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