political liberty of 49;
population of 115;
Puritanism in 152;
and worship of money 71, 73
enjoyment 57, 70
envy 49–51
Epicureanism 157
eugenics 120
Europe 61, 149
“Eve’s Ransom” (Gissing) 69
examination system 104
families, limitation of:
economic considerations 73, 74, 113, 119, 120, 125;
among intelligent persons 116–17;
and late marriage 72
fear 31, 36–37, 106–7
federation of States 39
feudal period 78–79
force:
external 36;
and law 25–26;
law substituted for 38;
by police, versus war 47
foreigners 25, 27, 29, 32
foreign invasion, perennial risk of 31
Foreign Secretaries 37
foresight, and impulses 4–5
France:
as civilized nation 49;
democracy in 147;
French language 16;
French Revolution 31, 61, 147;
inheritance rights 72, 80;
population of 114–15;
and worship of money 72–73
freedom 14, 15;
of thought, suppressing 98–99
Free Trade policy 73
free will 103
Freudian theory, impulses xi
General Councils, fallibility of 14
George Allen & Unwin Limited xiv
Germany:
comparative wealth 48–49;
and England 49–51, 73;
envy of rulers 49–51;
impulse of resistance to 8;
militarism of 52;
nationalism/patriotism of 16, 48;
religion 73–74;
and science 58;
vital energy, misuse of 149;
“wickedness” of Germans 2;
and worship of money 73
gipsies 41
Gissing, George R. 69
Godwin, William xvi
“good form” 97, 98
Gospels 132, 133
Governments:
ambitions of 2;
personal bias of 37–38
Great War (World War I):
and impulses 8;
inadequate views of, B.R. on 2;
losses in ix;
mood of parties participating in 50–52;
Somme offensive (1916) xii–xiii;
unifying nature of 14
group membership 30
growth, principles of xv, 17, 150;
tree comparison 11–12;
unimpeded growth 20–21, 85
Guild Socialism xv
happiness:
activity, dependent upon 57;
and desires 47;
group membership 30;
in marriage 126;
and money 70, 74, 82
Hart, Bernard xi
Haynes, E. S. P. 110–11
head masters, conferences of 37
hegemony 61, 62, 121
heretics 14
heroism 67
Hicks, G. Dawes xv, xvi
higher education 102
history, teaching of 95
hope 107
hostility 2, 9–10, 101
House of Lords 112
human nature 2–3, 21, 22
humiliation 51
humility, of educator 94
