In the seventh relation, the specific policy agitates for alteration of the marriage laws, the laws of inheritance of property and the land laws. Equality of sex is required as the basis of the marriage law, accompanied by the condition of easy divorce in order to facilitate the dissolution of false ties in favour of the true. The laws affecting children require adaptation to the ethics of social justice and sex equality. Laxity must give way to strictness in respect of parentage; and child-birth be recognized as an event bearing directly upon the interests of the general public. Hence modification here entails the recognition of illegitimate children and the counteracting of the vicious tendency to shirk parental duty and social responsibility. The land and property laws must be adjusted to a levelling process—the action of paring down large estates and diminishing the massive proportions of private property so slowly as to create no individual suffering or social confusion, such legislative measures being directed, however, to land nationalization and nationalization of capital as their final aim. In conclusion, let me add, I claim to have shown that “science in the economic field gives certain facts from which a line of social evolution may be foreshadowed,” and that religion and science give, in wider fields, facts and principles that point to lines of illimitable progression for man. “Whether these lines will be followed depends not upon immutable laws beyond our control, but upon the _human will_.” The general policy I advocate is distinctly reliable so long as it rests on scientific methods and knowledge, but no question is finally exhausted. In the sphere of rational reform free-thought must ever be considered and respected. New occasions teach new duties; Time makes ancient good uncouth; They must upward still and onward, Who would keep abreast of truth. INDEX A Abyssinians, The, 134 Acquisitiveness, 213 Adler, Hermann, 218 Adolescence, 257–266, 335, 341 Adulteration, 45 Aesthetic sentiment, 197–200, 203, 211, 215 Aged, The, 269–272, 331, 338 Allen, Dr. Nathan, 120 Amiel, 10 Anderson, Dr. J. A., 306 Anxiety, 117 Arabs, The, 134 Arians, 299 Arifura, The, 205 Aristotle, 235 Arkwright, 26 Arnold, Matthew, 150, 249 Asceticism, 15, 98, 105, 110, 113, 146, 156 Associated Homes, 276–283 Association, Young Men’s Christian, 322 Astral body, 317 Atonement doctrine, 315 B Balfour, A. J., 231 Bardaisan, 301 Bebel, August, 112, 119, 149 Besant, Annie, 306, 315 Bickerton, A. W., 268, 272 Birth-rate, 80–93, 109, 265 Bishop, Mrs., 264 Blackley, Canon, 91 Bon, Dr. Le, 197, 211 Bosanquet, Mrs. B., 65 Bread-baking, 72 Buddhism, 293–295, 300, 303 Bushmen, The, 132 C Capital, 25, 41, 55, 329 Capitalists, 26, 41, 208, 338 Carlyle, Thomas, 5, 163