It may be that we shall long continue to differ as to the full significance of this vision. But now that we can look at it without helpless pain it may stir the deepest impulses of our being. To some of us it may bring confidence in that Love that Dante saw, 'which moves the Sun and the other Stars.' To each of us it may suggest a kinder pity for all the bewildered beings who hand on from generation to generation the torch of conscious life. INDEX Abyssinia, Italian invasion of, Acland, Mr., Adams, John Quincy, Airedale, America, appointment of non-elected officials in, Civil Service, science and politics in, tendency to electoral concentration in, Amos, Ampthill, Lord, Antigone, Aristotle, comparison of State to a ship, criticism of Plato's communism, definition of 'polity', maximum size of a State, on action as the end of politics, on political affection, Athens, glassmakers of, Sophocles' love of, Austin, John, Bacon, Francis, Atlantis of, Bagehot, Walter, Balfour, Mr. A.J., Mr. Jabez, Balliol College, Ballot, Barrie, Mr. J.M., Bebel, Beccaria, Bentham, Jeremy, Macaulay's attack on, on criminology, on 'natural right,' _Principles of Morals and Legislation_, Benthamism, as a science of politics, Berlin, Congress of, 1885, Bernstein, Bismarck, and artificial homogeneity of national type, on political egoism, Bolingbroke, Lord, Botha, General, Breeding, selective, Brighton Parade, British Empire, difficulty of conceiving as a political entity, national homogeneity in, political status of non-European races in, Brontë, Charlotte, Bryan, Mr. W.J., Bryce, Mr. James, Buckle, H.T., Bülow, Prince, on dominance of Prussia, on private and national morality, on universal suffrage, Burke, Edmund, on man's power of political reasoning, on 'party,' Burney, Fanny, Burns, Robert, Butler, Bishop, Canning, George, Carlyle, Thomas, essay on Burns of, Cavendish, Lord Frederick, Cavour, Cecil, Lord Robert, Chadwick, Sir E., Chamberlain, Mr. Joseph, Charity Schools, Chesterton, Mr. G.K., China, Chinese Labour, agitation against, Christianity and race question, Harnack on expansion of, Churchill, Lord Randolph, Civil Service, creation of English, of India, importance of an independent, Sir C. Trevelyan's Report on, Comenius, Competition, system of, in municipal appointments, in railway appointments, variety in methods of, Comte, Auguste, Corrupt Practices Act, Corrupt Practices Act, practical failure of, Corruption, prevented by competitive Civil Service, Courtney, Lord, Crimean War, Croydon, Dante, Darwin, Charles, correspondence with Lyell, effect of his work, on persistence of racial variation, _Origin of Species_ of, Demosthenes, Derby, Lord, Reform Act of, De Wet, Diderot, Disraeli, Benjamin, Dolling, Father, Education Act, 1870, Egypt, Esher Committee, Fénelon, Fitzpatrick, Sir Percy, Fourier, Fox, Charles James,