—character of future world, 96
—Prof. James, 97-98
—conversion of Frank Podmore, 99
—heteromatic writing of Mrs. Verrall and Mrs. Holland, 99-102
—Mrs. Verrall's heteromatic writing, 99
—Mrs. Holland's cipher writing, 100
—automatic verse, 101-102
—letter and its strong evidence, 102
—on death of Myers, 102-103
—his appearances, 103
—notorious stanza, 104
—happiness of controls, 104
—Cross-Correspondence, 104
—two strongest points against spiritism, 104-105
—failure in regard to sealed letters and Moses inconsistencies, 105
—indication of phenomena, 106
—Prof. Bergson's estimate of the Society, 106-107
—on indifference of learned world, 107
—on parallelism, 107-108
—on hypnosis and dreams, 109
—on survival of individuality, 109-110
—on telepathy, 110-111.

Putnam, Emily J., 'The Greeks on Religion and Morals,' 358.


"Q," Hodgson's friend, as control, 74.

Questions, Answering Big, 214.


Raisin, Jacob S., 259.

Rector, "Spirit" control, 70, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 97.

Reform, A Needed Unpopular, 133
—secret oligarchies in chief cities and states of the United States, 133-138
—Tammany, 133-135
—too many offices under direct control of the people, 135-137
—the town meeting of New England, 137
—politicians and bosses as plunderers, 137-138
—moral awakening, 138
—reform in New Jersey, 139-143
—Ex-Senator James Smith, 139-140
—Woodrow Wilson as Governor of New Jersey, 139-140
—conduct of elections and the short ballot, 140
—the direct primary principle, 141
—the problem of cumbersome political machinery, 142-144
—executive responsibility, 142-143
—commission government in cities, 143-144
—judiciary appointments, 143.

Religion, Greek, 358.

Rich, T. Rogers, with Mrs. Piper, 76-79.

Right to be Amused, The, 297
—new doctrine of human rights, 297
—its reaction on women, 298
—the right to be amused distinguished from the ordinary pursuit of pleasure, 298-299
—the hungry defiant faces of modern women, 299-300
—the American woman in the nineteenth century, 300-301
—the peculiar right of the good looking American woman, 302
—the modern girl's detachment from responsibilities, 302-303
—little done for right education of girls, 303
—American writers of fiction who picture woman as a mere ornament, 304
—the fault of the American man that she is so, 304-305
—the effect of the projection of women into business and social reforms, 305
—woman's need of companionship; true marriage, 305-306.

Roosevelt, T., 4, 5, 118, 119
—demagoguery, 285-288
—misleading talk compared with previous conduct, 269
—opposition to arbitration, 202.

Ross, Prof. E. A., 264.


St. Paul, 122.

Saloon. See Alcohol.

Schooling, Our Sublime Faith in, 375
—demands made on our schools, 375
—criticisms, 376
—putting everything on the schools, 377
—the main purpose of popular education, 377-378
—public welfare, 378
—religion, morality and knowledge as subjects for teaching, 379
—the knowledge desirable, 379-380
—morality, character-building, and the development of the social conscience, 380-381
—religion and the difficulty of teaching it, 381-383
—the present development of the spirit of lawlessness, 383-386
—diminishing respect for law among the better class; capitalists, 384-385
—its evil effect, 385
—time to take thought, 385
—what the schools can do, 386
—the social conscience, the social instinct, and the good of the whole, 386-388
—prevention, 388
—social-minded character, 388.

Seager, H. R., 'Trust-Busting as a National Pastime,' 406.

Seward's phrase "The Irrepressible conflict," 1.

Shaw, Dr. Anna, 310.

Showerman, Grant, 'The Democrat Reflects,' 34
—'The Story of a Microbophobiac,' 175
—'The Case for Pigeon-Holes,' 343.

Simplified Spelling, 218, 440.

Smith, James, in New Jersey, 139-140.

Smith, Munroe, on publishers privileges, 427.

Socialism, 8
—future of, 244
—real strength, 293.

Social justice, 54-62.

Social Untruth and the Social Unrest, 252
—legitimate and illegitimate portrayal of existing social evils, 252-253
—nature of present social problems, 253
—danger of deceiving the public, 254
—how well-meaning reformers play into the hands of the Socialists, 254-255
—illustrations of well-meant exaggeration, distortion and misleading presentation of present evils, 256-269
—instance of rubbishy story, 256-258
—exaggerated statements cited about extent of child labor, 259-261
—case of misrepresentation on the part of the Consumers' League as to the rising price of food in restaurants, 261-263
—reformers' indifference to facts, 262-264
—further illustrations, 264-269
—Prof. E. S. Ross's misleading article in the Atlantic on the suppression by the press of important news, 264-265
—misrepresentation as to infant mortality, 266-267
—Mr. Alfred Russel Wallace's inability to weigh facts in his zeal for reform, 267-268
—loose thinking consequent on the McNamara dynamitings, 268
—Mr. Roosevelt's misleading talk compared with his previous conduct, 269
—the dangerous unrest consequent upon all this distortion and deception, 269-271.

Society for Psychical Research (S. P. R.), 63-111.

Sociological Nightmare, 245.

Soddy, Prof., 211.

Speer, Dr. Stanhope, 69.

Spiritism, Hodgson's argument for, 87-88, 104-106
—James on, 89, 91-92, 93, 94-98, 104.

Stage. See Decency.

Steel industry, 410, 412.

Sumner, Dr. Helen M., 320.


Tammany, 133-135.

Taxation, 9, 27-28.

Telekinesis, 66-67.

Telepathy, 64-65, 82
—Bergson on, 110.

Thomas, Calvin, 'Our Sublime Faith in Schooling,' 375
—'A Model of Divinatory Criticism,' 435.

"Thon," 440.

Thought-transference. See Telepathy.

Tobacco, 212.

Tobacco, Our: Its Cost, 145
—value of factory product, 145
—annual amount spent for tobacco, 146
—comparisons, 146-147, 161
—loss of life and property through fires caused by smokers, 147-152
—forest fires thus caused, 151-152
—land required for tobacco culture, 152-153
—cost to railroads, 153
—cost of cleanliness, 153-154
—effects on physical health, 154-155
—effect on mental development, 155
—loss of time, 156
—weakening of the social sense, 156-157
—effect on efficiency and the will power, 157
—credit side of the account, 158-159
—taxes and duties, 158
—euphoria, 158-159
—habit, 159
—the social balance sheet, 159-160
—further considerations and conclusion, 161-162
—Dr. Burton cited, 145, 162.

Toleration, 234, 240.

Townsend, Mrs. Geo. W., 312.

Trent, W. P., 'A Sociological Nightmare,' 245.

Trust-Busting as a National Pastime, 406
—trust legislation in Germany, 406
—in America, 406-407
—dangerous bills proposed, 407
—inconsistent railroad policy, 408
—Interstate Commerce Commission and rate fixing, 408
—prohibiting combinations, 408
—advantage of combination, 409-412
—Union Pacific-Southern Pacific separation, 408
—telephone and telegraph separation, 409
—the steel industry and advantages of combination, 410-412
—regulated competition and regulated monopoly, 412-413
—merits of an Interstate Trade Commission, 413-414.


Universities, duty of, 295;
See also Colleges.

Uplift Legislation, A Specimen of, 434.


Virtues, Two Neglected, 112
—reticence and tact out of fashion, 112-113
—face value of talkativeness, 114
—unpopularity of reticence and tact due to their being "head" virtues, 115-116
—increasing value in complicated society, 116
—taciturnity, 116-117
—Okakura Kakuzo, 117
—John LaFarge, 117, 119
—American garrulity, 118
—one merit of Pragmatism, 118
—Roosevelt, 118-119
—incompatibility of free talk and tactfulness, 119
—the gentle arts of tact, 119-120
—feminine and masculine tact, 120
—shy people, 121
—tact of Jesus, 121
—of St. Paul, John Hancock, Lincoln, Charles II, 122
—tactlessness of Dr. John Rubens, 122-123
—relativity of tact, 122-123
—Samuel Butler quoted, 123.

Verrall, Mrs., heteromatic writing, 99.

Visions, 65.


Wages, 12-15.

Walker, Francis A., 6-7.

Wallace, Alfred Russel, 267.

Walsh, Mrs., Kate, as spirit control, 74-76.

War, The Standing Incentives to, 185
—modern war system of "peace by preponderance," 185-186
—its elements and advocates, 186-187
—war traders and war trusts, 187-188
—papers by G. H. Perris and Francis Delaisi, 187-188
—British, French and German companies interested in war, 187-190
—war scares, 189
—war-syndicates in the United States, 191
—money-lenders, 191
—exploiting companies, 191-192
—hereditary aristocracy, 192
—false education, 192
—the responsibility of the individual citizen, 193
—national debts, 194
—hollowness of the system, 194
—repudiation, 194
—causes of national decline, 195
—disease and vandalism, 196
—our proper line of attack on the war system, 197
—present phase of the peace movement, 197
—arbitration and conciliation, 198
—America's position, 198-199.

Wealth, 7.

Wilde, Miss, posthumous letters, 104-106.

Williams, Talcott, 421.

Wilson, Woodrow, character of his cabinet and administration, 124
—Governor of New Jersey, 139-140.

Wofsmiths, 377.

Woman Suffrage, How [it] has Worked, 307
—the indictment against man by the suffragists of 1848 in their "Declaration of Sentiments," 307-308
—woman's emancipation has come about chiefly without the ballot, 308-309