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INDEX

INDEX.

(The references are not to pages but to the sections which are common to all editions of the book. The sections in the preface are, however, added for the first time in this edition. Where the words "orig. ess." are added in brackets after a reference, they indicate that the passage referred to is peculiar to the original form of the work, as it appeared in Fraser's Magazine under the title of "Essays in Political Economy.")
  • Actions, right, seen in beauty of countenance, 6.
  • Aglaia, Charis, wife of Vulcan, 101.
  • Agriculture, as dominion over land and sea (fixed and flowing fields), 16 (orig. ess.).
  • Agriculture volunteer, proposed, 149.
  • Ambition and love of money, Dante on, 93.
  • Ambrosia, not to be had without labour, 94.
  • America, Carlyle on, 124.
  • America condition of, "the greatest railroad accident on record," 124.
  • America dollar-worship in, App. I. (orig. ess.).
  • America explosions in, 47, 56.
  • America has no republic or institutions, 124.
  • America loan in (1863), 155 n.
  • America slavery in, 131.
  • America war in, 124 n. A. I. (orig. ess.).
  • Ames, on monarchy and republics, quoted by Emerson, 124 n.
  • Apathy, modern, its baseness, 108.
  • Aphrodite, birth of, 101.
  • Apollo's rule, οὐ πληγῇ νέμων, 130.
  • Architecture, all houses to be well, before any finely, built, 157.
  • Archons and archic law, 110-17.
  • Aristocracy, government by, 123.
  • Aristophanes, κάπηλοι ἀσπίδων, 127.
  • Art, great, only possible in climates where life is in open air, 96.
  • Art may be a means to great wealth, 139 n.
  • Art modern, false basis of, 155.
  • Art works of, accumulated by a prosperous nation, 54,
  • Art works of economical value of, 20.
  • Art works of included in list of things valuable, 15.
  • Art works of prices given for, 65.
  • Art, works of, possession of, laws as to, 115.
  • Arve (Savoy), inundation of the, 147.
  • Arve (Savoy) miserable dwellings in the plain of, 150 seq.
  • Athena's rule, οὐ πληγῇ νέμων, 130.
  • Athens, purity of coinage, 77 n.
  • Avarice, Dante on, 88.
  • Austrians in Venice and the works of Tintoret (1851), pref. 3, 9.
  • Author (1.) Personal; {2.) Teaching; (3.) Books of, quoted or referred to:
    (1.) accuses himself of vanity, 100 n.
    as a boy, at his father's table, hearing of national debt, pref. 18.
    cottage on plain of Arve, repaired by, 151.
    Greek accents and, App. III.
    servants of, would serve him for nothing, pref. 12.
    taking daguerreotypes at Venice, 77 n.
    in Venice, 1851, pref. 3.
    checked in his work, 1863, pref. 20.
    writes "Munera Pulveris" in Switzerland, 1862-3, winter, pref. 22.
    Bran wood, Oct. 5, 1871, App, VI.
    on relief of Paris committee (1871), pref.10.
    Denmark Hill, Nov, 25, 1871, pref. 23.
    (2.) Teaching, on prodigal and unprodigal son, App. VI,
    plans of, unfulfilled, 57 n.
    political economy of, defined, pref. 13.
    political economy does not put sentiment for science, pref. 13; 99 and n.
    political economy plan to write an exhaustive treatise on, pref. 20.
    political economy recognition of true wealth (Tintorets), pref. 3-4,
    political economy Utopian! 148,
    political economy weary of reiterating its truths, 96 n.
    style of, affected concentration ("Munera Pulveris"), pref. 22.
    style uses metaphor for brevity, 83 n.
    style translates literally, 105 n.
    style use of words, 125 n.
    teaching of, true, and his hope of its fulfilment, 154.
    (3.) Books of, quoted or referred to—
    Aratra Pentelici, Lect. IV., Idolatry, App. II.
    Fors Clavigera, aim of, pref. 21.
    Fors Clavigera notes on etymology in, 100 n.
    Fors Clavigera Letter X., 158 n.
    Lectures on Art, on Tintoret, pref. 4.
    Modern Painters, Vol. V. p. 255, faith and πείθω, App. VI.
    Munera Pulveris, method of its argument, 43.
    Munera Pulveris original scope of, pref. 20.
    Munera Pulveris criticism of, absurd, 69 n. App. III. V.
    Munera Pulveris dedicated to Carlyle, pref. 22.
    Munera Pulveris Fraser's Magazine and, pref. 20 94.
    Munera Pulveris style of, its faults, pref. 22.
    Munera Pulveris teaching of, the first English treatise on true political economy, pref. 1.
    Munera Pulveris how written and when, pref. 22, 30.
    Munera Pulveris carefully revised and why, pref. 22.
    Munera Pulveris misprints in original essays, App. V, VI. (orig. ess.).
    Munera Pulveris passage on Dante, praised by editor of Fraser's Magazine, 94.
    Munera Pulveris one sentence in, questioned by author, 112 and n.
    Munera Pulveris paras. 137-9 insisted on, 138 n.
    Political Economy of Art (A Joy for Ever), on luxury in dress, quoted, pref. 16.
    Sesame and Lilies, dedicated to φιλή pref. 22.
    Two Paths, on meaning of great writers, App. V.
    Unto this Last, reception of,pref. 20.
    Unto this Last quoted, p. 115, 63 n.
    Unto this Last quoted on education, 108 (orig. ess.), 59 n. (orig. ess.).
    Unto this Last quoted p.81, on price, 62 n. (orig. ess.).
  • Bacchus, the grave, 102 n.
  • Bacon, "Advancement of Learning," 124 n. (orig. ess.).
  • Bacon on Charybdis, 86.
  • Bacon political economy of, 2.
  • Bacon on the Sirens, 90.
  • Bacon on usury, "concessum propter duritiem cordis," 98.
  • BBBBBB, Plato and Xenophon on, 109 ;/.
  • Baptism, moral, with water and fire, 106.
  • Beauty, personal, the result of right action, and vice versâ, 6.
  • Bedford missal, the, 65.
  • Beetles, flight of, on Lake of Zug, and democracy, 126.
  • Benediction, "grace, mercy, and peace," 106.
  • Bible:—
  • Gen. i. 10. Saw that it was good. App. II.
    Gen. xxvii. 41. The days of mourning for my father … brother, 99.
    Ps. cxii. 9. He hath dispersed abroad, 160.
    Ps. cxix. 25. My soul cleaveth unto the dust, 88.
    Prov. xix. 17. Look what he layeth out … paid again, App. VI.
    Isaiah ii. 4. Spears into pruning hooks, 52.
    Isaiah v. 20. Calling evil good, and good evil,—putting bitter for sweet, App. II.
    Isaiah xxxvi. 8. I will give thee a thousand horses … riders on them, 35.
    Lam. iii. 27. It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth, 112.
    Matt. v. 3. Blessed are the poor in spirit, 56 n.
    Matt vi. 25. Is not life more than meat, 56.
    Matt xiii. 22. ἀπατὴ πλουτου, 90.
    Matt xviii. 28. Pay me that thou owest, App. VI.
    Matt xix. 8. Because of the hardness of your hearts, 98.
    Matt xxi. 19. Barren fig-tree, 93.
    Luke vi. 24. You that are rich … received consolation, 56 «.
    Luke xii. 18. I will pull down my barns … greater, 72.
    Luke xv. 11, seq. Prodigal son, App. V.
    Acts XX. 35. More blessed to give, App. I.
    Rom. viii. 21. Bondage of corruption, 103.
  • Bibliomania, 65.
  • Biography, 122.
  • Birds, Chaucer and Cowley on, 149 n.
  • Birds shooing of, 149.
  • Blink Bonny (horse), 65.
  • Body and soul not really opposed, 6,
  • Books, their economical value, 19. See s. Bibliomania.
  • Buildings, their value in (1) permanent strength, (2) association and beauty, 17.
  • Building land, modern view of suitable, 79.
  • British Association, on absorption of gold, 77 n.
  • British Museum, a treasury, not a school, 115, 122.
  • British Museum what it is and is not, 115, 122.
  • Caffirs, England and the, 97 n.
  • Canacé's falcon, 149 n.
  • Cancan, the modern dance, pref. 4.
  • Capital limits labour, untrue, 50.
  • Capitalists and foreign loans, pref. 19.
  • Capitalists as mere money-chests, 38.
  • Capitalists to do unselfish work, 147.
  • Caprice has no law, 34.
  • Caractacus, 65.
  • Carlyle, author's main helper in work, pref. 22.
  • Carlyle dedication of "Munera Pulveris" to, pref. 22.
  • Carlyle eulogy of his teaching, and its rejection, pref. 23.
  • Carlyle political economy of, pref. 20.
  • Carlyle quoted, on America, 124.
  • Carlyle "Latter-day Pamphlets," 135, App. III.
  • Carlyle "Past and Present," on permanence, 135, App. III.
  • Carlyle Past and Present on clothing and cotton, 158, App. III.
  • Carlyle "Sartor Resartus," App. III.
  • Carpentry. See s. Joiner.
  • Cephalopod, the (animal), 38 (orig. ess.).
  • Charis, etymology of, 101 n.
  • Charity, etymology of, and words connected with, App. VI.
  • Charity indiscriminate, App. VI.
  • Charybdis, true meaning of the myth (Bacon on), 86, 93.
  • Chaucer, enigmatic, 87.
  • Chaucer on birds, 149 n.
  • Chaucer on largesse, App. VI.
  • Chaucer villany of, 121 n.
  • Cheapness, no such thing as, without error or wrong, 62 n.
  • Cheapness no excuse for bad things, 17 n.
  • Cheapness of glutted market, a disease, 62 n.
  • Cheating our neighbours is possible, but is not life or nature, 10.
  • Cherish, etymology of the word, 102.
  • Choir, etymology of the word, 102.
  • Christ washing disciples' feet, its meaning, 108.
  • Christianity, modern, and greed of money ("Pay me that thou owest—not"), App. VI.
  • Church building, modern craze for, 157.
  • Church building old masons "logeurs du bon Dieu," 157.
  • Cid, the, his horse, 35.
  • Cicero's political economy, 2.
  • Cicero quoted, 60 n.
  • Cicero quoted Catiline, "non aquâ sed ruinâ," 124.
  • Circe, fable of, its meaning, 103.
  • Circe not a Siren, her power and function, 91 seq. App. V.
  • Cities to have fields round them, 159.
  • Claudian's pearl, 159 (orig. ess.).
  • Clothing the poor, 155 seq.
  • Coinage, purity of, in noble states, 78 n. See s. Athens, Currency.
  • Commerce as the agency of exchange, 95, 98.
  • Commerce fury of modern, 153 n.
  • Commerce most important to northern countries, 95.
  • Commerce no profit in true, 99.
  • Commerce not degrading, 101.
  • Commerce the inhumanity of mercenary, 100.
  • Commerce the law of international, 97.
  • Competition to measure wages, a bestial theory, 136 n.
  • Consols. See s. Funds.
  • Cornhill Magazine and "Unto this Last," pref. 20.
  • Corruptio optimi, e.g., in commerce, 100.
  • Cost defined as the amount of labour necessary to obtain a thing, 60.
  • Cost intrinsic and effectual, 61,
  • Cost is price, when demand is constant, 63.
  • Cost the noblest things cost the least, 60.
  • Cotton, cheap, and rags common, Carlyle on, 158.
  • Cotton government asked to supply Manchester with, App. IV.
  • Countenance, beauty of, and rightness of action, 6.
  • Cowley on birds, 149 n.
  • Crœsus, 27.
  • Credit means creed, 81 (orig. ess. n.).
  • Credit-power of currency, 80.
  • Creed, use and meaning of the word, 81 (orig. ess. n.).
  • Crime, cost of, and of judgment, 116.
  • Crime modern, a national disgrace, 108.
  • Criminals to do lowest forms of mechanical work, 109.
  • Criminals to work in mines, 159.
  • Critic law, its functions, 116.
  • Currency, bases of, better than gold, 77 seq.
  • Currency bases to be small, indestructible, valuable, 74 seq.
  • Currency bases to be pure, 77.
  • Currency credit-power of, on what dependent, 69.
  • Currency defined, chief definition, 69 n. seq.
  • Currency defined "expression of price in any given article," 64.
  • Currency defined "the claim to equivalent of anything, anywhere, at any time," 70 seq.
  • Currency defined transferable acknowledgment of debt, 81.
  • Currency forced, is taxation in disguise, 78, n.
  • Currency gold withdrawn from, its effect, 81 n.
  • Currency holders of the, 66.
  • Currency increase of the, its effect on industry and wealth, 24.
  • Currency increase often a form of taxation, 24.
  • Currency increase laws of, 21 seq.
  • Currency medium of exchange, 66.
  • Currency national habits as affecting, 67.
  • Currency national store and, 81 seq.
  • Currency national, and value of, 64 seq.
  • Currency power of, fourfold (credit, real worth, exchange, labour), 80 seq.
  • Currency power increased by constant exchange, 85,
  • Currency purity of, 77 n.
  • Currency soundness of = enlarging debt and means, 82.
  • Currency transferableness of, 69,
  • Currency true and false, distinct from strong and weak, 65.
  • Currency value of, how affected, 58.
  • Currency value and its rise and fall, 41 seq.
  • Currency and effectual value, 39.
  • Currency vitality and feebleness of, how tested, 70.
  • Currency wealth, and accumulation of, made possible by, 72.
  • Custom, establishment of a, 106.
  • Custom noble and base, action and indolence, 107.
  • Custom "hangs upon us like a weight," 107.
  • Dante, enigmas of, 87.
  • Dante on avarice and prodigality, 88.
  • Dante fortune's ball in, 100 n.
  • Dante the power of money, 58,
  • Dante use and abuse of riches, 88 seq.
  • Dante usury, 88.
  • Dante, scorn of the populace, on what based, 109 n.
  • Dante similes of, their truth, 58.
    Quoted:
  • Inf. vii., 88,
    Inf. xi. Cahors (usury), 98 n.
    Inf. xi. Plutus "gran nemico," 90, A. I. (orig. ess.).
    Inf. xi. Sirens, 90.
    Inf. xi. Siren of Riches, 90.
    Inf. xi. the death of Ulysses, 93.
    Inf. xvii., 88.
    Paradise, 88.
    Purg, xix., 88.
  • Dear, etymology of, 101 n.
  • Death, desire to die rich, 153.
  • Debt and credit, duty and creed, 81 (orig. ess. n.).
  • Deficiencies and efficiencies, 119,
  • Delphic oracle, πῆμ' ἐπὶ πήματι, 127 n.
  • Demand, economy not based on supply and, 53.
  • Demand in political economy, defined as affecting price, 63.
  • Demand supply and, Carlyle on, 158,
  • Demand supply and Manchester cotton and, App. IV.
  • Demand what we ought to, an ethical question, 84.
  • Democracy and republic, distinct, 124.
  • Democracy , illustrated by flight of beetles, 126.
  • Desire, the objects of right, alone are wealth, 34.
  • Didicisse fideliter artes, 124 n. (orig. ess.).
  • Dieu et mon droit, 113 n. (orig. ess.).
  • Dishonesty and speculation in finance, 79.
  • Divine Right, the true, 105.
  • Doge, meaning of, 125 n.
  • Draco, his name apt, 120.
  • Dreams of great poets and writers, 134.
  • Dress, luxury of, does it enrich a nation? pref. 15 seq.
  • Dress luxury of instance of parents ruined by their daughter's, pref. 16,
  • Duke, its meaning (ducal monarchy), 125 71.
  • Duty, use and meaning of the word, 81 (orig. ess. n.).
  • Economy. See s. Political Economy.
  • Education, aim of true, 106.
  • Education aim of true to teach men to do right, 130.
  • Education defined, not science or knowledge, but training of character, 106.
  • Education defined peace, pity, and grace implied by, 108.
  • Education economy of words part of, 101, n.
  • Education laws of, English feeling against, 112.
  • Education may develop inherited qualities, 6.
  • Effort, labour is not mere, but suffering in effort, 59.
  • Emerson, quoted, on monarchy and republics, 124 n.
  • Employment, laws of, 152.
  • Employment practical rules for, 155.
  • England, early civil wars of, App. I,
  • England fear of France in, its annual cost, App, I.
  • England feeling in, against educational law, 112.
  • England slavery in modern, 131.
  • England wealth and poverty of, do they balance each other? 57.
  • Enigmas of great poets and writers, 87.
  • Equality, the cry for, not irreverence, but folly, 121.
  • Equivalence of money and money value, 40.
  • Etymology, interest of, 100 n.
  • Evil never produces good, 33.
  • Exchange in commerce, costly, and therefore to be limited, 98.
  • Exchange power of money, 80.
  • Excursion trains, 159.
  • Expenditure and exchange, distinct, 155 n.
  • Expenditure selfish and unselfish, 147.
  • Faith, etymology and use of the word, 81 (orig. ess.), App. V. VI. (orig. ess.).
  • Faith works, and modern dispute on, App. VI. (orig. ess.).
  • Fawcett's "Political Economy," national questions not touched in, pref. 15.
  • Fawcett's "Political Economy," on national debt and consols, pref. 18.
  • Fawcett's "Political Economy," on national debt and consols, pref. 18. on rent, pref. 17.
  • Feat and defeat in labour, 59.
  • Fenelon, Life of, 153 n.
  • Fig-tree, the barren, in Homer and Dante, 93.
  • Finance, simple enough, to cool heads and honest hearts, 79.
  • Fine, and "fine" English and French, 134.
  • Fireworks, national store of, its value, 47.
  • Fish, climbing perch, 126.
  • Food, economy of, 18.
  • Fors v. mors, 118.
  • Fors words connected with, 100 n.
  • Fortune, acquiring of, a form of taxing the poor, 139.
  • Fortune making of sudden, 153 n.
  • Fortune the wheel of, 100 n.
  • France, fear of England, App. I.
  • France German war with, 96 n. App. I. n.
  • France luxury of, its example to England, pref. 16,
  • Franchise, proposals for, to be universal, not equal, 129.
  • Fraser's Magazine and "Munera Pulveris," pref. 20, 94.
  • Fraud, loss of time spent in, 104.
  • Freedom, restraint and true, 103.
  • Free-trade, protection and encouragement, App. IV. (orig. ess.).
  • Funds, national, advantages of, pref. 19; 38. See s. National store.
  • Geneva watches, and wealth, 49.
  • Goethe speaks in enigmas, 87.
    Quoted:—
  • Faust, Part II., Plutus in, 88.
    Lemures, "Wer hat das Haus so schlecht gebeaut?" 149.
  • Gold as a medium of currency, 74 seq.
  • effect of withdrawing it from the currency, 81 n.
  • labour wasted in obtaining, 75 n.
  • use of, only in arts (ornament), not for money, 77 n.
  • value of, coined and uncoined, 69.
  • its depreciation, 76.
  • Good and evil are fixed and absolute, 32.
  • Government, always costly, 127.
  • by council, visible and invisible, 122.
  • consists in custom, laws, and councils, 106.
  • firmness more than form of, 125.
  • forms of, monarchy, democracy, oligarchy, 123.
  • "for forms of government …" its truth shown, 125.
  • history of a, not always that of the nation, 122.
  • interference of, when objected to, when called for, App. IV.
  • names of different, confused and misused nowadays, 123 seq.
  • national store of wealth to be kept by, 41.
  • policy of all (whatever its form), "the wise to rule the unwise," 125.
  • railways, &c., to be under, 128.
  • Graces, the, their function, &c., 101 seq.
  • Gratis and gratia, 100.
  • Great men go too far in goodness, and so lose influence, 153 n.
  • Greek myths, full of meaning, App. V.
  • tragedians, enigmatic utterances of, 87.
  • Habit, meaning of the word, 106.
  • Happiness, a cause and effect of life, 5.
  • Heredity of moral and physical qualities, 6.
  • Herbert, George, quoted:—
  • "Lift up thy head," &c., 89.
    "Correct thy passion," &c., 103.
  • Hincksey diggings, foreshadowed, 109, 149.
  • Histoire d'une Bouchée de Pain, quoted, 91,
  • History, a nation's, not always that of its government, 122.
  • Holy Ghost, means " helpful and honest," 101 n.
  • Homer, enigmatic, 87.
  • Plato's distrust of, 87.
  • scorn of the populace in, on what based, 109 n.
  • Homer, quoted or referred to:—
  • Arete, 134.
    Circe and the swine, 91,
    Hephæstus and Venus, its meaning, 101.
    Phæacia, meaning of, 101.
    Scylla and Charybdis, meaning of, 93-4.
    Ulysses' shipwreck, App. V.
    Sirens, 90, 92.
    ὡς δ' ὄτ ὀπωρινὸσ, &c. See, 124 n.
  • Honesty, the best policy, truth of, 104.
  • Horace, quoted:—
  • pinguis Phæaxque, 101.
    odi profanum, 109 n.
    vaga arena—numero carentis, animo rotundum percupisse? 134 (orig. ess.).
    Si quis emat citharas. &c., App. III.
  • Horse-mania, English, why no word for, as for biblio-mania, 65.
  • Idolatry, of things and of the phantasm of good, App. II.
  • Ignorance, no science of, 34.
  • Ill-th and health, 37.
  • Indignation, true punishment and just, 120-1.
  • Influence of men, invisible, 122.
  • Iniquity, its general meaning, 110 n.
  • Injury, defined, the worst, unconscious and due to indolence, 117-8.
  • Instinct of reverence and wrath, 121.
  • Instruments, their value in what, 17.
  • International fears—one nation of another, App. I.
  • International values, and their one law, 96 n. 97.
  • Inundation, as illustrating political economy and wages, 141.
  • Inundation of the Arve (Savoy), scheme to check, 147.
  • Joiner, English, at work on London house, useless precision, 151.
  • Judge, his offices of reward and punishment, 111.
  • Justice, personal and purchased, 116.
  • Justice principles of, and education, App. I.
  • Kings as lawgivers, 111.
  • Kings can do no wrong (in what sense true), 113.
  • Kings "divine right" of, 113 (orig. ess. n.).
  • Kings "rex eris si recte facies," 105.
  • Labour, capital limits, untrue, 50.
  • Labour defined as the contest of man with an opposite, 59.
  • Labour defined is not effort, but suffering in effort, 59.
  • Labour defined "that quantity of our toil which we die in," 59.
  • Labour, division of, its principles illustrated, 63.
  • Labour economy of, not sale, to be considered by Political Economy, 59.
  • Labour kinds of, in different climates, 96.
  • Labour law of, in youth and age, 152.
  • Labour manual (especially agricultural) to be done by upper classes, 109.
  • Labour money's power over, 80.
  • Labour not to be bought or sold, 59.
  • Labour the origin of value, pref. 5.
  • Laissez faire and aller, baseness of modern, 108.
  • Laissez faire doctrine, App. I.
  • Laissez faire Carlyle on, 158.
  • Land, best, that most beautiful in men, animals, and flowers, 16.
  • Land its enjoyment cannot, like money, be monopolized, 85.
  • Land ownership of, pref. 17.
  • Land the people driven off the, in England, 131 n.
  • Land value of, physically (in produce), intellectually (in beauty), 16.
  • Land waste, 115.
  • Land waste to be brought in by volunteer labour, 149.
  • Language, accurate and loose use of, its effect, 101 n.
  • Largesse, Chaucer on, App. VI.
  • Law, archic, meristic, and critic, 110-6.
  • Law art of, a noble discipline and profession, 106.
  • Law cost of national, 116.
  • Law educational, not criminal only, 112.
  • Law fatal character of all, 110 n.
  • Law formatory, not reformatory, 112.
  • Law impossible for it to cover all points of conduct, 112.
  • Law to regulate keeping of land, water, and air, 115.
  • Law cannot remedy political mischief, 98.
  • Law to enforce security of property, 67.
  • Law true scientific, and false political economy, xiv. 12.
  • Law stands by right alone, 113.
  • Law is either statute or judgment, 111.
  • Lawyers, the profession of the law, felt to be noble, 116.
  • Leucothea's veil, App. V.
  • Liberty, true, is in restraint, 103.
  • Libraries, free, to be established, 115.
  • Life, a cause and effect of happiness, 5.
  • Life healthy and happy, the end of political economy, 5.
  • Life human, is naturally harmonious, 6.
  • Life the law of human, and work, 10.
  • Life what things shorten or prolong man's, 8.
  • Lincolnshire coast to be embanked, 149.
  • Lithographs, and Tintorets, their relative value, pref. 5.
  • Loans, foreign, and wars, 19.
  • Loans national, their nature, 38.
  • Love, capacity for infinite, in man, 121.
  • Love comes only from harmony, 102.
  • Lower classes, are they really lower? 109 n.
  • Lucian, on sale of lives, 132 n.
  • Lucum ligna, 124.
  • Luxury, does it benefit the poor, pref. 16.
  • Luxury economy of, 18.
  • Luxury modern, criminally great, 155.
  • Luxury producing of, is not wealth, ib.
  • Machinery, its true value and proper work, 17.
  • Maintenance of a state, defined, 3.
  • Mammon, true meaning of, App. II.
  • Man, difference between man and, in nature and training, 106.
  • Man perfection of, unites body, passions, intelligence, 8.
  • Man worth and power of, a better study than their opposites, 119.
  • Mausolus, 27.
  • Mechanical work, distress of, due to failure and degradation, 109.
  • Mechanical work inconsistent with nobleness of race, ib..
  • Mechanical work Dante, Shakspeare, and Homer on, ib. n.
  • Mechanical work See s. βαναυσία.
  • Medicine, the economy of, 18.
  • Mens sana in corpore sano, the true doctrine, 6.
  • Merchants, agents of exchange, not to look for large profits, 98.
  • Mercy and merces, 100.
  • Meristic law fixes what all should and do possess, 114.
  • Merit, a better study than demerit, 119.
  • Mill, J. S., "Political Economy," quoted:—
  • def. of wealth, pref. 1.
    on currency, Book iii. cap. 7, 77 n.
  • Milton, inferior to Homer and Dante, 87,
    Quoted:—
  • "Thrones, Dominations, &c.," 105.
  • Mines, criminals to work in the, 159.
  • Mines to be made safe, 159.
  • Misery of the poor, a national disgrace, 108,
  • Molyneux (Rev. —), on parable of the prodigal son, App. V.
  • Monarchy and tyranny, 133,
  • compared to a ship, republic to a raft, 124 n.
  • Money, accumulation of, is not political economy, 4.
  • Money accumulation of its temptations, 85-6.
  • Money credit-power of, 58 and n.
  • Money defined, a documentary legal claim to wealth, 21.
  • Money ill-gotten, ill spent, 86.
  • Money its enjoyment, secure and solitary, 85.
  • Money its study, 11.
  • Money love of, founded on a desire for things, 65 n.
  • Money, modern greed of, 153.
  • Money love of, inconsistent with high moral training, 108.
  • Money-making, men to stop when they have enough, 153.
  • Money possessor of much, generally has no fixed tastes, 85.
  • Money property and, which the end, which the means? 83.
  • Money to be spent by those who make it, 153.
  • Money value of, how affected, 58.
  • Money altered by change in national character, and why, 65.
  • Money changes in, 22 seq.
  • Money ought not to be intrinsically valuable with civilized people, 25.
  • Moneyis not wealth, 21, 36. See s. Currency.
  • Museums, free to be established, 115.
  • Napoleon I. on usury, 98.
  • Nations, divisible into lordly and servile classes, 109.
  • Nations government and, correlatively noble, 122.
  • Nations happiness of, not dependent on its numbers, 3.
  • National character, how indicated (its customs), 106.
  • National character individual influences on, 122.
  • National credit, to pay ready money like individuals, 38 n.
  • National debt and national store, pref. seq. 18 seqq.
  • National debt does it enrich a nation, pref. 15, 18.
  • National debt would the discovery of a mountain of gold efface it? 76.
  • National economy, on what dependent, 54.
  • National expenditure and taxation, right objects of, 156.
  • National health, compared to a great lake or sea, 109 n.
  • National loss, explained, 155 n.
  • National store and wealth, 40, 44.
  • National store its nature and holders, 46 seq.
  • National store and population, 54.
  • National training, high, what it implies, 108.
  • National gallery, a treasury, not a school, of art, 115.
  • Nightingale's song " Domine Labia," 149 n.
  • Oligarchy, 123.
  • Orinoco, 37.
  • Pall Mall Gazette, Oct. 27, 1871 (Jules Simon on Paris), xviii. 16.
  • Paris, siege of, referred to, ix. 6.
  • Paris siege relief of, 1871 committee, xii. 10.
  • Parliament, Houses of, waste of labour, 157.
  • Pay, amount of, asked for by the best men, is small, 60 n. (orig. ess.).
  • Pay and profit distinct, 98 n.
  • Pay work that will not pay in money, but in life, 160.
  • Peace, grace essential to, 100.
  • Pelicans and climbing perch, 126.
  • Philotimé. See s. Spenser.
  • Phlegethon, sands of, 79.
  • Plato's enigmas, 87.
  • Plato distrust of Homer, 87.
  • Plato imagination quenched by his reason, 87.
  • Plato political economy of, 2.
  • Plato Sirens in, 90.
  • Plato usury in, 98.
  • Plato quoted, "Laws," Book 1, on Plutus, 88.
  • Plato quoted, "Laws," Book 2, on choirs, dancing, &c. 102 n.
  • Plato quoted, "Laws," Book 5, on money, 153 n.
  • Plato quoted, "Republic," the slave who wants to marry his master's daughter, 134.
  • Plato quoted, "Republic," Book 2, ὑῶν πόλις, 91.
  • Plato quoted, "Republic," Book 3 on money, 89.
  • Plato quoted, "Republic," Book 4, on political evils and their remedies, 98.
  • Plato quoted, "Republic," Book 6 seq., on mechanical labour, 109 n.
  • Plinlimmon, plant with larch, 149.
  • Plutus, god of riches, blind, in Plato, Dante, Spenser, and Goethe, and in Dante, dumb, 88, A. I. (orig. ess.).
  • Poets, the great, speak in enigmas, 87.
  • Poets the great their visionary language about great truths deprecated, 87.
  • Political Economy, modern, described, 2.
  • Political Economy modern faith in, tested, 128.
  • Political Economy modern does not deal with national dress, rent, debt. &c, pref. 15.
  • Political Economy modern looks only at the exchange value of wealth, pref. 7.
  • Political Economy modern has never dealt with intrinsic value, pref. 8.
  • Political Economy modern fallacy that labour is a saleable commodity, 59.
  • Political Economy modern in America, 124.
  • Political Economy true, defined, pref. 1, 13.
  • Political Economy true does not give sentiment for science, pref. 13.
  • Political Economy true ethical postulates of, pref. 13, 81, 84.
  • Political Economy true founded on industry, frugality, and discretion, pref. 13.
  • Political Economy true knowledge of fine arts necessary to, pref. 1.
  • Political Economy true its end, to multiply noble life, not money, 4, 7.
  • Political Economy, true, not concerned with varying worth of bullion, 25.
  • Political Economy true to examine moral results of the laws of wealth, pref. 21.
  • Political Economy true to maintain a relation between supply and demand, pref. 11.
  • Political Economy See s. Author (Books, "Munera Pulveris"), Bacon, Books, Capital, Capitalists, Cheapness, Commerce, Competition , Cost, Credit, Currency, Demand, Dishonesty, Dress, Employment, Exchange, Expenditure, Fawcett, Finance, Free-trade, Funds, Gold, Labour, Land, Loans, Luxury, Mechanical Work, Merchants, Mill (J. S.), Money, National Character, Possession, Poverty, Price, Production, Profit, Property, Rich, Riches, Supply, Use. Usury, Value, Wages, War, Wealth, Worth.
  • Political evils, the remedy for, in change of character, not of laws, 98.
  • Poor, the, directed by the rich, 29.
  • Poor the governed by the rich, 146.
  • Poor thenumber of, in relation to the rich, 138,
  • Pope, quoted:—
  • "For forms of government," &c., 125.
    Epistle to Lord Bathurst, on currency, 77 n.
  • Population, extent of, in relation to national store, 54.
  • Population extent of in relation to wealth, 55.
  • Portion, words connected with, 101 n.
  • Possession, defined, the legal right to keep what you have worked for, 141 and n.
  • Possession guardianship and, distinct, 37.
  • Possession useless without use, 37.
  • Poverty, always criminal, English doctrine, 136 n.
  • Poverty merely relative, 26.
  • Poverty wretched and blessed, 56 n.
  • Price, defined, 62 n.
  • Price is cost, if demand be constant, 63.
  • Priceon what dependent (human will), 62.
  • Price one just value and, for everything, 62 n.
  • Production, ease of, only valuable so far as it enables the maintenance of more population, 62 n.
  • Profit, none, in true commerce, 99.
  • Property, fivefold, power over, 37.
  • Property money and, which the end, and which the means? 83.
  • Property security of, the first end of law, 67.
  • Punishment, true, in hindrance, 120 n.
  • Pyramid of gold may be worthless, 4.
  • Pyrrhon's answer, 132.
  • Race, faculties dependent on, 106.
  • Railways, companies are turnpike keepers, 128.
  • Railways excursion trains, government control of, 157,
  • Railways quadruple lines needed, 128.
  • Railways trains, 157.
  • Railways station architecture, 128.
  • Recreate, force of the word, 9.
  • Religion, plain speaking on, objected to, 101 n.
  • Rent, does a landtax enrich a nation? pref. 15, 17.
  • Republic compared to a raft (Emerson), 124.
  • Republic distinct from democracy, 124.
  • Republic res publica and privata, 124.
  • Reverence, instinctive, just, and true reward, 120-1.
  • Revolution, how caused, 109 n.
  • Reward, true, is at once a help and a crown, 120 n.
  • Rich direct the poor, 29.
  • Rich govern the poor, 146.
  • Rich relation to poor, 136 seq.
  • Riches, does the mode of their distribution affect their nature, 27.
  • Riches of one man involve the subjection of others, 145,
  • Richesrelativity of, 26.
  • Richesselection, direction, and provision, 29.
  • Richestheir study, 11.
  • Riches to be collected and administered by economists, 27, 29.
  • Right, a man's, defined, 118.
  • Right and wrong are life and death to man, 9.
  • Royal means right doing, 113.
  • St. John's locusts, 130.
  • Sale is not commerce, 99.
  • Savings, the use of a man's, 152. See s. Death.
  • School, true meaning of, 109 n.
  • Scorpion whips, our pleasant vices, 130.
  • Scylla and Charybdis, meaning of, 93.
  • Sensibility defined, 106.
  • Servants, all who work for pay are, 145.
  • Shakspeare, his dreams, divine shadows of true facts, 134.
  • Shakspeare speaks in enigmas, 87.
  • Shakspeare the leader of English intellect, 100.
  • Shakspeare his scorn of the populace, on what based, 109 n.
  • Shakspeare his nomenclature, 100 71. 134 n.
  • Shakspeare his nomenclature Greek names, 100 n. 134 n.
    Referred to:
  • Cymbeline, lachimo, meaning of name, 134 n.
    Cymbeline Leonatus, 134 n.
    Cymbeline moral of, 134 n.
  • Hamlet, meaning of the name (home), 134 n.
    Hamlet Ophelia = serviceableness, 134 n.
    Hamlet quoted, "A ministering angel," &c. 134 n.
    Hamlet "Herb o'grace o'Sundays," App. VI.
    King Lear, Cordelia = heart-lady, 100 n.
    quoted:
    v. 3. "our pleasant vices … scourge us.
    Merchant of Venice, its lesson, 100.
    Merchant of Venice meaning of, 134.
    Merchant of Venice Portia = portion, 100 and n.
    Merchant of Venice Antonio, nobility of, 100.
    Merchant of Venice Shylock, 100.
    Much Ado about Nothing, Beatrice, meaning of, 134 n.
    Much Ado about Nothing Benedict, meaning of, 134 n.
    Othello, catastrophe of, how caused, 134 n.
    Othello meaning of name, 134 n.
    Othello Desdemona, meaning of, 134 n.
    Othello lago, meaning of, 134 n.
    Tempest, analysis of, 134 seq.
    Tempest Ariel = generous faithful service, 133-4.
    Tempest Caliban, 133-4.
    Tempest and slavery and freedom, 133-4.
    Tempest Miranda "the wonderful," 134.
    Tempest Prospero = hope, 134.
    Tempest Sycorax = swine-raven, 134 and n.
    quoted:
    dew brushed with raven's feather, 134.
    incensed seas and shores, 134.
    put a girdle round the earth, 134.
    fetches dew … asleep, 134.
    thought is free, 134.
    full fathom, &c., 134.
    come unto these yellow sands, 134.
    "courtesied," 134.
    all but mariners, 134.
    with bemocked-at, &c., 134.
    where the bee sucks, 134.
    side stitches, &c., 134.
    that's a brave god, &c., 134.
    Two Gentlemen of Verona, Proteus, name, 134 n.
    Two Gentlemen of Verona Valentine, name, 134 n.
    Winter's Tale, Hermione, name, 134 n.
    Winter's Tale Perdila = lost lady, 134 n.
  • Ships, English, with defences;.-, liquid fire, 127.
  • Sirens or pleasures, Bacon's view of, 90.
  • Sirens or pleasures are really desires, 90.
  • Sirens and Circe, distinct, 92.
  • Sirens their destructive power, 92.
  • Sillar, W. C, on usury, 98 and n.
  • Simon, M. Jules, on Paris, xviii. 16.
  • Slavery, American and English methods of, 131.
  • Slavery modern, examples of, 124 n.
  • Slavery, not a political institution, 133.
  • Slavery right and wrong, considered, 130 seq.
  • Slavery true nature of, in its cramping, 134.
  • Socialism, modern, pref. 21.
  • Soldiers, men are ready to die, but not to spend money for their country, 148.
  • Soul and body, not really opposed, 6.
  • Speculation = peculation, 79.
  • Speculation evils of, 153 n.
  • Spenser quoted, 93.
  • Spenser his Philotimé, 93.
  • Spenser Plutus, 88.
  • Splendour of living, what it involves to others, 145.
  • Sport, shooting of birds, 149.
  • State, maintenance of a, defined, 3.
  • Steam-agriculture, 149.
  • Steam-power, its true use, 159.
  • Store, national, in relation to the currency, 81 seq.
  • Stork and frogs, fable of, and tyranny, 126.
  • Streams, not to be defiled, 115.
  • Success, under competition, its meaning, 139.
  • Supply and demand, fallacy of (siege of Paris), pref. 9 seq.
  • Supply and demand results of (Paris print-shops), viii. 4.
  • Supply and demand doctrine, 124.
  • Taxation, currencies may be disguised, 78.
  • Tennant, Sir Emerson, "Ceylon" quoted, 126.
  • Times, June 4, 1862, on killing of birds, 149 n.
  • Times Dec. 25, 1862, on modern civilization and revolution, 108 n.
  • Times Feb. 4, 1863, on average earnings of the poor, 124 n.
  • Tintoret, author's estimate of, 1851-71, pref. 4.
  • Tintoret pictures of, and Paris lithographs, pref. 5.
  • Tintoret pictures of in shreds, S. Rocco, 1851 pref. 3.
  • Tisiphone, the rule of, 130.
  • Tobacco, 65 n.
  • Trade has come to mean = fraud, 99.
  • Trade meaning of word, and traitor, 99.
  • Tradesmen are the servants of their customers, 145.
  • Trionfo della Morte, 48.
  • Trust, meaning of the word, 81 (orig. ess. n.).
  • Truths, the great poets veil their greatest, in enigma, 87.
  • Tyranny, illustrated by fable of frogs and stork, 126.
  • Tyranny and monarchy, 123.
  • Ulysses, Dante on death of, 93.
  • Ulysses and the Sirens, their appeal to his vanity, 92.
  • Use, possession without, is valueless, 37.
  • Use power of, essential to wealth, 37.
  • Useful and useless, defined, 8.
  • Usury, abolition of, by purifying national character, 98.
  • Usury author's first notes on, 148 n. 41 (orig. ess.).
  • Usury Dante on, 88.
  • Usury essence and evil of, 98 and n.
  • Usury French economists on, 148 n.
  • Usury Greek and mediaeval horror of, 98 n.
  • Usury Plato, Bacon, and Napoleon I. on, 98.
  • Usury Shakspeare on ("Merchant of Venice"), 100.
  • Value, definition of, 12 seq.
  • Value distinct from cost or price, 12.
  • Value effectual, defined, and wealth and currency, 39.
  • Value effectual depends on use, and power to use, 14.
  • Value international, 96 n.
  • Value intrinsic, at base of true political economy, pref. 8-9.
  • Value intrinsic and effectual, 12 seq.
  • Value intrinsic worth makes value,not demand or money, 31.
  • Value just, everything has its, 62.
  • Value list of things of, 15.
  • Venice, coinage of, pure, 75 n. 77 n.
  • Venice S. Rocco, Tintorets there in shreds, 1851, 3.
  • Vices, our pleasant, scorpion whips, 130.
  • Virgil, Tityre tu patuloe, &c., 149.
  • Virgil quae maxima turba, 88.
  • Virtues, the four cardinal, App. I.
  • Visions of great poets on great truths, 87.
  • Volunteer labour, objects of, proposed, 149.
  • Volunteer movement, to be extended beyond war, 149.
  • Vote's, number of a man's votes to be increased with his age, &c., 129.
  • Wages, competition not to determine, pref. 12.
  • Wages defined bv modern political economy as "the sum which will maintain the labourer," 136.
  • Wages equality of, depends on moral conditions, 137.
  • Wages principles of, illustrated by story of inundation, 141.
  • War, cheap, proposed, 128.
  • War fostered by capitalists to make investments, pref. 19.
  • War idleness of upper classes, a cause of, 149 n.
  • War ill-accumulated money spent in, 86.
  • War the necessity of, amongst unjust persons only, A. II.
  • Wealth, attainment of great, impossible by one man, 139.
  • Wealth attainment modern trickery of, pref. 13.
  • Wealth attainment wish to die rich, 153.
  • Wealthcaprice will not make a thing, 35.
  • Wealth defined, 11 seq.
  • Wealth defined as "a thing of value in the hands of those who can use it" (valuable and valiant), 14.
  • Wealth defined, "intrinsic value developed by vital power," 31
  • Wealth defined "the constant objects of right desire," 34.
  • Wealth Mill's definition criticised, pref. 1.
  • Wealth few people realise what true wealth is, pref. 2.
  • Wealth desire of, true wealth is moderately desired, pref. 21.
  • Wealth effectual value, and, 39
  • Wealth exchangeability, and distinct, 35.
  • Wealth luxury and, see s. Luxury.
  • Wealth money, and distinct, 36.
  • Wealth national wealth not only in amount, but in the power to use it, 27 n.
  • Wealth national character, its importance to the distribution of wealth, 84.
  • Wealth the phantasm of, 38.
  • Wealth the possession of, who are the possessors of wealth, is nationally more important than its amount 84.
  • Wealth its possession always conditional, 115.
  • Wealth to be the reward of sagacity and work, 129,
  • Wealth the saving up of, 153.
  • Whewell, Dr., on usury, 148 n.
  • Wine, English expenditure in, why no word "oino-maniac," 65.
  • Wise, John R., on meaning of Sycorax (see Shakspeare), 134 n.
  • Words, accurate use of, by great thinkers, 2.
  • Words derivation of, App. VI.
  • Words first meaning of, often the truest, 2.
  • Work, good, to be got by willingness, not money, 50 n.
  • Work wise or foolish, results in life or death, 10.
  • Worth, the recognition of, in others, to be sought after, 121.
  • Worth the recognition of the first thing in a nation, 121.
  • Worth of things, not dependent on price, pref. 7.
  • Xenophon's Political Economy, 2.
  • Xenophon's Economist, on βαναυσία, 109 n.
  • Xenophon's Economist on wealth and use, App. III.
  • Xenophon's Memorabilia, Book II. on grace and equity, 100.
  • Zecchin, pure gold of Venetian, 77 n.

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