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Adler, on inferiority feelings, 41, 112; discovered their root in organic inferiority, 134

Agrarian oppression, produced revolts, 73, 74

Ambrose, St., he and others like him supported by an exalted Authority, 62

Animals, their desire to segregate, 125–132

Aristocracy, misunderstood, 11, 12; non-existent in England, 51, 68, 74–78, 80–82, 90; past failures of, 67, 68; isolated instances of, in England, 89; difficulty of producing, 136; rules for producing, 137, 167; can now be consciously produced, 168; who selects it? 196–199; how it arises, 197–203; superiority of the animal man essential to, 169, 201; how it can be superintended, 204–207; no practical alternative to rule of, 207

Aristocracy, A Defence of, its constructive suggestions, 9

Aristocrats, English, condemned by Ponsonby and Thorold Rogers, 88, 89

Atrocities, some modern, 26

Axioms, some counterfeit psychological, 20, 21

Babylonians, their debt to the Sumerians, 159, 160; their wise administration of justice, 159, 160

Ballot, immorality of the secret, 32, 33

Balzac, on power of wealth, 43

Baudouin, Paul, his Diaries, 18

Beard, C., on the War of 1941, 18

Beauty, Baudelaire on, 91; essential in the aristocrat, 202

Bentley, Eric, his Cult of the Superman, 9

Bernhardt, Sarah, on golf, 20

Beveridge, Lord, perplexed as to how leaders are to be found, 65

Birley, Robert, his subjectivity, 30

Black Death, results of, 72

Blood Groups, belong to different branches of human species, 120, 121

Boas, on leadership, 66; on Negro and White crosses, 104, 105; does not consider psycho-physical quality, 111; does not consider miscegenation dangerous, in; on inbreeding, 118, 119; on non-existence of race-antipathy, 131; on failure of environment alone to produce culture, 145

Boer War, not decided by the people, 18

Bolshevism, inequality under, 44

Bonham Carter, Lady Violet, on immaturity of Englishmen, 20

Boniface, condemned the Anglo-Saxon nobility, 68 Booth, Charles and William, their vulgar outlook, 56

Bottomley, H., the archetype of the successful Parliamentary candidate, 21

Briand, astonished by Lloyd George's love of golf, 20

Briffault, on nervous disorders due to random breeding, 112

British Empire, dependent on mechanized industry and foreign trade, 86, 87; inflicted untold suffering, 86; became a pauper commonwealth, 87

Bryce, Lord, on dictatorship of money, 13; on power of early indoctrination, 14; on futility of education, 15; on irresponsibility of the Press, 15; on difficulty of forming judgments, 20; condemned eloquence and universal suffrage, 22; his Model Citizen, 25; his criticism of Democracy, 49

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Burns, Delisle, on "public opinion", 13; on power of money, 14; on peace, 17

Burrow, Trigant, on Man's "universal neurosis", 45, 111

Cancer, unknown among inbred people, 105; possibly due to random breeding, 108, 109; increase of, 108, 109; difficult to induce in inbred chickens, 109

Carlyle, failure of his exhortations, 9

Carrel, Dr. A., on futility of education, 52; on degeneration of public men, 97; on cancer, 108; on cell instincts, 108, 109; on desirability of harmonious development of tissues, 115

Catlin, on the worker's desire for personal freedom, 42; on lack of progress, 214

Charles I, his inarticulateness, 22; his wise choice of Ministers, 78; his inferiority feelings, 79, 80

Charles II, profligacy of nobles under, 81

Children, failure of moral influence on, 27

Chinese, recognized relation of beauty to ruler gifts, 202

Christianity, some advocates of, 25, 26; failure of, 26, 27; largely responsible for biological inferiority, 180, 187

Church, the, partly responsible for failure of aristocracy, 192, 193

Churchill, Winston, in war-time, 17; suggested prosecuting non-voters, 29, 34

Cicero, on virtue, 23; condemned secret ballot, 32; favoured a monstrous combination, 53; on responsibilities of the upper classes, 159

Civilization, racial factor in, 145; prerequisites for production of high, 147

Clarke, Sir Fred, his belief in education, 23, 51, 52; calls for aristocratic stiffening of Democracy, 51; and for the "uncommon common man", 52; his admiration of England's rulers, 86

Coleridge, on the Money Power, 14

Collingwood, Dr., on low qualifications of ruling class, 48; favoured "aristo-democracy", 53

Columbian School, ignores disharmony due to random breeding, 113, 114; claims "racial antipathy does not exist", 130–132; its claims that all races are equal, 142, 143; reason for quoting, 146

Communism, as sequel to Democracy, 44

Conklin, on impossibility of observing laws of good breeding today, 136

Coulton, his explanation of mediæval works of art, 177

Crew, on independent inheritance of bodily parts from disparate parents, 100–103; supports Durkheim, 208

Cripps, Sir Stafford, his belief in Christianity, 25

Culture potential, necessity for, 145, 146

Darwin, on mongrels, 99, 100; his experiments in cross-breeding, 106, 107; on regression, 106, 107; on instinct of animals to inbreed, 125,126

Dawson, Christopher, on road casualties, 16; on power of the Press, 17

Degeneracy, definition of, 138

Democracy, various democrats on difficulties of, 12; cannot be prevented from choosing fools, 12; foisted on all nations, 29; drives towards dictatorship, 31; some believers in edifying influence of, 31; its materialistic valuations, 33; undermines instinct of workmanship, 33, 34; scorns quality, 35; means death or degradation, 36; why it appeals to modern civilized people, 40; essential requirements

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    for, 43; leads to Communism, 44; a form of mass neurosis, 46, 47; its failure to discover leaders, 48; tone set by the people under, 48; no men of quality in a, 150; the leaders in, primarily self-chosen, 197

Diffusion, spreads cultural elements, 144, 154

Discipline, need of, not recognized under a democracy, 40

Dishonesty, now widespread, 26

Disparate parents, independent inheritance of bodily parts from, 100–104, et passim

Durkheim, his objection to human standardization, 212

Education, futility of, for rearing leaders, 14, 15, 20, 25, 53, 64, 65; mistaken belief in, by various people, 23, 25, 56, 150; unable to produce a new élite, 57 Education, Ministry of, its booklet, 35

Egyptians, the ancient, probably a pure race, 141, 153; incest among, 153, 155, discussion of, 152–158; how their aristocracy was controlled, 205; diversity of their talents, 211, 212; their decline after miscegenation, 212

Eliot, T. S., on Equality of Opportunity, 42; on our low standards of culture, 55; on necessity for an élite, 57

Elizabeth, Queen, employed commoners, 76; disliked ugly, diseased people, 174, 184; constitutionally odd, 183; dissolved a marriage of marked disparates, 184, 185

Eloquence, unnecessary for rulers, 22

Emerson, condemned eloquence, 22

English, easy to govern, 40; a gullible people, 49; ugliness of modern, 94, 104, 174–176; once good-looking, 173–174; their former psycho-physical quality, 176, 177; their artistic gifts, 177; never as standardized in beauty as cats, 32, 178; high death-rate among, led to health, 179; have "least of national character", 186; their mercenary outlook, 189; their rulers probably descended from conquerors, 192; their nobility never had a monitorial system, 194

Englishmen, their ignorance of human nature, 19, 20; their permanent juvenility, 19, 20; not politically minded, 38

Environment, improved, does not necessarily improve human quality, 95; not the primary moulder of culture, 145

Equality, demand for, due to vanity, 41

Equality of Opportunity, Lord Bryce on, 22; T. S. Eliot on, 43

Exhortation, various authorities on futility of, 11, 27; utterly sterile, 193 Exogamy cannot produce leading caste, 153

Feminist, influence on Press, 16

Feudal System, depended on character of its head, 69; cruelty under, 69; good points of, 70; lack of aristocrats under, 70, 71

Flourishing Life, necessity for examples of, as guides, 36, 39; cannot be produced by education, 91; Egyptian rulers genuine examples of, 156

France, her special endowment, 90

Froude, J. A., on decline of aristocracy, 57

Gentleman, sixteenth century conception of, 189

George, Stefan, failure of his exhortations, 9

Gray, Alexander, on Democracy, 12; his disbelief in education, 15; on choice of parliamentary candidates, 18

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Greeks, their culture, 164–165

Guizot, did not know how great men are produced, 89, 90

Haldane, J. B. S., on miscegenation, 102, 105

Hankins, F. H., on race, 140–145; on well-endowed stocks, 149; on the Jews, 162, 163

Happold, his schools of leadership, 54, 55

Harding, D. W., on life too short for mastering political problems, 12; on public unification through propaganda, 13; on war being decided on by an influential section, 18

Hawthorne, Nathaniel, comments on English ugliness, 103, 175, 178

Health, necessary for inbreeding, 153; conditions favouring, 179

Henry VIII, a "crowned lout", 75

Heredity, not improved by good environment, 95

Hobson, on confusing the electorate, 13; on war, 17; on Boer War, 18; on electorate's indifference to politics, 28

Humbugs, popularity of, 21; some types of, 21

Hume, David, on English national character, 186

Humour, sense of, possessed by all the rogues of history, 21; examples given, 21; Wordsworth and Richelieu lacking in, 21; essential to political success, 48

Ill-Health, not uncommon in mediæval life, 179, 180

Inbreeding, desirable results of, 118, 152; various authorities on, 118–133; instinct for, among animals, 125–127; and Man, 127, 128; mystery of desire for, 128, 129; the mystery explained, 129; cannot alone produce high culture, 146, 147; among Norfolk Islanders, 147; demands health, 156; among the Jews, 161, 162; in Europe, 170–172; locally in England, 179

Incas, beauty of the first, 202

India, exploitation of, very lucrative, 83

Industrialization, attacked by Vogt and Inge, 88

Inferiority feelings, almost universal among modern civilized people, 40–42, 134, 135; due to psycho-physical deterioration, 112; not prevalent in Middle Ages, 188

Insanity, increase of, 111

Intelligence, decline of, 107

Jacks, on futility of exhortation, 11

James I, his eloquence, 22; a pachyderm, 80

Jesus, love of condones all constitutional defects, 187

Jews, the, regression of thymus gland in, 120; endogamy among, 161, 162; produced many able men, 163; their appreciation of quality, 163

Job, his horse, a thorough-bred, 92, 94

Joubert, on England's foggy ideas, 31

Judge Jeffreys, his severity towards kidnappers, 84, 85

Judgment, inadequate powers of, 20

Jury System, superior to the democratic, 34

Keith, on desirability of segregation and inbreeding, 117, 119, 120

Kidnapping, in England in the seventeenth century, 84

Kings, magical powers often attributed to, 200

Kings, English, their choice of healthy wives, 182, 183; but paid no regard to disparity of type, 182, 183; bad choice of wives by some, 183, 184; their ill health, 184

Kipling, on transport, 310

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Kleptomania, euphemism for thefts by the well-to-do, 160

Kluckholn, on impossibility of reviving Christianity, 27; on parliamentarianism, 30; on inbreeding, 119; on the Japanese, 120; on race, 144

La Harpe, on political virtue, 24

Law Society, tests qualifications of lawyers, 19; its discipline of its members, 206

Lloyd George, in war-time, 17; his love of golf, 20; on biological regression, 107

Lothian, Lord, on democracy depending for its success on aristocrats, 50

Macaulay, Beatrice Webb's condemnation of, 37; his opposition to Southey, 37

Machinery, still has some quality, 96

Malmesbury, William of, his condemnation of early English rulers, 68

Mannheim, on increase in neurosis, 15; on lack of leadership, 23; on necessity for established uniform valuations, 38; makes no constructive suggestions, 38, 39; his belief in education, 62, 63; on transforming Man, 62, 64, 135; his criticism of the parliamentary system, 63; supports Durkheim, 207

Manu, Code of, 159, 160

Marlborough, advocated democracy, 29

Martel, Sir Giffard, on failure to protect our troops against Russian injustice, 195

McNicol, H., on shortcomings of average elector, 34

Measurements, variations in bodily, 170–171

Medical Council, the General tests doctors' qualifications, 19; its discipline of its members, 206

Mill, J. S., on judgment by the people, 18, 19; on Englishman's ignorance of human nature, 19; condemned secret ballot, 32; his hope of civic duty disappointed, 35; his condemnation of English ruling class, 55

Mjoen, on unharmonic race-crossing, 111

Money, various authorities on dictatorship of, 13, 14

Mongrelization, disregard for, 94, 95; not due only to race mixture, 95, 98, 100, 102; Darwin and Mjoen on, 99; ill health due to, 104, 105; resulting from mating of disparate types, 133

Montesquieu, on political virtue, 24 Moral Rearmament, letter to The Times on, 24, 25

More, Sir Thomas, on conspiracy of rich against poor, 74

Murry, Middleton, on difficulties of democracy, 12; on the Press, 16; advocates Christianity, 25, 27, 58; advocates education for training leaders, 58

Napoleon, his lack of eloquence, 22; maintained the Revolution was created by vanity, 41

Negro, generally intellectually inferior to the White, 142

Neurosis, widespread, 43, 110, 112; Man's "universal", 45

Newman, Cardinal, on private judgment, 18; despised by Macaulay, 37

Nightingale, Florence, her condemnation of the ruling class, 56

Nordics, the, Gordon Childers on, 158

Oratory, not inseparable from statesmanship, 32; instances of this, 22

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Peace or War, cannot be decided by the people, 17, 18

Pecuniary Prestige, power of English, 31; the modern passport to respect, 43; respect for, prevented production of people of quality, 186–191

Peffer, N., on futility of exhortation, 11; on inability of a democracy to decide on peace or war, 17, 18

Petrie, Flinders, on reason of ebb of civilizations, 151

Pitt-Rivers, G., on value judgments, 39; on "culture potential", 145

Poetry, English, largely escapism, 19

Poets, English, their views on beauty and ugliness, 185, 186

Polynesians, beauty of the, 122

Portsmouth, Earl of, his Alternative to Death, 54

Press, the, power of, 13, 17; quite irresponsible, 15; not free, 15, 16; dependent on advertisement, 16; relative indifference to road casualties, 16

Progress, not necessarily produced by change, 38

Propaganda, various authorities on influence of, 13

Psychological axioms, some mistaken English, 20, 21

Pym, his Grand Remonstrance, 80

Quality, can be produced only by men of quality, 91, 92; cannot result from random breeding, 93, 95; homogeneity the first step to, 148; difficulty of restoring, 169, 207

Race, note on, 138; its meaning, 139; how to produce, 140; mistaken claims of certain "racists" about, 140, 144, 149; time required for producing, 151, 152

Random breeding, leads to independent inheritance of disharmonious bodily parts, 92, 93, 95, 101; the greatest crime against humanity, 92; affects internal organs, 98, 100, 101; some results of, 101, 102, 103, 108; a possible cause of cancer, 108, 109; produces constitutional changes, 111; ill health due to, 113, 133, 181

Regression, various authorities on, 106, 107

Rhesus Factor, in blood, 121

Road casualties, tragedy of, 16; callousness regarding, 26

Robertson, T., on international dictatorship of money, 13

Romans, the, quite unaristocratic, 166; their patricians a plutocracy, 166

Röpke, W., maintains that science can value, 39; advocates the feudal principle, 60; his "secularized clerks", 61

Rousseau, Prof. G. J., on ugliness of modern men, 104

Royalty, ill health of, 183–185

Salazar, Dr., on English democracy, 30

Salisbury, first Earl of, a cripple, 174

Salisbury, Marquis of, on possible difficulty of continuing parliamentary democracy, 63

Salesmanship, a racket, 96

Salvation Army, required for the "upper classes", 56

Schneider, on essential condition for Democracy, 42; ascribes Democracy to vanity, 44; on the neurotic, 45, 46

Segregation, benefits of, 117, 122; can produce a race, 122, 123, 124; instinct for, in animals, 125

Self-government, its salutary effect taken for granted, 31

Shaw, G. B., a slap-dash thinker, 60

Slave Trade, English prosperity due to, 83, 85; some respected families connected with, 83; Royalty profiteered in, 84

Socrates, his mistaken belief about vice, 25; his dualism, 164; his

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    exaltation of the soul, 180; his increasing influence in England, 182, 185, 186

Sophocles, on power of opinion, 13; on difficulty of forming judgments, 20

Southey, condemnation of industrialism by, 37

Spencer, Herbert, on futility of moral exhortation, 11; on education, 15, 20; his pessimism about Democracy, 25; on a nation's belief in its own institutions, 30; his failure to explain Socialism, 44; on mongrelization, 100; on ugliness, 104; on superiority of leaders, 200

Spitz, on benefits of Democracy, 23; does not meet fundamental objections to Democracy, 47; acknowledges necessity for an élite, 66; on "correction" being produced by Democracy alone, 149, 150; on the voter's limited choice, 197; his criticism of aristocracy, 203, 206

Stalin, his lack of eloquence, 22

Standardization, essential to health, 116; not incompatible with versatility and diversity of production, 207 et seq.

Strickland, Agnes, on the bluff man, 21

Stupidity, dangers of, 188

Suffrage, popular, condemned, 22

Suffragettes, inspired by unprintable motives, 29

Sumerians, their high culture, 158–160; the debt of Babylonians to, 159–160

Syphilis, incapable of permanence in pure-bred Africans, 105

Taste, essential for eminence of a people, 36; examples of men who possessed, 37; the basis of Southey's criticism of Industrialism, 37

Tawney, R. H., on subservience to money, 56, 57; regarded feudal system as oppressive, 71

Thoroughbreds, exist only in animal world, 92; the outcome of segregation and inbreeding, 122; the human, now extinct, 214

Trevelyan, G. M., on futility of education, 15; his high praise of Shakespeare's countrymen, 176

Tudors, their plebeian origin, 77

Ugliness, of modern people, 103, 104, 132; of English in the seventeenth century, 178; defended by Prynne and Steele, 1783, ambivalence of some authors on, 178, 185, 186

Unesco, on miscegenation, 114

Vanity, now the prevailing passion, 41; various authorities on, 41; the basis of Democracy, 44

Veblen, T., on essential condition for Democracy, 42; on Democracy as the outcome of envy, 44, 46; on "conspicuous waste", 189

Venice, its aristocracy sprang from the soil, 192; the far-sighted benevolence of its rulers, 193; the severe discipline of its rulers, 194, 204, 205; its rulers' disregard of biological considerations, 205

Vicars, Vincent C., on dictatorship of money, 13

Vogt, calls England a contented parasite, 88

Vote, case of refusal to use Parliamentary, 34

War, supported by national vanity, 17; average voters have no say regarding, 18

Wars of the Roses, did not deprive England of any great figures, 75

Webb, Beatrice, on low standard of political intelligence, 28; her con-

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    tempt for Macaulay, 37; her condemnation of English ruling class, 55

Webb, Sidney, a slap-dash thinker, 60

Weber, Alfred, on necessity for an élite, 58

Wells, H. G., a slap-dash thinker, 60

Wertheimer, his appreciation of quality, 163

Williamson, Dr., on road casualties, 16; on popularity of war, 17

Women, their lack of interest in politics, 2


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