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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