INDEX.
- Abstinence, total, [14-16]
- Adulteration, [47]
- Affectation, [86], [87]
- Alcibiades, on personal appearance, [22]
- Ambition, true and false, [164]
- Amusement, [28];
- seeking, [30]
- Animals, [98]
- Anxiety, [63]
- Aristotle, on friendship, [137];
- on pleasure, [187]
- Arnold, M., on insincerity, [105];
- on "quiet work," [39]
- Art, [89]
- Asceticism, [12]
- Bashfulness, [106]
- Beauty, [90], [92];
- how to cultivate the love of, [91];
- ideal of, [89]
- Benevolence, [118]
- Betrayal, [141]
- Betting, a form of gambling, [78]
- Brothers, duties of, [145]
- Browning, Mrs. E. B., on self-centered virtue, [192]
- Browning, Robert, on strength, [72];
- on love, [115]
- Building and loan associations, [42]
- Caird, John, on morality and religion, [198]
- Carelessness, [68], [69]
- Carlyle, Thomas, on human fellowship, [156];
- on work, [32]
- Character, [182], [184]
- Charity, [118]
- Cheating, [48]
- Childhood, [40]
- Children, duty of, to their parents, [145]
- Civilization rests on law, [161]
- Coleridge, S. T., on kindness to animals, [101]
- Confidence, [56]
- Conflict of duties, [191]
- Conscience, absolute authority of, [181]
- Conscientiousness, [180], [182]
- Constraint, [176]
- Co-operation, [170];
- two kinds of, [171]
- Co-ordination, [60]
- Courage, [73], [75];
- moral, [74]
- Cowardice, moral, [76];
- the shame of, [79]
- Craik, Mrs. D. M., on marriage, [147]
- Cruelty, [102], [103]
- Cynicism regarding appearance, [21]
- Death, the wages of sin, [202]
- Debility, the penalty of neglected exercise, [31]
- Debt, [43]
- Devotion of husband and wife, [152]
- Discord, [64]
- Disease, [17], [18]
- Dishonesty, [49]
- Dissipation, [193]
- Dissoluteness, [193]
- Divorce, [148]
- Dress, [19], [20], [21]
- Drink, [9]
- Drunkenness, [13]
- Dude, the, [23]
- Duties, conflict of, [191]
- Duty, [2], [187]
- Economy, [42]
- Effusiveness, [142]
- Eliot, George, on sympathy, [110];
- on happiness, [188]
- Emerson, R. W., on friendship, [140], [143]
- Energy, the value of superfluous, [26]
- Ennui, [30]
- Enjoyment, the only true, [86]
- Epicurus, on the duty of friends, [139]
- Equivalence in trade, [46]
- Ethics, [1]
- Ethics and religion, [196]
- Example, responsibility for, [15]
- Exchange, [46]
- Excitement, [27]
- Exclusiveness, [142]
- Exercise, necessity of, [25]
- Faith, [200]
- Falsehood, the forms of, [57]
- Family, the, [144]
- Fastidiousness, [23]
- Fellowship, [104]
- Food, [9]
- Foolhardiness, [77]
- Forgiveness, [130]
- Formalism, [190]
- Fortune, [70]
- Freedom is complete self-expression, [173]
- Friendship, [137]
- Gambling, [78]
- Games, value of, [26]
- Gluttony, [13]
- God, [194]
- Golden Rule, the, [107]
- Gossip, the mischievousness of, [57]
- Habit, [3]
- Harmony, [90]
- Hegel, on duty in personal relations, [2]
- Heredity, [51]
- Hill, Octavia, on benevolence, [120]
- Holiness, [196]
- Home, [149], [150]
- Honesty, [47]
- Hospitality, [105]
- Husband and wife, [149]
- Hypocrisy, [105], [201]
- Ideal of Beauty, [89]
- Idleness, [33]
- Independence, [150], [151], [152]
- Indorsing notes, [50]
- Indiscriminate charity, [125]
- Individualism, [150], [153], [154]
- Industry, [35]
- Isolation, [143]
- Janet, Paul, on dissipation, [193]
- Justice, [128]
- Kant, on humanity an end, [106];
- on importance of social relations, [109];
- on a lie, [59];
- on universality as test of conduct, [169]
- Keats on beauty, [93]
- Kindness, [100]
- Knowledge, [53]
- Law, uniformity of, [70]
- Laziness, the slavery of, [37];
- leads to poverty, [39]
- Lenity, [134], [135];
- its effect on the offender, [135]
- Life insurance, [42]
- Loneliness, [156]
- Love, [106], [107], [108], [111]
- Lowell, J. R., on success, [173]
- Loyalty, [148]
- Luxury, the perversion of beauty, [93]
- Lying, [58], [59]
- Marriage, [146], [153]
- Marshall, J., on conformity to rule, [191]
- Martineau, on censoriousness, [58]
- Maudsley, on hereditary effects of dishonesty, [51]
- Meanness, [51], [174], [175], [177]
- Mill, John Stuart, on pleasure, [187];
- unity with fellow-men, [108]
- Miserliness, [44], [45]
- Moral courage, [74]
- Moroseness, [29]
- Morris, William, on simplicity of life, [92]
- Nature, [81]
- Neatness, [20]
- Niggardliness, [124]
- Notes, indorsement of, [50]
- Obtuseness, [86], [87]
- Officiousness, [176]
- Old age, provision for, [40]
- Opium habit, [16]
- Orderliness, [66]
- Organization, the function of the state, [157]
- Overwork, the folly of, [38]
- Parents, duties of, to children, [145]
- Party, political, [160]
- Patriotism, [160]
- Peace, [198]
- Perfection, [90]
- Place for everything, [65]
- Plato, on virtue and vice, [6];
- refutation of the Cynic, [22];
- on obedience to laws, [159]
- Pleasure, [71], [186]
- Politeness, [172]
- Politician, and statesman, [161]
- Potter, Bishop, on giving, [119]
- Poverty, the causes of, [117]
- Pride, [142]
- Prigs, [182]
- Procrastination, [62]
- Profit-sharing, [170]
- Property, [40]
- Prudence, [61]
- Public spirit, [171]
- Punishment, the function of, [128];
- good for the wrong-doer, [129]
- Quackery, [49]
- Raffling, a form of gambling, [78]
- Red-tape, [68]
- Reformation, [131]
- Reformer, [170]
- Religion, [195], [198]
- Religion and ethics, [196], [199]
- Reward of virtue, [4]
- Rich, the idle, [33]
- Rights, our own, [50];
- of others, [158]
- Royce, J., on regarding others as persons, [107], [169]
- Rules, [183], [191]
- Ruskin, John, on the home, [150];
- on truth, [54]
- Saving, systematic, [41], [43]
- Savings-banks, [42]
- Scandal, the mischievousness of, [57]
- Scott, Sir Walter, on deceit, [56]
- Selfishness, [112];
- the penalty of, [115]
- Self-indulgence, [192]
- Self-interest, [174]
- Self-obliteration for the sake of family, [154], [155]
- Self-realization, [179]
- Self-righteousness, [192]
- Self-will, [200]
- Sentimentality, [113], [114]
- Severity, [133], [135];
- effect of, on the offender, [135]
- Shakespeare, on music, [95]
- Simplicity of life, [92]
- Sin, [201]
- Sisters, duties of, [145]
- Slavery, [178]
- Slovenliness, [22], [23]
- Social ideal, [170]
- Society, [167]
- Social responsibility, [15]
- Socrates, on obedience to law, [159]
- Soft places, to be avoided, [36]
- Space, [65]
- Speculation, a form of gambling, [79]
- Spencer, Herbert, on abundant energy, [27];
- on deficient energy, [29]
- Spendthrift, the, [45]
- Spinoza, on the difficulty of excellence, [97]
- Spiritual life, the reward of righteousness, [198]
- "Spoils system," [162]
- Sports, value of, [26]
- Stagnation, [87]
- State, developed out of the family, [157]
- Statesman and politician, [161]
- Stealing, [48]
- Stoicism, [71], [110]
- Strength, the secret of, [72]
- Strife, the penalty of selfishness, [115]
- Success, [173]
- Superiority to fortune, the secret of, [71]
- Sympathy, [123]
- System, [66], [67]
- Temperance, [10-15]
- Temptation, [5]
- Terence, oneness of individual with humanity, [106]
- Time, [60]
- Tobacco, [16], [17]
- Trade, importance of learning a, [34]
- ----, equivalence in, [46]
- Tranquillity, [39]
- Treason, [163]
- Truth, [53], [54]
- Ugliness, [94]
- Unscrupulousness, [189]
- Vengeance, [131], [132]
- Veracity, [55]
- Vice, [5]
- Virtue, [3]
- Vulgarity, akin to laziness, [96]
- Wastefulness, [44], [45]
- Wealth, [36]
- Well-being, the conditions of, [118]
- Whitman, Walt, on the feelings of animals, [99]
- Whittier, J. G., on acting contrary to convictions, [79]
- Wife, and husband, [149]
- Woman's sphere, [34]
- Wordsworth, on books, [53];
- on courage, [75];
- on the influence of Nature, [82], [83], [84];
- on neglecting Nature, [85];
- on cruelty to animals, [102]
- Work, [32], [35]
TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES:
The following words appear with and without hyphens. They have been left as in the original.
| life-long | lifelong |
| Profit-sharing | profit sharing |
| Red-tape | red tape |
| short-coming | shortcoming |
| wrong-doer | wrongdoer |
| wrong-doers | wrongdoers |
| wrong-doing | wrongdoing |
The following corrections were made to the text:
page 6: The outline on pp. vi, vii[original has x, xi]
page 13: Alcoholic[original has Alchoholic] drink produces
page 15: moderate use of alcoholic[original has alchoholic] drinks