INDEX.
Reading edition
Absentee Proprietors, 22
Abstinence, Reward of, 17
Abstract method in Economics, 21
Administrative Errors, 37
“Administrative Nihilism”, 38
Adulteration Acts, 41
Aged, Treatment of the, 150
Agriculture and Machinery, 62
Aladdin’s uncle outdone, 9
Aliens, Necessity under Socialism for a law of, 125
Althorp, Lord, 69
America (See United States).
American Independence, Declaration of, 60
Anarchists, Modern, 160
Anarchy preferred to corrupt State regulation by progressive thinkers, 160
Andrews, E. Benjamin, on Trusts, 85
Angels, Constitution and status of, 108
Angels, condition of their imitation on earth, 110
Argyle, Duke of, 127
Aristotle, 160
Arkwright’s inventions, 33, 59
Aristocratic employments, 109
Ashley, Lord (See Lord Shaftesbury).
Associated Capitals, Competitive force of, 142
Associations, Legal position under Socialism of voluntary, 126
Austin, John, 39, 120, 165
Autobiography of John Stuart Mill, 50, 52
Aveling, Rev. F. W., 52
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
Labor: Mouth honor to, 5
In the market as a commodity, 9
Displaced by machinery, 63
Fruits of, 104
Municipal organization of, 140, 174
Labor colonies, 147
Beginning of State organization of, 175
Laborer and Employer, 137
(See also Proletarian.)
Laisser-faire, 36, 38, 39, 51, 70, 160
Lancashire, Old, 57
Expansion of, 65
Weavers’ grievances, 72
Land, Rent of, 3-5
Point at which it becomes a close monopoly, 7
Powers of the County Councils to hold, 139
Nationalization of, 47, 172
Landlord, What he costs, 14
Landed Interest, Its policy, 187
Lassalle, Ferdinand, 57, 162
Law of Indifference, 11, 12
“ “ Rent (See also Rent), 4, 53, 161
“Leaseholds Enfranchisement”, 51, 174
Leaseholds: Origin of, 8
Confiscation at expiry of, 171
Lecky, W. J., 34, 71, 73
Leclaire and Godin, Experiments of, 151
Leed, 33, 38, 47
Legislation: Breakdown of mediæval, 160
(See also Factory Legislation.)
Leveling-down action of Private Property, 14
Levi, Leone, 54
Liberal and Radical Union in favor of County Councils holding land, 47, 138
Libraries, Public, 134
Liberal Party, Its policy on Socialism, 190-192
Liberty and Equality, 53, 157
Liberty and Property Defence League, 47
Lincoln, Abraham: The moral of his assassination, 74
Liverpool, Growth of, 33
Lloyd, Henry D., on “Lords of Industry”, 83
Local: Improvement Acts, 41
Self-Government, 171
Government Boards dealings with the unemployed, 174
Government Board of the future, 181
Lodging Houses, Municipal, 47
London: Facts concerning, 181
The County Council, 181
Extraordinary proportions reached by Economic Rent in, 171
Liberal and Radical Union, 47, 138
London and Southwestern Railway shareholders, 78
“Looking Backward”, 145
Louis XVI, 56
Lying, As vice or virtue, 107
Machinery: Shoemaking by, 61
Agriculture by, 62
Displacement of hand labor by, 63
Progress of, 138, 146
Substitution for hand labor in disagreeable employments, 145
Chimney Sweeping by, 146
Maine, Sir Henry, 29, 54
Malthus, Rev. T. R., 32, 39, 162
Man as producer and exchanger, 12
“Man versus the State”, 47
Management, Profits of industrial, 179
Managers, Qualifications and present value of industrial, 179-80
Manchester, 33, 38, 46
Manchester School, 74, 168
Its advocacy of Protection, 176
Manners, Lady Janette on “Are Rich Landowners Idle?”, 109
Manorial Rights, 32, 38
Mills, 38
Manors, 2, 32, 38
Marginal Utility (See Final Utility).
Margin of Cultivation, 2, 5
Obligation of private competitors to charge the full cost of production at, 178-9
Markets: Effect on rent of proximity to, 3
The fight for foreign, 74, 181
Marriage, Contract of, 131
Marshall, Alfred, and Mary Paley—Definition of rent, 4
Marx, Karl, 36, 162, 169
Matthew, Guild of St., 39
Maurice, F. Denison, 39, 41, 79
Meliorism, 24
Men, Traffic in, 9
Mercantile System, 38
Method of Criticism on Moral Basis, 95
Metœci in Athens, 125
Middle Ages: Social Organization in the, 157
Middle Class: Its callousness, 73
Its moral ideas, 108-110
Its misunderstandings of Socialism, 164
Its dread of mob violence, 175
Militant organization of the working class for forcible revolution, 182, 184
Militarism and immigration, 125
Military Service, 131
Empires of the Continent, 125
Mill, James, 29, 33
Mill, John Stuart, 4, 31, 39, 41, 50, 52, 168
Milk Exchange of New York, 88
Milton, John, Proposal as to schools, 134
Mines: Their horrors before the legislation initiated by Lord Ashley, 61
Nationalization of, 150
Mines Regulation Acts, 41
Minor poetry, Socialist provision for the publication of, 144
Mirabeau, 60
Missionaries, 181
Mistakes exposed by Socialism:
That Society is no more than the sum of its units, 3, 50
That Private Property encourages industry, 6
That Private Property establishes healthy incentive, 6
That Private Property distributes wealth according to exertion, 6
That Rent does not enter into price, 14
That Exchange Value is a measure of true wealth, 19
That “the poor ye shall have always with you”, 24
That riots, regicide and bloodshed make Revolutions, 56, 166
Mob Violence, Middle-class dread of, 175
Molesworth, W. N., 31
Money, Function of, 10
Monopolies, 14
And Democracy, 89
Necessity for protecting the Postmaster’s, 168
Moral Basis of Socialism, 93
Habits and their origin, 98
Education of the Individual, 102
And of Society, 115
Moralists, Foolish, 6
Morality, 94
Relativity of, 96
Recognizable only in Society, 97
Conventional, 98, 100, 106, 108
Natural, 101, 109
Practical, 103
Class, 5, 23, 108, 109, 110, 159
Elementary conditions of, 113
Developed conditions of, 115, 116
Socialistic, 117
Medieval, 137, 158
Elizabethan, 159
“Morals and Health Act” (1802), 41, 160
More, Sir Thomas, 160
Morley, Right Hon. John, 47, 182, 192, 193
Motors, Influence of new, 33
Municipal: Corporations Act, 34
Action, 46
Socialism, 46, 175
Debt, 47
Development, 49
Prestige of Municipal Employment, 177
Municipalities, Growth of, 33, 35, 45, 46, 47
(See also County Councils.)
Nabob, The appearance in English social life of the, 33
Napoleon: “The career is open to the talented”, 7
“A nation of shopkeepers”, 71
Nasmyth, James, invents the steam-hammer, 60
National Insurance, 23
National Liberal Federation, 48
“National Review, The”, 109
Nationalization of Rent, 22, 47
It results if unaccompanied by Socialistic organization of labor, 172
Inter-municipal rent, 181
Rent of ability, 179-80
(See also Progress and Poverty.)
Nature: Caprices of, 3, 7
“Red in tooth and claw”, 23
Unmorality of, 24
The cause of Society, 98
Newspapers under Socialism, 144
New Hampshire, 121
New Motors, Influence of, 33
New River Company, 124
New York Legislature—Committee on Trusts, 86
Newcommen, Thomas, 33
Nexus, The social, 30, 32, 50
Oastler, Richard, 68
O’Connor, Fergus, 169
Oldest Families—Tradition of their superiority, 5
Oldham, 46
Olivier, Sydney, 93
Omnipotence and Benevolence, The Dilemma of, 23
Optimism: rebuked by Science, 24
The individual economists and their, 161
Organism, The Social, 50
Outlook, The political, 184
Over-population, 17
Owen, Robert, 40, 79, 121, 174
Painters, Gains of fashionable, 179
Paley, Rev. William, 39, 40
Palmerston, Chinese policy of Lord, 74
Panem et Circenses, 172
Parasitism, Economic, 107
Parliaments, Annual, 170
Parks, Public, 187-8
Parties, State and fundamental differences of, 120, 132
Patent rights, 155
Patronage in the public service, 165
Effect of appointments by, 165
Pauper Labor, How to deal with, 140
Payment of representatives, 170
Peasant Proprietorship, 50
Period of Anarchy, 35
Perpetual pension, Privately appropriated Rent is of the nature of a, 4
Pessimism, 23, 200
Peterloo, 34
Philanthropy, Futility of, 167
“Philosophic Radicalism,” 40, 167
Physical force, 136, 166, 184
Advocated by Lord Bramwell, 175
Physicians, Gains of fashionable, 179
Piracy and the Slave Trade in the 16th century, 158
Pitt, William: His motives, 72
Piener, E. von, 69
Plebeians in ancient Rome, 125
Plato, 111
Police: Conduct of Socialists charged upon by the, 100
Recent action of the ex-Chief Commissioner of, 174
Political: Tendencies, 48, 186
Reform, 51, 192
“Political Science Quarterly,” 28, 79
Economy (See Political Economy).
Political Economy, 2
Basis of Socialism in, 1
Definition of Rent in treatises, 4
Theory apparently contradicted by history, 20
Untrustworthiness of abstract, 20
Its guns turned against Private Property, 24
Old school and new, 24
John Stuart Mill, 31, 50, 52
Ricardo, 162
Jevons, 162
Rise of modern, 39, 160
Perceived to be a reductio ad absurdum of Private Property, 162
Present political parties and, 190
Poor Law: A Socialistic institution degraded, 114
Reform, 49
The old and the new, 167
Post Office: A Socialistic institution, 131
Socialization of the postal system, 139
Economy of collectivist charges exemplified by, 168
Population: Increase and its effects, 5, 15, 161, 174
Its control by public opinion, 182
(See also Overpopulation.)
Press: Its liberty after the socialization of printing, 144
Clamor for bloodshed from the newspapers of the proprietary class, 175
Preston, 46
Its public debt, 127
Prices cannot be raised to compensate diminished profits, 177
Printing, Socialization of, 144
Private Property: Beginning of, 2
Its levelling-down action, 14
Injustice of, 20
Not now practicable in its integrity, 21
Its abrogation conceived as an attempt to empower everyone to rob everyone else, 22
Its revenue distinguished from earnings, 22
Composition of incomes derived from, 22
Institution of, 103
Conditions of its possibility, 104
Effect on sex relations, 110
Idea of, 111
Rights of, 138
Cheapens the laborer, 179
Tends to make the majority mere beasts of burden, 180
Process of extinction of, 181
The State and, 190
(See also Property.)
Private Enterprise compared with Public, 168
Produce: Unjust division resulting from private appropriation of land, 5
Production: Improvements in, 6
Effect of unforeseen improvements in, 12
Conditions of production and exchange, 12
Associated, 121, 133
Profit, 6, 13
Sweater’s, 177
Most important form of “Rent of Ability,” 179
Effect of calculating it in net social welfare instead of individual pecuniary gain, 181
“Profit Sharing”, 151
Programme of Social Democracy, 182
Progress: Conditions of, 94
Rate of in politics, industry and thought, 186
“Progress and Poverty,” 23-5, 162, 169, 172
“Progress of Socialism,” 41
Proletarian: The first, 6
Predicament of landless, 8
End of his absorption by the land as tenant, 9
Sold into bondage, 10
Operation of the law of value on his position as a vendor of labor, 15
How the Democratic State will deal with him, 173
(See also Proletariat.)
Proletariat: Origin of the, 6
Exploitation of, 17
Physical degradation of, 67
Type of, 105
Morals of, 110-13
So-called “intellectual,” 180
(See also Proletarian.)
Property: Under Socialism, 119
Definition and economic analysis of, 120
(See also Private Property.)
Prosperity, Association of idleness with, 4
Prostitutes, their making, 112
Protection: Decay of, 73
In the Middle Ages, 158
Advocated by the Manchester School, 176
Proudhon, P. J., 162
Public Health Acts, 41
Public Opinion, 182
Purchasing Power—Pernicious effect of its unequal distribution, 19
Quit Rents, 8
Radicalism: Philosophic, 40
The modern Radical Programme, 48
Ordinary destructive variety, 164
Permeation of by Socialism, 196
Absorption of, 199
The land question and, 104
Railways: Requisites for making them under Capitalism, 16
Development of, 75
Socialization of, 139
Raphael’s pictures, 126
Ratepayer, How Socialism will first affect the, 177
Rates, Growth of, 46
Reactionary Legislation, Danger of, 92
Reform Bills, 34, 168
Regicide: Its victims, 84
Its futility, 136
Registration, Anomalous condition of voters’, 170
Regulation of Industry: Medieval, 37, 157-8
Modern (See Factory Legislation).
Rent: Recognized and paid by worker to drone, 3
Definitions of economic rent by standard economists, 3, 4
Point at which rent ceases to be strictly “economic rent,” 8
Enters into price of all commodities except those produced at margin of cultivation, 13
Relation to cost of production, 13
Nationalization of, 21, 46, 182
Is common wealth, not individually earned, 22
Moral Aspect of, 104, 110, 113
Case of Birmingham and Warwick, 123
Law of, 161
Illustration of economic rent, 163
Urban, 171
Effect of municipal Socialism on, 177
How County Councils can manipulate, 178
Nationalizing inter-municipal, 181
Effect of Free Trade on agricultural, 190
Rent of ability, 7, 177
Industrial profit the most important form of, 179
Raised by Private Property, 179
May become negative, 180
Republicanism: Disappearance of militant Republicanism in England, 185
Residuum: Genesis of the, 113
Its appreciation of public hospitality, 114
Respectability, Falsehood of current, 24
Reward of Abstinence, 16
” of effort in the cause of Socialism, 135
Revolt, The Intellectual, 40
Revolution: Middle class notions of, 56
Socialistic attempt to organize militant, 182
(See also Industrial Revolution and Physical Force.)
Ricardo, David, 4, 39, 162
Riches are not Wealth, 18
Rights of Man, Declaring the, 182
Rings, Growth of capitalist, 82, 127, 184
Ritchie, Right Hon. C. T., 138
Ritchie, D. G., 50
Rochdale Pioneers, 124
Roebuck, J. A., 39
Rogers, Professor Thorold E., 32
Rousseau, J. J., 39
Rural economy in 1750, 32
Russell, Lord John, announces finality, 167
Ruskin, John, 41
Russia’s industrial competition in the world market, 169
Rutland, Duchess of, on the hard work of country gentlemen, 109
Ryot, Suppression of Indian, 113
S. D. F. (Social Democratic Federation), 169
Sadler, Michael Thomas, 69
Salisbury, Rt. Hon., the Marquess of, 129
Satan: His moral activity, 106
Rehabilitation of, 114
“Saul”: Optimism as expressed in Robert Browning’s poem, 23
Saving: Capital the result of, 16
Savings of communities and of individuals, 123
Schools as they should be, 133
Scott, Sir Walter, Political types in “Rob Roy”, 71
Secretan, Eugène, 84
Seeley, J. R., 189
Self, Extension of, 101
Self-defence, Origin of the Noble Art, 100
“Self-help”, 19, 168
Seligman, E. R. A., 79
Servants, Domestic, 111, 172
Servantgalism an Effect of Capitalism, 111
Services, Property in, 130
Settlement, Law of, 31
Seven Years’ War, The, 60
Sewer Cleaning under Socialism, 145
Shaftesbury, Lord, 69
Shaftesbury Avenue, Land near, 127
Shakspere, Suggested Duke of, 132
Shaw, G. Bernard, 1, 157
Shelley, P. B., 100
Shoemaking by hand, 58
By machinery, 61
Shopkeeping, Joint-Stock, 80
Sidgwick, Henry, 4, 52, 130
Sidmouth, Lord, 34
Six Acts, The, 34
“Six Centuries of Work and Wages,” 32
Slave Trade, The, 158
Slavery, The White, 36
Slaves Released when not worth keeping, 15
Smiles, Samuel, 7
Smith, Adam, 32, 38
Societies: Failure of previous attempts to establish true, 20
Societies and Civilizations, 21
(See also Society.)
Society: Hypothesis that it is no more than the sum of its Units, 3, 50
The Matrix of Morality, 96
Evolution of Primitive, 96, 98, 101, 103, 112
Industrial, 104
Parasitic, 106-7
Fashionable, 107
(See also Societies.)
Soils, Resort to Inferior, 3
Somers, Robert, 80
Social: Utility Divorced from Exchange Value, 18
Character of Social Changes, 30
Evolution, 30, 44, 53
“Social Statics,” 36, 54
Health, 51
Organization, 51, 136
Instinct, 101, 109
Social Democratic Federation, 169
Social Democracy and Social Democrat. (See Socialism and Socialist.)
Socialism, 2, 22, 131, 163, 166, 182, 190, 194-95
Economic basis of, 1
Bearing of Economic Analysis of Individualism on, 22
Substitutes Meliorism for Pessimism, 24, 200
Historic Aspect, 26
“Socialism in England,” 27
Change in, 27, 119
Early or Utopian, 27, 30, 119, 136, 160, 164
Industrial Aspect, 56
The Capitalist and, 90
Moral Aspect, 93
Its Genesis, 96
New Conception of, 119
Property under, 119
Definition of pure, 131
Industry under, 136
Change from Individualism to, 137, 157
Local machinery of, 139, 169
Dirty Work under, 145
Transition to, 157
Practical difficulties of, 163
Honesty of, 164
Must be introduced gradually, 166
Solution of the Compensation difficulty, 175
Effect on Rent, 177
Friction caused by introduction of, 178
Outlook toward, 184
Prince Bismarck’s view of, 192
The Liberal Party and, 192
True and False, 193-4
Two views of the future of, 195
Practical politicians and, 196
(See also the Index Generally.)
Socialist Politics, 47
Programme, 48
Formation of party, 198
Socialists and the police, 100
Early (See Utopian Socialism).
The mot d’ordre for, 139
Social Democrats fall into line as a political party, 170
The Radical Press and, 195
Parliament and, 197
Future leader for, 199
Spencer, Herbert, 36, 41, 47, 58, 95, 160, 169
St. Matthew, Guild of, 39
Standard Oil Trust, 85
“Star, The,” 48
State: Social Democratic, 2
Functions under Socialism, 149
Corruption of the, 164
Whig conception of the, 165
Conception of the perfect, 165
Decentralization in the Social Democratic, 170
Private Property and the, 190
Attitude of parties towards the, 190
Idea and content of the, 191
The working-class and the, 191
Statistics and Statisticians, 173
Steam applied to cotton spinning, 59
Stuart, Professor James, 48
Subletting of Tenant Right, 5
Subsistence Wages, Rationale of, 16
Sunday: Hypocrisies of church going, 5
The English, 133
Sunderland, 46
Supply and Demand: Action of, 8, 179
Value decreases with Supply, 10
Final effect on wage-labor, 16, 17
Sweating, How to defeat, 175
Sweeping Chimneys: Replacement of boy labor by machinery in, 146
Syndicate of Copper Cornerers, 84
Synthesis: The old, 31, 157
The new, 50
Talent, Career open to, 7
Taxation: Reform, 48
Of ground values, 171
Novel character of recent demands for, 172
Telegraphs, Socialization of, 139
Ten Hours’ Bill, The, 69
Tenant Rights: Perpetual, 4, 5, 6
Replaced by finite leases, 8
Tennyson, Alfred, 68
Test and Corporation Acts repealed, 34
Theatres, Communal, 135
Tocqueville, A. C. H. C. de, 29
Tory of fifty years ago, 188-9
Absorption of the party, 189
Tonquin, French policy in, 75
“Total Utility,” 11
Toynbee, Arnold, 33
Trade: Secrets of, 14
Discredit and rehabilitation of as a pursuit for the nobility and gentry, 108
Trade Unions, 48, 132, 168
Wages in, 141
Royal Commission (1869), 169
Trafalgar Square: The police in, 100, 174
The Fountains in, 107
Traffic in Men, 9
Tramways, Socialization of, 46, 139
Transition to Social Democracy, 157
Truck Acts, 41
Trusts, 14, 138, 143, 185
Tucker, Benjamin R., 160
Turgot, A. R. J., 161
Two-man power more than double One-man power, 3
Unemployed: Their existence a proof that the labor they could replace has no exchange value, 139
Social pressure created by the, 172
United States: Results of Individualism plus political liberty in the, 21
Declaration of Independence, 60
Growth of Monopoly in the, 78
Extent to which monopoly has gone in the, 82
Unskilled Labor, Fate of, 112
Unsocialism, 2
Utilitarian questioning and scientific answering, 23
Utilitarians, The, 38
Utility: Its relation to Value, 10
“Total Utility,” “Marginal,” or “Final Utility,” 11, 12
Divorce from Exchange Value, 19
Utopian Socialism, 27, 30, 119, 136, 160, 164
Valjean, Jean, 100
Value in Exchange, 9
Not explained by the money mechanism, 10
Man’s control over it consists in his power of regulating supply, 14
Divorced from social utility, 19
Theory of, 162
Voluntary Associations: Their legal position under Socialism, 124
Von Plener, E., 36
Vestrydom congenial to British mind, 182
Villiers, C. P., 39
Virtues conditioned by social evolution, 99, 100-6
Wages, 15
Subsistence level, 16
Adjustment, 148
Rise after 1840, 167
Apparently raised by Trade Unions, 168
Competition wages, 176
Socialistic wages, 147, 177-8
Walford’s Insurance Cyclopædia, 46
Walker, F. A., 4
Wallas, Graham, 119
Walpole, Sir Robert, 72
Warren, Sir Charles, 174
Wars for foreign markets, 75, 181, 182
Warwick compared with Birmingham, 123
Watt, James, 33
Watts, Isaac, on the cotton manufacture, 66
Waterloo Bridge, Socialization of, 133
Waterworks, Socialization of, 46, 139
Wealth: Divorced from Exchange Value, 19
Wealth: Distinguished from “Illth,” 19
“Wealth of Nations,” 32
Weaver, Extirpation of the hand-loom, 60, 72
Webb, Sidney, 26, 27, 99, 184
Westminster, Duke of, 173
Whig Philosophy, 164
Economics, 164
Disappearance of the, 188
The Whig of fifty years ago, 188-9
White Slavery, 36, 40
“White Terror, The,” 34
Whitman, Walt, 92
Wicksteed, P. H., 162
William the Silent, Assassination of, 76
Women: Effect of Property System on, 108-10
Outlawry of, 176
Economic independence of, 182
Worker and Drone, 3
Working class: Militant organization of, 183
The State and the, 190
Political superstitions of the, 192
Zeitgeist, Effect of the, 44