Janus in Modern LifePetrie, W. M. Flinders (William Matthew Flinders)
Philosophy
Janus in Modern Life
Petrie, W. M. Flinders (William Matthew Flinders)
Civilization; Progress
Ireland, emigration injuring, 14
land-holding in, 53
Italian labour abroad, 93
J.
Janus, the peace bringer, vii.
Japanese too industrious, 93
L.
Labour, combined, wasteful, 90
in the tropics, 56
Land in Ireland, 53
state ownership of, 53-55
equal values of, 56
Laws impartial to all residents, 94
Life, infant, saving of, 60
Life-duties, effect of, 49
Lighting system faulty, 17
Little-Italy party, 35-37
Loans, risks of, 55
Local administration, variety in, 44
London County Council, 17, 55
Low races pass under higher, 1
M.
Malignants deprived, 41
Man subjugates environment, 3
permanence of type of, 10-12
final type of, 100-102
Marriage ceremony, period of, 72
laws, diversity of, 71, 72
temporary, 84
Medical examination of children, 87
Mencius quoted, 7
Mental changes similar to physical, 2-7
qualities inherited, 4
growth encouraged by use, 6
growth to old age, 6
Merovings, degradation of, 7
Middle-class waste, 61
Mind subject to natural variation, 2-7
variability induced, 6
arrested at various ages, 6
atrophy of, 7-9
unchanged in nature, 11-12
Monopolies, 9, 96
Moral standard typical of a society, 68
Morality, relative standard of, 67-68
Municipalising enterprises, 26
N.
Nationalisation of land, 53-55
Nationalities, use of various, 93
New Testament teaching, 23, 24
Norse poor law, 22, 86
O.
Officialism, 9
Old age pensions, 59
Oman, Prof., 29
P.
Pasts have all been present, vii.
Patriotism killed by separate groups, 71
Permanence of type of man, 10-12
Peters, Carl, opinion of, 20
Physical changes similar to mental, 2-7
Pleasures, low type of, 17-19
Polybius on history, iv.
Poverty results from opportunity, 5
Prayer, Book of Common, proscribed, 40
Present time, apparent importance of, vii.
Prices, consequence of regulating, 37, 38
Primogeniture diminished, 45
effect of, 45, 46
Private enterprise most effective, 9
Prodigal son, his rights, 24
Profits to be earned from wealth, 30-32
Profit-sharing, 92, 99
Proletariat, support of, 30-32
Property parted in life, 44, 49
Proscriptions, disastrous effect of, 4
Provinces parted from Rome, 36
R.
Radicalism contrary to evolution, 42
Railway stations, faulty, 16
Railways, effects of, 56, 66
Rapidity, gain by, 81
Reasoning interest obliterated, 74
Regulation pattern men, 74
Relatives, responsibility of, 22, 89
Remedy for the incapable, 8
Renewal of population, 83
Rentoul, Dr., 87
Responsibility without rule, 86
Retaliation in trade war, 97
Retrograde characters ruined by help, 7
Ruling faculty of man, 3
S.
Scrapping of machines and men, 85
Seebohm, Dr., 22
Selection the means of elevation, 3, 20
repressed by communism, 20-27
Slavery not fatal to Rome, 34
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