The two kinds of Co-operation.-In its highest sense

it is not yet thought of.

II. CONTENTMENT

Co-operation, as hitherto understood, is perhaps not

expedient.

III. LEGISLATION

Of True Legislation. That every Man may be a Law

to himself.

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313

315

The Corruption of Modern Pleasure.-(Covent Garden

Pantomime.)

The Corruption of Modern Pleasure. (The Japanese

Jugglers.)

VII. FESTIVITY

343

Of the Various Expressions of National Festivity.

VIII. THINGS WRITTEN

347

The Four Possible Theories respecting the Authority

of the Bible.

IX. THANKSGIVING

352

The Use of Music and Dancing under the Jewish

Theocracy, compared with their Use by the

Modern French.

The Meaning, and Actual Operation, of Satanic or
Demoniacal Influence.

XI. THE GOLDEN BOUGH.

The Satanic Power is mainly Twofold: the Power of
causing Falsehood and the Power of causing Pain.
The Resistance is by Law of Honour and Law of
Delight.

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359

367

The Necessity of Imperative Law to the Prosperity of
States.

XIII. EPISCOPACY AND DUKEDOM .

376

The Proper Offices of the Bishop and Duke; or,
"Overseer" and "Leader."

XIV. TRADE-WARRANT

383

The First Group of Essential Laws.-Against Theft
by False Work, and by Bankruptcy.-Necessary
Publicity of Accounts.

The Nature of Theft by Unjust Profits.-Crime can
finally be arrested only by Education.

XVI. EDUCATION.

894

Of Public Education irrespective of Class-distinction.
It consists essentially in giving Habits of Mercy,
and Habits of Truth. (Gentleness and Justice.)

XVII. DIFFICULTIES

402

The Relations of Education to Position in Life.

XVIII. HUMILITY

405

The harmful Effects of Servile Employments. The
possible Practice and Exhibition of sincere Humi-
lity by Religious Persons.

XIX. BROKEN REEDS

410

The General Pressure of Excessive and Improper

Work, in English Life.

Of Improvidence in Marriage in the Middle Classes;

and of the advisable Restrictions of it.

XXI. GENTILLESSE

Of the Dignity of the Four Fine Arts; and of the

Proper System of Retail Trade.

XXII. THE MASTER

Of the Normal Position and Duties of the Upper

General Statement of the Land Ques-

Classes.

tion.

XXIII. LANDMARKS

Of the Just Tenure of Lands; and the Proper Func-

tions of high Public Officers.

XXIV. THE ROD AND HONEYCOMB .

The Office of the Soldier.

XXV. HYSSOP

APPENDIX

Of inevitable Distinction of Rank, and necessary Sub-

The meaning of Pure-

mission to Authority.

Heartedness. Conclusion.

APPENDICES

I. EXPENDITURE ON SCIENCE AND ART

II. LEGISLATION OF FREDERICK THE GREAT.

423

446

455

465

466

III. EFFECT OF MODERN ENTERTAINMENTS ON THE MIND OF YOUTH 468

VII. LETTER TO THE EDITOR OF THE Pall Mall Gazette

VIII. PASSAGES FROM THE ORIGINAL LETTERS TO MR. THOMAS

PREFACE

THE following Letters were written to Mr. Thomas Dixon, a working corkcutter of Sunderland,' during the agitation for Reform in the spring of the present year. They contain, in the plainest terms I could use, the substance of what I then desired to say to our English workmen, which was briefly this:-"The reform you desire may give you more influence in Parliament; but your influence there will of course be useless to you,-perhaps worse than useless, -until you have wisely made up your minds what you wish Parliament to do for you; and when you have made up your minds about that, you will find, not only that you can do it for yourselves, without the intervention of Parliament; but that eventually nobody but yourselves can do it. And to help you, as far as one of your old friends may, in so making up your minds, such and such things are what it seems to me you should ask for, and, moreover, strive for with your heart and might."

The letters now published relate only to one division of the laws which I desired to recommend to the consideration of our operatives,-those, namely, bearing upon honesty of work, and honesty of exchange. I hope in the course of next year that I may be able to complete the second part of the series, [I could not; but Fors Clavigera is now (1872) answering the same end :]2 which will relate to the possible comforts and wholesome laws, of familiar household life, and the share which a labouring nation may attain in the skill, and the treasures, of the higher arts.

1 [For particulars about Mr. Dixon, see the Introduction; above, pp. lxxviii.lxxix.]

2

[The square brackets with the words they contain were thus added by the author in 1872.]