist Commonwealth of Great Britain, 354

Constitutional Monarchists, 345

Constructive problem solved, the, 297-9

Contraception, 61, 87, 88-9, 90, 91, 148, 165, 175, 410

Contractors, 116

Contracts, civil, 57

Convalescent homes, 33

Conventions, 405

Cooks, 24-5, 36, 145

Co-operative societies, 33, 129

Co-operators, 444

Copper harvests, 240

Copyright conventions, 157

Copyrights, 403

Cost price, 107-11. _See_ Nationalization

Cottage handicrafts, 140;
hospitals, 65;
industry, 163

Cotton lords, 178;
spinners, 205

Country gentlemen, 75, 166, 286, 346

Country houses, 131

County Councils, 32, 351

County ladies, 166

Covetousness, human, 160

Cowper, William, 328

Cowper-Temple Clause, the, 361

Crabbe, George, 5

Craft Unions, 356

Craftsmen, 386

Creative work, 327

Credit, 247;
real, 247;
tax on, 249

Crews, 446

Crime, 58

Crimean War, 61

Criminal Courts, 395;
Law, 57

Cromer, 272

Cromwell, Oliver, 316, 318, 345, 371, 379, 381, 453

Crusoe, Robinson, 21, 85, 121

Culture, 30, 48;
reserves of now rather commercial than professional, 171

Currencies, private, 265

Current confusions, 433-55

Cynicism, not justified by the horrors of Capitalism, 155

Daily routine, 321

Dairymaids, 419

Dancing partners, fascinating male, 202, 331

Dartmoor, 328

Dartmoor hunt, the, 328

Daughters, 174, 197;
unmarried, 176

Day of Judgment, 89

Daylight in winter, 77

Dealers in pit props, 304

Dean Swift, 62, 458

Death duties, 113;
stupid, 230

Death-rate, high, 407

Debasement of currency, called inflation, 256

Debentures, 235

Debt, municipal, 117

Debt, the National, 114, 115, 117, 289, 291, 294-7, 402

Debt redemption levy, 296

Deceased Wife’s Sister Act, 1

Declaration of Rights, 320

Decline of the employer, the, 177-82

Deer forests, 124

Deflation, 256

Defoe, Daniel, 182

Deists, 345

Demagogues, plebeian, 348

Demand, effective, 51;
money market sense of, 248-9

Democracy, 164, 451, 452, 453, 459;
result of, 317

Democratic Prime Ministers, 315

Dens, sweaters’, 378

Dentists, 194

Department of Mines, creation of, 274

Department of Woods and Forests, 274

Depopulation, 148

Deposit at elections, 57

De Quincey, Thomas, 445, 465, 468

Derby, the, 154, 426

Descartes, 414

Destitute persons, 119

Detective stories, 415

Devil, the, 199, 367

Diagnostic of Socialism, the, 92-5

Diamonds, 9, 51, 66, 341

Dickens, Charles, 174, 303, 414;
his Hard Times, Little Dorrit, Pickwick Papers,
Our Mutual Friend, 469

Dictators, 315;
Italian, 348

Diehard coercionists, 346

Diminishing Return, Law of, 91

Diplomacy, 60-61

Diplomatic service, the, 46, 60

Direct Action men, 371

Direct Action, policy of, 446, 447

Dirty work, 74-6

Disablement above and below, 164-8

Discoveries, 172, 310, 341

Disease, venereal, 43, 54, 200;
hereditary, 54

Disguised Church, the, 433

Disraeli, Benjamin, 217, 218. _See_ Beaconsfield, Earl of

Dissenters, the, 93, 204, 215, 218, 360

Distilleries, 135, 137, 312

Distribution, traumatic, not spontaneous, 1;
anomalous, 5;
seven ways of, 19;
by class, 35-8

District Councils, 32, 351

Divide and govern, 213-25

Dividing-up, 6, 7, 8, 21

Division of labor, 24, 85, 161

Divisions within the Labor Party, 354-9

Divorce, 57, 349, 409

Dock companies, 119

Dock labor, 119

Dockers, 219

Dockyards, 105

Doctors, 22, 23, 35, 36, 46, 52, 105, 169, 173, 176, 194, 203, 225,
250, 327, 370, 398, 399, 400, 419, 432, 436, 456, 458,
459, 461

Doctrinaires, Marxist, 372

Doles, 8, 96, 119, 147, 279

Doles, depopulation and parasitic paradises, 145-50

Domestic capital, 225-31

Domestic debt redemption levies, objection to, 297

Domestic servants. _See_ Servants

Domestic work woman’s monopoly, 176

Dominic, Saint, 441

Dominions, the, 437

Dope, 374

Downing tools, 206

Drainage, 137, 391

Drawingroom amusements, 74

Dress, 46, 145, 172, 173

Dress question, the, 404

Dressing, 77

Dressmakers, 52, 145;
jobbing, 84

Dressmaking, 420

Drink, 15, 17, 42, 83, 120, 135, 141, 203, 395

Drones, 58

Drugging, 42

Drugs, 396

Drunkards, 93, 195, 395

Dublin, 184, 380

Ducal estates, 167

Duchesses, 403, 419

Dukes, 55, 75, 419

Dustmen, 35, 55, 75

Dwarfs, 69

Dysgenic reactions of inequality, 54-6, 150;
adults, 436

Earthquakes, 156

Eastern Europe, 437

Eastern women, 427

Eclipses, 365

Eddy, Mrs, 431, 432, 433, 441

Education, 27, 36, 173, 388;
college, 36;
a failure, 417;
impracticable, 362;
middle-class monopoly of, 177-82;
secular, 361, 423;
stupidities about, 413;
technical, compulsory and liberal, 422;
Socialist idea of, 428

Education Act of 1870, the, 361;
of 1902, 15

Egypt, 34, 222, 392;
self-government in, 159

Egyptian fiasco, the, 223

Eight hours day, the, 77

Einstein, Albert, 170, 343, 414

Election of 1918, the, 454

Electric Lighting Committees, 352

Electric lighting, municipal, 121, 122

Electric power, 76, 386

Electricians, 355

Electrocution, 57

Electronic physics, 361

Elementary schools, 169

Elizabeth, Queen, 44, 311, 316, 317, 329, 403, 425, 426, 442

Elizabeth, statute of, 44, 119, 195

Emigration, 144, 148, 193, 194

Emotional Socialism, 189

Empire, the medieval, 442

Empire insurance, 346

Empires, in collision, 152-7;
their origin in trade, 151;
ruins of, 146;
shifting centres of, 152

Employees, badly sweated, 309. _See_ Trade Union Capitalism

Employers, 177, 187, 195;
industrial, 214;
and financiers, 358;
petty, 309;
Victorian, 199.
_See_ Trade Union Capitalism

Employers’ Federations, 211, 212

Employment of first-rate business brains by Trade Unions, 307

Empress Catherine II of Russia, the, 449

Encyclopedias, 163

Engels, Friedrich, 185, 218

Engine drivers, 36, 73, 76

Engineers, 310, 312, 401

England, 124, 329, 330, 342, 371, 375, 376, 410, 430, 431, 436, 438,
454, 459;
Protestant, 406

English big business, Americanized, 307

English Church, the, 347

English ladies, 95

English market, the, 255

English nation, the, 366

English Parliament, the, 371

English pound, the, 263

English State, the, 442

English statesmen, 347

English Trade Unions, Americanized, 307

Englishmen, 257

Enlightenment, modern, 163

Enough? How much is, 41-9

Epidemics, 189;
dread of, 398

Epileptics, 195

Episcopalians, 345

Equal wages for equal work, 196

Equality, positive reasons for, 68-70

Equality of income, 384, 385, 391, 407, 413;
of opportunity, 93-4

Erewhon, 140

Errand boys, 84, 219

Esquimaux, the, 157, 164

Estate rules, 404

Ethical societies, 435

Eton, 169, 415, 429

Eugenics, 53-6

Europe, 86, 126, 152, 171, 222, 268, 293, 318, 369, 444;
kings of, 371, 378;
States of, 450

European empires, 347

Evasion of income tax, 32

Eve, the sin of, 89

Evolution, 361

Evolutionists, creative, 436

Exceptional ability, question of, 334

Excessive incomes, extortion of, 340

Exchequer, the 276;
Chancellor of the, 113, 121, 227, 276, 281, 285, 287, 290, 295

Exclusion of women from the professions, 174

Executioners, 76

Experimenting, 39

Exploitation, 118;
of the State by Capitalism and Trade Unionism, 300, 301

Exploration, 388;
professional, 175

Explorers, 46, 310, 327, 341

Exposure of female children, 89

Expropriation Act, 113

Expropriative taxation, 298

Extension of franchise, 217;
disappointing, 317

Extremists, 373

Fabian Acts of Parliament, 372

Fabian Essays, 468

Fabian lecturers, 375

Fabian methods, 298

Fabian Society, the, 94, 185, 186, 220, 221, 374, 467

Fabianism or constitutional action, 446-7

Factories, 133, 143, 150, 378, 402;
child labor in, 188;
Ford, 375;
national, 116;
munition, 390

Factory Acts, 143, 189-94, 192, 215, 216, 224, 322, 394

Factory employees, condition of, 215

Factory foremen, 146, 147

Factory girls, 78, 165, 198

Factory hands, 219, 334

Factory inspectors, 394

Factory legislation, 207

Factory regulations, 394, 395

Factory work, 73, 80

Factory working day, 213

Fairies, 219

Fanaticisms, 367

Farm produce, transport of, 144

Farmers, 9, 24, 124, 309, 327, 387, 447;
English, 374

Farming, 21, 24;
large-scale, 386;
fancy fruit, 386

Fascism (capitalist dictatorship), 298, 376, 443

Fascists, 444

Fashion, tyranny of, 403, 404

Fashoda, 152

Father, the author’s, 173, 184, 317, 332

Faust, 300, 424

Fecundity, human, 86

Federations, 158

Female virtue, 199

Ferryman, 409

Fertility, 90

Feudalism, 10, 166, 386

Feuerbach, L. A., 441

Field-marshals, 340

Film actresses, 76

Filmstars, 22

Films, 164

Finance committees, 352

Financial gamblers, 382

Financiers, 40, 70, 170, 265, 332, 334, 340, 342;
profiteering, 266;
and bankers are money profiteers, 266

First-rate work, 74, 398

Fishermen, 124

Fitters, 205, 224

Flag, trade following the, 144

Flanders, 390;
battlefields in, 87

Fluctuations on the Stock Exchange, 240

Flying Services, 389

Football, 82

Ford, Henry, 307

Ford factories, 375

Foreign markets. _See_ Markets

Foreign Office, the, 353

Foreign trade, 150-52, 157

Foresters, 21

Forewomen and foremen, 335

Formulas, 297

Forth Bridge, the, 167, 224

Fourier, Charles, 94

Fox, George, 5, 54, 329

Foxhunting, 420

France, 152, 287, 310, 318, 330, 351, 364, 371, 374, 377, 410, 411,
431, 444, 454;
decreasing population of, 88

France, Anatole, 458

Franchise, extension of, 217;
extension of, disappointing, 317

Francis, Saint, 54, 219

Franciscans, the, 41

Free Churches, the, 176, 435

Free Trade, 344

Free Traders, 346

Free Trade controversy, 286

Freedom, 77;
no place in nature, 328;
restricted, 329, 330

French, the, 371

French Chamber, the, 351

French Government, 369, 411

French nation, the, 310

French peasant proprietors, 168, 374

French Republic, the, 433

French Revolution, the, 214, 215, 256, 377, 378, 431

Freud, Sigmund, 416

Frontiers, automatic advance of, 151

Fundholders, 444

Funding, 291

Galsworthy, John, 469

Gambling, 239

Game Laws, 214

Gamekeepers, 65

Gaming Act, the, 242

Garages, 402

Garden cities, 281, 307, 418;
the property of capitalists, 301

Gardeners, 65, 76, 219;
lady, 397

Gardening, 420;
kitchen, 386

Gas, poison, 148, 175

General elections, 278, 345, 346, 349, 350, 353;
stampeding, 222

General Medical Council, the, 404

General Post Office, the, 274

General Strike, the, 448

General strikes, a form of national suicide, 380

General teetotalism, 398

Generals, military, 379

Genesis, the book of, 460

Geneva, 431

Geniuses, 172, 332

Gentility without property, 36

Gentlemen, our sort of, 358

Gentry, the, 19, 30, 31, 32;
landed, 40

George IV, King, 309

George V, King, 254, 309

George, Henry, 217, 468

German employers, 255

German Government, the, 255, 256

German money, 255

German racial stock, 310

German schools and universities, 64

Germans, the, 257, 289, 441

Germany, 159, 181, 183, 255, 256, 263, 310, 317, 401;
increasing population of, 88;
war with, 347

Giants, 69, 331

Gin Lane, 141

Girl Guides, 413

Gladstone, W. E., 114, 218, 284, 285, 286, 328

Gleneagles hotel, 148

God, 76, 91, 146, 185, 190, 208, 209, 363, 365, 368, 409, 410, 411,
424, 428, 429, 432, 435, 439, 441, 452; the
Church of England, 364;
the greater glory of, 300;
the idea of, 364;
ideas about, 366, 367;
intentions of, 144;
not patriotic, 155

Gold bugs, 346

Gold currency, natural stability of the, 263

Goldsmith, Oliver, 5, 162, 201

Golf, 82, 420;
Sunday, 329

Golfing hotel managers, 357

Gospels, the, 127, 442

Governesses, 36, 174, 324, 416

Government, the Capitalist, of 1914-1918, 289;
the most sacred economic duty of, 256;
and garden cities, 301;
and governed, 316;
and Opposition, or performance and criticism, 359;
as national landlord, financier and employer, 97

Government confiscation without preparation, 280

Government grants, 388;
in aid to municipalities, 281

Government intervention in strikes, 356;
intervention between Capital and Labor. _See_ Factory legislation
and Taxation

Government subsidy to coalowners in 1925, the, 301, 302, 304, 305,
387, 389

Government subsidies, 387

Government Whips, 349

Governments, failures and frauds of, 275;
Italian and Spanish, 372;
misdeeds of, 275

Gradgrind, 303

Gradual expropriation possible, 295

Gramophones, 18, 33

Gravediggers, 52

Great Britain, 193, 313, 385

Great Western Railway, the, 272

Greece, ancient, 453

Greek, 414;
the value of, 28

Greek Church, the, 374

Greenland, 310

Grocers, 265

Ground rents, 123

Guardians, Poor Law, 192, 195, 303, 413

Guards, railway, 73

Guides, postal and official, 421

Gulliver’s Travels, 155, 462

Gwynne, Nell, 203

Habeas Corpus Act, 308

Hamlet, 205

Handel, G. F., 327, 414

Handicrafts, cottage, 140

Handloom weavers, 138

Hand-to-mouth, the world lives from, 6, 7

Hangmen, 76

Happiness, 42

Hara-kiri, 427

Harboro, 134, 137, 312

Hardie, Keir, 221

Harrow, 169, 429

Hatmakers, 272

Haymaking, 80, 401

Head waiters, 146

Health, Ministry of, 282

Hearse drivers, 52

Heartlessness of parents, the apparent, 193

Hegel, G. W. F., 376, 441

Hegelian dialectic, the, 441

Helmer, Nora, 408

Helplessness, of proprietary and working classes, 172;
of individuals, 162

Henry IV, King, 166

Henry VIII, King, 130, 253, 254

Hereditary disease, 54

Herring gutters, 324

Herriot, Édouard, 351

High Tories, 346

High wages and colossal profits, 307

Highland chieftains, 32

Highlands, the, 457

Highway lighting, 391

Highwaymen, 38

Hiring spare money, 244

Historians, 321, 328

Hoarding, 129-31

Hobbies, 77

Hogarth, 141

Hohenzollern family, the, 64

Holidays, 59, 79, 167

Holland, 431

Holy Ghost, the, 12, 441

Home, 77

Home Office, 353

Home Rule Question, the, 371

Homer, 414

Hood, Thomas, 201

Horace, 414, 421

Horses, 335;
old, 188

Hospitals, 434, 461;
cottage, 65

Hotel manageresses, 404

Hotels, 33, 61, 77, 145, 149, 167

Hours of labor, 82, 206

House of Commons, the, 5, 106, 285, 344, 347, 348, 349, 350, 351,
352, 353, 354, 359, 370, 434;
Labor members of, 352;
a proletarian, 359

House of Lords, the, 372, 434, 451

Housekeepers, 74

Housekeeping, 24, 176, 196;
national, 49, 285

Housekeeping money, 211

Housemaids, 167, 219, 324, 386, 446

Houses, scarcity of, 86

Houses of Parliament, the, 254, 314;
out of date, 354

How long will it take?, 391-3

How much is enough?, 41-9

How the War was paid for, 289-94

How wealth accumulates and men decay, 161-4

Human nature, 155, 160

Human society like a glacier, 308

Human stock, improvement of, 343

Hungry, the, 131, 132, 133, 167, 172

Husbandmen, 124

Husbands, 25;
and wives, 408

Hyndman, Henry Mayers, 186, 218, 469

Ibsen, Henrik, 408, 440, 470

Idealists, 345

Idiots, 172, 195

Idle rich, the, 59-62, 145, 399

Idleness, 46, 403

Idlers, 84, 105, 399, 400

Idling, 58, 399

Idolatry, 203

Ignorance, 162;
about Socialism, 345

Illegitimate children, 200, 410

Illinois, State of, 410

Immigrants, 398, 436

Immigration, restricted, 194

Imperialism, 152, 443, 447

Imperialist morality, 359, 360

Imperialists, 346, 444

Inability to govern, our, 318

Incentive, 72

Income, family, 321

Income tax, 114;
and super tax and estate duties other names for confiscation, 284;
and death duties and supertax, 290;
evasion of, 32;
rates a form of, 117

Increasing return, law of, 91

Independent candidates, 350

Independent Labor Party, foundation of the, 221

Independent voters, 350, 382

India, 152, 313, 355, 407, 440

Indians, the, 367

Industrial employees, 324

Industrial employers, 285

Industrial male workers, the ordinary, 324

Industrial organizers, 332

Industrial and Provident Societies Act, 300

Industrial Revolution, the, 137-40, 182

Industrial Unions, 355, 356

Industries, the big, 386;
competitive entry of the Government into, 271

Industry, the dye, 388

Inequality of income, 418

Inevitability of gradualness, the, 377

Infallibility, necessary dogma of, 3

Infant mortality, 45, 66, 88, 90, 410

Infant schools, 428

Infidels, 444

Inflation, 130, 256, 257, 270

Inflationists, 346

Ingoldsby Legends, The, 239

Inheritance, 165, 166

Inhibition complex, 330

Innkeepers, 387

Inoculations, 433;
dangerous, 398;
pathogenic, 399, 432

Inquisition, the, 434;
water torture of, 415

Insurance, National, 375

Insurance premiums, 254

Insurance stamps, 1

Interest, 178, 182;
positive and negative, 232;
exorbitant rates to the poor, 234

International, the Third, 385, 441, 442

International Anarchism, the present, 450

International institutions, 157

Internationalism, 140

Invalids, 172

Invention, 131;
inventions and inventors, 138;
inventions, 180;
inventors, 310, 312

Investing capital, 292

Investment and enterprise, 131-3

Ireland, 124, 144, 193, 194, 371, 372, 379

Ireland scholars, 429

Irish Free State, 159, 371

Irish Home Rule, 371

Irish ladies in the workhouse, 20

Irish Nationalist Party, the old, 350

Irish peers, 184

Ironmasters, 400

Ironmongers, 400

Islam, 432

Isle of Wight, 106

Israelites, the, 392, 410

Italian nation, the, 348

Italy, 152, 154, 310, 318, 329, 337, 347, 372, 453

Jacobins, 444

James I, King, 403

James II, King, 321, 370, 426

James, Saint, 433

Japan, 194, 402

Jehovah, 367

Jenner, Edward, 433

Jericho, 392

Jesuits, the, 368

Jesus. _See_ Christ

Jevons, Stanley, 465, 467, 468

Jews, the, 329, 361, 369, 433, 435, 438

Joan of Arc, 54

Jobbing dressmakers, 84

John, King, 442

Johnson, Samuel, 167, 458

Joiners, 21, 205, 356

Joint stock companies, 178, 180, 209, 235, 240, 276, 309

Joshua, 38

Journalists, 64, 78, 95, 203, 239, 321

Judas Iscariot, 203

Judges, 28, 29, 35, 69, 70, 340

Judgment, Day of, 89

Judgment, the Last, 437

Juries, trial by, 56

Jurors, 339

Jury duties, 395

Jurymen, 316

Jutland, battle of, 326

Kaiser, the ex-, 64, 153, 317, 452

Kantian test, the, 227, 357

Kapital, Das, 441, 442, 443

Keynes, Maynard, 467

Kilkenny cats, 29, 381

King, the, 36, 37, 38, 100, 184, 314, 349, 351, 352, 353, 372, 404,
427, 435;
his Speech, 208

King Alfonso, 318, 371, 379

King Alfred, 40, 309

King Charles I, 321, 345, 371, 405

King Charles II, 305, 329, 345

King George IV, 309

King George V, 254, 309

King Henry II, 430, 442

King Henry IV, 166

King Henry VIII, 130, 253, 254

King James I, 403

King James II, 321, 370, 426

King John, 442

King Lear, 47

King Louis XIV, 350

King Philip II of Spain, 442

King William III, 321, 350, 352, 426

King William IV, 215

Kings, 315, 379;
Israelitish, 361

Kingsley, Charles, 94

Knights of the Shires, 316

Knox, John, 431

Kruger, President, 431

Krupp’s, 181

Kyle of Tongue, the, 283

Labor, capitalized, 225;
costly materials and equipment for, 87;
curse of, 80, 82;
market value of, 194;
of women and girls, 196-204, 212;
party of, 218

Labor Chancellor, 286

Labor Government, 344;
of 1923, 221

Labor House of Commons, 358

Labor leaders, 373, 442

Labor markets, the, 186-96, 199

Labor members, 217

Labor Opposition, 344

Labor Party, the, 40, 95, 103, 286, 289, 291, 305, 349, 355, 390, 454;
establishment of, 220;
a political federation of Trade Unions and Socialist Societies, 221;
rapid growth of, 344,
danger of splits in, 345;
Socialists in, 358;
the present, 379

Labor-saving appliances, 78

Labor-saving contrivances, 39, 48

Labor-saving machinery, 139

Laboratory work, 74

Laborers, 69, 93, 356

Laborists, the, 446

Ladies, attractive, 331;
English, 95;
our sort of, 358;
real, 400

Ladies’ maids, 42, 145, 146, 333

Lahore, Government College of, 355

Laisser-faire, 38-41, 103

Laisser-faire doctrinaires, 347

Lancashire, 216

Land, nationalization of, 112

Land Purchase Acts, 124

Land values, 123

Landlords, 457, 461;
and capitalists, 358;
and raised rents, 299, 300;
Irish, 344;
powers of, 38, 102, 124-5

Langland, 5

Lassalle, Ferdinand, 41

Latimer, Hugh, 5

Latin, literary, 414, 415

Latin stock, 310

Latin verses, 422

Latter Day Saints, the, 381, 407

Laud, Archbishop, 374, 430, 431, 439

Laundresses, 145

Laundries, 73

Law, the Courts of, 56-9, 64;
Criminal, 57;
Mosaic, 5

Law of Diminishing Return, the, 91

Law of Increasing Return, the, 91

Laws, oppressive and unjust, 399

Lawyers, 22, 23, 54, 57, 105, 124, 169, 173, 176, 194, 202, 203, 370,
456, 459, 461

Laziness, mental, 335

League of Nations, the. _See_ Nations

Lear, King, 47

Learned men, 36

Learning, 30, 31, 39

Legislation, Socialistic, 384

Leicester, 317

Leisure, 10, 77, 82, 320;
distribution of, 162, 325

Lenin, 298, 337, 379, 442, 443, 469

Letters, anonymous, 421;
snowball, 137

Leverhulme, Lord, 307

Levies on capital are raids on private property, 296

Lewis, George Cornewall, 81

Liberal impulse, the, 271

Liberal Party, the, 95, 184;
working class members of, 217;
wiped out, 222

Liberalism, 447;
revolutionary traditions of, 276

Liberals, the, 93, 216, 217, 218, 220, 344, 445

Liberty, the desire for, 322;
the fear of, 324;
unfair distribution of, 325;
natural limit to, 319-30;
and Socialism, 393-406

Liberty of conscience, comparative, 329

Libraries, 309

Lies, 64, 363, 364

Lieutenants, 357

Lighthouses, 105, 134, 137;
and lightships, 76

Limitations of Capitalism, 133-7

Lisbon, 192

Lister, Joseph, 433

Literary property, 104

Literature, 30, 48, 157, 420;
treasures of, 421

Little Englanders, 158, 346

Liveries, 75-6

Liverpool, 106

Lloyd George, David, 218

Loan Stock, 301

Local Government, 352

Local Government inspectors, 394

Lock-outs, 206, 356

Logic of Political Economy, DeQuincey’s, 445

London, 32, 58, 59, 64, 106, 123, 124, 125, 139, 152, 183, 262,
274, 277, 280, 281, 302, 309, 399, 403, 421, 432, 433, 469;
overpopulation of, 92;
Socialist movement in, 219

London citizen, the, 421

London Midland and Scottish Railway, 268

Long Parliament, the, 345

Looting by ladies, 151

Low Church Protestants, 346

Loyalty, 159

Luddites (machine wreckers), 212

Lumbermen, 21

Lunatic asylums, 33

Luther, Martin, 441

Luxury trades, 288, 370

Macaulay, T. B., 466

MacDonald, James Ramsay, 221, 222, 317

Machine guns, 380

Machinery, 138-9;
displaces labor, 192

Machinery wrecking, 212

Machines, 402

Madeira, 34

Magee, Bishop, 142

Magistrates, 416

Magna Carta, 308, 320

Mahomet, 89, 380, 423, 431, 432, 433, 441

Mahometans, 438

Majors, 357

Malaya, 235

Male prostitution, 203

Mallock, William Hurrell, 331

Malverns, the, 146

Mammon, 185, 215

Man, 361

Man Question, the, 176

Management, 171;
routine, 184;
scientific, 170, 191

Managerial ability, 67, 181

Managers, 176

Manchester, 146

Manchester School, the, 101, 190, 195, 445

Manchester and Sheffield Outrages, 207

Manchu ladies, 406

Manifestoes, Communist, 384

Manners, 30, 43, 145, 205, 418

Mansion House funds, 280

Manual labor, 183

Manufacture of pins, the, 161

Manufactured pleasures, 46

Manufacturers, 173

Manufacturing towns, overcrowded slums of, 215, 216

Marbot, General, 335

Marco Polo, 343;
travels of, 424

Markets, the struggle for, 150-53

Marks, paper, 255

Marriage, 25, 176;
English, Scottish, and Irish, 407

Marriage and the State, 409

Marriages, unsuitable, 55

Married Men’s Rights agitation, 329

Married women, 77

Married Women’s Property Acts, 26, 197, 210, 321

Mars, 253

Martyrs, 172

Marx, Karl, 94, 183, 184, 185, 189, 217, 218, 285, 376, 385, 441,
442, 443, 459, 465, 466, 467, 468, 469, 470

Marxian class-consciousness, 220

Marxism, 439, 441, 443

Marxist Bible, the, 442

Marxist Church, the, 442

Marxist Communists, 373

Marxist fanatics, 441, 443

Marxists, 318, 443

Marx’s slogan, 183, 184

Mary Queen of Scots, 311

Mary Tudor, Queen, 426, 430

Masons, 205, 224, 356

Master of the Mint, 274

Match girls, 448

Materialists, the, 436

Mathematicians, 16, 310, 341

Mating, 54

Matrons, 335

Maurice, Frederick Denison, 94

Mayfair, 83

Means of production, 218

Medieval robber barons, 417

Medical research, 437

Medical schools, 416

Mediterranean, annexations of the African coast, 153

Members of Parliament, 69, 461;
payment of, 60

Men of science, 320

Mental “defectives”, 436

Mental work, unremunerative, 169

Mephistopheles, 300

Merchant princes, 178

Merchants, 21, 173;
gold, 259;
coal, 29

Merit, promotion by, 70;
and money, 70-71

Messiah, political, 318

Metaphysics, 363, 423

Methodist schools, 360

Methodists, 215

Middle class, the, 172, 181

Middle class manners, 418

Middle station in life, the, 168-76, 182

Middlemen, 334

Midgets, 331

Military officers, 74

Military rank, 74

Military service, 31, 50, 166, 324, 449;
compulsory, 411, 428;
righteousness of, 357

Mill, John Stuart, 212, 219, 220, 467

Mill hands, 145

Millennium, the, 423

Millers, oldtime, 138

Millionaires, 37, 160, 192;
commercial, 332

Mines, the, 150, 231, 278, 386, 387;
nationalization of, 266, 274, 297, 383, 386, 388

Miners, 205, 219, 313, 446, 447;
and mine owners, 322;
grievances of, 109

Mining, 76

Ministry of Health, 282, 303

Mint, the, 253, 264;
nationalization of, 265;
Royal, 274

Misdeeds of the landed gentry, 214, 215

Miseries of the rich, 45

Missionaries, 143, 151, 310

Modern conscience, the, 423

Modern domestic machinery, 320

Modern examination-passing classes, 414

Modern garden cities and suburbs, 300

Modern Italian and Spanish _coups d’état_, 345

Modern living, the art of, 422

Modern psychological research, 416

Modern psychology, 424

Modern toleration a myth, 368, 369

Modern war, 175

Monarchs, 23, 35, 36

Money, 9, 41, 53, 130, 251-63;
congested, 280;
Martian, 253;
spare, 232, 233, 465;
measure of value, 252;
a tool for buying and selling, 252;
and merit, 70-71.
_See_ Capital, 100

Money lenders, 266

Money market, the, 231-9, 240, 276, 316;
fluctuation of, 231

Monogamy, 411

Monopoly, woman’s natural, 176

Monsters, 332

Monte Carlo, 45, 148, 236, 243

Morality by Act of Parliament, 191

Morals, 31, 39

Moratorium, 156

More, Sir Thomas, 5, 94

Mormon theocracy, 431

Mormon women, 411

Mormonism, 443

Mormons, the, 410, 432

Morning Post, the, 287

Morocco, 152

Morris, William, 5, 139, 162, 186, 218, 219, 371, 458;
his News from Nowhere, 469

Morris wallpapers, 393, 394

Mortality, excessive, 90;
infant, 45, 66, 88, 90, 410

Mosaic Law, 5

Moscow, 282

Moscow Soviet, the, 391

Moses, 4, 32, 392, 423, 431, 461

Moslems, 367

Mother, the author’s, 104

Mothers, 3;
soldiers’, 155-6;
widowed, 349;
and wives, 25, 176

Motion, 314;
uncontrolled, 315

Motor bus companies, sham, 238

Motor cars, 9, 33, 47, 50, 51, 75, 262, 375, 401, 402

Motor charabancs, 164, 165, 312

Motorists, 397

Mount, Sermon on the, 42, 93, 442

Mozart, W. A., 339, 414

Multiple shops, 175, 177

Multiplication table, the, 420, 424

Municipal banks on the Birmingham model, 272

Municipal building always insolvent, 273

Municipal committees, 352

Municipal debt, 117

Municipal electric lighting, 121

Municipal exploitation, 113

Municipal service, 384

Municipal trading, 106, 121

Municipalization, 390

Muscovite Marxist Church, the, 446

Museum, the British, 16

Music, school-taught, 414

Mussolini, Benito, 251, 318, 337, 345, 348, 371, 372, 379, 380

Nakedness, 95

Napoleon, 54, 69, 251, 318, 327, 328, 335, 339, 379, 380

Napoleon III, 345, 379

National Debt, the, 114, 115, 117, 295, 402;
cancellation of, 291;
increase of, 289

National Debt redemption levies, 294-7

National electrification scheme, 386

National factories, 116

National Gallery, the, 16, 17, 280

National housekeeping, 49, 285

National Union of Railway Workers, 356

Nationalists, 94

Nationalization, 298, 383, 384, 390;
of banking, 35, 140, 181, 264-8, 386;
must be prepared and compensated, 283;
theoretically sound, 274;
of land, 112;
examples of, 105-11

Nationalized banks, 271

Nations, League of, 156, 157;
the present, 450

Natural limit to liberty, 319-30

Natural Selectionists, Darwinian, 436

Nature, 3, 9, 21, 55, 59, 67, 80, 84, 90, 91, 164, 176, 311, 320,
321, 322, 402;
cruelty of, 437;
hand of, 334;
human, 155, 160;
the supreme tyrant, 319;
tyranny of, 80-83;
voice of, 54

Navigators, 422

Navvies, 80, 87, 283, 400, 401

Navy captains, 70, 340

Need for play, the, 164

Needle manufacturers, 258

Negro slavery, 75, 188

Nell Gwynne, 203

Nelson, Horatio, 337, 339

Neuters, 176

Neva, the, 282

New Capitalist method, the, 388

New churches and secular governments, 434

New companies, insecurity of, 238

New pauperism, 444

New River Water Company, 403

New Testament, the, 28, 361, 443

New York, 243, 309

Newspaper Articles, 65

Newspapers, 3, 11, 14, 49, 64, 71, 100, 105, 144, 164, 203, 206, 208,
218, 310, 316, 373, 415, 421, 443, 446;
respectable English, 407

Newton, Isaac, 170, 343, 414, 428

Nicene Creed, the, 426

Night cafés, 191

Night clubs, 50

Nightingale, Florence, 61, 398

Nightingales, two-headed, 332

Nineteenth century revolution of 1832, the, 370

Nineveh, 372

Nitrogen, supply of, 86

Nobel, Alfred, 332

Noblemen, old-fashioned, 309

Non-commissioned officers, 74

Nonconformist Protestant ratepayers, 360

Nonconformists, 425;
persecution of, 215

Nonconformity, 425

Northern Europe, 431

Novels, 164, 421

Nuns, 404, 407;
enclosed, 4

Nurses, 3, 74, 327, 428

Nursing, 74, 326

Ocean cables, 378

Officers, 68, 357;
military, 74, 404;
non-commissioned, 74

Oil harvests, 240

Oil shops, 177

Old age pensions, 8, 119, 383

Old horses, 188

Old-fashioned parents, 175

Oligarchs, patrician, 348

Oligarchy, 30-35

Oliver Twist, 192, 413

Olivier, Sidney (Lord), 468

Opera, the, 46

Opera singers, 22, 35

Operators of calculating machines, 334

Opium war, the, 142

Opportunists, 345;
cautious, 346

Orators, political, 321

Order of production, 50

Organizers, 310, 337, 342

Outrages, Trade Union, 207

Overcrowding, 92, 137

Overpopulation, artificial, 90

Overwork, 83

Owen, Robert, 94, 370

Oxford University, 169, 372, 418, 429

Pacific, the, 235

Pacifism, 449

Painlevé, Paul, 351

Painters, 169, 170, 224, 332, 356

Palaces, 378

Palm Beach, 148

Pampering, 52

_Panem et circenses_, 96

Pantheists, 436

Paper money, 130, 260

Papers, the, 156, 203, 267, 312, 399;
capitalist and anti-capitalist, 312;
capitalist, 116, 342;
the Sunday, 385;
the daily, 449;
illustrated, 66

Paraclete, the, 441

Parasitic paradises, 148

Parasitic proletariat, revolt of the, 277-9

Parasitism, 83, 84-5

Parcel Post, C.O.D. development of, 271

Parentage, compulsory, 411;
State endowment of, 411

Parents, the author’s, 309;
and children, 134, 193, 364, 366, 408;
old-fashioned, 175;
old Roman rights of, 412;
natural and adoptive, 412;
proletarian, 392

Paris, 309

Paris Commune of 1871, the, 369

Parish Councils, 32

Parish meetings, 351

Park Lane, 276

Parks, 118, 131, 148, 166, 400

Parliament, 49, 57, 58, 60-61, 64, 213, 214, 216, 217;
in Gladstone’s time, 285;
and the Churches, 435

Parliamentary Labor Party, the, 447

Parliamentary struggle, the, 218

Parlormaids, 75, 182, 403

Parsons, 63

Partnerships, 177, 178

Party candidates, 350

Party discipline, less rigorous now, 353

Party newspapers, 310

Party politics, 343-8, 420

Party System, the, 348-54

Party Whips, 349

Pasteur, Louis, 433

Patents, 403

Patriotism, 155

Paul, Saint, 3, 4, 5, 6, 9, 89, 459

Pauperization, national, 145

Pawnbrokers, 234, 250

_Pax Americana_, the, 450

Payment of M.P.’s, 60

Pearls, 51, 138, 202;
imitation, 50

Peasant proprietors, French, 374

Peasant proprietorship, 168

Peerages, 178

Peers, Irish, 184

Pence, Peter’s, 360

Penn, William, 54

Penny postage, 272

Penny transport, 272

Pensions, old age, 2, 8, 119, 383;
widows’, 2, 8, 201

Penzance, 272

Persecution of Russians in America, 369

Personal liberty, the pet topic of the leisured class, 320

Personal property, 102

Personal righteousness, 95-9

Personal talent, possessors of, 331

Peru, 235

Pessimism, 91;
a by-product of capitalism, 155

Pet dogs, 18, 51, 75

Peter, Saint, 12

Peter the Great, 282

Peterborough, the Bishop of, 142

Petrograd, 282

Philanthropy, 95

Philosophers, 81, 172, 341

Philosophy, 30, 48

Phosphorus poisoning, 199

Physicians, 74, 419

Physicists, 327, 341

Physics, 423

Pickpockets, 401

Picture galleries, 309

Picture gallery attendants, 79

Piece work, 79

Piece work wages, 211

Piece worker, the, 323

Piers, 135

Pin machines, 333

Pin makers, 333

Pin money, 161

Pin-making, 21

Pinero, Sir Arthur, 202

Pins, manufacture of, 161

Pirate crews, 29, 335

Pirates, 457

Pisteurs. _See_ Dancing partners

Pitt, William, 378

Plagues, 42, 297

Plato, 94, 454

Platonic rule, the, 338

Play, need for, 164

Playing, 39

Plays, 164

Pleasures, manufactured, 46

Plumbers, 356, 399

Plutocracy, 166, 431

Poincaré, Raymond, 351

Poison gas, 148, 175

Poison gas shells, 380

Police, the, 57, 147, 385, 391, 393, 395, 396, 400, 405, 412, 429

Police constables, 38

Police officers, 380, 421

Policemen, 12, 23, 37, 69, 154, 384

Policewomen, 404

Political disciplinarians, 318

Political economy, 48, 63, 190;
bad, 50-51

Polygamy, 406, 407, 410, 411;
Solomonic, 432

Polytechnics, 182

Pooh-Bah, 419

Poor, legalized robbery of the, 395

Poor Law, the, 120;
Government administration of, 330

Poor Law Guardians, 32, 44, 192, 195, 303, 413

Poor Law officers, 394, 395

Poor Law relief, 195

Poor relations, 174

Poor white trash, 322

Pope, the, 37, 407, 442

Popes, 348, 431, 442

Poplar, 302

Poplarism, 305

Popular inventions, 320

Popularity of lavish expenditure, 66

Population, checks on, 86;
decrease in France and increase in Germany, 88;
importance of rate of increase, 88

Population question, the, 83-92, 410

Pork packers, 37

Port Sunlight, 307, 375

Porters, 21;
ambulance, 52;
railway, 219, 421

Portsmouth, 154, 336

Positive reasons for equality, 68-70

Positivist societies, 435

Post Office, the, 106-7, 121, 264, 272, 275

Post Office Savings Bank, 128, 129

Post offices and savings banks, national, 267

Postal conventions, 157

Postal system, the, 391

Postmasters, 70

Postmaster-General, the, 121, 264, 273, 274, 275

Postmen, 23, 69, 70, 219

Postmistresses, 421

Potter, Beatrice, 220. _See_ Webb, Beatrice

Poverty, 42-5, 72, 395;
abolition of, 398;
as a punishment, 43;
Franciscan, 41;
infectious, 42;
and pestilence, 42;
and progress, 217

Powers, the leading military, 450

Practical business men, 346

Prayer Book, revision of the, 426

Preachers, 72, 341, 410

Precedence, 37

Pregnancy, 326

Prejudice and common sense, 426

Preliminaries to nationalization, 274-6

Preparatory schools, 417

Presence, the Real, 426

Presidents, American, 328

Presidents and patriarchs, 348

Press, the, 64. _See_ Newspapers

Press, Church, and school, 63-5

Prices, 260

Prices and profits, 135

Priests, 407, 429, 435, 436;
power of, 430

Prima donnas, 332

Prime Minister, the average Capitalist, 308

Prime Ministers, 35, 328;
Jewish and Gentile, 435

Primo di Rivera, General, 318, 345, 380

Primogeniture, 31, 168

Prince Rupert’s Drop, 160

Prince of Wales, the, 118

Princes, merchant, 178

Prisons, 120, 243, 395

Private enterprise, 116, 131-3, 275;
proper business of, 389;
and public utility, 300

Private property, 100, 102

Privates, 357

Prize-fighters, 28, 29

Prize-fights, 28, 96

Proclamations, royal or dictatorial, 384

Professional billiard players, 397

Professional classes, the, 169

Professional fees, 68

Professional politicians, 203

Professions open to women, 174

Professors, university, 169

Profiteers, 116, 390

Profits, 182;
not a measure of utility, 137;
and prices, 135

_Progress and Poverty_, Henry George’s, 217, 468

Prohibition, 120, 142, 396, 397

Proletarian dictators, 379

Proletarian leader, the typical, 452

Proletarian papers, the, 342

Proletarian parents, 392

Proletarian resistance to Capitalism, 204

Proletarian voters, 217

Proletarianism, 100

Proletarians, 205, 248, 290, 294, 302, 370

Proletariat, the, 183-6, 223, 294, 296, 302, 307, 355, 359, 441,
443, 445, 448;
parasitic and Socialist, 377;
plunder of, 278;
and proprietariat, 223

Promiscuity, social, 418, 419

Promised Land, the, 392, 410

Promoters, 179

Promotion, 74

Property, literary, 104;
personal, 102;
private, 100;
real, 102;
secures maximum of leisure to owners, 323

Property owners, 163, 248

Proportional Representation, 454

Proprietary Trade Unionism, 447

Prostitutes, 195, 395

Prostitution, 22, 43, 199;
male, 203

Protection, 150

Protectionists from the Midlands, 346

Protestants, 68, 93, 360, 368, 369, 445

Proudhon, Joseph, 466

Pseudo-Socialism, 298

Psycho-analysis, the morbidities of, 420

Psychology, 365

Public departments, 376

Public Health Committees, 352

Public houses, 177

Public libraries, 375

Public opinion, 65, 347

Public schools, 144, 169, 368, 417, 423, 428

Public trustee, 88

Public works, 145, 281, 282

_Punch_, 330

Punjab, the, 355

Purchasing power, transfer of from the rich to the Government, 278

Purdah, women in, 355

“Pussyfoot” Johnson, 396

Quack cures, 63;
remedies, 171

Quaker meetings, 329;
schools, 360

Quakers, the, 190, 435, 444

Quarrelling, domestic, 77, 82

Quartermaster-sergeants, 74

Queen, the, 385

Racehorse trainers, 146

Racing stables, 138

Radicals, 94, 444

Radio, 33

Radium, the cost of, 87

Ragpickers, 35, 76, 324, 404

Raid on Russian Arcos Officers, the, 223

Railroadmaster-General, wanted a, 275

Railway, the Great Western, 272

Railway, the London, Midland and Scottish, 268

Railway accidents, 65

Railway Board, wanted a, 275

Railway chairmen, 389

Railway guards, 73

Railway porters, 219, 421

Railway signalmen, 315

Railway travelling, 65

Railway workers, 457

Railwaymen, 446

Railways, 33, 133, 150, 231, 278, 313, 375, 383, 389, 401, 402;
State, 275

Rank, military, 74

“Rat-houses” (non-union), 306

Rate collectors, 14

Ratepayers, 303;
exploited by workers, 302

Rates, 117-22;
and taxes, 17, 111

Reactionaries, 444

Real property, 102

Reason, goddess of, 365

Recognition of Trade Unions, 210

Red Cross, the, 156

Red flag, the, 140, 376

Red Indian morals, 62

Red Russian scare, the, 222

Redistribution of income, 114

Reform Bill of 1832, the, 214, 215, 216, 378, 452

Reformation, the, 431, 461

Reforms, disguised, 299;
popular, 299

Registrar, the civil, 436

Registrar-General, the, 303

Relations, poor, 174

Religion, 30, 48, 388;
male and female, 440

Religious dissensions, 359-70

Religious instruction hour, 361

Rent, 111, 122-6, 178, 182;
the meaning of, 341

Rent of ability, 331-43;
called profit, 341

Republic, the Communist, 374

Republican Governments, 254

Republicans, 75, 345, 444

Research, scientific, 388

Rest cures, 59

Restaurants, 202

Resting, 77, 82

Restricting output, 208

Resumption of land by the Crown, 102, 123

Retail trade less respectable than wholesale, 184

Retail traders, 37

Retail trades, 177

Revolt of the parasitic proletariat, 277-9

Revolution, 283;
the industrial, 137-40, 182;
the Russian, 35, 374, 376, 407, 441

Revolutionists, 147

Revolutions, 63, 134, 370-79

Rhodes, Cecil, 332, 446

Rhodesia, 313

Ricardo, David, 465, 467, 468

Rich, the idle, 59-62, 145, 399;
miseries of the, 45;
the new, 270;
the old, now called the New Poor, 270

Rich women, 56, 95

Righteousness, personal, 95

Rioters, 395

Riveters, 224

Riviera, the, 202, 287

Roads, 391;
metalled, 401

Roadways, 402

Roaming, 39

Roberts of Kandahar, 144

Robespierre, Maximilien, 365

Robinson Crusoe, 21, 85, 182

Rockefeller, John Davidson, 36

Rockefeller charities, 160

Rogues, 300

Roi Soleil, le, 350

Roman Catholic schools, 360

Roman Catholicism, 15

Roman Catholics, 329, 360, 361, 369, 407, 431, 445

Roman Empire, 148, 314

Rome, 314, 368;
ancient, 96, 147, 148;
Church of, 431, 433, 434, 442

Roulette table, the, 239, 243

Rousseau, Jean Jacques, 170

Routine, 181

Routine management, 184

Routine work, 327

Royal Academy of Arts, the, 170

Royal Family, the, 68, 426

Rubber harvests, 240

Ruined shopkeepers, 177

Ruins of empires, 146

Runaway car of Capitalism, the, 314-19

Ruskin, John, 5, 61, 162, 459, 466, 467;
his Ethics of the Dust, 425, 469;
Fors Clavigera, 469

Russia, 34, 35, 66, 153, 287, 318, 373, 374, 375, 401, 406, 409,
439, 442, 453, 459;
dictatorship in, 347

Russian Archbishop, the, 439

Russian Capitalist civilization, 376

Russian Communist, the, 369

Russian Government, the, 255, 256, 368, 369, 376, 439

Russian International Church, the, 442

Russian landlords, 270

Russian peasants, 374, 375;
people, 376, 383

Russian Revolution, the, 35, 374, 376, 407, 441

Russian Revolutionaries, 14

Russian Soviet, the, 284, 287, 376, 383, 390, 406, 407, 439, 442

Russian State, the, 375

Russian subscription to Strike funds, 223

Russian word Bolshevik, the, 444

Russians, the, 100, 257

Sables, 341

Sadists, 415, 416

Safety valves, 279-84

Sailors, 21, 68, 77, 310

Saint Augustine, 92, 93, 441

Saint Francis, 54, 219

Saint Helena, the island of, 328

Saint Joan, 54

Saint Paul, 3, 4, 5, 6, 9, 89, 459

Saint Peter, 12

Saint Simon, the speculations of, 94

Saints, 172, 341

Salt Lake City, the Latter Day Saints of, 407

Samaritans, Good, 96

San Francisco, 106

Sanitary inspectors, public, 426

Sapphira, 12

Saving, the fallacy of, 6-7, 129

Savings banks, 128, 267, 444

Savings certificates, 128, 129, 444

Savior, the, 5, 463

Saviors, 96

Sawgrinders, 207

Sawyers, 21

Scabs, 207

Scarecrows, boy, 23

Scavengers, 35, 327, 342

Scent, 50

_Schadenfreude_, 66

Schiller, 346

Scholarships, 67, 173, 182

School, Church, and Press, 63-5

School attendance, compulsory, 349

School attendance visitors, 394, 395, 412

School teaching, 65

Schoolchildren, 368

Schoolmasters, 63, 169

Schoolmistresses, 3, 27, 36, 129, 335

Schools, 31, 33, 49, 63, 64, 145, 173, 324, 420;
like Bastilles, 413;
like prisons or child-farms, 413;
public, 144, 169, 368, 417, 423, 428;
village, 63, 399;
secondary, 166, 169;
State, 360;
elementary, 169, 182;
preparatory, 417;
infant, 428

Science, 30, 31, 39, 48, 157, 420, 461;
and State compulsion, 436;
power of, 437;
professors of, 436

Scientific management, 170, 191

Scotland, 32, 51, 124, 144, 159, 431;
shooting lodges in, 251

Scotland Yard, 274

Scriveners, 225, 328

Sculleries, 76

Scullerymaids, 35, 324

Sculptors, 169

Sea captains, 422

Second-rate work, 73, 398

Secondary schools, 166, 169

Secretaries of State, 352

Self-government in Egypt, 159

Selfridge’s, 177

Selkirk, Alexander, 328

Sempstresses, 22, 258

Sending capital out of the country, 140-44

Sentries, 426

Separatist sects, 329, 345

Serajevo murder, the, 160

Serbia, 153, 160

Serfdom, 10

Serfs, 341

Sergeants, 335, 357

Sermon on the Mount, the, 42, 93, 442

Servants, 23, 42, 47, 48, 118-19, 149, 204, 210, 370, 372, 458;
domestic, 65, 73, 75, 78, 83-4, 95, 323, 324

Service, domestic, 24, 73, 175, 215, 324

Service, military, 31, 50, 166, 324, 449;
compulsory, 411, 428;
righteousness of, 357

Service flats, 61

Services, international and national, 378

Seven ways of distribution, 19

Seventeenth-century revolutions, 370

Severn, the, 282

Sewermen, 76

Sex, 89

Sextons, 93

Shaftesbury, Lord, 189, 190, 215

Shakespear, William, 42, 403, 428, 458

Sham Socialism, 299-308

Shareholders, 235

Shares, buying and selling, 240, 241;
imaginary, 241;
preference and ordinary, 235

Shaw, Bernard, 97, 470

Sheep runs, 124

Sheffield, 146, 207

Sheffield sawgrinders, 207

Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 5, 317, 373, 424, 428

Shifting centres of empires, 152

Ship captains, 37

Shipyards, 378

Shoes, high-heeled, 50, 406

Shooting boxes, 51

Shop assistants, 78, 145, 163, 177, 334, 397, 446

Shop Hours Act, 191

Shopkeepers, 29, 176, 334, 387, 421

Shopkeeping, 175

Shopmen, 203

Shopping, 105-11, 175

Shops, bucket, 242;
multiple, 175, 177

Shorthand typists, 334

Showrooms, 202

Siamese twins, 331

Silk stockings, 18, 99

Simple, Sloth, and Presumption, Bunyan’s, 318

Singers, two-headed, 331

Single taxers, 126, 127

Sirdar, the, 222

Sisters, the Tudor, 368

Skyscrapers, 139

Slaters, 356

Slave trade, the, 143

Slavedrivers, 338

Slavery, 10, 64

Slogan, Marx’s, 183, 184

Sloggers, 208

Slumps, 206, 282

Slum towns, demolition of, 281

Slum userers, 135

Slums, 34, 118, 126, 137, 145, 148, 149, 215, 243, 281, 301, 307,
378, 399

Smallpox epidemics, 189

Smith, Adam, 161, 162, 459

Smith, Joseph, 410, 411, 431, 432, 441

Smithies, village, 386

Smoke, 76

Smoke abatement, 145

Smuggling, 142;
of drugs, 396

Snobbery, 47, 175, 184

Snowball letters, 137

Soap kings, 170

Social changes, 39

Social creed, the, 427

Socialism, 10;
alarmist idea of, 299;
and children, 412-29;
and liberty, 393-406;
and marriage, 406-12;
and superior brains, 331;
and the Churches, 429-43;
as a religion, 441
books on, 1;
Catholic rather than democratic, 348;
constitutional, 94
constructive political machinery of, 298;
diagnostic of, 92-4;
dread of, 393;
emotional, 189;
establishment of, 344;
fancy, 94;
first and last commandment of, 97;
genuine and sham, 308;
idealist, 219;
matter of law, not personal righteousness, 98;
new, 392;
not charity, 95-6;
object of, 297;
secular, 443;
series of Parliamentary measures, 220;
unskilled, 283;
utopian and theocratic, 94