The Law of Civilization and Decay: An Essay on HistoryAdams, Brooks
Philosophy
The Law of Civilization and Decay: An Essay on History
Adams, Brooks
Civilization -- History; Degeneration; History -- Philosophy
Nour-ed-Din: Sultan of Aleppo 103;
occupies Cairo 103;
repulses Louis VII. 117;
kills Raymond de Poitiers 118.
Ogive: of Eastern origin 95;
appears in transition architecture 96.
Overstone, Lord: rise of 336;
conceives Bank Act 336;
financial policy of 337 _et seq._
Panic: under Tiberius 25;
of thirteenth century 169, 170;
of 1810 325;
of 1825 334;
allayed by paper money 335;
of 1847 342.
Passive obedience: _see_ Divine right.
Patricians: usurers 7;
not martial 7;
sanction Licinian Laws 10;
_see_ Usury.
Pauperism: under Henry VII I. 249;
in 1848 345.
Peel, Sir Robert: represents Lombard Street 330;
separates from his father on money issue 330;
his Resumption Act 331;
effect of 331;
repeals Corn Laws 340;
parentage 342.
Pelagius, Cardinal: commands crusade 150.
Penny: the Roman, _see_ Denarius;
of Charlemagne 129;
depreciation of Venetian 129;
depreciation of English in fourteenth century 195;
under Henry VIII. 206, 207.
Philip Augustus: regal of France vowed for recovery of 65;
belief in intercession 69;
commands crusade 129;
returns to Fiance 130;
divorced from Ingeburga 135;
excommunicated 135.
Philip the Fair: character of 171;
quarrel with Boniface 172;
defeated at Courtray 175;
seizes Boniface 177;
makes Clement V. pope 178;
arrests Templars 180;
tortures Templars 182;
death of 185.
Pilgrimage of Grace: _see_ Rebellion.
Plassey: battle of 308;
effect of 313.
Plebeians: farmers 6;
form infantry 6;
sold for debt 7;
secede to Mons Sacer 9;
favoured by Licinian Laws 10;
overthrow patricians 10;
suffer from Asiatic competition 11;
suffer from slave labour 12;
insolvent 22;
become _coloni_ 33;
disappear 44, 45.
Police, a paid: lack of, causes defeat of patricians 39;
an effect of money 45;
organized by Augustus 45;
makes capital autocratic at Rome 46;
impossible when the defence in war is superior to the attack 79;
lack of, causes weakness of the Kingdom of Jerusalem 99, 121, 122;
the weapon of an economic community 164;
an effect of wealth and the basis of centralization 165;
in England under Henry VIII. 245;
destroys martial type 245;
drives adventurers from England 254;
resistless in nineteenth century 353.
Pompey: defeat of 364.
Potosi: discovery 207.
Prices: fall of, under Trajan 33;
rise of in thirteenth century 167;
fall of in fifteenth century 203;
rise of in sixteenth century 207, 283;
rise of after Plassey 319;
culminate in 1809 324;
fall of in England after 1815 330;
depressed by gold standard 337;
fall of after Bank Act 339;
rise of after 1849 345;
fall of since 1873 349.
Producers: predominance of 321;
currency system of 328, 329;
weakness of modern 349;
Indian 360.
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