Chapter I: W. W., 224, 225, 238
International language, 443.
International law, 437-439.
=Investments, Unsocial=, 1
--new social conscience in reality a class conscience, 1-2
--excommunication of special property interests, 2-3
--instances of such excommunication, 3-4
--private ethical problems arising, 4-7
--Jane Addams’s solution, 5-6
--how we dispose of the saloon, 7-8
--unfit tenements, 8
--the loan shark, 9
--mistaken method of suppressing anti-social interests, and
consequences, 10-11
--the principle of compensation, 12
--its expediency, 13
--superior claim of expediency, 14
--public share in evils of anti-social interests, 14-15
--growth and change of majority opinion as to illegitimate
industries, 15
--liquor question, cold storage, artificial butter as instances,
15-17
--single tax argument, 17
--legislative evils, 17
--need of security of property, 18
--relation of security of human life to security of property, 18-19
--rights of labor, 19-20
--justice of the principle of compensation, 20.
=Is Socialism Coming?= _See_ Socialism.
James, Wm., 157, 158, 174.
Janet, Pierre, 376, 387-391.
_Johnson, A. S._, ‘Setting Bounds to Laughter,’ 210;
‘Unsocial Investments,’ 1;
‘The War: By an economist,’ 411.
_Jordan, David Starr_, ‘The Land of the Sleepless Watchdog,’ 197.
Kaiser. _See_ War.
Keim, General, 200.
Kenton, Edna, 268, 269, 270, 277.
Key, Ellen, 267, 274.
=Kicking, The Principles and Practice of=, 318
--kicking in football and in metaphor, 318-319
--the pleasure of kicking, muck-raking, etc., 319-320
--abuses of the pastime, 320
--crude motives, 320-322
--the object of the kick, 322
--kicking at life, 323
--futility of kicking at alleged tendencies, 323-324
--the inapposite kick at institutions, 324-325
--duty of frowning on specific abuses and impositions, 325-326
--method and technic of the kick, 326
--the reactionary kick, 327-330
--ineffectiveness of a crude technic, 330-331
--some skilful kickers named, 331-332
--sketch of the ideal kicker, 332-333.
Kipling, R., 278-279.
Labor. _See_ New Zealand.
=Labor: “True Demand” and Immigrant Supply=, 45
--economic motives for immigration in the past, 45-47
--temporary immigrants, 47-48
--Greeks, 48
--conclusion of the Immigration Commission, 48
--misconception in the argument for the indispensability of
immigrants, 49
--restriction argument; wage figures, unemployment, casual labor,
49-50
--“social surplus” and its bearing on future policy, 51-52
--contract-labor exclusion, 52-53
--bureaus for ascertaining the “true demand,” 53
--embargo, sliding scale, and Burnett Bill, 54
--determining real economic need, 54
--declarations of intention to migrate, 55
--assimilation, 55-56
--a national question, 56
--international aspect, 57
--wider scope, 57-58.
Land of the morning, 413, 415, 416.
=Land of the Sleepless Watchdog, The=, 197
--the watchdog in the southwestern United States, 197-198
--a parable of Europe, 198-199
--Prof. Nippold, 198-199
--Gen. Keim, 200
--Gen. Bernhardi, 201
--Pangermanism, 201
--Harden, 202
--Germany and the war spirit, 202-203
--Europe not in favor of war, 203-204.
Larkinism, 238.
=Laughter, Setting Bounds to=, 210.
=Lecturing at Chautauqua.= _See_ Chautauqua.
Legislatures, 17, 20.
Léontine, 388-389.
“Life Extension” movement, 59.
Liquor question, 3, 7, 12.
_See also_ Prohibition.
Lodge, Sir Oliver, 174.
Lombroso, 183.
_Lusk, Hugh H._, ‘An Experiment in Syndicalism,’ 29.
McCombs, Wm. F., 135, 140.
Madison, Wisconsin, 347.
Malet, Lucas, 266, 274.
Manners and morals, 284, 286.
Marx, Karl, 236.
_Mather, F. J., Jr._, ‘Minor Uses of the Middling Rich,’ 104;
‘A Post Graduate School for Academic Donors,’ 213;
‘The War: By a historian,’ 392.
_Means, David McGregor_, ‘The Disfranchisement of Property,’ 75.
Mexico, 209, 409, 419, 424, 425, 427, 436.
Mill, J. S., quoted, 229.
=Minor Uses of the Middling Rich.= _See_ Rich.
=Monarchy and Democracy in Education.= _See_ Education.
_More, Paul Elmer_, ‘Academic Leadership,’ 132.
Morgenland, 413, 415, 416.
Morris and Bax, 274.
Münsterberg, Hugo, 373.
=Muses on the Hearth, The=, 189
--the home, 189
--women’s colleges and the teaching of domestic science, 189-190
--education of girls, 190
--how to learn housekeeping, 191
--its larger meaning, 191-192
--college the place to form habits of mental discipline, 192-193
--human life back of vocations, 193
--wider vision, and deeper love of learning needed for women,
194-195.
Myers, F. W. H., 157, 174.
_Nation_, New York, 137, 356, 430.
New Zealand, industrial strike, 29.
Newbold, Prof. J. R., 168.
Newspapers, 112, 230, 248.
Nippold, Prof., 198-199.
Noise, 250.
Norton, C. E., 301.
=On Having the Blues.= _See_ Blues.
=Our Debt to Psychical Research.= _See_ Psychical Research.
Peace, 407, 409, 440.
“Pelham,” George, 164-167.
Pessimism, 263.
Phelps, E. J., 92.
=Philosophy in Fly Time=, 209.
Piddington, Mr., 167.
Piper, Mrs., 163-174.
Podmore, Frank, 375.
=Post Graduate School for Academic Donors, A=, 213.
_Powers, F. P._, ‘The Curse of Adam and the Curse of Eve,’ 266.
Poynings, Blanche, 384-386.
Press. _See_ Associated Press; Newspapers.
=Principles and Practice of Kicking, The.= _See_ Kicking.
Prohibition, 61.
=Property, The Disfranchisement of=, 75
--statistics, 75
--savings banks deposits, 76
--life insurance payments, 77
--pensions, 78
--waste in government expenses, 78-79
--Macaulay cited, confidence in the State, 79
--increasing taxes, 79-80
--corporate wealth in the United States, 80-81
--its disfranchisement, 81-82
--divorce of corporate ownership and management, 82-83
--small corporations, 84
--manhood suffrage and property suffrage, 85
--delegated legislation, 86
--power of legislatures over property, 86-87
--corporate influence in legislatures, 87
--present relation of legislatures and corporation managers, 88
--hostility to corporations and its effect on small businesses, 89
--the suffering of the country from attack on property, 89-90.
=Psychical Research, Our Debt to=, 372
--attitude toward the occult of scientific men, 372-373
--of the public, 373
--psychology’s debt to psychical research, 374
--Frank Podmore, 375
--aim and spirit of the Society for Psychical Research, 375
--hypnotism and its value, 375-376
--work of Janet and Gurney, 376-377
--subconscious ideas, 377
--Gurney’s experiments and subconscious mentation, 378-380
--subconscious perception and subconscious memory, 381
--crystal gazing, Mrs. Goodrich-Freer’s demonstration of memory
registration of subconscious percepts, 381-384
--dissociated subconscious memories and Lowes Dickinson, 384-386
--some of the first-fruits of systematic psychical research, 386
--practical value of automatic writing, crystal-gazing and
hypnotism, 387
--French savants, 387
--Pierre Janet’s experiments in hypnotic telepathy and their
bearing on hysteria and other nervous diseases, 387-391.
Psychology, 394.
Psychotherapy, 391.
Publishers, 206.
=Railway Junctions=, 91
--fine phrase of R. L. Stevenson, 91
--Essex Junction and E. J. Phelps’s verses, 92
--pleasure to be got from places, 93
--picture of possible pleasure at Essex Junction, 93-94
--enjoying railway junctions, 94-95
--a Bavarian junction near Rothenburg, 95-96
--Bobadilla, Spain, 96-97
--Dol, France, 97-98
--Nevers and Pyrgos, 98-99
--true enjoyment of travel, 99-100
--American haste, 100
--anecdote of R. L. Stevenson, 101
--Thos. Browne, quoted, 101
--enjoyment of the present, 102
--anecdote of a wait at Basel, 102
--possibilities of adventure in the dullest places, 103.
=Republic of Megaphon, The= (the evils of the modern newspaper shown
by a Socratic dialogue), 248
--its apparent value and trifling cost, 249-251
--Nature of its news, 252
--its low price necessitates profits from advertising, 254
--its lowering of quality, 254-255
--its falsification of truth, 256
--its willingness to sell itself, 257
--its low taste and vulgar language, 257
--its vulgar advertising of worthless goods, 258
--its vulgarization of art, 258
--its immoral advertising, 259
--its flattery of the people and faultfinding with the few, 260
--its tendency to set class against class, 261
--its teaching of skepticism in religion, of baseness in leaders,
and selfishness in all men and consequent injury to the state,
262-263
--how the truth may be told and how the newspapers tell it, 264-265.
Rhodes, Cecil, 424, 425.
=Rich, Minor Uses of the Middling=, 104
--charges general and specific against the rich, 104
--historic view of wealth, 105
--newly rich, multimillionaires, and middling rich, 105-106
--character of the middling rich, 107
--honesty and virtue implied in moderate wealth, 108
--discipline, efficiency and good manners of the middling rich, 109
--strong position in comparison with the capitalist and the
wage-earner, 110
--usefulness of this class in conservation of civilization, 111
--usefulness on the lighter side of life, 112
--newspapers, 112-113
--poverty likely to decrease, 113
--socialism, personality of wealth, 113-114
--great fortunes, 114
--prospects, 115.
Rogers, Anna A., 267, 277.
Russell, Chas. Edw., 232.
Russia. _See_ War.
Schreiner, Olive, 269, 270, 271.
Servia. _See_ War.
=Setting Bounds to Laughter=, 210.
Sex discussion, 294.
Shaw, Geo. B., 267, 332.
_Showerman, Grant_, ‘The Republic of Megaphon,’ 248.
Sill, E. R., 306.
=Simplified Spelling=, 217, 442.
Single Tax, 4, 17.
Slavs. _See_ War.
_Slosson, Preston W._, ‘Is Socialism Coming?’ 236.
Smith, G. A., 379.
Social justice, 1, 14.
Socialism, 27, 113, 114.
=Socialism, Is [it] Coming?= 236
--Karl Marx and his method of realizing democracy, 236-237
--the present position of Socialism, 237-238
--factors that make for concentration in production, 238-239
--advantages of the rich industry, 239-240
--objections to the Socialist’s contention, 240-245
--the tendency in agriculture toward small holdings, 240-242
--the future of agriculture, 242-243
--decentralizing factors in industry, 243-245
--electricity, 244
--skilled labor, 245
--the problem of distribution, 245-246
--rational competition, 246
--picture of a democratic individualism in the future, 246-247.
Socratic dialogue on newspapers, 248.
=Some Free-Speech Delusions.= _See_ Free-Speech Delusions.
Spanish-American War, 409.
=Special to our Readers=, 205, 440.
Spelling. _See_ Simplified Spelling.
Sportsmanship, 334.
Stevenson, R. L., 91, 101.
Stillman, W. J., 160-162.
Strikes. New Zealand, 29;
Wisconsin University, 347.
=Stubborn Relic of Feudalism, A.= _See_ Feudalism.
=Suggestion Regarding Vacations, A=, 216.
Syndicalism, 238.
=Syndicalism, An Experiment in=, 29
--New Zealand’s Court of Arbitration, 29
--its success, 30
--Australian antagonism, 31
--Waihi gold mine strike and resulting conditions, 31-32
--failure of Federation of Labor, 33
--introduction of Syndicalist methods, 33-34
--new unions to undermine the old, 35-36
--strike of Waterside Workers and Seamens Unions, 37-38
--apparent success, 39
--public interference and its methods, 39-41
--new unions to defeat the syndicalists, 42
--failure of federationists, 42
--lesson for America, 43
--reasons for the result, 43-44.
=Tabu and Temperament=, 280
--meaning of temperament, 280
--the revolt against convention, 281
--primitive conventionality, 282
--need and advantages of convention, 283
--manners and morals, 284
--originality, 285
--essence of good manners, 286
--charm, 286-292
--need of some social code, 288-289
--on being shocked, 289-290
--requisites for being charming, 290-291
--the unreliability of temperament, 291
--unconventionality and the moral order, 292
--the free discussion of vice, 293
--advantage of avoiding sex discussion, 294
--brutality and danger of discussing questionable topics, 294-297
--the rightness of _tabu_, 298
--absurd position of present-day iconoclasts, 299
--need of self-control, 299-300.
Tarbell, Ida M., 266, 268, 277.
Telepathy, 152.
Teloteropathy, 163, 164.
Temperament, 280.
Thring, Edw., 363.
Tipping, 21.
Tobacco, 259.
_Todd, Arthur J._, ‘Labor: “True Demand” and Immigrant Supply,’ 45.
=Trade Unionism in a University=, 347
--relation of the State of Wisconsin to the University of
Wisconsin, 347
--character of the University, 348
--the student legislative body, 348-349
--student labor trouble and threatened strike, 349-353
--significance of the occurrence as to university development and
results, 353-355.
Triple Entente, 404, 406, 407.
Universities, 356.
University efficiency, 59.
UNPOPULAR REVIEW, 155, 206.
=Unsocial Investments.= _See_ Investments.
=Vacations, A Suggestion Regarding=, 216.
Verrall, Mrs., 167.
Victorian literature, 319.
Virginia, University of, 356.
Waihi gold mine strike, 31.
War, in Europe not possible, 197;
woman and, 270.
=War, The=: _By a historian_, 392
--the first shock, 392
--immediate causes, 393-395
--war parties, 395-396
--Russia’s position ambiguous, 396-398
--Austria’s blunder, 398
--Germany’s conduct, 399-400
--Germany’s error, 400
--her statements, 401
--France, 401
--England’s part, 401-403
--Germany and England, 402
--Belgium, 402
--the rights of neutrals, 403
--police aspect of the war, 403
--possibilities, 404
--central European empire in history, 405
--Austria, Germany, and the Hapsburg and Hohenzollern dynasties,
405-406
--the transformation of German temper, 406
--further possibilities, 406-407
--the Kaiser, 407
--possibilities as to the cause of peace, 407-410
--war and peace as such, 408-410
--neutralization, 409
--present peril, 410.
=War, The=: _By an economist_, 411
--usual course of war histories, 411-412
--underlying forces of the present war, 413
--colonial possessions, 413
--the _Morgenland_ dream, 413-416
--Germany’s population and welfare, 415-416
--the delusion of colonial trade, 417-418
--concessionary interests, 418-419
--Pearson and Waters-Pierce as illustration, 419
--relation of capital proper and speculative enterprise, 420-422
--speculative enterprise in England, Germany and the United States,
422-424
--relation of patriotism to speculative enterprise, 424-427
--a fruitful source of international strife, 427-428
--the concession and the closed trade, 428
--some predictions, 428.
=War, The=: _By a man in the street_, 429
--old contest of the savage and the civilized in every man, 429
--responsibility for the present war, 430
--change in the character of the German nation, 431-432
--the Kaiser, 431-432
--the higher Germany and the lower, 432-433
--survival of old ideas, 433
--the Kaiser’s responsibility, 434
--his conduct, 434-435
--Germany’s moral degradation, 435
--the outcome, 436
--absurd side, 436-437
--international code of honor, 437-438
--place of International Law, 437-439.
=Way to Flatland, The.= _See_ Flatland.
Wealth, 104.
Webster, Arthur G., 137.
Wells, H. G., 332.
West, Prof., 137.
Wilson, Woodrow, 409.
Wisconsin, University strike, 347.
Women, 266;
education, 189.
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