The Moral Economy

by Ralph Barton Perry

Laissez-faire, 108.
Liberality, 156; and art, 209.
Life, morality as the organization of, Ch. I; versus
mechanism, 10, 22; morality one with, 19, 27; method of, 23.
Locke, quoted, 34, 35, 62.
Logic, of the moral appeal, Ch. II; and the imagination, 69.
Lord, H. G., quoted, 69.
Lucretius, quoted, 226.

Maeterlinck, quoted, 71.
Manners, 121.
Materialism, 74 ff., 84; varieties of, 79, 81, 94, 101,
110, 243.
Mechanical Nature, 12; lack of value in, 9, 84; and
progress, 130.
Menander, quoted, 88.
Metaphysics and religion, 242 ff.
Moderation, 87.
Moore, G. E., critique of egoism, 59 ff.
Morality, as the organization of life, Ch. I; the dulness
of, 1; as verified truth, 7; its universal pertinence,
7 ff.; essential to life, 9, 32; natural genesis of,
9 ff.; basal definition of, 13; and nature, 20 ff.;
and competition, 24 ff.; the logic of, Ch. II; rational
ground of, 38, 40 ff.; material and formal aspects of,
74 ff., 121; and progress, Ch. IV; and art, Ch. V; and
aesthetic standards, 172 ff.; and religion, Ch. VI;
and idealism, 248 ff.
Mysticism, 116, 244; and art, 208.

Nationalism, 99.
Nature, genesis of morality in, 9 ff.; and morality,
20 ff.; theories of, in religion, 224, 225, 234, 237, 240.
Newman, J. H., quoted, 220.
Nietsche, his conception of morality, 1, 5, 6, 20, 29 ff., 165.

Optimism, 230, 242, 247.
Other-worldliness, 115, 243.
Overindulgence, 79, 81, 84 ff.

Panlogism, 244.
Pater, quoted, 185, 188; on the aesthetic interest, 196.
Patience, 95.
Pessimism, 114, 243.
Philosophy, of history, 123 ff.; and religion, 241 ff.
Piety, 67, 68, 120, 223, 253, 254.
Pity, 111, 163.
Plato, quoted, 32; individualism in, 37; nationalism in,
100; account of disinterested activity in, 135 ff.;
theory of government in, 148; on art, 190, 193, 202, 212;
on religion, 244.
Pleasure, its relation to morality, 16 ff.
Preference, 50; the quantitative principle of, 55 ff., 127.
Progress, moral test of, Ch. IV, 127; definition of, 125 ff.;
principles of, 130 ff.; by constructive reform, 134 ff.;
by revolution, 139 ff.
Prudence, 79, 81, logical ground of, 43 ff.; limits of,
49, 88, 90, 91, 94; meaning of, 87 ff.; basal character of,
91; in religion, 232.
Purpose, logic of, 50 ff.; virtue of, 95 ff.

Radicalism, 145 ff.
Rationality, 37, 42, 65; and progress, 134, 142; in
government, 152.
Reform, 134 ff.
Religion, 79, 81; and good-will, 113; mysticism in, 117; as an
institution, 148; and progress, 170; moral justification
of, Ch. VI; moral necessity of, 214 ff.; definition
of, 215 ff.; quantitative tests of, 218 ff.;
psychological study of, 220; belief in, 216, 220; therapeutic
test of, 222 ff.; superstitious, 232 ff.; primitive,
233 ff.; and ethics, 224 ff., 233, 240, 241, 252;
cosmological test of, 224, 225, 234, 237, 240, 241,
252; tutelary, 237 ff.; Assyrian, 238; Egyptian, 238;
Hebrew, 227, 239; philosophical, 241 ff.; generic
proof of, 252 ff. See Piety, Good-will, Worship and
Christianity.
Revolution, definition of, 139; the Christian, 140; the
French, 141.
Rightness, 18. See Virtue.

Satisfaction, 11, 79, 81, 83.
Scepticism, 4 ff., 36, 108.
Sentimentalism, 98 ff., and art, 209.
Society, Chap. I, passim, 38; prudential basis of, 89;
character of modern, 39, 166; progress in, 126, 132;
continuity of, 143; and the aesthetic interest, 195, 211.
Sophocles, quoted, 102, 151.
Sordidness, 79, 81, 94.
Spinoza, quoted, 35.
Stoics, religion of, 245. See Epictetus.
Struggle for existence, 30; its relation to morality, 21 ff.;
its relation to progress, 130.
Superstition, 232 ff.
Survival, 24, 131.

Tact, 88.
Taine, quoted, 185.
Taylor, J., quoted, 86, 94.
Temperance, 90.
Thrift, 68, 87.
Thucydides, quoted, 156.
Tolerance, 38, 105, 164.
Tolstóy, on art, 207.
Truth, of art, 205 ff.; of religion, 220 ff.
Truthfulness, 96. See Veracity.
Tyranny, 36, 39, 151 ff.

Value, the simpler terms of, 11, 82; definition of moral,
15; varieties of moral, 79, 81.
Veracity, 88, 96, 105.
Vice, varieties of, 79, 81. See Virtue, Formalism, and
Materialism.
Virtue, the order of, Ch. III; verification of, 73;
varieties of, 73, 79; classification of, 73 ff.; table
of, 81. See under particular virtues, Prudence, etc.

War, and morality, 24 ff., 30; the passing of, 28, 162; and
progress, 131.
Wells, H. G., quoted, 89, 167.
Worldliness, 79, 81, 110 ff.
Worship, 122, 232, 235, 237, 240.