Kant, 291; his teachings, 291; Hegel, 291-2; political aspirations of Germany, 293; unity under Prussian rule, 294; Bismarck, 294-5; his doctrine of Might is Right,' 294; national instinct of obedience, 295; people's self- complacency, 296; their illusions of a European hegemony, 296; comparisons between ancient Greece and modern Germany, 297; influence on the public policy of Germany, 298; her pre-eminence in the physical sciences, 298; organisation of research, 298; in- tellectual atrophy, 299; deterio- ration of the mind for higher ideals, 300; freedom of thought stifled, 301; comparison with France and Russia, 301-2; the perils of peace on a people's greatness, 302
Inge, W. R., The Birth-Rate, 62. See Birth
Ireland, Prussia, and Poland, 158. See Prussia
Jewish National Movement, The, 303 ; reconstruction of Europe, 303; claims of the Jewish nationality, 303; religious community without politics, 304; national sentiment, 304; their adaptability, 305; an integral part of the nations among whom they live, 306; emancipation movement, 306; re- establishment of Jews in Palestine, 307; persecution in Russia, 307; absence of Jewish national con- sciousness, 308; Jewish Bund, 309; development of language and literature, 309; Yiddish pro- claimed national language, 310; controversy between Bundists and Zionists, 310-1; basis of national autonomy, 311-2; nationality a personal attribute, 312; scheme of self-government, 312-3; agita- tion for national autonomy, 314; the Zionist movement, 315; effect of present war upon political ambitions, 316; Zionist solution of the Jewish question, 316; governing rule of Jewish life and its bearing upon the creation of a State in Palestine, 317
port, 209; the steady exodus of population, 210; check caused by war, 210; consequences of increased female labour, 211; demobilisation and employment, 211; social conditions altered, 212; effect on emigration, 212; enquiry into organised emigration and systematic colonisation, 212, 213; past attitude to emigra- tion, 213; Central Emigration Authority, 213; Magna Carta, 214; report on the settling of ex-soldiers, 214 et seq.; centralisa- tion of emigration associations, 214; British Empire and private enterprise, 215; transportation settlements, 215; room for colonial enterprise, 215; loss to colonies through officialism, 216; emigra- tion of women, 216; investiga- tion by Sir Rider Haggard, 217; colonies' offer to ex-service men 217, 218; financing of settlers, 218, 219; tropical colonisation, 220; Northern Australia, 221; effective occupation only title to possession, 221; difference between tropical and temperate colonisation, 222; West Indies, 222; Schools of Tropical Medicine, 223; fight against disease, 223; economic considerations, 224-6; white labour and black labour, 225; suggestions for division of tropical portion of Australia, 226 Monarchy, The End of Greek, 23. See Greek
Nietzsche, Friedrich, quoted, 288
Orr, J., Agriculture in Oxfordshire, 343, 357
Paths of Empire, The Two, 379; loyalty and strength of Greater Britain, 379; old colonial system, 379-80; its relationship with the system of imperial preferential tariffs, 379; question of sub- marine warfare, 380-1; import-
ance of keeping control of vital industries in our hands, 382-3; possible action of neutral countries during war, 382; committee to consider the commercial and in- dustrial policy to be adopted after the war, 383-4; reasons for preferential tariffs, 384: Dominions Royal Commission, 385-6; natural resources of the self-governing Dominions, 386-7; principle of an imperial com- mercial policy, 387-8; improve- ment of harbours, 388; inter- change of school-teachers, 389; creation of an Imperial Develop- ment Board, 389; dangers of a centralised control of government, 390; scheme to pay off National Debt by developing resources of the Empire, 390-1; Government control compared with private enterprise, 390-3; defects of State enterprise, 390-3; trade restric- tions of the old colonial system, 394-5; effect on the value of colonial produce, 396-8; sugar, 396; cattle industry in Ireland, 397; wool, 397; effect of fiscal policy on Ireland's commerce, 398-9; Free Trade, 399; defects of fiscal system on internal trade, 399-400; benefit of Free Trade to Ireland, 401-3; abolition of the Corn Laws, 401; protection and imperial preference, 403-4; protectionist spirit an element of discord, 405; economic conditions of Empire make fiscal unity almost impossible, 405; comparison with United States and Germany, 405- 6; India, 406; German com- mercial penetration, 407; eco- nomic prosperity due to the policy of freedom, 407-8 Peace Programme and the British Empire, President Wilson's, 227. See Wilson
Peril of Hubris, The, 288. See Hubris
Poland, Prussia, and Ireland, 158. See Prussia
Prussia, Poland, and Ireland, 158; re-establishment of independence of Poland, 158, 159; failure of Germany's policy of intimidation, 160; suggested parallel between Poland and Ireland, 161; failure of conquest, 162; constitutional relations of England and Ireland, 162, 163; cause of rebellions, 163, 164; religion a stumbling- block, 163, 164; Cromwell's policy, 164; Treaty of Limerick, 164; Irish Parliament deprived of in- dependence, 164; restrictions re- moved and commercial freedom regained, 165; legislative union formed, 166; Catholic Emancipa- tion, 166; the Great Famine and its effect on emigration, 166, 167; relations between tenants and landlords, 167; English parlia- ments' attempt to solve agri- cultural problems, 168; religious question, 169; Home Rule Act, 169; relation of English policy to Prussian treatment of Poland 170, 171; formation of Poland, 171; reactionary policy of Prussia, 172, 173; insurrection of Poles, 173; Bismarck's Polish policy, 174; his persistent persecution, 175; ultimate failure to Germanise Poland, 176; Anglo-Irish contrast, 176, 177
Puaux, René. L'Armée Anglaise sur
le Continent, 45, 47 et seq.
Quiller-Couch, A., Swinburne, 249. See Swinburne
Railways, The Future of English, 84. See English Re-Education of Disabled Soldiers, The, 119. See Disabled
Seeley, Sir John, The Expansion of
England, 379 et seq.
Shairp, L. V., The Re-Education of Disabled Soldiers, 119. See Dis- abled
Smith, Adam, The Wealth of Nations, 379, 395 et seq.
Soldiers, The Re-Education of Dis- abled, 119. See Disabled
Soldiers' and Sailors' Families Associ- ation, The Work of, 139; allow ances granted to families of fight- ing men insufficient, 139; lack of properly organised system, 139; National Relief Fund, 139; state of confusion in the Paymaster's Department, 140, 141; leads to distress in many families, 140, 141; War Office attitude to the Association, 141; fictitious claims for allowances, 142; work en- tailed, 143; voluntary support, 143; difficulties of administration, 144, 145; morality and marriage, 146; its production of hardships, 147; Poor Law Authorities, 147; care of motherless children, 148; care of soldiers' wives visiting London, 148; co-operation with Travellers' Aid Society, 148; ad- ministrative control of various funds, 149; audit control in connexion with war relief work, 150; methods of investigative work, 150, 151; effect of war on financial position of soldiers' wives, 151, 152; press agitation, 152, 153; methods of working, 153; formation of Statutory Committee, 154; effects of change upon relief work, 156; Ministry of Pensions formed, 157
Steed, H. Wickham, Austria and Europe, I. See Austria Suarès, André, Angleterre, 45, 47 Sutherland, A., The Origin and Growth of the Moral Instinct, 62, 63
Swinburne, 249; Poems and Ballads, 249; his methods of advertising, 249-50; compared with other poets, 250; his sway over others, 251; his sudden decline, 252; his elvish genius, 253; his birth and childhood, 253; his fragile- ness, 254; his enthusiasm for the earlier English poets, 255; unaffected by opinion, 255; his worshipful attitude to old men of
genius, 256; his passion for liberty, 256; his unquestionable courage, 257; his friendship with Jowett, 258 et seq.; his career at Oxford, 258-60; Rossetti, Burne-Jones, and Morris, 260; The Queen Mother and Rosamond, 261; his success with Atalanta in Calydon, 261–2; the coming shadow of pedantry, 263; lack of insight, 264; aliena- tion of friends, 265; Mr. Theodore Watts' devotion for him, 265 et seq.; his lapse into rhetoric, 267
Thorold, Algar, French and English Genius, 178. See French Tilby, A. Wyatt, Migration within the Empire, 209. See Migration Treitschke, Heinrich, 289 Turnor, C., The Land and the Empire, 343, 346
Venizelos, M., quoted, 25; policy towards Serbia, 29; Provisional Government, 36 et seq. passim
Wilson's, President, Peace Programme and the British Empire, 227; public right precedence over indi- vidual interests of nations, 227; peace to satisfy principles of
American Government, equality of rights between nations. 228; a league of nations, 228; sentiment of war to end war, 229; Disraeli, 230; establishment of perpetual peace as a scheme of practical politics, 230-2; every great war followed by attempts to formulate projects of peace," 231; international stability and the result of the war, 232; inde- pendence of smaller States, 233; the Monroe Doctrine, 234; doctrine of conquest, 235; con- trast between theory and practice of American politics, 235-6; American foreign policy, 237; League to Enforce Peace, 238; the Holy Alliance, 239 et seq.; democracy a social and economic fact, 240; freedom of the seas, 241; unrestricted submarine war, 242; universal Free Trade, 244; securing of economic peace, 244; strengthening of organisation of British Empire, 245; danger of
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