Janus in Modern LifePetrie, W. M. Flinders (William Matthew Flinders)
Philosophy
Janus in Modern Life
Petrie, W. M. Flinders (William Matthew Flinders)
Civilization; Progress
Character, the basis of society, 1
production of, 2
subject to natural law, 2
low type at present, 15-19
killed by municipalising, 26
grown by experience, 74
Checks, better use of, 99
Children, later more able, 86
maintenance of, 8, 60, 86-88
Chinese labour, need for, 93-95
Civil war, results of, 39-41
Civilisation a means of diversity, 68
Clubs, benefit of, 92
Collections, dispersal of, 46
Colonising result of primogeniture, 45, 46
Combinations, must be voluntary, 91
Combined labour, wasteful, 90
Committees, mind of, 9
Commons rule alone, 39-41
weakness of, 43
Communal organisation of early Europe, 22
Communication, results of, 56, 66, 98
Communism a bar to useful variation, 20, 21
and early Christianity, 24
and fatalism, 25, 26
and labour, 90
Compensation for accidents, 58
Competition, necessity of, 3, 10
dislike of, 10
among cattle, 25
Continuity of work, power of, 80, 81
Co-operation a main line of advance, 92
Cox, Mr. Harold, 55
Crimes, survivals of early life, 73
Criminals to be sorted into communities, 73
Cromwell an arbitrary ruler, 40
value of, in anarchy, 40, 41
D.
Death duties, effect of, 44, 46
Despotism, a refuge from anarchy, 41
Devolution of the Roman Empire, 36
Diocletian, decree of prices, 37, 38
Disciples, early, hard-weeded, 24
Diseases of bodies politic, vi., 19
Diversity, need of, 65-77, 100
of moral standards, 67, 68
of types required, 69
dangerous form of, 70
still existing, 71-3
of marriage laws, 71, 72
Dulness of observation, 16, 17
E.
Education, a bar to advance, 73-76
experiments needed, 75
variety of, needed, 75, 76
Elections, waste by, 100
Emigration beneficial, 13
harmful, 13, 14
Environment subject to man, 3
Equatorial races, future of, 103
Escape of the capable, 8
Extremes of condition appear together, 5
F.
Factions of the Civil War, 39, 40
Farm colonies, 8
Fatalism and communism, 26
Federations must prevail, 100
Five-mile Act, 40
France, ability drained from, 4
cost of Revolution in, 41
Free-trade only possible with bounties, 52
Free-will a subject of normal variation, 2
G.
Gallienus, 35
German immigration, 15
Government cannot tax its own payments, 49
Gracchus, cheap com of, 29
Gradual changes to be allowed, 43
H.
Happiness based on character, 2
Health, saving of, 79, 80
Housing problem, cause of, 31
Huguenots closely weeded, 24
expulsion of, 4
I.
Illustrated papers, 18
Immigration, 14, 15
Income tax, effect on trade, 47-49
Individual thought essential, 9
Individualism a line of advance, 91
Infant life, saving of, 60
Inspection, abuse of, 99
Intellect, limitations of, 17
Intolerance of Puritans, 39-41, 70
gain and loss of, 66
Investments, foreign, demand for, 48
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