Democracy and Social Ethics/Index

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INDEX[1]


  • Alderman, basis of his political success, 226, 228, 240, 243, 248, 267; his influence on morals of the American boy, 251, 255, 256; on standard of life, 257; his power, 232, 233, 235, 246, 260; his social duties, 234, 236, 243, 250.
  • Art and the workingman, 219, 225.


  • "Boss," the, ignorant man's dependence on, 260, 266.
  • Business college, the, 197.


  • Charity, administration of, 14, 22; neighborly relations in, 29, 230; organized, 25; standards in, 15, 27, 32, 38, 49, 58; scientific vs. human relations in, 64.
  • Child labor, premature work, 41, 188; first laws concerning, 167, 170.
  • City, responsibilities of, 266.
  • Civil service law, its enforcement, 231, 233.
  • Commercial and industrial life, social position of, compared, 193.
  • Commercialism and education, 190-199, 216; morals captured by, 264; polytechnic schools taken by, 202.
  • Coöperation, 153, 158.
  • Cooper, Peter, 202.


  • Dayton, Ohio, factory at, 216.
  • Death and burials among simple people, 238.
  • Domestic service, problem of, in France, England, and America, 135; industrial difficulty of, 106 ; moral issues of, 106.


  • Education, attempts at industrial, 201; commercialism in, 196, 201; in commercialism, 216; in technical schools, 201; lack of adaptation in, 199, 208, 212; of industrial workers, 180, 193, 199, 219; offset to overspecialization, 211; public school and, 190, 192; relation of, to the child, 180, 185, 193; relation of, to the immigrant, 181-186; university extension lectures and settlements, 199; workingmen's lecture courses, 214.
  • Educators, mistakes of, 212; new demands on, 178, 192, 201, 211.


  • Family claim, the, 4, 74, 78; daughter's college education, 82; employer's vs. domestic's, 123, 124; on the daughter, 82; on the son, ibid.
  • Family life, misconception of, 116.
  • Filial relations, clash of moral codes, 94.
  • Funerals, attitude of simple people toward, 238.


  • Household employee, the, 108, 109; character of, 112; domestic vs. factory, 116, 118, 119, 122; isolation of, 109, 111, 117, 120, 132; morals of, 125; unnatural relation of, 113, 120, 121, 126, 127; unreasonable demands on, 113, 115; residence clubs for, 133; social position of, 114, 119, 122.
  • Household employer, the, undemocratic ethics of, 116; reform of, in relation to employee, 126.
  • Household, the, advantages and disadvantages of factory work over, 129; competition of factory work with, 128; difficulties of the small, 135; industrial isolation of, 117; industry of, transferred to factory, 104, 105; lack of progress in, 117; origin of, 104; social vs. individual aspects of, 103; suburban difficulties of, 134; wages in, 131.
  • Hull-house experiences, 43, 53, 58, 59, 240, 247.
  • Human life, value of, 7, 178.


  • Individual action vs. associated, 137, 153, 158; advantages of, 158, 162; limitations of, 165; moral evolution involved in, 226.
  • Individual vs. social needs, 155, 269.
  • Individual vs. social virtues, 224, 227, 265.
  • Italian immigrant, the, conception of abstract virtue among, 229; dependence of, on their children, 184; education of, 185; new conditions of life of, 181.


  • Juvenile criminal, the, evolution of, 53-56, 187.


  • Labor, division of, 210, 213; reaction from, 215.
  • Law and order, 172, 174, 234.


  • Moral fact and moral idea, 227, 229, 273.
  • Morality, natural basis of, 268; personal and social, 6, 176, 103.


  • Philanthropic standpoint, the, its dangers, 150, 155-157.
  • Philanthropist, the, 154, 175-176.
  • Political corruption, ethical development in, 270; formation of reform clubs, 246; greatest pressure of, 260; individual and social aspect of, 264; leniency in regard to, 239; responsibility for, 256, 263; selling of votes, 244-246; street railway and saloon interest, 262.
  • Political leaders, causes of success of, 224.
  • Political standards, 228, 229, 251-253, 261; compared with Benjamin Franklin's, 255.


  • Referendum method, the, 164.
  • Reformer, the, ethics of, 270.
  • Reform movements in politics, causes of failure in, 222, 240, 262, 272, 274; business men's attitude toward, 265.
  • Rumford, Count, 117.
  • Ruskin, 219.


  • Saloon, the, 243, 264.
  • Social claim, the, 4, 77; child study and, 92, 180; misplaced energy and, 90.
  • Social virtues, code of employer, 143, 148; code of laboring man, ibid.


  • Technical schools, 201; adaptation of, to workinginen, 204; compromises in, 203; polytechnic institutions, 202; textile schools, 203; women in, ibid.
  • Thrift, individualism of, 31, 40, 212.
  • Trades unions, 148, 158, 167, 169, 171; sympathetic strikes, 174.

  • Workingman, the, ambition of, for his children, 191, 258; art in relation to, 218; charity of, 154; evening classes and social entertainment for, 189; grievance of, 211; historical perspective in the work of, ibid.; organizations of, 214; standards for political candidate, 257.


  1. This index is not intended to be exhaustive.