Let no one imagine, however, that because they are beset with the most serious difficulties, that they are therefore to be discarded as “unpractical.” We know the extremes of stupidity to which so-called “practical politics” has led us. Nothing is practical, that in practice does not achieve [p216] the end desired. And since the mere change of our institutions and systems cannot even graze the surface of these deeper causes of unhappiness, it is simply conjuring and buffoonery to call “practical” only those measures of reform or reconstruction, which every gallery of schoolboys, every crowd of holiday-makers, can recognise at a glance as at least “something done.” The End. FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 42: For an exhaustive discussion of survival values as compared with æsthetic survival values see _Man’s Descent from the Gods_ (Heinemann) Chapter IX.] [p217] INDEX Abstract terms, importance of, 12; have no uniform meaning to-day, 13, 14, 19; to teach meaning of, leads to instruction in true ideas, 149. Advertisement, unscrupulous, of commercial foods, 188, 189. Æsthetic values disregarded to-day, 205. Agitators, their unscrupulous use of words, 181, 182. Ale, old English, the value of, 195, 196; the brewers’ objection to, 196. Amputation, resorted to in desperation by the weary, 30. Aristotle, on the desirability of a liberal education, 127 _n_. Beer, impure, 193; harmful properties of, 195; utterly worthless, 196. Beliefs, _see_ Ideals. Bishop of London, his misuse of words, 16. Bolshevism, a conspiracy against life, 35; insists on compulsory labour, 93; offers only material ideals, 162. Bolshevist, the, an invalid, 31; a determined opponent of life, 36. Brahmin, the, highly respected though poor, 40. Bread, pure loaf of, unobtainable in many parts of England, 190. Cabbage, should be eaten raw, 192. Catachresis, the rule in journalism, 16; much false doctrine is, 134. Charles I., an ideal monarch, 122. Charwomen, charitable, do not go out on missions of comfort to the rich, 168. Church, the, its failure to teach sound views about life and humanity, 129; of the Middle Ages protected the poor and ignorant, 135; had a sense of responsibility, 135. Cities, large, breed misanthropy, 174, 175; mistake of allowing, to spread indefinitely, 211-213. Citizen, the desirable, must be well conducted, 126. Cleavage, the industrial Age has worked upon the principle of, 208; the expedient of the vulgar rich, 210, 211; must be abolished if harmony is to be restored, 211. Communism, a conspiracy against Life, 35; its unscrupulous appeal to malcontents, 112; offers only material ideals, 162. Condorcet, not a thinker but a mathematician, 67. Cro-Magnons, doubtful whether modern man is better or better off than the, 158.