tion which insists upon shutting its eyes to some of the most eating cancers that prey upon the public morals and the public health, while they spread and deepen and grow inveterate under our fostering neglect. We have passed over the prevalent vice of drunkenness, which is known to lie at the root of half the misery, and more than half the crime of the lower classes, and which yet we do so much to encourage, and so little to check. We have not even alluded to our frivolous literature, our feeble and divided Churches playing feebly with the greatest problems of the age or shirking them like cowards, our sham religion and our fierce impiety, the false gods we follow after, the miserable creeds we impose on others and half fancy we believe ourselves. But we have enumerated evils, wrongs, and grievances enough to give work to our legislators, moralists, and philanthropists for long years to come, and one would hope to cure us for ever of our incredible propensity to self-acquittal and self-glorification. Pavoneggiorsi, as the Italians picturesquely express it, ought to be our national vice no longer. We have seen that our boasted purity in the administration of justice succeeds neither in righting wrongs, nor in deciding disputes, nor in repressing crime, nor in protecting property and life; that we neither educate our people, nor house our poor, nor drain our streets, nor govern our cities with even ordinary decency or skill; that our vast associated enterprises are as gigantic in their blunders and their failures as in their aims, and are not free from a terrible stain of immorality; that our most brilliant national industries display a grievous lack of that organization and internal harmony, without which nothing can flourish long; that the largest section of our working class is the most hopeless in its condition and its prospects, the most helpless and the least helped; that, in a word, the habitual life of both upper and lower ranks is in its truest essence neither happy, respectable, nor worthy; and that society, in what may be termed the easy and leisure classes, is deeply tainted with a new and growing evil, of which no eye can measure the full mischief or trace the ultimate ramifications. In short, while careful to avoid not merely any statement that could be questioned, but any delineation of unquestioned facts which could be charged with overcolouring or exaggeration, we have drawn a picture of a nation unsound in many of its most vital parts, yet almost unconscious of its diseases, and even proud of its fancied health.
ACHIEVEMENTS (the) and the Moral of 1867; see Reform Bill.
Army; see Military Systems of Europe.
BRITAIN, Social Sores of, 497; the English race, 497; our national life, and vainglory in reference to it, 498; imperfections of our judicial administration, 499-501; cri- minal justice unadapted to our present circumstances, 501-2; crime and outrage, 503; our commercial morality, 504-7; railway mismanagement, 507-9; ineffici ency of our municipal government, 509-10; our poorer classes, 513-15; dwellings for the poor, 513-5; agricultural labourers, 515-17; disorganization of labour, 517-20; superiority of Continental life, 520-2; dis- content of the higher classes, 522-4; dis- use of and disinclination to marriage among them, 524; redundancy of women, 525; results of involuntary celibacy, 526-7; sham celibacy, 528-29; results of luxury, 530; analogous social evils in the United States, 530-31; summary of con- clusions, 531-2.
CAIRO, account of the formation of the Public Museum at, 154-5.
Christian Ethics; see Moral Theories. Christianity, relations of Heathenism and Judaism with, 257; Döllinger's works on Church History, 257-8; unity of truth, 259; civil and ecclesiastical elements interwoven, 259, 260; history of Church and State inseparable, 261; general pur- pose of Döllinger's Heathenism and Judaism,' 262; the displacement of other religions by Christianity, 263; the prin- ciple operating in the various forms pre- sented by the ancient religions, 264; origin of polytheism, 265; the endless va- rieties of cultus into which the two great forms of Nature-worship-astrolatry and geolatry-were developed, 266; general characteristics pervading polytheistic re- ligions, 267; religions of Egypt and Etru- ria, 268; ancient creed of Egypt mono- theistic, 269; discrepancies between the
Egyptian and Greek theogony, 269; ani- mal-worship of Egypt and its moral bear- ings, 270-71; the mythology of Greece and its demoralizing influence, 271-3; no corrective supplied by the mysteries,' 274-5; Greek philosophy, 276; the pagan- ism of Rome, 276; multiplicity of Roman gods, 277-8; idols worshipped as personal gods, 279; the Roman religion in regard to the dead, 280; human sacrifices in its worship, 281; effectiveness attributed to these, 282; rites of the criobolium and taurobolium, 283; demoralizing results of the Roman worship, 284-5; the influence of philosophy powerless as a corrective, 286-7; in its practical teaching, no clear notion of a Divine providence, 288; con- sequent depraved condition of Roman so- ciety, 289; historical truth of Paul's statements in the first chapter of his Epistle to the Romans, 289; monstrous condition of society in relation to chastity, 290;-sects among the Jews-the Es- senes, 291; leading element of Essenian- ism, 292; longings for unknown truth, 293; Judaism at the advent of Christi- anity, 294; the first age of Christianity, 295; Döllinger's volume on this period, 296; adoption of Jewish traditions by the early church, 297; influence of the Jewish element on Christian worship, 298; common worship of Jews and Christians, 299; second and third centuries, 300; adoption of pagan ceremonial, 301. Concilia Scotiae-a collection of the Canons
and account of the Councils of the Scottish Church, A.D. 1225-1259, by Dr. Joseph Robertson (see Robertson), 71, 73; la- bours of earlier writers in this department, 73; analysis of the work, 73-75; constitu- tion of the early Celtic Church, 75; first Scottish Council in the reign of Constan- tine, held at Scone, 75; reforms under Malcolm Canmore, 76; reigns of Alex- ander III. and of David, 77; independence of the Scottish Church acknowledged by a bull of Pope Clement I., 77; account of the coronation of the early kings, 78;
system introduced by the bull of Pope Honorius in 1225, 79, 80; history of the Provincial Councils, 81; the first Coun- cil of which we have a record, in 1420, held at Perth, 82; reign of James I., 82, 83; a metropolitan see in Scotland sanc- tioned in 1472 by Pope Sixtus IV., 83; conflicting privileges of St. Andrews and Glasgow, and consequent prevention of any Provincial Council for about fifty years, 84, 85; primacy of Cardinal Bea- ton, 85; important synod at Edinburgh under the presidency of his successor Archbishop Hamilton, 85-87; Provincial Council three years later, in 1552, 88; account of the last council (1559), 88-90; fall of the Roman hierarchy in Scotland, 90; ecclesiastical misrule in the Media- val Church, 91; great value of Dr. Robert- son's work to future historians, 91-93.
DISRAELI and his Reform Bill, 205-56. See Reform.
Döllinger, Dr., his works on Church His- tory, 257-301.
Doré, Gustave, and his popularity as an artist, 127, 128: the French deficient in the perception of beauty, 129; modern caricature in Britain and France con- trasted, 130; Doré's representations of suffering, 131; the tragic versus the hor- rible, 132-3; defects in his representations of the Crucifixion, 133; historical paint- ing in Italy and France, 134-5; the French national character as contrasted with others, 136; flirtation v. love, 137; Scotch artists, 137-8; Doré's illustrations of Don Quixote,' 138-of 'Dante,' 139- 142- Croquemitaine and Cinderella,' 143 of the Bible, 144-47; defects and merits of his works, 147-8.
EARLY YEARS of his Royal Highness the Prince-Consort,' 189; home of his child- hood, with notices of his mother, 190; his education-first visit to England, 191; letter to Queen Victoria on her accession to the throne, 192; mode of life at Florence and Rome, 193; visit to England in 1839 -letters at the time of his engagement to the Queen, 194-5; conduct of the Opposi- tion of that day with regard to the Prince, 196-7; sketches of character contained in the work, 198; character of the Prince as delineated by his tutor, his cousin Prince Mernsdorff, and his fellow-student Prince Löwenstein, 199; the view he took of his position in England as the Queen's hus- band, as expressed by himself to the Duke of Wellington, 201; causes of early un- popularity in certain quarters, 202; change in the feelings of the English people to- wards the monarchy, 202; the national
sympathy with the loss of the counsellor, the husband, and the friend, 203-4. Egypt, religion of, 268-71. Emerson, Ralph Waldo,-secret of his in- fluence over his countrymen, 319; trans- atlantic thought, 320; American tran- scendentalism, 321-2; abstract of his Cambridge address, 323-4; Carlyle and Emerson, 324; Emerson the most unsys- tematic of writers, 325-6; pithy mots, 326-7; his disregard of grammar and mis- application of terms, 327; illustrations of his earlier style, 328-9; characteristics of his poetry, 329-31; his eclecticism in philosophy, 332; definition of transcen- dentalism, 333; his mysticism, 334-6; his philosophical idealism, 337; the two ultimate principles of the dualistic philo sophy, 338-9; his optimism, 340; his ethical views, 341; liberty and necessity, 342; his combination of stern practical rectitude with an ideal standard, 343; ancient and modern ethical systems, 344- 349; Mr. Emerson as a teacher and critic, 349; contrasted with Carlyle, 349-51; verses on slavery, 351; his political views, 352; his Representative Men,' 353-4; his English Traits,' 355; re- marks on his influence as a man and as a writer, 356-8.
GLADSTONE and Reform, 209; his leadership of the Liberals, 251-56. Great Pyramid; see Pyramid. Greece, mythology of, and its demoralizing influence, 271-76.
HAUCH, Carsten, a Danish poet, 94; his literary career, 99-102; Scandinavian literature, 95-97; Hauch's position in the literature of Denmark, 98, 101; lyric genius of the Scandinavians, 99; transla- tions of a few of Hauch's lyrics: Fall of Poland,' 102; The Mermaid of Samsö, 103-105; The Life of Plants,' 105-107; his dramas, 107; 'pragmatic' tragedy, 108; his dramatic style, 109; opening scene of Julian the Apostate,' 110-115; further characteristic specimens from the same drama, 115-125; remarks on the conclusion of the tragedy, 125,
ITALY in 1867, 463; present state of the Roman question, 464; conduct of the French government, 464-5; probability of Italy accomplishing absolute unity, 465-7; dearth of information on Italy as it is, 468; its population, 469; agricultural, industrial, and commercial resources, 470-80; its religious life, 480-87; state of education, 487-90; its journalism, 491; its first Parliament, 492; its statesmen,
492-3; difficulties with which Italy has to contend, 494-96.
MILITARY Systems of Europe, 404; a period of transition reached, 405; percentage of soldiers to population, 406; steps requi- site to terminate war, 407; recruiting in Britain, 409-10; military system neces- sary for us, 411;-characteristics of the French system, 411-413; its septennial service, 414-5 (see also note, 440) ;—Rus- sian system, 416-17-the Prussian ser- vice-materials of the army, 417-18; suf- fering entailed on the nation by a state of warfare, 419-20; cost of the army, 421-2; period of service, 422;-the Swiss mili- tary service, 423;-necessity of a stand- ing army in Great Britain, 424; demoral- izing influence of our recruiting system, 425, 431; a general military training de- sirable, 426-27; plan proposed, 428-29; school drill, 429-30; promotion in the army, 432-5; benefits of a shorter term of service, 435-7; on liberty to engage in civil occupations, 437-8; establishment of a local connexion between districts and particular corps of all arms, 439-40. Moral Theories and Christian Ethics,-ethi- cal thought in modern times turned off into other channels, 1, 2; hindrances to moral study, 3; human character the one great subject of moral science, 4, 5; defi- nition of character, 6; psychology the starting-point of moral science,-two ways in which it may go to work, 7, 8; mistake commonly made by analysts, 9, 10; the dynamic power in the moral life, 11; an swers of moralists to the question, What are the objects determining the will in a way that can be called moral ?-Adam Smith's classification, 11, 12; survey of moral systems-Plato, 12-14; Aristotle, 14-16; Butler, 16-18; Kant, 18-21; utili- tarian theories,-Bentham, 21, 22; John Stuart Mill, 22-24, and Professor Bain, 23; pleasure not a moral motive, 25; want of motive power in moral systems, 26-28; the moral law as exhibited by Kant, 28; ascent from moral law to per- sonality, 29; the notion of God, 30; the Christian motive power, 31; Christianity versus Philosophy, 32; the former alone gives inspiration to Morality, 33, 34, by the assurance that God is with us, 35; Christian morality without Christian Faith, 36, 37; the Comtian 'service of humanity, 38, 39; Mr. Arnold and British Philistinism, 40; Culture (41, 42) inadequate to be the highest end, 43; the criterion of Revelation mainly a moral one, 44-46.
Morals, natural history of, 359; the moral and intellectual elements in the mental
atmosphere, 359, 360; the universality of ethical precepts, 361; progress of intel- lectual truths,-Aristotle, Bacon, Des- cartes, 362; the induction and deduction of the savage, 363; effect produced by the formal statement of intellectual laws, 364; investigation precedes the philosophy of method, 365; the ancients devoid of scientific conceptions, 366; method is perfected by practice, 367; the advance of intellectual laws only a development of principles previously known, 368; cor- respondence between ethics and law, 369; both undergoing the same change, 370; Casuistry, 371; morals developed by changing circumstances, and by leaning towards particular ways of thinking, 372; illustrated in reference to slavery, 373; summary of the argument against Buckle's erroneous distinction between moral and intellectual laws, 374; the psychological and the statistical methods, 375; the union of the moral and the mental ele- ments, 376-7; what are the proximate causes of our moral ideas? 378; the two methods of ethical inquiry, 379,-the theo- logical and the scientific, 379, 380; primi- tive society, 380, 381; self-preservation, 381, 384; primitive ethics have only a local range, 383; infanticide among the primitive tribes, 384-5; the instinct of ac- cumulation, 386; agency of formal speech, 387; origin of poetry, 387; change which takes place through the disintegration of the tribes, 388-9; relations between hu- man beings have a tendency to widen, 389-90; local types of virtue killed by progress, 390-91; the law of natural selec. tion, 391-3; the competition of good with evil types, 394-5; the competition of races, 396-7; dogmatic and argumentative teach- ing, 398-400; the arguments against re- ligious persecution, 400-402; immutability of moral truth, 402; the geology of ethics, 403.
POPULATION-Dr. Duncan's statistics as to Fecundity, Fertility, and Sterility, 441; these terms defined, 442-4; general law derived by Professor Tait from these sta- tistics, 444-6; tables showing the compa- rative fecundity at different ages, and deductions from them, 447, et seq.; com- parison of the fertility of different races, 4534; Malthus and Mill, 454-5, 457; multiplication of paupers, 457; diseased children, 458; risk run by healthy women in childbirth, 459; death-rates in hospi- tals, 460; the question of sterility, 461; problems connected with fertility, 462. Prince-Consort; see Early Years of the Prince-Consort.'
Provençal Poems (Modern), 302; the dia-
lects of the south of France-the Langue d'oc and the Langue d'oil, 303-4; varied literature of the Provençal school, 305; the populations of the south, 306; Jasmin and his poems, 307-11: Roumanille, 311; Frederic Mistral, 312; his Mireille and Calendau, 313-18.
Pyramid (the Great), Professor Smyth's work on, 149, 150; observation versus specula- tion, 151; dedication of the work, 152; questions relating to the Great Pyramid, 153; state of uncertainty as to these when Mr. Smyth entered on his labours, 154; the Museum at Cairo, 154-5; denuncia- tions of Prussian vandalism, 155-6; re- marks on Humboldt, 156; preliminary difficulties in setting about the examina- tion of the Pyramid, 157; first glimpse of the Pyramid, 158; the Sphinx, 159, and its dimensions, 160; selection of a tempo- rary dwelling at East Tombs-armour of the guards, 161; difficulties encoun- tered-Ramadan, the great Moham- medan fast, 162; discouragement owing to a great optician-the ways of genius- reference scales, 162-66; annoyances from Travellers, 166; Yankee snobbishness, 167-8; British folly in the expedition to Egypt under Sir Ralph Abercromby, 169- 171; process of pyramid-building, 171; leading feature, 172; the upper chambers, 173; construction of the Pyramid de- scribed, 174; the King's and Queen's chambers, 175-6; external dimensions, instruments used, etc., 177-181; when and by whom was the Great Pyramid built, 181-2; pyramid standards, 183; the French Metrical system, 184; teleo- logy-speculations as to the symbolic meaning of certain proportions in the Pyramid, 185-7; further inquiry neces- sary, 187.
REFORM BILL of 1867-predominant feeling of thinking men on the session of that year, 205 contrasted with the conflicts of 1832 and 1846, 206-7; difficult dilemma of the Conservative party, 208; their treatment of Gladstone in 1866, 209; the sin both of chief and followers, 209-10; cynicism of the Tory leader, 211-12; exceptional Tory Abdiels, 213-215; protests of Lord Cranborne, 215-6, and Lord Carnarvon, 216-7; inconsistency of the Tories, and mistakes and faults of the sincere friends of Reform, 218-220; want of moral cour- age among Liberals, 221-2; Mr. Lowe's proposal for the adoption of the cumulative vote, 222-3; provisions of the new Radical
measure, 223; its probable scope, 224-5; enfranchising clauses, 224-6; the lodger franchise, 226; new county franchise, 227; the redistribution clauses, 227, 243; tabular view of the present anomalies of the representation, 228; increase of elec- tioneering and corruption an almost certain result of the new measure, 229, 230; members of the future House, 231-2; fa- lacy of trusting to wealth and rank, 233; evil consequences of class legislation, 234; tendencies of democratic legislation, 235; security for the possible good, and against the possible dangers of the measure, 236, -inadequacy of primary education, 237- 40; duties of the rich and cultivated, 241- 242; much work yet to be done, 243; the relations of Capital and Labour, 244; trades-unions and their operation, 245-6, -they do not raise wages, 247,-danger- ous to the whole community, 248; mode of dealing with them, 249-50; party-dis- integration an achievement of the past session, 250; Mr. Gladstone as a party leader, 251-56.
Robertson, Dr. Joseph, his early life and first literary efforts, 63, 64; connexion with the Spalding Club, 64; his work on the Antiquities of the Northern Counties of Scotland, 64-66; becomes editor of a newspaper, first in Glasgow, and after- wards in Edinburgh, 66, 67; appointed Curator of the Historical Department, Register House, 68; sketch of his liter- ary labours, 68-72; his collection of the Canons and Councils of the Scottish Church his greatest work, 73. See Con- cilia Scotiae.
Rome, ancient, religion of, 276-85; depraved condition of Roman society, 289-90. SCANDINAVIAN Literature, 94 et seq. Social Sores of Britain; see Britain.
TRADES-UNIONS and their operations, 245- 250.
VERS de Société, English: elements essen- tial to their perfection, 47, 48; elegance in poetry, 49; what genuine vers de so ciété ought to be, 49-51; Herrick and Ronsard, 52; Suckling and Cowley, 53; the Elizabethan age, 54; Society of the Hôtel Rambouillet, 55; the French school of secondary poetry, 56; Béranger, 57; English political poems, 58; Praed, 59; Walter Savage Landor, etc., 60-62. Virtue, what is it ?-importance of the ques- tion in moral systems, 11 et seq.
EDINBURGH; T. CONSTABLE, PRINTER TO THE QUEEN, AND TO THE UNIVERSITY.
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