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Index

Acheson, Dean, 161,162

Acton, Lord, 41, 42, 48, 49, 115

Adam, Paul, 97, 139

Ahab, King, 45

Alfred the Great, 144

Anarchy, 14, 20, 25, 30, 45, 46, 56, 77, 80, 81, 153, 162 179

Andrea del Sarto, 144

Anglesey, 4th Marquess of, 141

Anne d'Autriche, 111, 113, 114, 116

Antoine de Bourbon, 111, 112, 115

Aristocracy, frequently; the natural aristocrat, 31; faulty Liberal analysis of, 36; its failure to fulfil its duties, 38–41; Acton's attack on, 42; advocated by Rousseau, 48, 81; supported by a Liberal, 97; and Venice, 159, 160

Aristoppos, 135

Aristotle, 10, 28, 33, 34, 53, 59, 95, 96

Arkwright, Sir Richard, 144

Armstrong, Edward, 121

Arnold, Matthew, 11, 142, 146

Arthasastra, 22

Ashburton, Lord, 140

Asoka, 22

Athens, 17

Attlee, Lord, 102

Augustus III of Poland, 123

Austen, Jane, 144

Authority, the need for, 9–12, 15, 16, 18

Ayrton, Major, 49

Babbitt, Irving, 92

Bach, Sebastian, 136, 144

Bagehot, Walter, 34

Bailey, S., 103

Balfour, A. J., 163

Ball, John, 39, 45, 46, 54, 90

Ballot, the, 18, 94

Barbarossa, Emperor Frederick, 143

Baring, Alexander, 140

Barry, Mme du, 123

Basham, A. L., 22, 23

Battifol, Louis, 111, 112

Baxter, 68

Beaumarchais, 94, 96, 166

Becket, 71

Belloc, 68

Benda, Julien, 152

Bentham, 19, 33, 45, 49, 67, 68, 83, 86, 92, 144, 167

Bentivoglio, Cardinal, 107

Berlioz, 136

Besant, Sir Walter, 144

Bingham, Anne L., 140

Bloch, Marc, 65, 142, 143

Bluntschli, 159

Boas, Dr. Franz, 11, 107

Bonham Carter, Lady Violet, 19, 100

Bossuet, 144

Botticelli, 144

Bottomley, Horatio, 51

Boulenger, 112–114, 116–118

Bowdler, Dr. T., 43

Boycott, 43

Braddock, Mrs. E., 100

Brady, Alexander, 103

Brahmins, the 21, 22

Brontë, Emily, 144

Brougham, Lord, 147

Brown, S. E. D., 8

Browning, 75, 143

Brunswick, Duke of, 41

Bryce, Lord, 34, 66, 102

Buckle, T. H., 115, 142

Bulwer Lytton, 144

Burckhardt, J, 143

Burke, 43, 89

Burney, Fanny, 144

Burt, Sir Cyril, 172

Butler, 144

Butler, Samuel, 144

Cade, Jack, 40

Cadwalader, Frances, 140

Caermarthen, Marchioness of, 140

Caesar, 100

Calvin, 80, 81

Camden, Lord, 41

Campan, Mme de, 124–126

Campbell, Thomas, 144

Caraccioli, 124

Carlyle, 143, 147, 153

Carpenter, Edward, 75

Carré, Henri, 118, 119

Carrel, Dr. A., 172

Carter, Gwendolen M., 101

Cartwright, Julia, 117

Catherine of France, 109, 110

Catlin, Prof. G., 31

Cattell, Prof. Raymond, 92, 136

Catty, Mary, 75

Chamberlain, Joseph, 144, 163

Chamberlen, 76

Chandragupta, 22

Chandragupta II, 23

Charlemagne, 111

Charles I of England, 39, 48, 104, 119

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Charles II of England, 117

Charles VI of France, 109

Charles, Prince of Wales, 103

Chaucer, 45

Chesterton, G. K., 68

Chevery, 123

Chilperic I, 61

China, 19, 23–26

Chopin, 143

Christ, 45, 68

Churchill, Randolph, 141

Churchill, Winston, 35

Clarendon, Lord, 144

Clarke, Sir Frederick, 97, 98, 169

Class distinctions, 23, 24

Clerihew, E., 43

Cleveland, Duchess of, 117

Clinias, 135

Clotaire, 61

Clovis, 61

Cobden, 144

Cole, Taylor, 103

Coleridge, 95, 131, 144

Collier, K. G., 133

Columbus, 143

Command, beneficent features of, 10,

Commodus, 134, 135

Commons, House of, 13, 39, 101, 102

Communism, 37, 45, 53, 54, 56, 74, 76, 79, 92, 94, 131, 148, 149

Condillac, 144

Condorcet, 166

Conservatism, 7; the instinct of, 49, 57

"Constitutional Monarchy", 13, 14, 72, 74, 101, 127

Corneille, 143

Cornford, F. M., 69, 167

Craft Guilds, the, 156–158

Creighton, Bishop, 41

Creighton, Dr. Mandell, 111

Crew, Dr. F. A. E., 136

Cromer, Lord, 144

Cromwell, Oliver, 66, 80, 100, 144

Curzon, Lord, 141

D'Argenson, 122

Darwin, Charles, 65, 144

da Vinci, Leonardo, 143

Death Duties, 56, 57, 147

Deener, David R., 103

de Gaulle, General, 23

Demagogy, 14

Demant, Rev. V. A., 148, 180

Democracy, 14, 18, 23–25, 28, 30, 36, 45, 46, 51, 58, 59, 61–63, 66, 69, 70, 73.77, 78, 81, 83, 86, 89, 97, 101–103, 106, 163, 168, 174

de Quincey, 83, 144

de Retz, Cardinal, 144

Descartes, 144

de Tocqueville, 30, 115

Dibelius, Prof. William, 147

Diehl, Prof., 159, 160

Disraeli, Benjamin, 23, 24, 102, 153

Disraeli, Isaac, 179

Divine Right of Kings, 15, 27, 72

Divine Right of Majorities, 27, 29

Doyle, Phyllis, 62, 69, 75

Dryden, 143

Duc d'Orléans, 114, 116

Dunbar, Sir George, 23

Du Plessis Mornay, 111

Dürer, 144

Dyson, C. C., 118, 119

Edward I of England, 39, 40

Edward II of England, 109, 114

Edward III of England, 109

Egypt, ancient, 46, 108, 160

Eliot, Lady Elizabeth, 141

Eliot, T. S., 97, 169, 177

élite, 9, 12, 15, 29, 30, 50, 51, 70, 92, 94, 96, 97, 146, 148, 152, 164

Elizabeth I of England, 72, 102, 142

Elizabeth II of England, 104

Elizabeth of France, 117

Emerson, 96, 144, 147

Ensor, R. C., 34

Envy, Universal modern ache of, 13, 22, 24, 97, 174–180

Equality, Human, 32, 33, 50, 53, 58, 59, 62, 64–66, 75, 91, 92

Erasmus, 107

Erskine. Lord, 140

Esau, 65

Eschenbach, Wolfram von, 65, 143

Ewan, David Owen, 79

Ezra, 20, 21

Fanaticism, 7

"Fascist", 8, 78, 88, 92, 136, 163

Faustina, 134, 135

Favri, Nicolo de, 107

Feminism, 45, 100

Feuerbach, 144

Figgis, Rev, J. Nevill, 64

Finer, Herman, 72

Fisher, Bishop J., 71

Fisher, Prof. R. A., 172

Fitzosbern, William, 153

Fontenay de Mareuil, 111

Franco, 100

Franklin, Benjamin, 144

Franklin, Sir John, 144

Fraser, Dr. J. A., 172

Frederick the Great 41, 100

Freedom, 53, 58, 61, 62, 64, 75, 86, 88, 104, 146, 153, 179

French Revolution, 30, 92, 126

Freud, 75

Froude, 29

Funck-Brentano, 81, 109

Galton, Sir Francis, 137, 141, 144

Garnier, 40

Garrick, 144

Gates, R. Ruggles, 135

Gaxotte, P., 121, 122

General Medical Council, 158

Genethliogy, 17

George II of England, 41

George III of England, 109, 147

Ghana, 19

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Gibbon, 143

Giles, Prof. H. A., 23, 24

Gissing, 143

Gladstone, 43, 84, 144

Godwin, 45, 167, 169

Godwin, William, 94–96

Goethe, 81, 134, 135

Goldsmith, Oliver, 144

Gooch, Dr. G. P., 62, 76, 123

Grant, Prof. A. G., 117, 121

Greece, ancient, 16, 17, 59

Grégoire de Tours, 61

Greville, 109

Grindecobbe, 40

Guillotin, Dr., 43

Gupta Empire, the, 23

Haggar, 20

Halban, 114

Hales, 40

Hallam, 130, 174

Hamel, F., 119, 123

Handel, 136

Hanoverians, the, 109

Happold, Dr. F. C., 169

Hapsburgs, the, 109, 112

Harcourt, Sir William, 56, 57, 152

Hardie, Keir, 106

Hardy, Thomas, 107

Harrington, 69

Harshavardhava, 22

Hartlib, 45, 76

Haruspication, 17

Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 107

Hazlitt, 144

Hegel, 143

Heine, Heinrich, 24, 99, 143

Henderson, E. F., 116

Henri II of France, 113

Henri III of France, 109

Henri IV of France, 110–113, 117, 128

Henry II of England, 65, 71

Henry III of England, 65

Henry IV of England, 109

Henry V of England, 109, 110

Henry VI of England, 109

Henry VII of England, 110

Henry VIII of England, 60, 71, 72

Hepatoscopy, 17

Heredity, 53, 90–93; validity of laws of proved by history of Bourbon dynasty, 128; 133–135

Hereford, Earl of, 153

Herrick, 144

Herz, H., 101

Hesse, Landgrave of, 41

Hindus, the, 19, 21–23, 26

Hobbes, 68, 75, 80, 143

Hobson, J. A., 34

Hooker, 59, 64, 65

Humboldt, Alexander von, 67

Hume, David, 66–68, 144

Hunter, John, 144

Hunter, William, 144

Huxley, T. H., 144

India, 22, 23, 63

Individualism, 34, 36

Industrial Revolution, the, 40, 107

Inge, Dean, 174

Isaac, 65

Isabella of France, 114

Jacob, 65

Jeanne d'Albret, 111, 115

Jeanne d'Autriche, 112

Jeanne de Bourbon, 109

Jelley, J., 83

Jenks, E., 26

Jenner, 144

Jerome, Jennie, 140, 142

Jerusalem, 20

Jews, the ancient, 19–21, 26

Johnson, Samuel, 67, 75, 95, 96, 175, 177

Joubert, 79

Kampala, 19

Kant, 106

Kantalya, 22

Kapp, F., 41

Karl Eugen of Wurtemburg, 41

Katz, K., 116, 117

Keats, 143

Keichel, 107

Kelly, Sir David, 162

Kett, 40

Keynes, J. M., 83

Keyserling, Count, 147

Kierkegard, 144

Kingship, the downfall of the institution of, 13; true form of, 14; and the Hindus, 22; 30, 74, 101, 106

Kinross, Lord, 162, 165

Kitchin Dr. G. W., 126

Kretschmer, Prof., 136

La Fare, 126

Lamarck, 144

Lamb, Charles, 144

Lancaster, House of, 109, 110

Landseer, 144

Longland, 40

Laski, Dr. Harold, 34, 75, 169

La Vallière, 116

Lawrence, Sir Thomas, 144

Lawrence, Lord, 144

Law Society, the, 158

Lear, Edward, 144

Leathes, Stanley, 57, 111

Lecky, 159

Leinster, Duke of, 139

Leiter, Levi, 141

Lenin, 45, 54, 74, 169

L'Estrange, 69

Lewis, Dr. E. O., 172

Lewis, W. H., 117, 118

Lex Julia, 139

Liberalism, Liberals, frequently; a substitute for a religion, the arrogance of, 7, 8; false psychology of, 30, 68–70, 76, 78, 149–152; the principles and aims of the doctrine of, 36, 37; the

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    origin of, 45, 59, 61, 63; the inhumanity of, 88, 89; the recent recognition of the value of an élite by, 92; and the heresy of the worthlessness of heredity, 133

Lidgett, Rev. J. S., 49

Lilburne, 45, 80

Liselotte, 116, 119

Liszt, 136

Lloyd George, 57

Locke, 19, 26, 33, 45, 64, 67, 69, 76, 77, 90, 92, 96, 143, 167

Lords, the House of, 13, 39, 101, 102

Louis XIII of France, 111, 113, 114, 117, 124, 128

Louis XIV of France, 40, 111, 112, 114, 115–120, 128

Louis XV of France, 40, 72, 111, 120–128

Louis XVI of France, 91, 110–112, 114, 123–125, 128

Louis, the Grand Dauphin, 111, 117, 118

Louis, Duc de Bourgogne, 111

Loyola, Ignatius, 144

Lucas, F. L., 75, 91

Lud, Ned, 43

Ludwig II of Bavaria, 109

Lully, 136

Luther, 8, 59, 66, 68, 80, 81, 90

Luynes, 113

Lydgate, 45

Lysimachus, 135

Macaulay, 48, 143

Machiavelli, 66–68

Mackenzie, A., 39

Madariaga, Prof. S., 36, 88

Madelin, Louis, 125, 135

Magus, Simon, 43

Mahommed, 100

Maine, Duc de, 117, 118

Maine, Sir Henry, 97, 172

Maintenon, Mme de, 117

Manchester, 7th Duke of, 141

Mandeville, Viscount, 141

Mannheim, Prof. Karl, 169

Marcus Aurelius, 134

Marie Adélaide de Savoie, 111, 119

Marie-Anne de Bavière, 111, 118

Marie Antoinette, 114, 122, 124, 125

Marie-Josephe de Saxe, 111, 122

Marie Leszczynska, 111, 123

Marie Louise, 134, 135

Marie de Médicis, 111–113, 116

Marie Thérèse, 111, 117

Marlborough, Duke of, 141

Martineau, James, 144

Martinet, 43

Marx, Karl, 45, 74, 76, 77, 79

Masters, John, 99, 100, 161

Matthias, 112

Maupeou, 124

Mediaeval Church, the, 7, 59, 105

Melancthon, 8

Mental illness, 29

Meredith, George, 107, 143

Middle Ages, the, 53, 70

Might is Right, the principle of, 26, 27, 92

Milesius, 135

Mill, J. S., 13, 18, 33–35, 45, 48, 83, 84, 146, 167

Milnes, Alfred, 157

Milnes, Monckton, 84, 147

Milton, 68, 143

Mirabeau, 125

Miscegenation, 20, 107

Mixed marriages, 20

Mivart, 144

Mob-majority rule, in Africa, 18, 19; and the ancient Jews, 21, the Hindus, 22, 23; 25, 26, 28, 29, 36, 75

Molière, 143

Monarchy, the institution of, frequently; the Hindu, 22; faulty Liberal analysis of, 36; present position and value of, 99–104; Bourbon dynasty proof of value of, 128

Montagu, Prof. A., 127, 133, 137

Montaigne, 139, 144

Montespan, Mme de, 116, 117, 119

Montesquieu, 79, 84, 167

Montgon, A. de, 116

Moore, A., 144

Moore, G., 67

Morley, S., 84

Morriss, 148

Morriss, William, 144

Moses, 100

Moss, Sheldon, 26

Muckermann, Fr. F., S. J., 66

Murry, Middleton, 169

Naamah, 134

Napoleon, 100, 134, 144

Nationalisation, 149–152

"Nazi", 8, 136

Needham, Marchmont, 75, 167

Nehemiah, 20

Nelson, 144

New English Dictionary, 45

Newton, 143

Nicholson, Sir Harold, 161, 162

Nietzsche, 29, 143, 175

Nkrumah, 19

Nolhac, Pierre de, 121, 122

Ochlocracy, 14, 24, 77, 101

Oligarchy, 70

Otto of Barvaria, 109

Otway, Thomas, 166

Paine, Tom, 91, 157, 169

Parkinson, C. N., 22

Parliament Act of 1911, 38

Pascal, 67

Pastons, the, 139

Paterson, Alexander, 68

Paxalos, 135

Peasant's Revolt of 1381, the, 40

Pecqueur, Constantin, 99, 166

Percival, W., 142

Pericles, 135

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Peter's Pence, 61

Peter III of Russia, 109

Philip, Prince, 102

Philip IV of Spain, 117

Philippe d'Orléans, 119

Piozzi, Mrs., 67

Pitkin, Walter P., 172

Pity, false sentiments in the emotion of, 175, 179

Pompadour, Mme de, 122

Pope, 179

Pope-Henessey, James, 147

Pope Paul III, 71

Pope Pius V, 72

Popular Government, 13–15, 19, 50–52, 58, 65, 66, 68, 69

Powys, John Cowper, 75

Price, Dr. Richard, 38

Prie, Mme de, 117

Primogeniture, 14, 21, 65, 105, 129, 138–145

Private Property, the aristocratic principle of the Sanctity of, 53–55, 64, 65, 76, 94, 130, 131, 146, 149; and nationalisation, 150–152, 154

Puritans, the, 44, 62

R.101, the Airship, 150–152

Rabelais, 59

Racine, 143

Reade, Charles, 144

Reform Bill of 1867, 84

Reformation, the, 37, 59–63

Rehoboam, 134

Reichstadt, Duke of, 134, 135

Rembrandt, 144

Revesz, Dr. G., 137

Reynolds, Sir Joshua, 144

Rhodes, Cecil, 144

Ricardo, 144

Rice, J. B., 138

Richelieu, 144

Ridley, Bishop, 45

Robinson, Crabb, 95

Rogers, J. E. Thorold, 144

Rohan, Chevalier de, 79

Romanes, 144

Romanoffs, the, 109

Rome, ancient, 16–18, 59, 178

Röpke, Wilhelm, 169

Rose, J. Holland, 58

Roseberry, Lord, 56

Roskill, Capt. S. W., 29

Rossetti, Christina, 144

Rossini, 136, 143

Rousseau, J. J., 26, 33, 45, 48, 66, 68–70, 75, 81, 84, 89, 139, 166, 167

Roxburgh, Duke of, 141

Royal Commission on Population (1950), 172

Rubens, 144

Rubinstein, 144

Rudolph II, 109, 112

Rushworth, 104

Ruskin, 143, 148, 167, 176–178

Russia, 32, 40, 77

Sade, Marquis de, 43

Sadler, Michael Thomas, 40

St. Ambrose, 71

St. Boniface, 38, 40

St. Gregory, 53

Saint-Saens, 136

St. Simon, 112, 115, 116, 118, 119

St. Thomas Aquinas, 50, 54

Ste. Beuve, 95

Salazar, Dr., 100, 161, 162

Santayana, 69

Savorgnano, 107

Savoy, 113

Schiller, 41

Schopenhauer, 140, 143, 175

Schubert, 136, 144

Schumann, 144

Seitz, 114

Selkirk, Earl of, 39

Selwyn correspondence, the, 147

Seneca, 178

Shaftesbury, 7th Earl of, 40

Shakespeare, 45, 144

Shaw, Bernard, 43, 45; 46, 76, 107

Shelley, 96

Shute, Nevil, 151, 152

Simpson, Mrs., 100

Smollett, 144

Socialism, 45, 76, 131, 149

Socrates, 175

Solomon, 134

South African Observer, The, 8

Southey, 95

Spanish Inquisition, 55

Spencer, Herbert, 10, 11, 14, 27, 33, 35, 75, 143

Spengler, Oswald, 165

Spitz, Dr. D., 157, 158, 160

Stalin, 169

Stanislas, 122, 123

Steinway, Henry, 144

Stendhal, 79

Stephanos, 135

Stewart, Michael, M. P., 102

Stratford, E. Wingfield, 146

Stravinsky, 136

Stryienski, Casimir, 121, 122, 124, 125

Stuarts, the, 113

Suffolk, Earl of, 141

Suffragettes, the, 34, 78

Sully, Duc de, 79

Swinburne, 143

Tallement des Réaux, 113, 114

Tennyson, 144, 178

Thackeray, 143

Theodosius, Emperor, 71

Thompson, Sir Godfrey, 172

Thomson, Dr. David, 48, 62, 164, 165, 168

Thomson. Prof. J. A., 137

Thomson, Lord of Cardington, 150, 151

Thucydides, 135

Tolstoy, 144

Tone, the task of setting a, 30; vital importance of, 51; 96, 97, 104, 132, 149, 154, 164, 169

Torah, 19, 20

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Tory, 8

Trade Unions, 157

Trevelyan, G. M., 178

Trollope, 144

Trotsky, 169

Turgot, 144

Tuscany, 113

Tyler, 40

Uganda, 19

UNESCO, 91

Universal Suffrage, 13, 14, 36, 46, 58, 80

Valois, the House of, 109, 114

Vanderbilt, Consuelo, 141

Van Dyke, 144

Vansittart, Lord, 28, 174

Veblen, 148

Velasquez, 143

Vermond, l'Abbé de, 125

Victoria, Queen, 109, 131

Voltaire, 41, 45, 79, 80, 91, 94, 96, 113–115, 144, 159, 166, 167

Vulpius, Christine, 134

Waldeck, Prince of, 41

Walpole, Horace, 123, 144

Walwyn, W., 45, 76

Watt, James, 144

Watts, 143

Weber, Prof. Alfred, 169

Wedgwood, Josiah, 95, 144

Wellington, 43, 100, 144

Wesley, Charles, 144

Wesley, John, 144

West, Benjamin, 144

Whetham, W. C. D., 137

Whigs, 37

Whitehead, Prof. A. N., 109

Wilberforce, Samuel, 144

Wilde, Oscar, 146

Wilkinson, 160

William IV of England, 109

William of Malmesbury, 38

William of Normandy, 153

Williamson, Dr. J. A., 109

Wilson, David Alec, 153

Windsor, Duke of, 100

Winstanley, 45, 74, 76

Winterton, Earl of, 163–165

Woman, and the vote, 18; and politics, 34

Woods, Maurice, 49

Woolf, Virginia, 166

Wootton, Baroness of Abinger, 177

Wordsworth, 68, 166

Wycliffe, 40, 54, 55, 59, 76, 90, 148, 160

Xantippos, 135

Yarmouth, Earl of, 141

Yutang, Lin, 24, 25

Zechariah, 20

Zweig, Dr. F., 34


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