The thing died at last, and the stench of it stank to the sky. It might be thought that so terrible a savour would never altogether leave the memories of men; but men's memories are unstable things. It may be that gradually these dazed dupes will gather again together, and attempt again to believe their dreams and disbelieve their eyes. There may be some whose love of slavery is so ideal and disinterested that they are loyal to it even in its defeat. Wherever a fragment of that broken chain is found, they will be found hugging it. But there are limits set in the everlasting mercy to him who has been once deceived and a second time deceives himself. They have seen their paragons of science and organisation playing their part on land and sea; showing their love of learning at Louvain and their love of humanity at Lille. For a time at least they have believed the testimony of their senses. And if they do not believe now, neither would they believe though one rose from the dead; though all the millions who died to destroy Prussianism stood up and testified against it. INDEX Abnormal innocence and abnormal sin, alliance between, 4 Abortion, open advocacy of, 138 Affinity as a bar to marriage, 8 Altruism, remarks on, 111 Anarchy, definition of, 22, 23 the opposite of Socialism, 159 Anglican Church, the, and question of disestablishment, 75 Aristocratic marriages, Eugenists and, 139 _et seq._ Atheistic literary style, the, 46 Authority versus Reason, 132 Autocrats, Eugenists as, 15 Belloc, Mr., and the Servile State, 21, 165 rebuked by _The Nation_, 122 Blücher, Marshal, an alleged saying of, 124 Bolce, Mr., the super-Eugenist, 180, 181 Bolshevists, and "proletarian art," 169 Brummell, Mr., vanity of, 96 Burglary, punishment for, 36 Calvinism, immorality of, 126, 127 in the Middle Ages, 92 Calvinists and the doctrine of free-will, 52 Capitalists, and workmen, 133 Socialists and, 47 Casuists, Eugenists as, 14 Catholic countries, and the drink traffic, 122 Celtic sadness, and the desolation of Belfast, 121 Chesterton, G.K., and Socialism, 159 _et seq._ on H.G. Wells, 69 rebuked by _The Nation_, 122 Children, and non-eugenic unions, 7 cruelty to: punishment for, 26-7 Christian conception of rebellion, the, 22, 23 Christian religion as protector of the ideal of marriage, 175 Christian serf, how he differed from a pagan slave, 102 Christianity, and freedom, 10 Church teaching, compulsory, 75 Church, the, and question of disestablishment, 75 "Class War, the," and Socialists, 47 Coercion, and control of sex-relationship, 155 Comic songs, and a sermon thereon, 169 _et seq._ Compulsion, and sexual selection, 14, 155 Compulsory education, 95 vaccination, 77 Concordat, the, and the independence of the Roman Church, 75 Criminals, difference between lunatics and, 34, 35 proposed vivisection of, 79 punishment of, 25 _et seq._, 35 _et seq._ Criminology as a disease, 167