VII. THE BEST HOPE FOR THE FUTURE. 243 is the result of merely external causes, or of blind force, or of occult destiny. There is an inner necessity determining the course of national events. That necessity issues from national character. And national character is really the outcome of the characters of the men and women composing the nation. The primary source therefore of every real reform, of all authentic advance in a people must be something which acts directly and powerfully on the individual: something which determines him from within, not from without: something moral, not mechanical: something psychical, not physical. It is in the supersensuous, the transcendental, the spiritual that the deep foundations of character, individual and national, are laid. The best hope for the future of our country seems to me to lie in men who have grasped the ethical significance of the facts of life: yes, and of the fact of death too. "There is no danger to a man that knows He goes before them and commands them all, That to himself is a law rational." INDEX. Abstract ideas and principles. as "a form of competition" Advertisement, the art of "Agreeable feeling," not the fount of morality "Almighty Dollar," The Animals, the lower, are not mere things. Aquinas, St. Thomas, on the subjection of woman on the right of private property Aristotle, on man's special characteristic. on diversity in an organism his view of virtue Army, the British, and the law of Supply and Bacon, Lord, on conquests over nature Bagehot, on the advantage of representative insti- tutions. Beaconsfield, the Earl of, his "fancy franchises" the two nations of his Sybil . Bentham, on the degradation of animals Board Schools, religious teaching in "Bosses," in the United States Bright, Mr., on adulteration Browning, Robert, on progress PAGE 200-1 210-11 238 238 210 137 95, 137 166 169 222 86 104 129 239 55 34 56 57 72 85 208 166 1 145-6 95 238 3 Canonists, the, doctrine of, concerning extreme 222 Capitalist, the, his functions 192 Chasles, on the need for an educated people in an age of freedom of the press Chastity, breach of, more heinous in a woman than 126 in a man 176-8 Chamberlain, Mr., on the misery of the very poor 208 Character, national, what it is Christianity, its morality, in what sense new 243 37 38 39 Civilizations, vanished, their history and lesson Clarke, Dr., on Sex in Education 167 26 . 30 31-34 181 Classes, the manufacturing 28 66 INDEX. Classes," the, their function in the social organ- Comfort, not the summum bonum ism Communism, what it is Mr. Mill on Competition, free and unrestricted, the funda- mental principle of the Smithian political 247 PAGE 107 30 212, 214 213 parity of condition. Contract, freedom of, possible only when there is the idea of, rests on duty where rightly controlled by the State Demagogue, the, his arts - 194-232 219 232 234 12 56 97, 114 108 Divorce Court, the, a flagrant wrong on woman |