Fabian Essays in Socialism - Unknown

Balfour, Right Hon. A. J., [106]
Barbarous Countries, Exploitation of, [74]
Bastille, Fall of the, [34], [60]
Bebel, August, [119]
Bedford, Duke of, [127]
Bellamy, E. (author of “Looking Backward”), [145]
Benefit Association, Sheep and Lamb Butcher’s Mutual, [88]
Benevolence and Omnipotence, The dilemma between, [23]
Bentham, Jeremy, [29], [39], [40], [53], [165]
Bequest, [122]
Berkeley, Bishop, [39]
Besant, Annie, [136]
” Walter: His belated chivalry, [108]
Bimetalism suggested as a solution of the social problem, [174]
Birmingham, [46]
” compared with Warwick, [123]
Bismarck, Socialism and Prince, [192]
Blanc, Louis, His Definition of Communism, [131]
Bland, Hubert, [50], [184]
Bloodshed: How to argue with its advocates, [166]-[7]
Bonanza farms, [62], [142]
Bourgeoisie, The Factory Acts and the, [190]
Free Trade and the, [190]
Bradford, [46]
Bradlaugh, Charles, [182]
Bramwell, Lord, [28], [175]
Bright, John, [69], [79]
Brittany, Standard of comfort in, [123]
Peasants of, [134]
British Association, [157]
” Mind, The Vestry stamp upon the, [182]
Bryce, James, [78]
Brook Farm, [28]
Browning, Robert, [23]
Burns, John, [174]
Bunyan, John, [135]

Cade, Jack, [160]
Cairnes, J. E., on the idle rich, [78]
Canada, Conquest of, [60], [71]
Canals, Socialization of, [141]
Cant: Its Source, [4], [106]
Capital: Is not machinery, [16]
Is the result of saving, [17]
Is spare subsistence, [17]
Cannot be safely taken by the State except for immediate employment as capital, [173]
Source of municipal capital, [175]
Provision for municipal accumulation, [178]
“Capital” (Karl Marx’s work), [23], [36]
“Capital and Land” (Fabian Tract), [43]
Capitals, Competitive force of associated, [142]
Capitalism, [16]
Unscrupulousness of, [69]
Its idea self-destructive, [110]
Morals of, [69], [106], [109]
Characteristic effects of, [111]
Its origin in piracy and slave-trading, [158]
Capitalist: Separation of his function from that of the entrepreneur, [76]
Regulation of the, [43]
Type of the, [105]
Capitalist combinations and State action, [91]
Capitulations by proprietary classes, [181]
Career open to the talented, [7]
Carlyle, Thomas, [30], [41]
Cartwright, Rev. Edmund, Inventions of, [59]
Caste (see [Class]).
Castlereagh, Viscount, [34]
Catastrophic Socialism, [136], [166], [183], [185]
Catechism, Misquotation of the Church, [110]
Catholic Church, Socialism of the, [113]
Catholic Emancipation, [34], [188]
Centralization of State industries, [142], [181]
Chalmers, Rev. Thomas, [39]
Charity, [19], [169], [174]
“Charter, The People’s”, [48]
Chartism, [48], [169]
Cheque Bank: Suggestion as to Communal currency, [150]
Children: In Communes, [150]
Effect of Socialism on the status of, [182]
“Christian Socialism”, [79], [80]
Church Catechism, The, [110]
Church, The Catholic, [113]
Church of England: A mere appanage of the landed gentry, [31]
Church of England: Effect of property holding on the, [124]
Democratization of the, [182]
“Church Reformer, The”, [39]
Churches, [2]
Church-going, Hypocrisies of, [5]
Church, Declaration of the Pan-Anglican Synod concerning Socialism and the, [174]
Civilizations and Societies, [20]
Civil Servants: Their reputation for unconscientiousness, [107], [165]
“Claims of Labor, The”, [36]
Clanricarde, Lord, [53]
Clarke, William, [28], [56], [136], [183]
Class Feeling and Morality, [17], [103], [105], [106], [108]-[110]
Classes, Separation of, [17]
Cleavage, Economic, [185]
Clive, Robert, [60], [71]
Coal mining, Application of machinery to, [151]
Coal monopoly in the Unite States, [78]
Cobden Club disconcerted by the appearance of Imports not paid for by Exports, [169]
Cobden, Richard, [74], [79]
Colonization, Modern, [21], [182]
Coleridge, S. T., [40]
Combination, [14]
Benefits of, [91]
Commercial policy of England under Capitalism, [71]
Commodities: Exchange of, [9]
Process by which their value is reduced to the cost of production of the most costly unit of the supply, [12], [178]
Common Sense, [94], [116]
Commune: Its establishment in England already accomplished, [143]
Communes, [2]
Communism defined, [131]
Communities, Savings of, [123]
Debts of, [128]
Compensation for expropriated proprietors, [175]
Competition: Theory of, [161]
Decline of, [81]
Effect on wages, [171]
Comte, Auguste, [27], [30], [169]
Comte de Paris, [28]
“Condition of the Working Classes” (F. Engels’ work), [36]
Conduct and Principle, Incompatibility set up by Private Property between, [4]
Conscience, Social, [137]
Conservatives, Present attitude of, [188]
Consols:
Nature of the operation called “reducing”, [181]
Consumption, Associated, [121], [133]
Contracts restricted in England, [130]
Contradictions apparently besetting the investigation of value, [10]
Conventions as to Morality, [100], [101]
Cooking, Public and private, [140]
Co-operative Movement, [41], [81], [124], [144]
Socialist origin of the, [79], [174]
Aims of the leaders, [174]
Co-operative Experiments, [129]
Co-ordination, Social, [54]
Copyright, [120], [132], [133]
Copper, The “corner” in, [84]
Corners, [14]
Cost of Production: What it means, [13]
Reduction of value to, [13]
On inferior soils, [4]
Cotton Manufacture, Progress of the, [66]
Cotton-seed Oil Trust, [88]
County Councils, The new, [35], [123], [128], [138], [171], [181]
County Council, The London, [181]
County Family, Origin of the, [4]
County Farms, Organization of, [139]
County Government Act (See [County Councils]).
Covert Garden Market and the Duke of Bedford, [127]
Crime: Its relativity, [105]
Criminal Class: Its formation, [18], [112]
Cromptom, Samuel, Inventions of, [33]
Cultivation of the Earth, [1]
Its beginning, [2]
Its “margin”, [3], [5]
Effect of exploration on the progress of, [20]
Cultivation of the Earth:
Discrepancies between its actual progress and that deduced from abstract economics, [20]
Culture:
Effect on profits of industrial management of the spread of, [179]
Currency, Suggestion as to communal, [150]
Cynicism of our time, [5]
” Routed by Socialism, [24]

Dante, [8]
Darwin, Charles, [41], [85], [169]
“Darwinism and Politics”, [51]
Darwinian theory appealed to by monopolists, [85]
By Socialists, [51]
Day, The working, [141]
Debt, The National, [129]
Debts, Law as to, [125]
Of Communities, [128]
Decentralization, Necessity for, [170]
Definitions of economic rent, [4]
Demand, Effective, [19]
Supply and, [8]
Democracy: Import of, [29], [30], [35], [54], [55], [195]
Instability of, [55]
Postulated by Socialism, [166]
Further steps necessary to consummate, [170]
Democrat, Distinction between the Ordinary and the Social, [166]
Democratic Federation (See [S. D. F.])
De Quincey, Thomas, [40]
Desire as a social motor, [96], [102]
Detailed suggestions for social organization of unemployed labor, [140]
De Tocqueville. A. C. H. C., [29]
Devil worship, [24]
Diocesan Councils, Central Conference of, [54]
Dirty Work, [145]
Discipline in socialized industries, [143]
Discovery of new countries, [21]
Disestablishment of the Church, [188]
Dishonesty a product of Capitalism, [111]
Disingenuousness of Class Economics, [14], [19], [21]
Dismal Science now the Hopeful, [25]
Dismissal, Power of, [143]
Dissolution of the Old Synthesis, [31]
Division of labor, [3]
Drainage Acts, [41]
Drinking Fountains, Communism exemplified in, [131]
Drone and Worker, [4]

Earnings distinguished from the revenue of Private Property, [20]
Ecclesiastical intolerance, Reaction against mediæval, [161]
Economics (See [Political Economy]).
Economists (See [Political Economists]).
Education: Reform of, [49]
Moral, [102]
A necessity for morality, [111]
Socialist ideal of, [115], [134]
Effect on profits of industrial management, [179]
Tendency of Social Democracy to encourage, [180]
Eight Hours, Working day of, [141]
Electors, Number of, [35]
Elizabethan merchant adventurers, [159]
Emigration, [167]
Employer: Differentiated from Capitalist, [76]
And laborer, [137]
Not harmed by Socialism, [177]
Engels, F., [36]
England: Her social policy to-day, [19]
In 1750, [30]
Her foreign policy dictated by Capitalism, [73], [74]
Her mineral fertility, [167]
“English Factory Legislation.” (See also [Factory Legislation]), [36]
Entrepreneur (See [Employer]).
Episcopal Conference, [54]
Equality of remuneration, [148], [149]
Errors (See [Mistakes] exposed by Socialism).
Ethics: Metaphysic of, [94]
Positive science of, [95]
Evolution, Effect of Hypothesis of, [24], [51]
Exchange of Commodities, [12]
Mechanism of, [10]
Exchange Value (See [Value]), [9]
Exploitation, [18]

Factories before the Factory Act, [36], [67]
Factory Legislation, [36], [41], [70], [125], [167], [190]
Factory System, Introduction of the, [33], [59]
“Facts for Londoners”, [181]
“Fair Trade”, [92]
Family: Effect of Socialism on the, [182]
Origin of the County, [4]
Isolation of the, [122], [133]
Farms: Organization of County, [139]
Bonanza, [142]
Fawcett, Henry, [4]
Federation of Municipalities, [181]
Feudalism: Survival of, [31]
Reaction against its domineering, [160]
Feudal dues, [38]
Fielden, John, [70]
Filibuster, The Colonizing, [182]
Final Utility, Theory of, [11], [12]
Flag, Trade following the, [182]
Flats, Living in, [121]
Fly-Shuttle, Invention of the, [59]
Foreign Investments, Interest on, [169]
Foreign Markets, The fight for, [74], [181]
Foreign Policy: Effect of Capitalism upon, [71]
Effect of Socialism upon, [181]
Foreign Trade following the Flag, [182]
Forestalling, [14]
Fourier, F. C. M., [121]
Fox, Charles James, [34]
Foxwell, Professor H. S., [37]
Free Ferry, The London, [47]
“Free Land” and the Radical party, [50], [195]
Free Trade Movement, [73]
Foreign investments left out of account by the, [169]
The bourgeoisie and the, [190]
Freethinker, Possible Election to the Deanery of Westminster of an avowed, [182]
French Revolution, [34], [60], [174]
Friction caused by introduction of Municipal Socialism, [178]
Furse, Canon, [54]

Gambling, [2]
Gasworks, Socialization of, [45], [139], [181]
George III, [72]
George, Henry, [95], [127], [161], [169], [172]
Georgism, Checkmate to, [173]
Giffen, Robert, [169], [173]
Gladstone, Right Hon. W. E., [47]
Retrogressive instincts of, [161]
Glasgow, [47]
Growth of, [33]
Godin and Leclaire, Experiments of, [151]
Godwin, William, [39]
Gold: As money, [10]
Effect of Discoveries in California and Australia, [167]
Goschen, Right Hon. G. J., [181]
Gould, Jay, [69]
Government: In 1750, [32]
Industries carried on by, [42]
“Government Organization of Labor”, [46]
Gradual Socialization, [31]
Compensation a condition of, [175]
Greek Republics, [125], [148], [160]
Greenock, [46]
Gronlund, Laurence, [119], [121], [125]
Grote, George, [39]
Ground values, Municipilization of, [175]
Growth of Towns, [32]
Guild of St. Matthew, [39]
Guillotining, [182]

Habits: Moral, [97]
Automatic, [98]
Harbors, Nationalization of, [149]
Harcourt, Rt. Hon. Sir W. V., [106]
On the teetotal stump, [106]
“We are all Socialists now”, [190]
Hargreaves, James, The Inventions of, [33], [59]
Harrison, Frederic, [54]
Hastings, Warren, [71]
Haves and Have-nots, [186]
Head Rents, Relative Insignificance of, [8]
Hegel, G. W. F., [162], [165]
High Church Party, [39]
Historical: Method in Economics, [20]
Development of Private Property, [20]
Basis of Socialism, [26]
“Historical Basis of Socialism” (Hyndman’s work), [27]
“History”: “Of Agriculture and Prices”, [32]
“Of the 18th Century”, [34]
“Of Private Bill Legislation”, [38]
“Of the Reform Bill”, [31]
Hobbes, Thomas, [160]
Hobhouse, Lord, [171], [175]
Hobhouse, Sir John Cam, [68]
Homestead Law, [126]
Hospital, The, [18]
House of Commons, [181]
House of Lords, Abolition of, [170]
Household Suffrage, [34]
Huddersfield, [46]
Human Life, Disregard of Capital for, [146]
Hume, David, [38], [161]
Huxley, Professor, [53]
Hyndman, H. M., [27], [169]
Hypocrisy, [5], [158]

Ibsen, Henrik, [134]
Icaria, [28]
Idleness, Association of prosperity with, [5]
Idlers: their fate under Socialism, [151]
Illth, [18]
Illusions, Economic, [161]
Immigration, Pauper, [125], [173]
Improvement in Production, [6]
Effect of unforeseen, [8]
Incentive to Labor: Under Socialism, [151]
Under Leasehold system, [171]
Income Tax, [130], [150], [167]
An instrument of expropriation, [176]
“Rent of ability” recoverable by, [181]
Independent Weaver, Transformation of the, [59]
India, Conquest of, under Clive and Warren Hastings, [60], [71]
Indifference, Law of, [11]
Individualism: Outbreak of, [37]
Abandonment of, [54]
The change to Socialism from, [137]
Confusedly opposed to Socialism, [96]
Its moralization, [97], [102]
Anti-Social manifestation, [104]
Protestant form of, [114]
Abolished in production, [116]
Industrial Organization, Centralization of, [147], [181]
Industrial Remuneration Conference, [54]
Industrial Revolution, [33]-[35], [41], [56], [136], [159]
Attitude of parties during, [189]
Industrialism, Evil effects of, [67]
Industry: Under Socialism, [136]
Nationalization of, [43]
As virtue or vice, [106], [108]
Disgraceful for women, [108]
La grande industrie, [185]
Inequality, [1]
Mischief of, [20]
Sense of it lost in contemplation of equality before God, [23]
Inferior soils, Resort to, [3]
Ingram, J. K., [80]
Injustices produced by private appropriation of land, [5]
Insanity, Definition of, [97], [100]
Inspection of Industry, [43]
Institutions, History of, [103]
Insurance: National, [23]
Municipal, [47]
Insurrectionism, [165], [176]
Intellectual Revolt, The, [185]
Interest, [16]
Fall in the current rate often mistaken for a tendency in Interest to disappear, [17]
Mr. Goschen’s operation for securing to the community the advantage of the fall in the current rate, [17]
A tribute, [105], [114]
Interest, Class, [103]
International Morality in the Middle Ages, [157]
International Trade the dominant factor in foreign policy, [72], [181]
Invention, Consequences of, [146]
Inventor, The first, [6]
Iron Industry, [60]

Jevons, W. Stanley, [162]
Joint Stock Companies: Development of, [43], [78]
Not objects of public sympathy, [138]
Joseph the Second, [30]

Kaye of Bury, [33]
Kingsley, Charles, [39], [41], [79]
Kitchens: Separate, [122]
Public, [134]
Kropotkin, Peter, [61], [160]