Such a revulsion requires explanation, and it may be briefly given. There was a province of Europe which had carried nearer to perfection than any other the type of order and foresight that are the subject of this book. It had long been the model State of all those more rational moralists who saw in science the ordered salvation of society. It was admittedly ahead of all other States in social reform. All the systematic social reforms were professedly and proudly borrowed from it. Therefore when this province of Prussia found it convenient to extend its imperial system to the neighbouring and neutral State of Belgium, all these scientific enthusiasts had a privilege not always granted to mere theorists. They had the gratification of seeing their great Utopia at work, on a grand scale and very close at hand. They had not to wait, like other evolutionary idealists, for the slow approach of something nearer to their dreams; or to leave it merely as a promise to posterity. They had not to wait for it as for a distant thing like the vision of a future state; but in the flesh they had seen their Paradise. And they were very silent for five years.
The thing died at last, and the stench of it stank to the sky. It might be thought that so terrible a savour would never altogether leave the memories of men; but men's memories are unstable things. It may be that gradually these dazed dupes will gather again together, and attempt again to believe their dreams and disbelieve their eyes. There may be some whose love of slavery is so ideal and disinterested that they are loyal to it even in its defeat. Wherever a fragment of that broken chain is found, they will be found hugging it. But there are limits set in the everlasting mercy to him who has been once deceived and a second time deceives himself. They have seen their paragons of science and organisation playing their part on land and sea; showing their love of learning at Louvain and their love of humanity at Lille. For a time at least they have believed the testimony of their senses. And if they do not believe now, neither would they believe though one rose from the dead; though all the millions who died to destroy Prussianism stood up and testified against it.
INDEX[ToC]
- Abnormal innocence and abnormal sin, alliance between, [4]
- Abortion, open advocacy of, [138]
- Affinity as a bar to marriage, [8]
- Altruism, remarks on, [111]
- Anarchy, definition of, [22], [23]
- the opposite of Socialism, [159]
- Anglican Church, the, and question of disestablishment, [75]
- Aristocratic marriages, Eugenists and, [139] et seq.
- Atheistic literary style, the, [46]
- Authority versus Reason, [132]
- Autocrats, Eugenists as, [15]
- Belloc, Mr., and the Servile State, [21], [165]
- rebuked by The Nation, [122]
- Blücher, Marshal, an alleged saying of, [124]
- Bolce, Mr., the super-Eugenist, [180], [181]
- Bolshevists, and "proletarian art," [169]
- Brummell, Mr., vanity of, [96]
- Burglary, punishment for, [36]
- Calvinism, immorality of, [126], [127]
- in the Middle Ages, [92]
- Calvinists and the doctrine of free-will, [52]
- Capitalists, and workmen, [133]
- Socialists and, [47]
- Casuists, Eugenists as, [14]
- Catholic countries, and the drink traffic, [122]
- Celtic sadness, and the desolation of Belfast, [121]
- Chesterton, G.K., and Socialism, [159] et seq.
- Children, and non-eugenic unions, [7]
- cruelty to: punishment for, [26-7]
- Christian conception of rebellion, the, [22], [23]
- Christian religion as protector of the ideal of marriage, [175]
- Christian serf, how he differed from a pagan slave, [102]
- Christianity, and freedom, [10]
- Church teaching, compulsory, [75]
- Church, the, and question of disestablishment, [75]
- "Class War, the," and Socialists, [47]
- Coercion, and control of sex-relationship, [155]
- Comic songs, and a sermon thereon, [169] et seq.
- Compulsion, and sexual selection, [14], [155]
- Compulsory education, [95]
- vaccination, [77]
- Concordat, the, and the independence of the Roman Church, [75]
- Criminals, difference between lunatics and, [34], [35]
- Criminology as a disease, [167]
- Cruelty to children, punishment for, [26-7]
- Delusions, concrete and otherwise, [32] et seq.
- Disestablishment, author's views on, [75]
- Doctors, as health advisers of the community, [55], [58]
- limits to their knowledge, [57]
- Education, compulsory, [95]
- Endeavourers, the, [17]
- English proletarians, anomalous attitude of, [175]
- Establishment, author's views on, [75] et seq.
- Ethics, as opposed to Eugenics, [7]
- Eugenic Law, the first, and negative Eugenics, [19], [28]
- Eugenic State, beginning of the, [19]
- author's conception of, [12]
- becomes a fashion, [180]
- beginning of, [125]
- different meanings of, [4]
- essence of, [4]
- first principle of, [38]
- general definition of, [10]
- meanness of the motive of, [136] et seq., [146]
- moral basis of, [5]
- the false theory of, [3] et seq.
- the real aim of, [91] et seq.
- versus Ethics, [7]
- Eugenics and employment, [141]
- Eugenist, true story of a, [114] et seq.
- Eugenists, and their new morality, [82]
- Euphemists, Eugenists as, [12]
- Fabians, and Socialism, [160]
- Feeble-Minded Bill, the, Eugenists and, [17], [18], [19], [20], [28], [51], [52]
- Feeble-mindedness, Dr. Saleeby on, [61]
- Flogging, revival of, [25]
- Foulon, and the French peasants, [103]
- Freedom, Christianity and, [10]
- Free-will disbelieved by Eugenists, [52]
- Game laws, English, result of the, [110], [112]
- Golf, a Scotch minister's opinion of, [117]
- Great War, the, outbreak of, and its effect on Eugenics, [181]
- Health, and what it is, [59]
- Hereditary diseases, and marriage, [44]
- Heredity, and feeble-mindedness, [62], [63]
- Housebreaking, punishment for, [36]
- Household gods of the heathen, [176]
- Housing problem, the, [164]
- Hutchinson, Colonel and Mrs., the historic instance of, [7]
- Huth, A.H., an admission by, [50]
- Idealists (see Autocrats)
- Idiotcy, segregation of, [61]
- Imperialism, and its aims, [93]
- Imprisonment, the State and, [25]
- Incest, the crime of, [8], [9]
- principle of, [37]
- Indeterminate sentence, the, instrument of, [35]
- Individualism, the experiment of, [130]
- Individualists, early Victorian, [118]
- Intervention, Socialistic movements of, [166]
- Irish peasants, T.P. O'Connor on, [144]
- Irishman in Liverpool, the, [121]
- Journalism and the Press of to-day, [73]
- Kindred and affinity, as a bar to marriage, [8]
- Law, the, and restrictions on sex, [10]
- loose extension of idea of, [27-8]
- Libel, definition of, [28]
- Liberty and scepticism, [148]
- Lodge, Sir Oliver, and "the stud farm," [13], [14]
- Lunacy, and Eugenic legislation, [17-20], [28], [29], [31] et seq.
- Lunacy Law, the old, [38]
- Lunacy Laws, the, extension of principle of, [17]
- Lunatic, the, and the law, [31] et seq.
- Lunatics, difference between criminals and, [34], [35]
- Macdonald, George, and space co-incident, [34]
- Madman, a, definition of, [32]
- Madness, degrees of, [32]
- Malthus, and his doctrine, [118]
- Mania, segregation of, [61]
- Marriage, and question of hereditary disease, [44]
- Marriages, aristocratic, [139] et seq.
- Marxian Socialists, and Capitalists, [47]
- in speech, [46]
- Materialism, as the established church, [77]
- Materialists, modern, [128]
- Medical specialists and madness, [40], [41]
- Mendicancy laws, result of the, [113]
- Metternich tradition, the, [154]
- Midas, [129]
- Middle Ages, the, [91] et seq.
- Midias, segregation of, [29]
- Monogamy, author's views on, [176]
- Morality, and restraints on sex, [8]
- Neisser, Dr., [79]
- decadence of present-day, [73]
- Newspapers, anarchic tendency of modern, [26]
- Niagara, comparison of modern world with, [24]
- Nietzsche, [182]
- Non-eugenic unions, and children, [7]
- O'Connor, T.P., on the Irish peasants, [144]
- Œdipus, and his incestuous marriage, [8]
- Om, the formless god of the East, [48]
- On, meaning and use of the word, [48]
- Osborne, Dorothy, and Sir William Temple, [7]
- Pagan slave, the, difference between Christian serf and, [102]
- Pearson, Dr. Karl, [50], [65], [181]
- Peasant art, comic songs as an instance of, [170]
- Persecution, author's views on, [77] et seq.
- "Platonic friendship," [138]
- Politics in the Middle Ages, [92]
- twin model of, [162]
- Post Office, the State, [161]
- Precedenters, the, [17]
- Press, the, criticisms of, [73], [169]
- Prevention not better than cure, [55]
- Preventive medicine, fallacy of, [55]
- Prison system, the, [162]
- Procreation, prevention of, [138]
- Profiteering, author on, [124]
- "Proletarian art," [169]
- Property, author's views on, [160]
- Punishment, extension of, [25]
- Puritanical moral stories, immorality of, [126]
- Realities, denial of, [33]
- Reason versus Authority, [132]
- meaning of, [22]
- Rebellion, Christian conception of, [23]
- Reform and Repeal, [95]
- "Relations of the sexes," atheists and, [47]
- Religion in the Middle Ages, [92]
- Representative Government, the procedure of, [116]
- Rockefeller, Mr., [124]
- Russian Orthodox Church, the, and the State, [75]
- Saladin, Sultan, [100]
- Saleeby, Dr., [50]
- Saturnalia, the Roman, [24]
- Scepticism, reactionary, [148]
- Science and tyranny, [76]
- Scotland, Church of, [76]
- Scotland, drunkenness in, [122]
- Segregation of strong-minded people, a suggested, [51]
- Serf, the, different from pagan slave, [102]
- Servile State, the, Mr. Belloc's theory of, [21], [165]
- Sex-relationship, controlled by coercion, [155]
- Sexes, the, relations of, [47]
- Sexual selection a destruction of Eugenics, [9]
- Shaw, Bernard, [162]
- Slaves, breeding of, [10]
- Slum children, Mrs. Alec Tweedie and, [143]
- Smiles, Dr. Samuel, and the English tramp, [119]
- Snobbishness, an inverted, [117]
- Socialism as oppressor of the poor, [166]
- Socialism, the transformation of, [159] et seq.
- Socialist system, foundation of the, [159]
- their view of the State, [163]
- Socialists, and "solidarity," [46]
- Specialists (medical) and madness, [40], [41]
- Spiritual pride, an example of, [96]
- Spiritual world, the, author's belief in, [63]
- Socialist view of, [163]
- State, the, and compulsion, [14]
- Statistics, fundamental fallacy in use of, [61]
- Steinmetz, Dr. R.S., [8], [181]
- Stevenson, R.L., and pre-natal conditions, [45]
- Temperance Reform, [164]
- Temple, Sir William, and Dorothy Osborne, [7]
- Tithes, question of, [75]
- Tory conception of anarchy, the, [22]
- Tramp, true history of a, [101] et seq.
- Truant schools. Socialists and, [167]
- Tweedie, Mrs. Alec, and the children of the slums, [143]
- Tyranny of government by Science, [76]
- Vaccination, compulsory, [77]
- Vanity, hereditary—and other, [62]
- snobbishness, [117]
- Victorian Individualists, optimism of, [118]
- Wages, "rise and fall of," [47]
- Webb, Sidney, and Bernard Shaw, [161]
- Wells, H.G., [55], [154]
- White Slave traffic, punishment for, [25]
- Witchcraft, punishment for, [26]
- Witch-hunting and witch burning, [63], [64]