The Criminal Law punishes Crime: The Police Law seeks to prevent
Crime; The latter, therefore, the most important; Necessity of a
strong and well-trained Federal and State Police; The Private
Detective Police System inefficient, and often demoralizing;
Inadequacy of our present Federal and Municipal Police.
THE NECESSITY OF REGISTRATION AND PASSPORTS
No Police can work effectually unless they know every Person living within their District; Consequent Necessity of Registration and Passports; How to carry out such a System; Its Advantages in securing the Purity of Elections: in putting an end to "Mysterious Disappearances."
THE SUPERIORITY OF A NATIONAL POLICE OVER A NATIONAL ARMY
A large, well-trained Federal Police would make it unnecessary to
keep up our present Army; Expense of that Army; Why a Police
Force could do the present Duties of that Army better than a
Military Body; The Canadian Frontier Police in Illustration;
The Military Schools would always keep alive in the Nation a well-
drilled Military Force for War Contingencies.
CAPITAL AND LABOR; OR, THE RICH AND THE POOR.
Capital and Labor not two Antagonistic Factors in Human Life,
Labor being also Capital; The real Conflict is one between the
Rich and the Poor.
HISTORICAL ORIGIN OF THE CONFLICT
The Conflict inaugurated by Rousseau; Expounded by Adam Smith; Elaborated theoretically chiefly in Germany; It is not a Conflict between Workingmen and their Employers; De Cassagnac on the
Subject; Man's First Condition nomadic; Rise of Agricultural
Life: The Builders of Cities; Mechanics; Workingmen; Inter-
change between all Classes affected by a Third Class; Merchants;
Consequent Exchange of the Barter for a Money-System; Pecu-
liority of the Inequality amongst Men caused by Money.
ATTEMPTED PRACTICAL SOLUTIONS OF THE CONFLICT-THE SOCIAL-
ISTIC GOVERNMENT OF ANCIENT PERU AND THE JESUIT Gov-
ERNMENT OF PARAGUAY.
The Inca Government of Ancient Peru; Its partial Solution of the
Conflict; Prescott's Account of their System of Law and Govern-
ment; The Jesuitic Rule in Paraguay another Instance of an
Attempted Solution of the Conflict; Sketch of their Government.
THE RUSSIAN MIR SOCIALISTIC INSTITUTION, AND THE TENURE OF
LAND IN EUROPE GENERALLY
. 331-334 The Mir System of Russia another Attempt at a Solution of the Conflict; Limited, however, only to Agricultural Labor; Mode of its Operation; A Common Possession of Lands; Its Origin to be found in Central Asia; Introduced into Europe by the Indo-Germanic Tribes, on their Emigration from Asia; Still to be found in parts of Europe; Replaced in the Middle Ages by the Feudal System of Land Tenure; The French Revolution puts an End to this Feudal Land Tenure: first in France, then through its Armies nearly all over Europe; Great Britain the only Country in Europe left wholly untouched by the French Reform in the System of Land Tenure.
THE HISTORICAL ORIGIN OF THE CONFLICT
. 335-336
How the Influence of Money on widening the Distinction between
Men steadily grew; The Possession of Money gives Man a quasi
Possession of the Future; The Money-Miser is really a Visionary
Idealist; The True Idealist works out his Idea on the Present; How
Money led to Speculating and " Cornering" of all Man's Needs;
The Non-Possessor of Money the Sufferer.
ATTEMPTS AT THEORETICAL SOLUTIONS OF THE PROBLEM
How the Theorists have tried to solve the Conflict; The Russian
Nihilists; Bakonine their Foremost Representative; His Russian
Communistic Catechism; The Influence of Russian Nihilism on
Western Europe and its Literature: On the United States; Bako-
nine's Life; The Bakonite Congress at Verviers; Its Programme;
Los Daskamisadds; War upon Property, upon the Family, upon
God; The German Socialists; Their Leaders Marx and Liebknecht;
The Programme of their last Geneva Congress.
THE HISTORICAL ORIGIN OF THE CONFLICT
How the Possessor of Money increased his Power over the Poor by
the Invention of Interest and the Organization of Corporations;
The City Mechanic, in his Impotence, becomes a Striker-the
Agricultural Laborer, a Tramp.
The real Solution of the Problem to be found in a Coöperative, Federative, Republican Government, established on the Principles of Liberty and Law; Practical Suggestions; Let all Modes of Public Intercommunication be put into the Hands of the Government, in order to furnish Employment to the Workless; The Supreme Necessity of establishing an Absolute-Money System; Prohibition of all Public Debts for the future; A Graduated Income-Tax, and Prevention of the Exorbitant Accumulation of Wealth in the Hands of a few; Abolition of all Standing Armies; H. Richard, in the House of Commons, on the Cost of Standing Armies; Finally: Work for all Men and Education for all Men.
Why the State must regulate the Marriage Relation; Blunders of Past Legislation on the Subject, and their Causes; The Moral View of the Relation; Why the Law should take a Different View; Before the Law, Men and Women should be on a Footing of Perfect
Equality; The Church may hold that Woman surrenders her Per-
sonality in Marriage, but Law should take a different View; In
Law, Marriage is only a Civil Contract — neither more nor less;
What constitutes Marriage; No Special Ceremony necessary, but
all Marriages must be recorded for the Use of the State; The
Admirable Regulations of the Code Napoleon on the Subject;
Divorces: how to be regulated; How to check Prostitution and
Seduction; Polygamy nowhere to be Tolerated; Woman in Early
History on a Footing of Equality with Man; Oriental Polygamy
the Cause of their Degradation; Woman in the Times of Chivalry;
The Future of Woman.
The State must educate and furnish with a Means of Livelihood every Parentless Child; The same applies to Children having Parents, with the Exception that in their Cases the State has no Compulsory Right; Parents the Natural Protectors and Instructors of their Children; After a certain Age, however, such Children may appeal to the State for an Education; How Criminal Children should be Treated.
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THE THEOCRATICAL TENDENCY OF HISTORY
History begins with a Primitive Theocracy; Passes through num-
berless Changes of Forms of Government of Law; Its End a
Perfected Theocracy; Distinction between the Legal and Moral
Relations of Men to each other; The Relation between Man and
the Deity the highest; Twofold Character of that Relation;
An Internal Manifestation of the Deity, and an External Crys-
tallization thereof, known as the Church; The Direct Relation
between Man and God; Why the Larger Part of Mankind,
the Uninspired Race, first made the Worship of God a Sun-
Worship; Osiris, Dionysos, Ormuzd; Moses on Sun-Worship;
Father Clemens; Change in the Character of Religious Ideas;
The One God, Universal of the Human Race, changed into a
National God: the God of Love into a God of Wrath; Hence
the Barbarism of Human Sacrifices to appease the Deity; The
Bel of Babylon, the Shiva of India, the Huitzli Putzli of the Aztecs;
The Horror of a Wrathful God leads to the Conception of a Young,
Redeeming God; The Egyptian Doctrine on this Subject; Dr. Ed-
ward Roeth; Pythagoras Transfers it to Greece; The tɛpòs λoyos;
Egyptian Hieroglyphics; How the Egyptian Osiris becomes in
Greece Dionysos; His Descent into Hell, and Redemption of the
Fallen; Monotheism the Religion of all Primitive People; Lack
of Belief in Immortality amongst the Jews; The Doctrine of
Immortality the Corner-Stone of all Pagan Religions; Dr. Hugo
Delff on the Difference between Hellenism and Judaism; Why the
Greeks and Romans Accepted Christianity more readily than the
Jews; The Doctrine of Vicarious Atonement; The Doctrine of
Revelation; The True Doctrine of Immortality; An Everlasting
Inspiration of Man by the One Spiritual Life; Perennially Attain-
ing Higher Perfection and Happiness; Plato, Aristotle, Thomas
à Kempis, Angelus Silesius, Hegel; The Fundamental Distinction
between the Christian and all other Religions; In Christianity, God,
Freedom, and Immortality three Facts; Christianity the Abso-
lute Religion; Insufficiency of the Oriental Religions; Zoroaster,
Brahma; Hegel on the Brahmin Religion; Buddhism the most
blasé of all Oriental Religions; Nirvana: Its Interpretation by
Sir Charles Colebrooke, Max Mueller, and Koeppen; Buddhism in
China; Confucius in China; General Characteristics of the Chi-
nese; The Christian Religion alone is the Religion of Faith, Hope,
and Charity.
THE DANGERS OF A PRIESTCRAFT THEOCRACY
The Historical Existence of Religion as a Church; Building of Tem-
ples; Rise of Priestcraft; Priestly Love of Power; Conflict be-
tween Temporal and Ecclesiastical Power; Kant and Rosenkranz
on the Subject; Kant on the Relation of Church Service to Pure
Religion; Why Priestcraft constantly threatens Collisions between
the Church and the State; The Supreme Necessity to keep both
forever separate; How this can best be achieved in our Republic;
The most Potent Agent to be found is the Extension and Develop-
ment of our Public Schools; Free Communion with the Deity the
End of our Race.
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