# Munera Pulveris/Index

INDEX
INDEX.
* Actions, right, seen in beauty of countenance, 6.
* Aglaia, Charis, wife of Vulcan, 101.
* Agriculture, as dominion over land and sea (fixed and flowing fields), 16 (orig. ess.).
* Agriculture„ volunteer, proposed, 149.
* Ambition and love of money, Dante on, 93.
* Ambrosia, not to be had without labour, 94.
* America, Carlyle on, 124.
* America„ condition of, "the greatest railroad accident on record," 124.
* America„ dollar-worship in, App. I. (orig. ess.).
* America„ explosions in, 47, 56.
* America„ has no republic or institutions, 124.
* America„ loan in (1863), 155 n.
* America„ slavery in, 131.
* America„ war in, 124 n. A. I. (orig. ess.).
* Ames, on monarchy and republics, quoted by Emerson, 124 n.
* Apathy, modern, its baseness, 108.
* Aphrodite, birth of, 101.
* Apollo's rule, οὐ πληγῇ νέμων, 130.
* Architecture, all houses to be well, before any finely, built, 157.
* Archons and archic law, 110-17.
* Aristocracy, government by, 123.
* Aristophanes, κάπηλοι ἀσπίδων, 127.
* Art, great, only possible in climates where life is in open air, 96.
* Art„ may be a means to great wealth, 139 n.
* Art„ modern, false basis of, 155.
* Art„ works of, accumulated by a prosperous nation, 54,
* Art„ works of„ economical value of, 20.
* Art„ works of„ included in list of things valuable, 15.
* Art„ works of„ prices given for, 65. ​
* Art, works of, possession of, laws as to, 115.
* Arve (Savoy), inundation of the, 147.
* Arve„ (Savoy)„ miserable dwellings in the plain of, 150 seq.
* Athena's rule, οὐ πληγῇ νέμων, 130.
* Athens, purity of coinage, 77 n.
* Avarice, Dante on, 88.
* Austrians in Venice and the works of Tintoret (1851), pref. 3, 9.
* Author (1.) Personal; {2.) Teaching; (3.) Books of, quoted or referred to:—
    (1.) accuses himself of vanity, 100 n.
       as a boy, at his father's table, hearing of national debt, pref. 18.
       cottage on plain of Arve, repaired by, 151.
       Greek accents and, App. III.
       servants of, would serve him for nothing, pref. 12.
       taking daguerreotypes at Venice, 77 n.
       in Venice, 1851, pref. 3.
       checked in his work, 1863, pref. 20.
       writes "Munera Pulveris" in Switzerland, 1862-3, winter, pref. 22.
       Bran wood, Oct. 5, 1871, App, VI.
       on relief of Paris committee (1871), pref.10.
       Denmark Hill, Nov, 25, 1871, pref. 23.
    (2.) Teaching, on prodigal and unprodigal son, App. VI,
       plans of, unfulfilled, 57 n.
       political economy of, defined, pref. 13.
       political„ economy„ does not put sentiment for science, pref. 13; 99 and n.
       political„ economy„ plan to write an exhaustive treatise on, pref. 20.
       political„ economy„ recognition of true wealth (Tintorets), pref. 3-4,
       political„ economy„ Utopian! 148,
       political„ economy„ weary of reiterating its truths, 96 n.
       style of, affected concentration ("Munera Pulveris"), pref. 22.
       style„ uses metaphor for brevity, 83 n.
       style„ translates literally, 105 n.
       style„ use of words, 125 n.
       teaching of, true, and his hope of its fulfilment, 154.
    (3.) Books of, quoted or referred to—
       Aratra Pentelici, Lect. IV., Idolatry, App. II.
       Fors Clavigera, aim of, pref. 21.
       Fors „ Clavigera„ notes on etymology in, 100 n.
       Fors „ Clavigera„ Letter X., 158 n.
       Lectures on Art, on Tintoret, pref. 4. ​
       Modern Painters, Vol. V. p. 255, faith and πείθω, App. VI.
       Munera Pulveris, method of its argument, 43.
       Munera„ Pulveris„ original scope of, pref. 20.
       Munera„ Pulveris„ criticism of, absurd, 69 n. App. III. V.
       Munera„ Pulveris„ dedicated to Carlyle, pref. 22.
       Munera„ Pulveris„ Fraser's Magazine and, pref. 20 94.
       Munera„ Pulveris„ style of, its faults, pref. 22.
       Munera„ Pulveris„ teaching of, the first English treatise on true political economy, pref. 1.
       Munera„ Pulveris„ how written and when, pref. 22, 30.
       Munera„ Pulveris„ carefully revised and why, pref. 22.
       Munera„ Pulveris„ misprints in original essays, App. V, VI. (orig. ess.).
       Munera„ Pulveris„ passage on Dante, praised by editor of Fraser's Magazine, 94.
       Munera„ Pulveris„ one sentence in, questioned by author, 112 and n.
       Munera„ Pulveris„ paras. 137-9 insisted on, 138 n.
       Political Economy of Art (A Joy for Ever), on luxury in dress, quoted, pref. 16.
       Sesame and Lilies, dedicated to φιλή pref. 22.
       Two Paths, on meaning of great writers, App. V.
       Unto this Last, reception of,pref. 20.
       Unto„ this Last„ quoted, p. 115, 63 n.
       Unto„ this Last„ quoted„ on education, 108 (orig. ess.), 59 n. (orig. ess.).
       Unto„ this Last„ quoted„ p.81, on price, 62 n. (orig. ess.).
* Bacchus, the grave, 102 n.
* Bacon, "Advancement of Learning," 124 n. (orig. ess.).
* Bacon„ on Charybdis, 86.
* Bacon„ political economy of, 2.
* Bacon„ on the Sirens, 90.
* Bacon„ on usury, "concessum propter duritiem cordis," 98.
* BBBBBB, Plato and Xenophon on, 109 ;/.
* Baptism, moral, with water and fire, 106.
* Beauty, personal, the result of right action, and vice versâ, 6.
* Bedford missal, the, 65.
* Beetles, flight of, on Lake of Zug, and democracy, 126.
* Benediction, "grace, mercy, and peace," 106.
* Bible:—
* Bibliomania, 65.
* Biography, 122.
* Birds, Chaucer and Cowley on, 149 n.
* Birds„ shooing of, 149.
* Blink Bonny (horse), 65.
* Body and soul not really opposed, 6,
* Books, their economical value, 19. See s. Bibliomania.
* Buildings, their value in (1) permanent strength, (2) association and beauty, 17.
* Building land, modern view of suitable, 79.
* British Association, on absorption of gold, 77 n.
* British Museum, a treasury, not a school, 115, 122.
* British„ Museum„ what it is and is not, 115, 122.
* Caffirs, England and the, 97 n.
* Canacé's falcon, 149 n.
* Cancan, the modern dance, pref. 4.
* Capital limits labour, untrue, 50.
* Capitalists and foreign loans, pref. 19.
* Capitalists„ as mere money-chests, 38.
* Capitalists„ to do unselfish work, 147.
* Caprice has no law, 34.
* Caractacus, 65.
* Carlyle, author's main helper in work, pref. 22.
* Carlyle„ dedication of "Munera Pulveris" to, pref. 22.
* Carlyle„ eulogy of his teaching, and its rejection, pref. 23.
* Carlyle„ political economy of, pref. 20.
* Carlyle„ quoted, on America, 124.
* Carlyle„ "Latter-day Pamphlets," 135, App. III.
* Carlyle„ "Past and Present," on permanence, 135, App. III.
* Carlyle„ Past„ and Present„ on clothing and cotton, 158, App. III.
* Carlyle„ "Sartor Resartus," App. III.
* Carpentry. See s. Joiner.
* Cephalopod, the (animal), 38 (orig. ess.).
* Charis, etymology of, 101 n. ​
* Charity, etymology of, and words connected with, App. VI.
* Charity„ indiscriminate, App. VI.
* Charybdis, true meaning of the myth (Bacon on), 86, 93.
* Chaucer, enigmatic, 87.
* Chaucer„ on birds, 149 n.
* Chaucer„ on largesse, App. VI.
* Chaucer„ villany of, 121 n.
* Cheapness, no such thing as, without error or wrong, 62 n.
* Cheapness„ no excuse for bad things, 17 n.
* Cheapness„ of glutted market, a disease, 62 n.
* Cheating our neighbours is possible, but is not life or nature, 10.
* Cherish, etymology of the word, 102.
* Choir, etymology of the word, 102.
* Christ washing disciples' feet, its meaning, 108.
* Christianity, modern, and greed of money ("Pay me that thou owest—not"), App. VI.
* Church building, modern craze for, 157.
* Church„ building„ old masons "logeurs du bon Dieu," 157.
* Cid, the, his horse, 35.
* Cicero's political economy, 2.
* Cicero„ quoted, 60 n.
* Cicero„ quoted„ Catiline, "non aquâ sed ruinâ," 124.
* Circe, fable of, its meaning, 103.
* Circe„ not a Siren, her power and function, 91 seq. App. V.
* Cities to have fields round them, 159.
* Claudian's pearl, 159 (orig. ess.).
* Clothing the poor, 155 seq.
* Coinage, purity of, in noble states, 78 n. See s. Athens, Currency.
* Commerce as the agency of exchange, 95, 98.
* Commerce„ fury of modern, 153 n.
* Commerce„ most important to northern countries, 95.
* Commerce„ no profit in true, 99.
* Commerce„ not degrading, 101.
* Commerce„ the inhumanity of mercenary, 100.
* Commerce„ the law of international, 97.
* Competition to measure wages, a bestial theory, 136 n.
* Consols. See s. Funds.
* Cornhill Magazine and "Unto this Last," pref. 20.
* Corruptio optimi, e.g., in commerce, 100.
* Cost defined as the amount of labour necessary to obtain a thing, 60.
* Cost„ intrinsic and effectual, 61,
* Cost„ is price, when demand is constant, 63.
* Cost„ the noblest things cost the least, 60.
* Cotton, cheap, and rags common, Carlyle on, 158.
* Cotton„ government asked to supply Manchester with, App. IV.
* Countenance, beauty of, and rightness of action, 6.
* Cowley on birds, 149 n.
* Crœsus, 27. ​
* Credit means creed, 81 (orig. ess. n.).
* Credit„-power of currency, 80.
* Creed, use and meaning of the word, 81 (orig. ess. n.).
* Crime, cost of, and of judgment, 116.
* Crime„ modern, a national disgrace, 108.
* Criminals to do lowest forms of mechanical work, 109.
* Criminals„ to work in mines, 159.
* Critic law, its functions, 116.
* Currency, bases of, better than gold, 77 seq.
* Currency„ bases„ to be small, indestructible, valuable, 74 seq.
* Currency„ bases„ to be pure, 77.
* Currency„ credit-power of, on what dependent, 69.
* Currency„ defined, chief definition, 69 n. seq.
* Currency„ defined„ "expression of price in any given article," 64.
* Currency„ defined„ "the claim to equivalent of anything, anywhere, at any time," 70 seq.
* Currency„ defined„ transferable acknowledgment of debt, 81.
* Currency„ forced, is taxation in disguise, 78, n.
* Currency„ gold withdrawn from, its effect, 81 n.
* Currency„ holders of the, 66.
* Currency„ increase of the, its effect on industry and wealth, 24.
* Currency„ increase„ often a form of taxation, 24.
* Currency„ increase„ laws of, 21 seq.
* Currency„ medium of exchange, 66.
* Currency„ national habits as affecting, 67.
* Currency„ national store and, 81 seq.
* Currency„ national, and value of, 64 seq.
* Currency„ power of, fourfold (credit, real worth, exchange, labour), 80 seq.
* Currency„ power„ increased by constant exchange, 85,
* Currency„ purity of, 77 n.
* Currency„ soundness of = enlarging debt and means, 82.
* Currency„ transferableness of, 69,
* Currency„ true and false, distinct from strong and weak, 65.
* Currency„ value of, how affected, 58.
* Currency„ value„ and its rise and fall, 41 seq.
* Currency„ and effectual value, 39.
* Currency„ vitality and feebleness of, how tested, 70.
* Currency„ wealth, and accumulation of, made possible by, 72.
* Custom, establishment of a, 106.
* Custom„ noble and base, action and indolence, 107.
* Custom„ "hangs upon us like a weight," 107.
* Dante, enigmas of, 87.
* Dante„ on avarice and prodigality, 88.
* Dante„ fortune's ball in, 100 n.
* Dante„ the power of money, 58,
* Dante„ use and abuse of riches, 88 seq.
* Dante„ usury, 88. ​
* Dante, scorn of the populace, on what based, 109 n.
* Dante„ similes of, their truth, 58.
    Quoted:—
* Dear, etymology of, 101 n.
* Death, desire to die rich, 153.
* Debt and credit, duty and creed, 81 (orig. ess. n.).
* Deficiencies and efficiencies, 119,
* Delphic oracle, πῆμ' ἐπὶ πήματι, 127 n.
* Demand, economy not based on supply and, 53.
* Demand„ in political economy, defined as affecting price, 63.
* Demand„ supply and, Carlyle on, 158,
* Demand„ supply and„ Manchester cotton and, App. IV.
* Demand„ what we ought to, an ethical question, 84.
* Democracy and republic, distinct, 124.
* Democracy„ , illustrated by flight of beetles, 126.
* Desire, the objects of right, alone are wealth, 34.
* Didicisse fideliter artes, 124 n. (orig. ess.).
* Dieu et mon droit, 113 n. (orig. ess.).
* Dishonesty and speculation in finance, 79.
* Divine Right, the true, 105.
* Doge, meaning of, 125 n.
* Draco, his name apt, 120.
* Dreams of great poets and writers, 134.
* Dress, luxury of, does it enrich a nation? pref. 15 seq.
* Dress„ luxury of„ instance of parents ruined by their daughter's, pref. 16,
* Duke, its meaning (ducal monarchy), 125 71.
* Duty, use and meaning of the word, 81 (orig. ess. n.).
* Economy. See s. Political Economy.
* Education, aim of true, 106.
* Education„ aim of true„ to teach men to do right, 130.
* Education„ defined, not science or knowledge, but training of character, 106.
* Education„ defined„ peace, pity, and grace implied by, 108.
* Education„ economy of words part of, 101, n.
* Education„ laws of, English feeling against, 112.
* Education„ may develop inherited qualities, 6.
* Effort, labour is not mere, but suffering in effort, 59.
* Emerson, quoted, on monarchy and republics, 124 n. ​
* Employment, laws of, 152.
* Employment„ practical rules for, 155.
* England, early civil wars of, App. I,
* England„ fear of France in, its annual cost, App, I.
* England„ feeling in, against educational law, 112.
* England„ slavery in modern, 131.
* England„ wealth and poverty of, do they balance each other? 57.
* Enigmas of great poets and writers, 87.
* Equality, the cry for, not irreverence, but folly, 121.
* Equivalence of money and money value, 40.
* Etymology, interest of, 100 n.
* Evil never produces good, 33.
* Exchange in commerce, costly, and therefore to be limited, 98.
* Exchange„ power of money, 80.
* Excursion trains, 159.
* Expenditure and exchange, distinct, 155 n.
* Expenditure„ selfish and unselfish, 147.
* Faith, etymology and use of the word, 81 (orig. ess.), App. V. VI. (orig. ess.).
* Faith„ works, and modern dispute on, App. VI. (orig. ess.).
* Fawcett's "Political Economy," national questions not touched in, pref. 15.
* Fawcett's„ "Political„ Economy,"„ on national debt and consols, pref. 18.
* Fawcett's„ "Political„ Economy,"„ on national debt and consols, pref. 18. on rent, pref. 17.
* Feat and defeat in labour, 59.
* Fenelon, Life of, 153 n.
* Fig-tree, the barren, in Homer and Dante, 93.
* Finance, simple enough, to cool heads and honest hearts, 79.
* Fine, and "fine" English and French, 134.
* Fireworks, national store of, its value, 47.
* Fish, climbing perch, 126.
* Food, economy of, 18.
* Fors v. mors, 118.
* Fors„ words connected with, 100 n.
* Fortune, acquiring of, a form of taxing the poor, 139.
* Fortune„ making of sudden, 153 n.
* Fortune„ the wheel of, 100 n.
* France, fear of England, App. I.
* France„ German war with, 96 n. App. I. n.
* France„ luxury of, its example to England, pref. 16,
* Franchise, proposals for, to be universal, not equal, 129.
* Fraser's Magazine and "Munera Pulveris," pref. 20, 94.
* Fraud, loss of time spent in, 104.
* Freedom, restraint and true, 103.
* Free-trade, protection and encouragement, App. IV. (orig. ess.).
* Funds, national, advantages of, pref. 19; 38. See s. National store. ​
* Geneva watches, and wealth, 49.
* Goethe speaks in enigmas, 87.
    Quoted:—
* Gold as a medium of currency, 74 seq.
* effect of withdrawing it from the currency, 81 n.
* labour wasted in obtaining, 75 n.
* use of, only in arts (ornament), not for money, 77 n.
* value of, coined and uncoined, 69.
* its depreciation, 76.
* Good and evil are fixed and absolute, 32.
* Government, always costly, 127.
* by council, visible and invisible, 122.
* consists in custom, laws, and councils, 106.
* firmness more than form of, 125.
* forms of, monarchy, democracy, oligarchy, 123.
* "for forms of government …" its truth shown, 125.
* history of a, not always that of the nation, 122.
* interference of, when objected to, when called for, App. IV.
* names of different, confused and misused nowadays, 123 seq.
* national store of wealth to be kept by, 41.
* policy of all (whatever its form), "the wise to rule the unwise," 125.
* railways, &c., to be under, 128.
* Graces, the, their function, &c., 101 seq.
* Gratis and gratia, 100.
* Great men go too far in goodness, and so lose influence, 153 n.
* Greek myths, full of meaning, App. V.
* tragedians, enigmatic utterances of, 87.
* Habit, meaning of the word, 106.
* Happiness, a cause and effect of life, 5.
* Heredity of moral and physical qualities, 6.
* Herbert, George, quoted:—
* Hincksey diggings, foreshadowed, 109, 149.
* Histoire d'une Bouchée de Pain, quoted, 91,
* History, a nation's, not always that of its government, 122.
* Holy Ghost, means " helpful and honest," 101 n.
* Homer, enigmatic, 87.
* Plato's distrust of, 87.
* scorn of the populace in, on what based, 109 n. ​
* Homer, quoted or referred to:—
* Honesty, the best policy, truth of, 104.
* Horace, quoted:—
* Idolatry, of things and of the phantasm of good, App. II.
* Ignorance, no science of, 34.
* Ill-th and health, 37.
* Indignation, true punishment and just, 120-1.
* Influence of men, invisible, 122.
* Iniquity, its general meaning, 110 n.
* Injury, defined, the worst, unconscious and due to indolence, 117-8.
* Instinct of reverence and wrath, 121.
* Instruments, their value in what, 17.
* International fears—one nation of another, App. I.
* International„ values, and their one law, 96 n. 97.
* Inundation, as illustrating political economy and wages, 141.
* Inundation„ of the Arve (Savoy), scheme to check, 147.
* Joiner, English, at work on London house, useless precision, 151.
* Judge, his offices of reward and punishment, 111.
* Justice, personal and purchased, 116.
* Justice„ principles of, and education, App. I.
* Kings as lawgivers, 111.
* Kings„ can do no wrong (in what sense true), 113.
* Kings„ "divine right" of, 113 (orig. ess. n.).
* Kings„ "rex eris si recte facies," 105.
* Labour, capital limits, untrue, 50.
* Labour„ defined as the contest of man with an opposite, 59.
* Labour„ defined„ is not effort, but suffering in effort, 59.
* Labour„ defined„ "that quantity of our toil which we die in," 59. ​
* Labour, division of, its principles illustrated, 63.
* Labour„ economy of, not sale, to be considered by Political Economy, 59.
* Labour„ kinds of, in different climates, 96.
* Labour„ law of, in youth and age, 152.
* Labour„ manual (especially agricultural) to be done by upper classes, 109.
* Labour„ money's power over, 80.
* Labour„ not to be bought or sold, 59.
* Labour„ the origin of value, pref. 5.
* Laissez faire and aller, baseness of modern, 108.
* Laissez„ faire„ doctrine, App. I.
* Laissez„ faire„ Carlyle on, 158.
* Land, best, that most beautiful in men, animals, and flowers, 16.
* Land„ its enjoyment cannot, like money, be monopolized, 85.
* Land„ ownership of, pref. 17.
* Land„ the people driven off the, in England, 131 n.
* Land„ value of, physically (in produce), intellectually (in beauty), 16.
* Land„ waste, 115.
* Land„ waste„ to be brought in by volunteer labour, 149.
* Language, accurate and loose use of, its effect, 101 n.
* Largesse, Chaucer on, App. VI.
* Law, archic, meristic, and critic, 110-6.
* Law„ art of, a noble discipline and profession, 106.
* Law„ cost of national, 116.
* Law„ educational, not criminal only, 112.
* Law„ fatal character of all, 110 n.
* Law„ formatory, not reformatory, 112.
* Law„ impossible for it to cover all points of conduct, 112.
* Law„ to regulate keeping of land, water, and air, 115.
* Law„ cannot remedy political mischief, 98.
* Law„ to enforce security of property, 67.
* Law„ true scientific, and false political economy, xiv. 12.
* Law„ stands by right alone, 113.
* Law„ is either statute or judgment, 111.
* Lawyers, the profession of the law, felt to be noble, 116.
* Leucothea's veil, App. V.
* Liberty, true, is in restraint, 103.
* Libraries, free, to be established, 115.
* Life, a cause and effect of happiness, 5.
* Life„ healthy and happy, the end of political economy, 5.
* Life„ human, is naturally harmonious, 6.
* Life„ the law of human, and work, 10.
* Life„ what things shorten or prolong man's, 8.
* Lincolnshire coast to be embanked, 149.
* Lithographs, and Tintorets, their relative value, pref. 5.
* Loans, foreign, and wars, 19.
* Loans„ national, their nature, 38. ​
* Love, capacity for infinite, in man, 121.
* Love„ comes only from harmony, 102.
* Lower classes, are they really lower? 109 n.
* Lucian, on sale of lives, 132 n.
* Lucum ligna, 124.
* Luxury, does it benefit the poor, pref. 16.
* Luxury„ economy of, 18.
* Luxury„ modern, criminally great, 155.
* Luxury„ producing of, is not wealth, ib.
* Machinery, its true value and proper work, 17.
* Maintenance of a state, defined, 3.
* Mammon, true meaning of, App. II.
* Man, difference between man and, in nature and training, 106.
* Man„ perfection of, unites body, passions, intelligence, 8.
* Man„ worth and power of, a better study than their opposites, 119.
* Mausolus, 27.
* Mechanical work, distress of, due to failure and degradation, 109.
* Mechanical„ work„ inconsistent with nobleness of race, ib..
* Mechanical„ work„ Dante, Shakspeare, and Homer on, ib. n.
* Mechanical„ work„ See s. βαναυσία.
* Medicine, the economy of, 18.
* Mens sana in corpore sano, the true doctrine, 6.
* Merchants, agents of exchange, not to look for large profits, 98.
* Mercy and merces, 100.
* Meristic law fixes what all should and do possess, 114.
* Merit, a better study than demerit, 119.
* Mill, J. S., "Political Economy," quoted:—
* Mines, criminals to work in the, 159.
* Mines„ to be made safe, 159.
* Misery of the poor, a national disgrace, 108,
* Molyneux (Rev. —), on parable of the prodigal son, App. V.
* Monarchy and tyranny, 133,
* „ compared to a ship, republic to a raft, 124 n.
* Money, accumulation of, is not political economy, 4.
* Money„ accumulation of„ its temptations, 85-6.
* Money„ credit-power of, 58 and n.
* Money„ defined, a documentary legal claim to wealth, 21.
* Money„ ill-gotten, ill spent, 86.
* Money„ its enjoyment, secure and solitary, 85.
* Money„ its study, 11.
* Money„ love of, founded on a desire for things, 65 n. ​
* Money, modern greed of, 153.
* Money„ love of, inconsistent with high moral training, 108.
* Money„-making, men to stop when they have enough, 153.
* Money„ possessor of much, generally has no fixed tastes, 85.
* Money„ property and, which the end, which the means? 83.
* Money„ to be spent by those who make it, 153.
* Money„ value of, how affected, 58.
* Money„ altered by change in national character, and why, 65.
* Money„ changes in, 22 seq.
* Money„ ought not to be intrinsically valuable with civilized people, 25.
* Money„is not wealth, 21, 36. See s. Currency.
* Museums, free to be established, 115.
* Napoleon I. on usury, 98.
* Nations, divisible into lordly and servile classes, 109.
* Nations„ government and, correlatively noble, 122.
* Nations„ happiness of, not dependent on its numbers, 3.
* National character, how indicated (its customs), 106.
* National„ character„ individual influences on, 122.
* National„ credit, to pay ready money like individuals, 38 n.
* National„ debt and national store, pref. seq. 18 seqq.
* National„ debt„ does it enrich a nation, pref. 15, 18.
* National„ debt„ would the discovery of a mountain of gold efface it? 76.
* National„ economy, on what dependent, 54.
* National„ expenditure and taxation, right objects of, 156.
* National„ health, compared to a great lake or sea, 109 n.
* National„ loss, explained, 155 n.
* National„ store and wealth, 40, 44.
* National„ store„ its nature and holders, 46 seq.
* National„ store„ and population, 54.
* National„ training, high, what it implies, 108.
* National gallery, a treasury, not a school, of art, 115.
* Nightingale's song " Domine Labia," 149 n.
* Oligarchy, 123.
* Orinoco, 37.
* Pall Mall Gazette, Oct. 27, 1871 (Jules Simon on Paris), xviii. 16.
* Paris, siege of, referred to, ix. 6.
* Paris„ siege„ relief of, 1871 committee, xii. 10.
* Parliament, Houses of, waste of labour, 157.
* Pay, amount of, asked for by the best men, is small, 60 n. (orig. ess.).
* Pay„ and profit distinct, 98 n.
* Pay„ work that will not pay in money, but in life, 160. ​
* Peace, grace essential to, 100.
* Pelicans and climbing perch, 126.
* Philotimé. See s. Spenser.
* Phlegethon, sands of, 79.
* Plato's enigmas, 87.
* Plato„ distrust of Homer, 87.
* Plato„ imagination quenched by his reason, 87.
* Plato„ political economy of, 2.
* Plato„ Sirens in, 90.
* Plato„ usury in, 98.
* Plato„ quoted, "Laws," Book 1, on Plutus, 88.
* Plato„ quoted,„ "Laws,"„ Book„ 2, on choirs, dancing, &c. 102 n.
* Plato„ quoted,„ "Laws,"„ Book„ 5, on money, 153 n.
* Plato„ quoted,„ "Republic," the slave who wants to marry his master's daughter, 134.
* Plato„ quoted,„ "Republic,"„ Book 2, ὑῶν πόλις, 91.
* Plato„ quoted,„ "Republic,"„ Book„ 3 on money, 89.
* Plato„ quoted,„ "Republic,"„ Book„ 4, on political evils and their remedies, 98.
* Plato„ quoted,„ "Republic,"„ Book„ 6 seq., on mechanical labour, 109 n.
* Plinlimmon, plant with larch, 149.
* Plutus, god of riches, blind, in Plato, Dante, Spenser, and Goethe, and in Dante, dumb, 88, A. I. (orig. ess.).
* Poets, the great, speak in enigmas, 87.
* Poets„ the great„ their visionary language about great truths deprecated, 87.
* Political Economy, modern, described, 2.
* Political„ Economy„ modern„ faith in, tested, 128.
* Political„ Economy„ modern„ does not deal with national dress, rent, debt. &c, pref. 15.
* Political„ Economy„ modern„ looks only at the exchange value of wealth, pref. 7.
* Political„ Economy„ modern„ has never dealt with intrinsic value, pref. 8.
* Political„ Economy„ modern„ fallacy that labour is a saleable commodity, 59.
* Political„ Economy„ modern„ in America, 124.
* Political„ Economy„ true, defined, pref. 1, 13.
* Political„ Economy„ true„ does not give sentiment for science, pref. 13.
* Political„ Economy„ true„ ethical postulates of, pref. 13, 81, 84.
* Political„ Economy„ true„ founded on industry, frugality, and discretion, pref. 13.
* Political„ Economy„ true„ knowledge of fine arts necessary to, pref. 1.
* Political„ Economy„ true„ its end, to multiply noble life, not money, 4, 7. ​
* Political Economy, true, not concerned with varying worth of bullion, 25.
* Political„ Economy„ true„ to examine moral results of the laws of wealth, pref. 21.
* Political„ Economy„ true„ to maintain a relation between supply and demand, pref. 11.
* Political„ Economy„ See s. Author (Books, "Munera Pulveris"), Bacon, Books, Capital, Capitalists, Cheapness, Commerce, Competition , Cost, Credit, Currency, Demand, Dishonesty, Dress, Employment, Exchange, Expenditure, Fawcett, Finance, Free-trade, Funds, Gold, Labour, Land, Loans, Luxury, Mechanical Work, Merchants, Mill (J. S.), Money, National Character, Possession, Poverty, Price, Production, Profit, Property, Rich, Riches, Supply, Use. Usury, Value, Wages, War, Wealth, Worth.
* Political evils, the remedy for, in change of character, not of laws, 98.
* Poor, the, directed by the rich, 29.
* Poor„ the„ governed by the rich, 146.
* Poor„ the„number of, in relation to the rich, 138,
* Pope, quoted:—
* Population, extent of, in relation to national store, 54.
* Population„ extent of„ in relation to„ wealth, 55.
* Portion, words connected with, 101 n.
* Possession, defined, the legal right to keep what you have worked for, 141 and n.
* Possession„ guardianship and, distinct, 37.
* Possession„ useless without use, 37.
* Poverty, always criminal, English doctrine, 136 n.
* Poverty„ merely relative, 26.
* Poverty„ wretched and blessed, 56 n.
* Price, defined, 62 n.
* Price„ is cost, if demand be constant, 63.
* Price„on what dependent (human will), 62.
* Price„ one just value and, for everything, 62 n.
* Production, ease of, only valuable so far as it enables the maintenance of more population, 62 n.
* Profit, none, in true commerce, 99.
* Property, fivefold, power over, 37.
* Property„ money and, which the end, and which the means? 83.
* Property„ security of, the first end of law, 67.
* Punishment, true, in hindrance, 120 n. ​
* Pyramid of gold may be worthless, 4.
* Pyrrhon's answer, 132.
* Race, faculties dependent on, 106.
* Railways, companies are turnpike keepers, 128.
* Railways„ excursion trains, government control of, 157,
* Railways„ quadruple lines needed, 128.
* Railways„ trains, 157.
* Railways„ station architecture, 128.
* Recreate, force of the word, 9.
* Religion, plain speaking on, objected to, 101 n.
* Rent, does a landtax enrich a nation? pref. 15, 17.
* Republic compared to a raft (Emerson), 124.
* Republic„ distinct from democracy, 124.
* Republic„ res publica and privata, 124.
* Reverence, instinctive, just, and true reward, 120-1.
* Revolution, how caused, 109 n.
* Reward, true, is at once a help and a crown, 120 n.
* Rich direct the poor, 29.
* Rich„ govern the poor, 146.
* Rich„ relation to poor, 136 seq.
* Riches, does the mode of their distribution affect their nature, 27.
* Riches„ of one man involve the subjection of others, 145,
* Riches„relativity of, 26.
* Riches„selection, direction, and provision, 29.
* Riches„their study, 11.
* Riches„ to be collected and administered by economists, 27, 29.
* Right, a man's, defined, 118.
* Right„ and wrong are life and death to man, 9.
* Royal means right doing, 113.
* St. John's locusts, 130.
* Sale is not commerce, 99.
* Savings, the use of a man's, 152. See s. Death.
* School, true meaning of, 109 n.
* Scorpion whips, our pleasant vices, 130.
* Scylla and Charybdis, meaning of, 93.
* Sensibility defined, 106.
* Servants, all who work for pay are, 145.
* Shakspeare, his dreams, divine shadows of true facts, 134.
* Shakspeare„ speaks in enigmas, 87.
* Shakspeare„ the leader of English intellect, 100.
* Shakspeare„ his scorn of the populace, on what based, 109 n.
* Shakspeare„ his nomenclature, 100 71. 134 n.
* Shakspeare„ his„ nomenclature„ Greek names, 100 n. 134 n.
    Referred to:—
       Hamlet, meaning of the name (home), 134 n.
       Hamlet„ Ophelia = serviceableness, 134 n.
       Hamlet„ quoted, "A ministering angel," &c. 134 n.
       Hamlet„ "Herb o'grace o'Sundays," App. VI.
       King Lear, Cordelia = heart-lady, 100 n.
          quoted:
             v. 3. "our pleasant vices … scourge us.
       Merchant of Venice, its lesson, 100.
       Merchant„ of Venice„ meaning of, 134.
       Merchant„ of Venice„ Portia = portion, 100 and n.
       Merchant„ of Venice„ Antonio, nobility of, 100.
       Merchant„ of Venice„ Shylock, 100.
       Much Ado about Nothing, Beatrice, meaning of, 134 n.
       Much Ado„ about Nothing„ Benedict, meaning of, 134 n.
       Othello, catastrophe of, how caused, 134 n.
       Othello„ meaning of name, 134 n.
       Othello„ Desdemona, meaning of, 134 n.
       Othello„ lago, meaning of, 134 n.
       Tempest, analysis of, 134 seq.
       Tempest„ Ariel = generous faithful service, 133-4.
       Tempest„ Caliban, 133-4.
       Tempest„ and slavery and freedom, 133-4.
       Tempest„ Miranda "the wonderful," 134.
       Tempest„ Prospero = hope, 134.
       Tempest„ Sycorax = swine-raven, 134 and n.
          quoted:
             dew brushed with raven's feather, 134.
             incensed seas and shores, 134.
             put a girdle round the earth, 134.
             fetches dew … asleep, 134.
             thought is free, 134.
             full fathom, &c., 134.
             come unto these yellow sands, 134.
             "courtesied," 134.
             all but mariners, 134.
             with bemocked-at, &c., 134.
             where the bee sucks, 134.
             side stitches, &c., 134.
             that's a brave god, &c., 134.
       Two Gentlemen of Verona, Proteus, name, 134 n.
       Two Gentlemen„ of Verona„ Valentine, name, 134 n.
       Winter's Tale, Hermione, name, 134 n.
       Winter's„ Tale„ Perdila = lost lady, 134 n.
* Ships, English, with defences;.-, liquid fire, 127.
* Sirens or pleasures, Bacon's view of, 90.
* Sirens„ or pleasures„ are really desires, 90.
* Sirens„ and Circe, distinct, 92.
* Sirens„ their destructive power, 92.
* Sillar, W. C, on usury, 98 and n.
* Simon, M. Jules, on Paris, xviii. 16.
* Slavery, American and English methods of, 131.
* Slavery„ modern, examples of, 124 n. ​
* Slavery, not a political institution, 133.
* Slavery„ right and wrong, considered, 130 seq.
* Slavery„ true nature of, in its cramping, 134.
* Socialism, modern, pref. 21.
* Soldiers, men are ready to die, but not to spend money for their country, 148.
* Soul and body, not really opposed, 6.
* Speculation = peculation, 79.
* Speculation„ evils of, 153 n.
* Spenser quoted, 93.
* Spenser„ his Philotimé, 93.
* Spenser„ Plutus, 88.
* Splendour of living, what it involves to others, 145.
* Sport, shooting of birds, 149.
* State, maintenance of a, defined, 3.
* Steam-agriculture, 149.
* Steam„-power, its true use, 159.
* Store, national, in relation to the currency, 81 seq.
* Stork and frogs, fable of, and tyranny, 126.
* Streams, not to be defiled, 115.
* Success, under competition, its meaning, 139.
* Supply and demand, fallacy of (siege of Paris), pref. 9 seq.
* Supply„ and demand„ results of (Paris print-shops), viii. 4.
* Supply„ and demand„ doctrine, 124.
* Taxation, currencies may be disguised, 78.
* Tennant, Sir Emerson, "Ceylon" quoted, 126.
* Times, June 4, 1862, on killing of birds, 149 n.
* Times„ Dec. 25, 1862, on modern civilization and revolution, 108 n.
* Times„ Feb. 4, 1863, on average earnings of the poor, 124 n.
* Tintoret, author's estimate of, 1851-71, pref. 4.
* Tintoret„ pictures of, and Paris lithographs, pref. 5.
* Tintoret„ pictures of„ in shreds, S. Rocco, 1851 pref. 3.
* Tisiphone, the rule of, 130.
* Tobacco, 65 n.
* Trade has come to mean = fraud, 99.
* Trade„ meaning of word, and traitor, 99.
* Tradesmen are the servants of their customers, 145.
* Trionfo della Morte, 48.
* Trust, meaning of the word, 81 (orig. ess. n.).
* Truths, the great poets veil their greatest, in enigma, 87.
* Tyranny, illustrated by fable of frogs and stork, 126.
* Tyranny„ and monarchy, 123.
* Ulysses, Dante on death of, 93.
* Ulysses„ and the Sirens, their appeal to his vanity, 92.
* Use, possession without, is valueless, 37.
* Use„ power of, essential to wealth, 37. ​
* Useful and useless, defined, 8.
* Usury, abolition of, by purifying national character, 98.
* Usury„ author's first notes on, 148 n. 41 (orig. ess.).
* Usury„ Dante on, 88.
* Usury„ essence and evil of, 98 and n.
* Usury„ French economists on, 148 n.
* Usury„ Greek and mediaeval horror of, 98 n.
* Usury„ Plato, Bacon, and Napoleon I. on, 98.
* Usury„ Shakspeare on ("Merchant of Venice"), 100.
* Value, definition of, 12 seq.
* Value„ distinct from cost or price, 12.
* Value„ effectual, defined, and wealth and currency, 39.
* Value„ effectual„ depends on use, and power to use, 14.
* Value„ international, 96 n.
* Value„ intrinsic, at base of true political economy, pref. 8-9.
* Value„ intrinsic„ and effectual, 12 seq.
* Value„ intrinsic„ worth makes value,not demand or money, 31.
* Value„ just, everything has its, 62.
* Value„ list of things of, 15.
* Venice, coinage of, pure, 75 n. 77 n.
* Venice„ S. Rocco, Tintorets there in shreds, 1851, 3.
* Vices, our pleasant, scorpion whips, 130.
* Virgil, Tityre tu patuloe, &c., 149.
* Virgil„ quae maxima turba, 88.
* Virtues, the four cardinal, App. I.
* Visions of great poets on great truths, 87.
* Volunteer labour, objects of, proposed, 149.
* Volunteer„ movement, to be extended beyond war, 149.
* Vote's, number of a man's votes to be increased with his age, &c., 129.
* Wages, competition not to determine, pref. 12.
* Wages„ defined bv modern political economy as "the sum which will maintain the labourer," 136.
* Wages„ equality of, depends on moral conditions, 137.
* Wages„ principles of, illustrated by story of inundation, 141.
* War, cheap, proposed, 128.
* War„ fostered by capitalists to make investments, pref. 19.
* War„ idleness of upper classes, a cause of, 149 n.
* War„ ill-accumulated money spent in, 86.
* War„ the necessity of, amongst unjust persons only, A. II.
* Wealth, attainment of great, impossible by one man, 139.
* Wealth„ attainment„ modern trickery of, pref. 13.
* Wealth„ attainment„ wish to die rich, 153.
* Wealth„caprice will not make a thing, 35.
* Wealth„ defined, 11 seq.
* Wealth„ defined„ as "a thing of value in the hands of those who can use it" (valuable and valiant), 14. ​
* Wealth defined, "intrinsic value developed by vital power," 31
* Wealth„ defined„ "the constant objects of right desire," 34.
* Wealth„ Mill's definition criticised, pref. 1.
* Wealth„ few people realise what true wealth is, pref. 2.
* Wealth„ desire of, true wealth is moderately desired, pref. 21.
* Wealth„ effectual value, and, 39
* Wealth„ exchangeability, and distinct, 35.
* Wealth„ luxury and, see s. Luxury.
* Wealth„ money, and distinct, 36.
* Wealth„ national wealth not only in amount, but in the power to use it, 27 n.
* Wealth„ national character, its importance to the distribution of wealth, 84.
* Wealth„ the phantasm of, 38.
* Wealth„ the possession of, who are the possessors of wealth, is nationally more important than its amount 84.
* Wealth„ its possession always conditional, 115.
* Wealth„ to be the reward of sagacity and work, 129,
* Wealth„ the saving up of, 153.
* Whewell, Dr., on usury, 148 n.
* Wine, English expenditure in, why no word "oino-maniac," 65.
* Wise, John R., on meaning of Sycorax (see Shakspeare), 134 n.
* Words, accurate use of, by great thinkers, 2.
* Words„ derivation of, App. VI.
* Words„ first meaning of, often the truest, 2.
* Work, good, to be got by willingness, not money, 50 n.
* Work„ wise or foolish, results in life or death, 10.
* Worth, the recognition of, in others, to be sought after, 121.
* Worth„ the recognition of„ the first thing in a nation, 121.
* Worth„ of things, not dependent on price, pref. 7.
* Xenophon's Political Economy, 2.
* Xenophon's„ Economist, on βαναυσία, 109 n.
* Xenophon's„ Economist„ on wealth and use, App. III.
* Xenophon's„ Memorabilia, Book II. on grace and equity, 100.
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