ABRAHAM, K., on female rebellion against femaleness, 111.

ACCURACY, difficulty of, 85; hated by women, 86; the basic virtue, 86.

ADLER, on the will to ascendancy, 19, 43, 53, 88; on children's inferiority feelings, 63; on penis envy, 76; declared that most children masturbate, 80; on importance of early training, 90; on inflated self-importance causing juvenile delinquency, 111; his "masculine protest," 111; on pampering by grandparents, 113, 157; on abnormal results of domination by mother, 129; a pro-Feminist, 129; on social feeling, 145, 147; on evil of over-fondling, 154; on conceit of children with criminal tendencies, 156; on their production through pampering, 157; his confusion regarding inherited characteristics, 170, 171, 173, 174, 175; on ear trouble and musical talent, 175; his opposition to Freud, 175; on aspiration, 186; on child's position in family as incentive to ambition, 187; tries to save myth of man's original goodness, 211; his inconsistency, 212; on necessity to stop pampering children, 254.

ADOPTION, dangers of, 168.

AGE, futility of trying to instil respect for, 135.

AICHHORN, 23, 35; an expert exponent of the New Psychology, 55; on jealousy in children, 70, 247; on juvenile delinquency due to disappointed wives, 118, 119; on asocial behaviour of children due to pampering, 155; on importance of love, 167; on heredity, 173.

AIGLES, Alma de l', on age to start sex-instruction, 277.

AMERICA, divorce statistics of, 184; Feminism and co-education in, 185; women more powerful than men in, 202.

AMIEL, H. P., on angelic nature of children, 40.

ANGLO-SAXONS, their belief in the purity of children, 29, their misunderstanding of child-nature, 30; their acceptance of Wordsworth due to puritanical bias, 36; romanticism of their politics, 45; their males deceived by claims of Feminists, 104, 105; produce women who resent their sex, 111; fail to see that pecuniary prestige is quite adventitious, 132; average, unfit to guide children, 147; understand Discipline only as punishment, 191; their suppressed sadism, 192; have unreasoning phobia of discipline, 203; their abnormal health alone prevents complete abolition of restraint, 204; their sex-phobia makes sex-instruction difficult, 264.

ARISTOTLE, on the will to ascendancy, 19, 43, 65, 175.

ARMFELT, R. N., on qualifications of teachers, 265.

ATOM BOMBS, monstrous use of, 197.

AUGUSTINE, St., his view of Heaven, 28, largely in agreement with Browning, 33, 34; his view of children, 34; and their so-called "innocence," 35; nearer the truth than Modern Thought, 36.

BACH, 183.

BAGOT, J. H., on criminal careers beginning in childhood, 205; deplores lack of discipline, 206; on resentment of disciplinary measures taken by others, 206, 212; found discipline defective in 59.4 per cent. of juvenile delinquents, 207, 210; on futility of sending poor children to remand homes, 213; agrees with John Watson, 227.

BEVIN, his speech on friendship between nations, 44, 45.

BIRTH CONTROL, advocated by Modern Thought leads to child-adulation, 123; has led to deterioration of upper class mothers, 208.

BLOCH, Dr. Iwan, on masturbation, 252; on sex-instruction, 263.

BOOTH, Dr. Meyrick, on co-education, 184, 185; on sex-instruction, 261, 264, 267, 269.

BOTANY, useless means of sex-instruction, 255, 256.

BRIFFAULT, on women's cruelty, 201, 202.

BROKEN HEART, or "mortally wounded self-esteem," leads to flight from the child, 117.

BROWNING, his enlightened view of children, 30, 31, 34, 35; his view not yet widely accepted, 36, 37

BRYANT, a popular eulogist of the English, 22; praises their truthfulness, 87.

BURLINGHAM, Dorothy, on importance of early training, 90; on proper attitude of mother towards feeding children, 121; on tendency of mother to over-estimate children, 129; on danger of children serving as outlets for adult emotion, 158.

BURT, Dr. Cyril, on causes of juvenile delinquency, 209, 216; on heredity as partly responsible for this, 211; on the worst type of mother, 230.

BYRON, not monogynous, 196.

CARD, the Adult's Heart, 159, 160; the child's response to, 163, 235, 240.

CARD, the Child's Heart, 160; its value, 166, 235, 240, 242.

CARD, the Club, the child's hereditary endowment, 168, 212; importance of, 175, 176; supported by Spade Card, 185, 186.

CARD, the Diamond, 176; a most severe discipline for parents, 176; most difficult to play, 180; often wasted, 181; and children's mimicry, 186; and discipline, 221.

CARDS, Master, 150; importance of grasping, 234.

CARD, the Spade, 185; can aid justifiable ambition, 186; requires help of sound advice from outside, 187; rules for playing, 187, 188.

CARROLL, Lewis, technique in his books useful in dealing with children, 246.

CATS, relative unpopularity of, 20; can be barefaced liars, 50, 51; an instance of this, 280.

CHAMBERLAIN, A. P., his evolutionary view of the child, 37; on lying in children, 87, 239; on women's cruelly, 201.

CHARACTER, necessity for moulding, before imparting sex-instruction, 263, 264.

CHELWOOD, Lord Cecil of, appeal to, 20.

CHESTERTON, G. K., on untruthfulness of the English, 88.

CHILD-ADULATION, now a cult, 14; its prevalence ominous, 16; partly due to Anglo-Saxon love of raw material, 17; not prompted by real love of children, 20; gratifies adults, 22; Jesus responsible for much of the mischief of, 24; due to self-love, 96; and occasional survival of love in a romantic match, 98; and to self-esteem, 98; and pride in product of our own labours, 98; also to sex-phobia, 99, 100; in the modern father, 101; due to pleasure derived from fondling, 106; due to pleasure at having produced a son, 112; due to rivalry between parents, 116; increased by birth-control, 123.

CHILDREN, Mankind still not adapted to their presence, 9; their grotesque proportions, 11; memory necessary for correct judgment of, 12; their acute observation, 12, 13; foolishness of encouraging their self-importance, 13, 14, 15; their aesthetic appeal, 16, 17; the raw material of the future, 18; success with, felt as a tribute to character, 18, 19; road casualties of, arouse little indignation, 20; injuries of, in mines and factories, 20, 21; their complete amorality 25; this their most uplifting quality, 26; their similarity with Satan, 28; origin of myth of their moral superiority to adults, 29; Wordsworth's conception of, 30; failure of modern adults to understand, 38; sexual desires in, regarded with horror by parents, 39; regarded with reverence by Western adults, 46, 47; but this not due to real love for them, 52; given wholly unreal idea of their own importance, 53; difficulty of understanding, 56; foolishness of giving expensive toys to, 56, 57; illegitimate coloured, in England, 58; fundamentally different from adults, 60, 140; newborn scarcely human, 61; governed by the Pleasure Principle, 62; their inferiority feelings, 63; their heartlessness and cruelty, 64, 65; their Will to Power, 65, 66, 163; clever at bringing about tension between parents, 65; their tyranny over mothers, 66, 67; their jealousy, 67, 68, 69; their aggressiveness, 70, 71; their destructiveness, 72; reasons for this, 72; their "inspectionism," 74; their delight in exhibitionism, 77; often masturbate, 79; their habit of lying, 83; adults' horror at this, 84; why should they be more truthful than statesmen and Archbishops? 86, 87; all lie if necessary, 87; often absolutely truthful, 88; invalids to be made valid for society, 92, 93; welcomed as certificates of potency, 101; delight philoprogenitive men, 105; self-pity inculcated on, 107; their technique of starvation to cow the adult, 117; hesitation in guiding, owing to lack of definite goal in life, 124, 125; modern belief in superior wisdom of, 125; absurdity of this view, 126; foolishly encouraged to "express themselves," 127; "Problem" produced by over-petting by mother, 128; no longer respect seniors, 134; their bright side an aid to parents, 150; need parental love, 150, 151, 158; their extreme plasticity should be respected, 151; spoiling of, inflicts injury on the community, 155; their helpless dependence on adults, 160, 161, 162; their love destroyed by adults weakness, 163, 164; their vigilant observation, 164, 179; do not love those who spoil them, 164, 165; their imitativeness 176; lightly disciplined in America, 202; their destruction of almond trees at Wembley, 203; tiresome results of exhibitionism in, 243, 244; should not be paid undue attention, 246; pampering of, should stop, 254; not much interested in sex-instruction, 262, 263.

CRICHTON MILLER, Dr. H., on deterioration of mother of upper classes, 208.

CHRISTIANITY, so-called "true," 31.

CHURCH, the, opposed to Modern Thought, 32; in agreement with Browning, 32, 133; teaches that Man is born sinful, 33.

CLEMENT, St., his view of Heaven, 28.

CLIO, necessity for having her good memory, 12.

CO-EDUCATION, imitation in, 181; places example of wrong sex before children, 182; exists in the home, 182; poor social successes of, 184; not dangerous to children's morals, 184; why it is to be condemned, 185.

"COLOUR-BAR," foolish attitude of middle-class women towards, 58.

CONSISTENCY, importance of, 234.

COOK, Eliza, on worship of Nature, 49, 50.

COOPER, Henry Lamont, case of, 109, 110.

CORPORAL PUNISHMENT, hardly ever necessary, 227, 228; danger of, 228; ill effects of, 229; regarded as total expiation, 232; a confession of failure, 233.

CORRECTION, lends to become punishment, 141.

CRIMINALS, their conceit, 156; begin their careers in childhood, 205.

DARWIN, on inherited characteristics, 171; on their superior importance, 172.

DELAFIELD, E. M., her brilliant portrayal of children, 54; her masterly vignettes of everyday life, 116.

DEUTSCH, Helene, on penis envy, 75, 76; on exhibitionism and voyeurism, 78; on women's Narcissistic love of their children, 96, 153; on Female rebellion against femaleness in Anglo-Saxon countries, 111, 200.

DEWEY, 222.

DICKENS, not monogynous, 196; his Wackford Squeers, 207.

DISCIPLINE, case of, if Cards properly played, 167; not to be neglected, 170; the four meanings of, 189; only the last two generally used by the English, 190; regarded by them as fundamentally evil, 190; synonymous with punishment, 191; lack of, leads to deterioration of manners, 191; dislike of, rooted in complexes, 192; associated with cruelty by modern people, 198; opposed by women, 200; as good as extinct in England, 303; phobia of, leads to sentimentalism, 204; defective, accounts for 59.4 per cent. of juvenile delinquents, 207, 209; falsely alleged to be inspired by fear, 220, 221, 222; recourse to, in sense four a confession of failure, 227; advice on, 233–248.

DOGS, success with regarded as tribute to character, 18, 19; Hitchens on, 19; can be barefaced liars, 50, 51; explanation of love of, among English, 113; the author's training of, 191, 199; punishment unnecessary for property trained, 225, 227; instances of lying by, 279, 280.

DOSTOIEVSKY, his observations on criminals, 156.

EDDY, Sherwood, on sex-instruction, 267.

EDEN, Dr. T. Watts, and Dr. Eardley Howard, recommend early marriage for women, 97.

EDUCATION, not to be neglected, 170; its limitations, 173; a preparation for life, 182.

ELECTRA COMPLEX, 115.

EMERSON, on the divine nature of infancy, 40.

ENGELS, would have been shocked to see result of his principles, 42.

ENGLAND, dishonesty widespread in, 181, 203; to teach decency to Germans, 181; discipline as good as extinct in, 203; increase of juvenile delinquents in, 303; perfect health now extinct in, 216.

ENGLISH, the, love the primitive, 17, 18; called a "kindly people," 22; their truthfulness praised by some, 87; family life of, spoilt by dissatisfaction of wives, 116; to-day abnormal, 145; discipline disliked by, 190; found outlet for sadism in sport, 96; their sadistic behaviour in the colonies, 196, present-day arresting ugliness of, 216; ill-effects abroad of their pecuniary prestige, 273, 274.

ENJOYMENT, no argument against exercising power, 223.

ENVIRONMENT, decisive only in cases of weak endowment, 170; not as important as heredity, 173.

ERASMUS, on importance of early training, 89, 90, 166; on imitativeness of children, 179; on the teaching of boys by men, 183; against placing boys under control of women, 185; on women's cruelty, 202.

EXHIBITIONISM, normal in human beings, 76; children delight in, 77; encouraged by the Wordsworthian standpoint, 77, normal component in the female, 78; sometimes justifies anxiety, 78, 79; means of sublimating, in men, 79; mother's delight in child's, 141; encouraged by narcissistic mothers, 155; tiresome results of, in children, 243, 244.

FAIR PLAY, boast of, in England, 145.

FAMILY, the, drawbacks of, 84.

FATHERS, their pride in producing children, 102; this leads to their deception by Feminist claims, 105; not necessarily good child educators, 128; boys the apprentices of their, 183; their duty to correct lying, 242.

FAUST, Dr. B. C., recommended wearing of kilts by boys, 252.

FEAR, unnecessary to discipline, 220–222.

FEMINISM, has increased power of women in the home, 127; installed parent most likely to err in child-education, 128; has made sound education more difficult, 130; promoted birth-control, 130; closely knitted with co-education, 185.

FEMINISTS, their false claims regarding the home, 104, 105.

FENELON, on jealousy in children, 67, 68; on self-assertiveness in children, 245, 246.

FONDLING, pleasure derived from, 106, 141; not proof of deep affection, 153, 154; proper time for, 158.

FONTENELLE, on children's acute observation, 179.

FERE, Ch., in favour of sex-instruction by parents, 269.

FOREL, Auguste, in favour of sex-instruction by parents, 269; on suitable age to start it, 272, 277.

FREEDOM, English idea of, 146; an instance of this, 146, 147.

FRENCH, the, their sound method of dealing with sex, 274–276.

FREUD, Anna, 23; an expert exponent of the New Psychology, 55; on importance of early training, 90; on proper attitude of mothers towards feeding children, 121; on tendency of mothers to over-estimate children, 129; on danger of children serving as outlets for adult emotion, 158; on importance of love, 167; on strength of the instincts in early life, 178.

FREUD, Sigmund, 7, 23, 35, 37, 53; on "repressions," 54; on the Pleasure Principle, 61; on jealousy in children, 68; on penis-envy, 75, 76; claimed all young children masturbate, 80; on dangers of this, 81; described masturbation as immature form of sexual activity, 82; regarded every infant as a polymorphous pervert, 82; on importance of early training, 90; on the narcissistic love of parents for their children, 96, 153; on the attachment of mothers to sons, 112; on importance of heredity, 172; Adler's opposition to, 175; on the shaping of the super-ego, 178, 200; on sex-instruction, 263, 269, 272, on proper age to start it, 273.

FRIEDLANDER, Kate, on children's aggressiveness, 69, 70; on importance of the mother's influence, 97, 130.

GASPERI, his attitude towards the birth of a child, 104.

GERMANS, English claim to teach decency to, 181; discipline contemptuously associated with, 190.

GERMANY, good behaviour of children in, 203.

GILLINGHAM BOY, case of the, 261, 264.

GIRLS, little, should be spared sight of male nudity, 75; more prone to masturbate than boys, 80.

GOETHE, on the reason of children's destructiveness, 73.

GRANDMOTHER, the, reason for spoiling by, 114; her self-gratification at expense of children, 157.

GRANDPARENTS, pampering by, 113, 157.

GUYAU, J. M., on respect, 162; on love and gratitude, 163; on children's love of firmness, 165; on love essential to authority, 167, 243; on heredity, 169, 173; criticized Spencer, 240; on penalties for lying, 242.

GUYON, René, on coprophilic tendencies in children, 82.

HALL, Dr. G. Stanley, on children's lying, 87.

HAMILTON, E. R. on teachers, 265.

HEALTH, the author's previous advice on, 218; very rare to-day, 218, 219.

HEAVEN, Kingdom of, if inhabited by children inevitably abode of complete amorality, 25, 26; if merely abode of saints makes nonsense of Jesus's view of children, 27; Christian view of, 27, 28, 34, 38, 46,

HERBART, Johann Friedrich, regarded adults as superior to children, 48, 49; on children disliking their sense of smallness, 63; on fundamental difference between adults and children, 140; on ease of exercising authority where there is love, 167; on education, 182; on necessity of health for education to be effective, 216, 222; on the burden of children, 226.

HEREDITY, importance of, 169; more important than environment, 170; no longer disputed, 171; various scientists on importance of, 172; influence of, in producing criminals, 211.

HIPPOCRATES, 183.

HIRSCHFIELD, Dr., on masturbation, 80, 81; on parents' ignorance of children, 140; a co-educationist, 182; on children's lack of interest in sex, 249; on dealing with masturbation, 250–252; on sex-instruction, 260; on proper age to start it, 273, 277.

HITCHENS, Robert, on dogs, 19.

HITLER, blamed for present-day disorder, 248.

HOLLER, Konrad, on futility of botany as means of sex-instruction, 255, 256; on sex-instruction in schools, 266, 267.

HOLY FAMILY, the, not strong in psychological insight, 24.

HOME, the, essentially the setting for the woman, 102; not necessary for the man, 102, 103; necessary for men who have property, 105; the modern, unsuitable for rearing children, 157.

HOWARD, Eardley, see EDEN.

HUMOUR, sense of, not advocated, 148.

HUTCHISON, Dr. Alice M., on dangers of tile mothering instinct, 107; on egoism produced in children, 111; on evils of the small family, 124; on the spoilt child, 157; on difficulty of dealing with only child, 246, 247; on discipline making punishment unnecessary, 247.

IMITATION, by children, 177; potent influence in child-culture, 180; in co-education 181, 182.

INCAS, the, high civilization of, 184.

INFANTS, all, are polymorphous perverts, 82.

INFERIORITY PEELINGS, common in an Age of random breeding, 113; prevalence of, in England, 145, 190.

INGE, Dean, a popular eulogist of the English, 22.

INSPECTIONISM, 74; discussed, 248–249.

INSTINCT, folly of trusting, 142.

ISAACS, Susan, 23, 35; on sexual desires in children, 38; on adult horror at this, 38, 39; an expert exponent of the New Psychology, 55; on children's cleverness in creating tension between parents, 65, 66; on aggressiveness in children, 69; on their delight in exhibitionism, 77; on masturbation by little girls, 80; on children's lying, 87, 240; on the sense of reality, 89; on limitation of bodily caressing of children, 108, 159; on children's vigilant observation, 164; on their desire for strength in their adults, 165; on necessity of love to obtain obedience, 243.

JAPANESE, the, discipline contemptuously associated with, 190.

JESUS, responsible for much of mischief of child-adulation, 24; not a good psychologist, 24; knew all about children and the Kingdom of Heaven, 25, 26; must therefore have regarded the latter as abode of complete amorality, 26; otherwise must have been completely ignorant of child-nature, 27; Christian interpretation of his view of children, 29; his ipsissima verba opposed to the Church, 31; his words accepted by Modern Thought, 32; implied Man is born "good;" 33; his influence on view of the child in Anglo-Saxon countries, 37; Joad on, 37; pain indicted in parents and children by his teaching, 38; taught that children are wiser than adults, 125.

JOAD, C. E., on Jesus, 37.

JONES, Dr. Ernest, appeal to, on sadism 194.

JUNG, 23.

JUPANGI, Terpac, insisted on every man learning his father's trade, 183.

JUVENILE DELINQUENCY, increase of, due to late marriage of women, 97; and inflated self-importance, 111; due to lack of parental control, 128; soaring figures of, 148; not due to bad environment, 173, 174; defective discipline accounts for 59.4 per cent. of, 207; three causes of, 211; reasons for high proportion of eldest children in, 247.

KANT, Imanuel, on feeling for Nature, 48; on subjecting children to dictates of reason, 61; compared music to scent, 146; on working-class children, 155; on education, 182, 222; on punishment for lying, 232; on importance of consistency, 234; on duty of fathers to correct lying, 243.

KILTS, author recommends wearing of, 252.

KIPLING, his Captains Courageous, 165, 222; this deserves study by all who have authority over juveniles, 224, 227.

KIRKPATRICK, on children's acute observation, 179.

KLEIN, Melanie, 23; on "penis-pride," 102, 165, 200; on inspectionism, 248.

KRONFELD, Dr. A., on masturbation, 252

KUUM-AB-RA, 183.

LA FONTAINE, on the pitilessness of children, 64.

LASEGUE, Professor, on masturbation, 251.

LASSALLE, would have been shocked to see results of his principles, 42, 43.

LAUGHTER, provoked by suffering, 144.

LECKY, suffered from sex-phobia, 99.

LEWIS, Robert, T., on the only child, 130, 131; on incapacity of parents for child-guidance, 143, 237; on unsuitability of modern home for rearing children, 157; on discipline regarded as punishment, 191; says the hand that rocks the cradle can wreck the world, 207; on corporal punishment, 228; his pessimistic opinion of average parents, 245.

LIDDELL HART, Captain, on value of accuracy, 86, 88.

LITTLE, Sir Ernest Graham, on road casualties, 21, 22.

LOCKE, John, on children's love of "Dominion," 88; on importance of early training, 89, 90; on children as travellers in a strange country, 160, 166; on children's imitativeness, 179; put Learning last in education, 182; gave instructions for maintaining health of children, 218; 212, 227; on corporal punishment, 228, 229, 240; on punishment being unnecessary, 236; on children lying, 238.

LONGFELLOW, in agreement with Wordsworth, 39, 40.

LOVE, a determining factor in obedience, 133; of parents for children natural, 138; 139; understanding essential to, 139, 140, 151; sexual, often devoid of this, 139; difference between sexual, and love of children, 152, 153; Pfister's definition of, 152; often self-love, 156; should involve deep concern for welfare of loved one, 158; children need, 158; author's definition of, 160; children's, founded on respect and confidence, 162; essential for child-training, 167; secures obedience, 243.

LUTHER, believed Man was radically bad, 41; would have arranged human procreation differently, 99.

LYING, children's habits of, 83, 88, 89; common in all classes, 87, 88; acquired through adult example, 180; case of undue severity for, 238, 239; need for concern about, 239; reasons for children's, 239, 240; how to deal with, 241, 242.

LYTTLETON, Rev. and Hon., favours sex-instruction by parents, 269; on shyness of parents in giving it, 270–272, 276.

MACHIAVELLI, his attitude not acceptable to Modern Thought, 43; believed all men are bad, 43, 44.

McNICOL, H., on education, 91, 266.

MANNERS, lack of, to-day, 143, 144, 146, 148; held to be bemeaning, 145; deterioration of, due to lack of discipline, 191.

MARX, would have been shocked to see results of his principles, 42, 43.

MASTURBATION, most children practise, 79, 80; more frequent in little girls, 80; danger of fixation due to, 81; dangers of, 81; an immature form of sexual activity, 82; how to deal with, 250–254; not too much importance to be attached to, 251.

MEAD, Margaret, on masturbation in Samoa, 80, 81, 253; on pecuniary prestige, 131; on children's lack of discipline in America, 202; on view of certain educators on Human Nature, 205.

MEMORY, importance of, in judging of childhood, 12, 33.

MEN, do not to-day fully express their sex-instinct, 195; naturally polygynous, 195; have always been so, 196.

MENDEL, on "genes," 171.

MEREDITH, George, 11.

MIDDLE CLASSES, delegate parental duties to strangers, 36, 155; generally liars, 88.

MILL, John Stuart, says working classes are generally liars, 87.

MILTON, his definition of education, 91.

MISCHIEF, in children not to be taken too seriously, 213.

MISUNDERSTANDING, a cause of producing criminals, 211.

MOLL, in favour of sex-instruction by parents, 269.

MODERN THOUGHT, largely founded on "real" Christianity, 32; declares that man is born good, 33; its acceptance of the Wordsworthian view, 36; Machiavelli's attitude not acceptable to, 43; its attitude towards children and animals, 51; rules in "free"

countries, 98; believes in superior wisdom of children, 126; has bred Feminism, 127; scoffs at children showing gratitude to parents, 136, 137; but some still refuse to be guided by, 138; modern parents incompetent at resisting, 138; and Right of Private Judgment, 190, regards children as pure and innocent, 231; sacred character of reproductive functions over looked by, 268.

MONEY-KYRLE, K. E., on coprophilic tendency in children, 82.

MONTESSORI, Maria, on environment and heredity, 173; on punishment, 231, 232.

MONTGOMERY, enjoyed commanding Eighth Army, 223.

MOTHERS, appreciate attention to their offspring, 15, 16; in aristocratic society trained to know children's proper place, 15, 16; tyrannized over by their children, 66, 67; their self-love, 96; their importance to their children in the early years, 97; to-day nut reconciled to their sex-life, 100; derive pleasure from fondling their children, 106, 107; their pleasure in the helplessness of infants, 108; their normal sadism, 108; their love of children not unalloyed, 110, 111; their satisfaction at producing a son, 111, 112; appropriate the beau rôle, 114; their pertinacious contest for supremacy, 116; their disappointment with husband leads to adulation of children, 116, 117; cowed by children's technique of martyrdom, 116, 117; indulge greed in their children, 121; usually lax disciplinarians, 128, 207; Narcissism in, 110, 153, 155; astonished by their spoilt children's indifference to them, 165; girls the apprentices of their, 183; unable to control their spoilt children, 199; self-indulgent working-class, in juvenile Courts, 207, 308; upper class, deteriorating, 208; suggestion for help from working-class, in Juvenile Courts, 209; reason why, shirk discipline, 225; inconsistency of modern, 234; regard lying as unimportant, 243.

MOTOR-CARS, casualties due to, 20, 21.

MUCKERMANN, Friedrich, on importance of deciding whether Man is good or bad, 41.

MUNTHE, Axel, his false statement about animals, 50, 51, 84.

MUSSOLINI, and freedom, 147.

NAGASAKI and HIROSHIMA, annihilation of, 197.

NARCISSISM, in parents, 96; early child-bearing avoids, 96; leads to spoiling children, 97; in all mother-love, 110, 153.

NATURE, Kant on the sublime in, 48; the wickedness of, 49; monotony of, themes in English and north European countries, 49, 50; Schopenhauer on, 50; admiration of, incumbent on "nice" people, 51, 52.

NEGRO, the American, English girls raped by, 168.

NETER, his views on masturbation, 81.

NEW PSYCHOLOGY, advent of, responsible for opposition to Wordsworthian attitude, 54; used to promote emancipation of children, 54; some expert exponents of, 55; confirmed Kant and Spencer, 61.

NICOLSON, Harold, praises "truthfulness" of the English, 87.

NIETZSCHE, his condemnation of Christianity, 32; on the Will to Power, 43.

NONSENSE, love of, explained, 18.

NORSWORTHY, Naomi and Theodora Whitley, on children's lying, 87; on meeting the child fearlessly, 166; on heredity, 173.

OBEDIENCE, secured by love, 243.

ODLUM, Dr. Doris, on how to deal with children's refusal of food, 122; on punishment, 231; her book recommended, 234.

OEDIPUS COMPLEX, 115.

ONANISM, discussion on, in Vienna, 80.

OWEN, Robert, would have been shocked to see results of his principles, 42, 43.

OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY, its definition of Discipline, 192.

PANETH, Marie, on children's destructiveness, 72; her description of a gang of children, 148; on London children's cynicism, 180, 181.

PARDOE, Geoffrey, on the sexual act, 100.

PARENTHOOD, necessary for full development of the individual, 179.

PARENTS, difficult for them to keep Reality Principle in view, 93; English and American prepossessed in favour of children's "innocence," 96; their self-love, 96; regard children as their moral superiors, 99, 100; rivalry between, 114–116; under sway of Pleasure Principle, 141; helped by their love of the child, 156; their love should include reverence, 151; and prevision, 152; control by, would reduce juvenile delinquency, 206; do not fear to discipline children, 221; reason why shirk discipline, 225, 226; wise, make the child the chela, 235; the best sex-instructors of their children, 269.

PAUL, St., his view of Heaven, 27, 28.

PECUNIARY PRESTIGE, influence of Anglo-Saxon, in foreign countries, 40, 90, 273, 274; leads to extravagant spending on children, 57; banished purely personal characteristics, 131.

PEEL, Robert, agitated against child casualties in industry, 20.

PENIS ENVY, in women, 75, 76, 200; assuaged by bearing a son, 112.

PENIS-PRIDE, in men, 102.

PEPYS, Samuel, not monogynous, 196.

PFISTER, 23; on horror and disgust aroused by children, 64; on their "inspectionism", 74, 248; too pessimistic about this, 74, 75, 77, 78; on importance of early training, 90; his definition of love, 152, 153, 155, 157, 158, 208; revision of this definition, 160; on heredity, 173; opposed to corporal punishment, 229; on dealing with lying, 242; on case of guiding children through love, 253; on sex instruction, 164, 269; on proper age to start it, 273.

PITT-RIVERS, G., his Clash of Culture, 195.

PLEASURE PRINCIPLE, the, a term invented by Freud, 61; children start wholly under influence of, 89; parents often still under dominion of, 91; difficult, of adjusting, to Reality Principle, 91; failure to do this in the Henry Lamont Cooper case, 109; most mothers dominated by, 140, 141; mothers ruled by, 156; the child's, clashes with adult's firmness, 164; mothers dread to oppose, 166; in children confirmed by spoiling, 174, 178, 189, 221, 223, 230, 247.

POOR, the, minister to the will to ascendancy, 19; spoiling of children among, 115.

PRAISE, and blame, fair distribution of, 235.

PRIVATE JUDGMENT, modern belief in, 190; better to be a fool and have it, 191.

"PROGRESS," is merely change, 133, 135.

PROMISES, should be kept at all costs, 235.

PUBERTY, most unsuitable age to start sex-instruction, 277, 278.

PUNISHMENT, discussed, 227–240; rarely necessary, 236.

QUEUES, unfairness in, 145.

QUINCEY, de, on value of silence in childhood, 126, 244.

RACE-DENIAL, encouraged, 58.

RANDOM-BREEDING, one cause of production of criminals, 211; dire results of, 214, 215.

REALITY PRINCIPLE, the, has to be inculcated on children, 89; seniors should have adopted, 140; not applied by adults to children, 141; failure of mothers to inculcate, 156; their dread of doing so, 166; 189, 221, 233.

REIBMAYR, on inherited characteristics, 171.

REMAND HOMES, futility of sending poor children to, 213.

REYNOLDS, Joshua, his heads of angels, 271.

RICHARDSON, F. H., on importance of early training, 90; on potent influence of imitation, 180; on corporal punishment, 233.

RODIN, incident during author's life with, 275, 276.

ROGGE, Dr. W. C., on masturbation, 252.

ROMANTIC MATCH, the, occasional survival of love in, 98; leads to cruel disappointment, 117.

ROUSSEAU, on love of the raw and crude, 18; believed Man is born good, 40, 41, 43, 44; on children's "amiable" traits, 83; on children's vigilant observation, 164; on value of imitation, 177; on imitativeness of man, 180, 229; on punishment, 241; on children's chatter, 244, 246; in favour of sex-instruction by parents, 269.

RUSKIN, his belief in baby wisdom, 126 , his sentimental reverence for children, 151.

RUSSELL, Bertrand, on his children's slight interest in sex, 258, 259; his type of home relatively rare, 270.

SADISM, normal expression of, in men and women, 107, 109, 193, 194; little children satisfy female, 108, 109, 110; suppression of normal component of, in Anglo-Saxon sexual instinct, 192; sport an outlet for, 196; modern entertainments proof of undetonated, 197; inculcated in Army Battle Schools, 198; connected by girls with male rôle in sex, 200.

SADLER, Michael, agitated against child casualties in industry, 20.

SATAN, "fired" from Heaven, 27; children's likeness to, 28.

SCHARLIEB, Dr. Mary, 208.

SCHILLER, Friedrich, his view of children akin to Wordworth's, 48; his attitude to Nature and children prevalent to-day 51, 52.

SCHIZOTHYMES, unduly multiplied in towns, 194.

SCHOOLS, not suitable for sex-instruction, 259–269.

SCHOPENHAUER, on Nature, 50; his vision 103.

SCOT, case of boyish misdemeanour in an intelligent, 213, 214.

SCOTT, Sir Harold, on increase of juvenile delinquency, 97.

SELF-IMPORTANCE, prevalence of, 145; ill effects of, in children, 156.

SELF-PITY, inculcated in children by mothering instinct, 107.

SENTIMENTALISM, is inverted sadism, 204.

SEX ACT, the, regarded with horror by some, 99, l00.

SEX INSTRUCTION, of children, demand for, 255; no need of, for rural children, 256, 257; needed only in urban areas, 257, 259; few teachers qualified to give, 264; host given by parents, 269; should be gradual, 272; proper age to start, 272, 273.

SEX-PHOBIA, displayed by adults, 95.

SHAFTESBURY, Seventh Earl of, agitated against child casualties in industry, 20.

SHELLEY, not monogynous, 196.

SINCLAIR, May, her insight into child-nature, 54.

SOCIALISTS, dire results of their belief in the goodness of Man, 42.

SPARTA, separation of boys from girls in, 184.

SPENCER, Herbert, on the "innocence" of children, 35; his Education, 36, 37; negligible effect of his teaching, 54; on savage nature of children, 61; preferred children of large families, 124; on children's defects reflecting parents' defects, 143; on parenthood being necessary for full development of the adult, 178, 179; gave instructions for maintaining health of child, 218, 222, 227; on dangers of parental wrath, 228; on importance of consistency, 234; his advice on punishment, 240, 241, 242; on children's mischievousness, 243.

SPOILING, definition of, 91; due to Narcissism in the mother, 97; due to rivalry between parents, 115; does not introduce new features into children, 174.

STEKEL, W., underrates dangers of adolescent masturbation, 81; mentions threat of penis amputation, 94; on unimportance of sexual traumata per se, 95; on "sympathy," 151; on heredity, 173; on sex-instruction, 260, 261, 263, 269, 272, 273.

STUPIDITY, progress in, undeniable, 87.

SUBJECTIVITY, in treatment of children, 57–59.

SULLY, James, on aesthetic charm of infants, 16, 23; on cruelty, 65; on lying, 180; on truthfulness, 180, 181; 193.

SUPER-EGO, its function, 178.

SURBLED, Dr. on masturbation, 251.

TEACHERS, shortage of gifted, 264, 265.

THOMSON, Sir, J. A., on futility of botany as means of sex-instruction, 255.

THOMSON, Professor, on inherited characteristics, 171.

THRING, on corporal punishment, 232.

TRADES, value of, running in families, 183.

TRADITION, breakdown of, leads to contempt for seniority, 132, 133.

TRAUMATA, psychogenic, their importance exaggerated, 94.

TREVELYAN, G. M., his English Social History, 196.

TRIANGLE, the Eternal, 7; did not exist originally, 8; extremely tangled and involved, 68.

TRUTH, the, unnecessary for everybody to speak, 84, 85.

UPPER CLASSES, the, generally liars, 88; not better disciplinarians than working-classes, 208.

URBAN SOCIETIES, repressed sadism in, 193, 194; deprived of catharsis by means of brutal sports, 196, 197.

VALENTINE, C. W., an expert exponent of the New Psychology, 55; on production of the "problem child," 128; declared he is usually result of mother's spoiling, 157; on importance of heredity, 173; on Victorian severity, 206; on reason for "problem" children in "broken" homes, 207; on heredity as cause of juvenile delinquency, 211; on corporal punishment, 227, 228; on punishment being unnecessary, 236.

VEBLEN, Thornstein, a "married bachelor," 103; his views on the family, 103; would not have been deceived by Feminist claims, 105, 106; on pecuniary prestige, 131, 132; on savagery of human nature, 197, 198.

VIVES, Juan Luis, on power of mother for good or evil, 129; his tale of a spoilt youth on his way to execution, 129; on imitativeness, 180; on "cockering" children, 245.

VOYEURISM, natural and innocuous, 76, 77; normal component in the male, sometimes justifies anxiety, 78, 79; means of sublimating, in woman, 79.

WALES, Hubert, on what every barn-door fowl can do, 102.

WATSON, John, 23; his admirable handling of juvenile delinquents, 209; excellent advice by, 226, 227; on corporal punishment, 228.

WHITLEY, Theodora, see NORSWORTHY.

WHITTIER, in agreement with Wordsworth, 39, 40; on children as God's interpreters, 126.

WILHELM II, blamed for present-day disorder, 148.

WILLIAMS, Guilfoyle, 80; on importance of early training, 90; his mistaken view of a mother's love for her son, 110; on wrong atmosphere in the home, 111; on the mother's threat to "tell Daddie," 114; on mistakes of parents, especially mothers, 127, 128; on children's defects reflecting parents' defects, 143; on heredity, 174; on inadvisability of raising ambitions unduly, 186; on dealing with masturbation, 250, 254; on futility of botany as means of sex-instruction, 253; on difficulty of sex-instruction by parents, 270.

WILLS, David, W., on discipline, 220–226; his shallow attitude towards sex-instruction, 268, 269.

WILL TO POWER, in children, 65, 175; makes them acquisitive, 66; and jealous of rivals, 67; leads to discord in the home, 112, 113.

WIRTH-KNUSDEN, Dr., on women's cruelty, 201.

WOMEN, dislike accuracy, 18, 86; take no steps to prevent road casualties to children, 21; predestined Wordsworthians, 41; late marriage of, leads to juvenile delinquency, 97; require the home to complete their sexual cycle, 102, 103, 104; suspect discipline gives pleasure, 192; naturally polypedous, 195; inadequately functioning, resent exercise of power by others, 199; suspect men of sadistic intentions in exercising discipline, 200; opposed to discipline in general, 200; more cruel than men, 201, 202; cannot understand discipline, 225.

WORDSWORTH, had an inaccurate memory, 12, 33, 34; his Ode, 29, 30; his sex-phobia, 30; backed by high authority of Jesus, 31; opposed to the Church, 32; implied that Man is born good, 33; his view accepted by most Anglo-Saxons, 36; his caricature of child-nature dominates adult thought in Europe and America, 39; drew inspiration from same source as Rousseau, 40, 41; his view and Schiller's very similar, 48; grave consequences of his teaching, 53, 54; the modern pseudo-scientific support of his attitude, 55; his followers shocked by the New Psychology, 61; his sentimental reverence for children, 151; on children's imitativeness, 180; his standpoint may be responsible for violent behaviour of parents, 230, 231; his standpoint should be abandoned, 133.

WORKING-CLASSES, generally liars, 87; spoil their children, 115; mothers of, too ignorant to resist children's wiles, 154; should receive preparation for parenthood, 234.