Every citizen will have a right to sufficient food, clothing, housing, and entertainment in exchange for reasonable hours of work. The spirit of humanity will so greatly have been improved that it will be very little necessary to extort proper conditions for the lives of citizens or to protect the weak from exploitation by the strong. Litigation and war will be out of date and replaced by conciliation and arbitration. In a word, the reign of love and unselfishness will have commenced. We may not even see my beautiful world from afar, but this need not dismay us, for we know it is there, and we know that every effort we make to serve the cause of the poor helps to clear the path through the desert along which the coming armies of victory will march in triumph. The cause of the poor has always been the greatest cause in the world, and the generation that has at length understood it, and fought for it and won it, will find itself standing at the open gates of the promised land. INDEX Abinger, Lord Chief Baron, his judgment in _Priestley_ v. _Fowler_, 77, 78, 95, 96 Ademantus, 254 Administration orders in bankruptcy, 119-124 Alehouse, the, 252-270 "Alton Locke," slums described in, 238 American judiciary and working classes, 93, 94, 95; and workmen's compensation, 103 Appeals, cost of, 175 Artisans Dwelling Act, 1875, 241 Asquith, Right Hon. Herbert Henry, on workmen's compensation, 87 _Attorney-General_ v. _The Edison Telephone Co._, 83 Bacon, Lord Chancellor, 305 Bail, unnecessary refusal of, 226; statistics of this, 228, 229 Balfour, Right Hon. Arthur James, on intemperance, 255, 256 Bankruptcy, 106-124; failures due to extravagance, 115-117; not open to the poor, 118; administration orders, 120; exorbitant Treasury fees, 122-124 Bell, Alexander Graham, 82 Belloc, Hilaire, 254 Bentham, Jeremy, on legal evidence, 192 Bias in judges, 96-103 Bills of Sale Acts, 168 Black Act, 1722, 218 Blasphemy Laws, 199, 200 Blue Books, 301, 302 Bradlaugh, Charles, 199 Bridewell, the, 9-10, 213 Bright, John, 99 Brougham, Lord, on imprisonment for debt, 48, 49; on the Evidence Amendment Act, 193; on Chancery reform, 287, 288 Butler, Samuel, 211 Cadaval, Duke de, arrested on mesne process, 46 _Capias ad satisfaciendum_, 37, 39 Carlyle, Thomas, on history, 21; on language, 108, 110; on fools, 153; on land question, 250 Cattle maiming, 216-219 Chamberlain, Right Hon. Joseph, on workmen's compensation, 87-90; on administration orders, 119, 120; is housing work in Birmingham, 241 Chancery Court, and Lord Brougham, 287 Children, treatment of, in workhouses, 280, 282 Closing time, regulations for rich and poor, 263, 264 Clough, Arthur Hugh, 169 Cobbett, Sir William, 186