INDEX.
Reading edition
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