be civilized. So long as the sufferers by the bad law do not invoke assistance from other communities, I cannot admit that persons entirely unconnected with them ought to step in and require that a condition of things with which all who are directly interested appear to be satisfied should be put an end to because it is a scandal to persons some thousands of miles distant, who have no part or concern in it. Let them send missionaries, if they please, to preach against it; and let them, by any fair means (of which silencing the teachers is not one), oppose the progress of similar doctrines among their own people. If civilization has got the better of barbarism when barbarism had the world to itself, it is too much to profess to be afraid lest barbarism, after having been fairly got under, should revive and conquer civilization. A civilization that can thus succumb to its vanquished enemy must first have become so degenerate that neither its appointed priests and teachers, nor anybody else, has the capacity, or will take the trouble, to stand up for it. If this be so, the sooner such a civilization receives notice to quit, the better. It can only go on from bad to worse, until destroyed and regenerated (like the Western Empire) by energetic barbarians. Additional References: Jeremy Bentham, Principles of Morals and Legislation, chaps. xiixvii. F. M. Taylor, The Right of the State to Be. W. W. Willoughby, Social Justice, chaps. v-ix. D. G. Ritchie, Principles of State Interference. W. S. Jevons, The State in Relation to Labor. Henry C. Adams, "The Relation of the State to Industrial Action," in Publications of the American Economic Association, Vol. I, No. 6. "Henry Champernowne,” The Boss. Darwin, Charles, 276-391 Discussion, as a conservative force, 737- Family relations, evolution of, 593-630 Galton, Francis, 631-646 Genius, the relativity of, 498-500 Godkin, Edward Lawrence, 716–717 Hall, A. Cleveland, 654-673 Idealization, power of, 11 Ideals of beauty, influence of, on phy- Imitation, 503-521; laws of, 511-521 Infancy, prolongation of, 410-418; Kidd, Benjamin, 481-497 Lapouge, G. Vâcher de, 647-653 Macaulay, Thomas Babington, 498-500 Method, of observation, 48-52; of ex- Method of sociology, positive, 15-64 Monarch, resemblance of, to the boss, Monarchy, how it is built up and main- Morality, dependence of, upon social Nature, aspects of, influence on the Nordau, Max, 697-715 Pain economy, transition from, to a pleasure economy, 127-132 Population, quality of, 392-409, 631-646 Religion, definition of, 486; function of, in social progress, 481-497; influ- Ripley, William Z., 676-696 Selection, natural and social, 647-654; sexual, in relation to man, 276–391; Smith, Adam, 472-477 Social dynamics, theory of, 88-116 Social phenomena modifiable, 42-47 of, 522-715; political and legal factors Social science, spirit of, 23-24 Sociology, as a study of social progress, Spencer, Herbert, 577-592 State interference, limits of, 788-808 Talk, influence of, 716-717 War and economics, 133-173 |