INDEX A

Ability

array of, 70, 72

to consume, widespread, 74

variation, 138, 140

Action

evidence of belief, 20

follows understanding, 126

freedom of, 22

Acton, (Lord) John E.E.D., 41

Administration

cost of controls, 149

improvement in government, 124

of charity, 38, 40

of research, 76

Administrative rule, 45, 57

Aggression, war of, 87

Aiken, Henry D., 34

Allegiance, blind, of social insects, 63

American Revolution, rebellion, 87

Anarchy, 50, 55

Animals, morals, lack of restraint, 34

Anonymity, charity and, 38

Ants, society of, 62

Arbitration, forced, and liberty, 25

Archeology, tracing progress of

civilizations, 112

Aristotle, 70

Arts, capital and, 33

Association, liberty in, 23

Astronomy, science of variation, 66, 96, 136

Atom, differences, 135

Atomic power, dangers from, 48

Authoritarianism, see Dictator; Slavery

Authorities, dictatorial tendency, 73

B

Baker, John R., 72

Ballinger, Willis J., 53

Bargaining with employer, 101

Beauty, variation and, 67, 137

Beethoven, Ludwig van, 70, 74

Beliefs

concealment and evidences of, 20, 22

false, barriers to progress, 82

liberty and, 18, 20

personal responsibility, 133

Bentham, Jeremy, 90

Biological control, 64

Biological processes, 140

Budget, federal, 118, 123

Burke, Edmund, 53, 88, 93, 106

Business

government in, 105

monopoly, 50, 118, 149

C

Caesar, C. Julius, 26

Capital

employer supplied, 101

progress dependent on, 33

taxation for socialism, 105

Capitalism, Lenin on, 110

Cardinal Sins, 45

Censorship of liberalism in Europe, 21

Chance, variation and, 136

Chang, Hsin-hai, 90, 104

Change

desire for improvement, 65

origin in variation, 67

physical and chemical, 139

speed of, 140

Chaos, variation as, 136

Charity, true and false defined, 37

Chase, Richard, 75

Chemistry

complexity of variation, 67, 140

research, one method of, 96

Choice

association and, 23

belief and, 133

and duty in social insects, 64

progress and, 69, 71, 140, 143

spending of incomes, 32, 123

Christ, method for peace, 89

Christian ethics and charity, 37

Chromosomes, variation, 139

Churches

beliefs expressed in, 21

financial support endangered, 39

Cities and towns, variation in size, 138

Civilization, rise and fall, 16, 33, 112

Clark, Colin, 110

Columbus, Christopher, 20

Combination, change and, 139

Commandments, Ten, 25, 45

Common good, obligation to, 133

Common property, 32

Communism, belief and false

representation, 20

Compassion

destruction of, 38

income uses and, 37

social insects lacking in, 63

Competition

humans and social insects, 63, 64

restriction of, 118, 149

variation and, 68, 139

Compounds, variation and progress, 67, 140

Compromise, effect on progress, 82, 121

Conflict

cause and forms, 84

disagreement without leading to, 46

Congressmen, impossible task expected of, 123

Conquerors, fall of famous, 89

Conscience in relation to liberty, 14, 133

Consume, ability to, widespread, 74

Contract, liberty in association and, 25

Control

see Dictator; Slavery

anarchy as cause, 50

biological, of social insects, 64

costs of administering, 149

democratic process of, 150

of thought, impossible directly, 21

Cooperation

employer and employee, 102

social insects, 63

spirit of, in voluntary processes, 16

Corporation, government owned, 106

Cory, Ernest N., 61

Cost of government, see Liberty; Taxes

Courtship, variation and selection in, 57, 67, 140

Creative minority, 75, 82

Cross breeding for progress, 141

Cultural progress, tools and, 33

Currency, debauchery, 110

Curve, normal, of variation, 136

Custom and rules of society, 46

Czechoslovakia, lost liberty, 27

D

Dark ages, 75, 83, 112

Death, liberty and, 88

Defensive wars, usual claim, 88

Deficits, governmental, France, 111

Demand, variation of, 138

Democracies, eight great, 53

Democracy

controlling the budget, 123

defined, 54

dupes in destruction of liberty, 56

liberty and, 53, 56, 60

power under guise of, 55

progress and, 81, 82

slavery and, 56, 103

types, 54

voting, see Majority rule

Demonstration, influence under liberty, 55

Depression, effect on tax rate, 109

Desires, conflict of, and liberty, 23

Deviation, and normal curve of variation, 136

Dictator

see Slavery

beliefs secure from, 20, 132

egotist, 80

genius may have tendency of, 73

God and, 64

growth of, 55

income control, 29

ownership rights, 32

personal gain, 30

power of, 26, 49, 53

progress and, 80

protection, claims of, 44

social insects, envied by, 62

war and, 86

Dignity, basis of liberty, 43

Dinosaur, weakness of, 89

Discovery

beneficiaries, 73

force attempted in planning, 75

progress and, 70

unpredictable, 75

Discrimination, association and, 23, 24

Disease, germ theory, 96, 103

Disease of society, 103

Disorder of variation, 136

Dissenters in planned economy, purge, 79

Divine Right of Kings, 133

Division of labor, 16

Double standard of morals, 104

Duty

bounden, 79

and choice in social insects, 64

responsibility and, 43

E

Economic liberty

and other types, 18

foundation of, 97

scope, 25

Economic urge, 34

Economics

beliefs in relation to, 21

items defined, 19

scope, 26

Economy, productive or parasitic, 119

Edison, Thomas A., 70, 74

Education

liberty and, 43, 126

progressive, 80

sources of information, 133

Efficiency of government in business, 105

Effort, satisfying wants easily, 34

Egotist, dictator and progress, 80, 144

Eisenhower, Dwight D., 36

Employees, liberty and, 15, 100, 101, 102

England, see Great Britain Enterprise, discouragement of, 29

Equality under law, 52

Europe, prevalence of war, 85

Evil, one justifying another, 119

Evolution, 141

Exchange

basis of rights, 30

economic, 15, 16, 19, 25

employer and employee, 102

of ideas, 21, 43

F

Faiths

liberty and, 18

necessary, 131

Family in society, 46

Fatalism, 17, 112, 121

Fear, freedom from, 18

Fingerprints, variation, 66, 135

Food supply, effect of liberty on, 33

Force, cause of conflict, 84

Ford, Henry, 74

Foresight, morals and, 34

Four freedoms, 18

France, tax rate, 110

Franklin, Benjamin, 74

Free market, 16, 143

Freedom, see Liberty French Revolution, 87, 111

Fulton’s Folly, 74

G

Galton, Francis, 136

Gandhi, Mohandas K., 89

Gauss, Carl F., 136

General welfare, 100

Genghis Khan, 87

Genius, authoritarian tendency, 73

Germany

lost liberty, 123

tax rate, 110

Gifts, personal right, 26, 30

God

design for life, 61, 64, 141

faith in, 19, 132

governmental usurpation, 80

liberty and justice, 44, 129, 132

obligation to, 15, 64, 133

variation and, 66

Golden Rule, 45, 73

Government

amount under liberalism, 147

business done by, 105

corporations, 106

curbing choice, liberty and variation, 26, 78

engaged in force and war, 49, 86

function, 48, 78

labor peace and, 89

liberty and, 50

monopoly, 50

personal power in, 49

reform, 124

slaveholder, 102

tax on incomes and work, 107

tribe as forerunner of, 47

varied conduct prohibited by, 60

Grain, price variation, 136

Great Britain

loss of liberty, 123

potato under community rule, 81

tax rate, 109

Great-man theory, 75

H

Hand, Judge Learned, 129

Happiness and liberty, 65

Harmonic series, 70, 137

Hayek, Friedrich A., 40

Henry, Patrick, 88

Heredity, laws governing, 80, 136

Hermit and liberty, 15, 20, 23, 28

Hidden taxes, 107

History, glories of war, 91

Hitler, Adolf

aided by intellectuals, 73

book burning, 21

elected by minority, 59

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr., 40

Human rights versus property rights, 35

Humans

goodness of, 132

liberty, importance of, 61

variation in ability, 69, 70

Hume, David, 34, 122

Hybridization, ideas and life forms, 75

I

Idiot, confused with genius, 72

Imitation, 75, 141

Impartiality, liberal code, 45

Inalienable rights, 15

Income

economic slave, 98, 148

government tax on, 103, 107

rights, 11, 30, 111

variation, 137

Independence, progress and, 65, 71

Industrial warfare, 89

Industry of social insects, 63

Inevitability, 17, 112, 121

Inflation, 110

Information, exchange of, 21

Insects, social, 62, 69, 79

Instinct, 132, 133, 140

Intelligence

change and variation, 67, 140

and comprehension of truth, 133

morals and, 34

International relations, 88

Invention, automobile and other, 74

Investment, forced, 106

J

Judgment, acquired under liberty, 44

Justice

association and, 25

code of, 90

dictators, claim of, 29

Higher Order of, 132

private property and, 34, 122

sense of, 43

K

Kettering, Charles F., 74

Keynes, John Maynard, 110

Kings, Divine Right of, 133

Knowledge, accumulation and progress, 71

L

Labor

monopoly, 50

union, 89

Land, rights to, 45

Laplace, Pierre S., 136

Law

civil, moral and natural, 81, 132

cost of, 150

enactment and enforcement, 49

price control first of record, 78

rule of, impartial, 45

variation judged an evil, 80

Law of the jungle, 28, 31

Law of variation, 70

Lefebvre, Georges, 111

Leisure, products of, 33

Lenin, Nikolai, 110

Leonardo da Vinci, 70

Level of living, wealth used for, 33, 121

Liberalism

defined, 42

protection of minorities, 82

Liberty

advancing society caused by, 16

anarchy and government, 50

appreciation gone, 98

charity needs reduced by, 41

choice and progress, 69

civilizations and, 112

complexity, 7, 13

conflict and, 84

cooperation, rests on, 16

definition of, 11, 55

democracy and, 57, 60

economic, 18, 25, 28, 97, 146

food supply, effect on, 33

free expression and progress, 144

governmental form and, 57

ideas and, 18, 43

loss of, 15, 26, 45, 57, 112

beliefs and, 22

biological, 79

due to authorities, 73

due to government, 102

measurement of, 107

seriousness, for advanced society, 122

love of, and its recovery, 127

maximum, 42, 50, 96

measurement of, 95, 99, 107

natural and moral law, 45

peace, relation to, 87

personal nature, 14

positive program, 124

problem of society, 42

progress under, 75

recovery of, 119, 122, 126

special privilege and, 117

speech, 18

spirit of, 14, 129

subjective nature of, 95

truth and, 126

types, 18, 27

understanding needed, 126

urge, persistence of, 65, 115

violations, 50, 55

License, confused with liberty, 46

Life, forms and changes, 61, 139

Lincoln, Abraham, 11

Lincoln, Edmond E., 109

Losses, taxation to pay for, 105

Love

association and, 23

highly prized, 26

variation and, 67

Loyalty to dictator, 62

M

Majority rule

democracy, 54

courtship and religion, 57

might makes right, 60

progress, effect on, 81

robbery by, 103

Market place, freedom of, 16, 118

Masaryk, Jan, 27

Masses, glorification of, 74

Materialism, 26, 63, 64

Mediocrity of abilities, 70

Meetings and beliefs, 21, 26

Mendelian law of inheritance, 21

Might and size, 89

Might makes right, 28, 60

Migration of birds, planning, 76

Military, association in, 23

Minorities, disfranchisement, 60

Mistakes, prevention of, 44, 80

Mixed economy, 31

Mixtures, change and, 140

Monogamy, discrimination and, 24

Monopoly

business, 50, 118, 149

government, 105, 112, 148, 149

labor, 118, 149

Moral law, 45, 132

Moral purpose, 64

Morals

association and, 25

liberty, founded on, 63, 122

peace, and double standard, 104

private property and, 34, 121

theft, sanction of, 41

Murder, conflict and, 84

Mussolini, Benito, 89

Mutation, self-destructive, 72, 141

Mutual advantage, cooperative, 16

N

National income, 109, 146

Natural law, 45, 64, 132, 133

Need, judged by others, 39

Non-discrimination, 23

Normal curve of variation, 136

O

Occupation, freedom of choice, 101

Offspring, variation, 67, 140

Oppression, conflict arising from, 88

Order in variation, 137

Orpheus, mimetic song, 75

Ownership, basis of rights, 30, 106

Ownership in common, 32

P

Pacifist, 84

Paine, Thomas, 90

Parasitism, compensatory, 119, 121

Parents, variation and change, 140

Pareto, Vilfredo, 138

Partnership, employer and employee, 101

Pasteur, Louis, 70, 72, 73, 74

Peace

morals and glory of, 92, 104

route to, 84, 87, 90, 91

Petrie, (Sir) W. M. Flinders, 112

Physical law, 42, 132

Physical relationships, 18, 23

Pioneering progress, 72

Planning, effect on progress, 76, 79

Policing, under liberty, 43, 80

Political charity, 38

Politician

double standard, 104

personal gain, 30, 38

Postal system, monopoly, 149

Potato, planned control, 76, 81

Power

anarchy induced, 50

balance of, and peace, 88

corrupting influence, 41, 90

defined, 55

physical and social, 48

rebellion against, 88

route to, 29, 40, 133

size and, 89

taxation, see Taxes

to destroy persons, 110

truth as, 127

President, minority elected, 59

Price, freedom or control, 25, 54, 118, 150

Price control, first law, 78

Primitive economy, 29, 33, 122

Prisoner, privileges granted, 49, 148

Privilege, special, and liberty, 117

Production

economic, 26

guide of free market, 143

in measure of liberty, 147

Profit

employee and, 102

from discovery, 74

Progress

beneficiaries, 73

cause of, 61, 65, 67, 69, 71, 141

defined, 67, 144

free choice and, 69, 143

government and, 78, 80

minority initiation of, 72, 81, 82

perishability, 70, 82

private property, tools and, 33

slowness and obstacles, 83, 125

Progressive society, altered meaning, 104, 109

Property

defined, 32

economic liberty and, 25, 98

government seizure of, 103, 110

rights to, 26, 46, 48, 111

Property rights versus human rights, 35

Protective spirit, danger to liberty, 44

Prussian serfs, partial liberty, 99

Q

Quetelet, Adolphe, 136

R

Radio, free time for government, 150

Reasonable person, compromiser as, 82

Rebellion, 26, 65, 87, 88

Reform government, 124

Relationships

see Society

human, types of, 16, 18

physical, 23

Relief grants, in measure of liberty, 147

Religion

democratic selection of, 57

freedom of, 21, 22, 80

social guide, 47

Religious education, 22

Rent control, 57

Reproduction, variation and selection, 67, 140

Republic, 54

Responsibility, 39, 43, 46, 111

Retirement, savings and, 101

Retrogression, 67, 76, 83

Revolution, 56, 87, 112

Richardson, Lewis F., 85, 86

Right of Kings, Divine, 133

Rights

assembly, 22

association, 23

charity grants from income, 38

franchise, 54, 57, 59

human and property, 35

inalienable, 15

income, from labor, 28, 30, 40

of review of government, 58

Robin Hood, 30

Rome, ancient democracy, 53

Rules

association and, 25

of society, 42

origin, social, 46

Russia

censorship, 21

concept of liberty, 13

cost of enslavement, 150

ownership in, 106

tax burden on incomes, 110, 117

Rustgard, John, 131

S

Savings

consumption of, 101

nature and forms, 32, 33

purpose and preventives of, 33, 111

Science

faith and, 132

measures, indirect, 96

Science of variation, 66

Security

private savings, 111

social insects and, 63

Selection

change and progress, 70, 139, 141

of associates as a necessity, 23

Self-disciplines, 43, 46, 133

Self-interest, 17, 63

Selfishness

charity and, 37, 39

economic liberty and, 30

unavoidable, 40

Sins, Cardinal, 45

Size, might and, 89

Slave

capture, 102

income and property not allowed, 98

Slaveholder, 55

Slavery

anarchy leading to, 50

biological, 64

cost, Russia, 150

degrees of, 51, 99, 108

democratic, 60, 100

economic and other, 26

employees and, 100

governmental, 105, 106

liberty and, 43, 55, 88

national average, 96

new form of, 51, 103

number of slaves in 1860, 109

Social duty, 133

Social workers, charity of, 39

Socialism

capital by taxation, 105

historic failure, 111

in association, 23

parasitic on property, 34

social insects, 63

Society

advancement and morals, 34

conduct under law, 132

conflict within, causes, 104

defined, general and liberal, 15, 42

diseases of, 103, 112

liberty alienable in, 16, 45

origin of rules, 46

parasitic or creative, 119

planned, 62

unprogressive, of social insects, 79

Sovereignty, democratic, 54, 57

Specialization, 16

Speech, freedom of, 18

Spiritual purpose, 63, 64

Stalin, Joseph, 30, 44, 98, 150

Standard of living, see Level of living

State, as slaveholder, 102

Supreme Court, cost, 147

Surplus and division of labor, 16

Surrender as truce, 25

T

Tariff, 118, 149

Taxes

burden in various countries, 109

destruction of liberty, 58

hidden, 107, 111

payment, willing and unwilling, 27, 104, 111, 148

power to levy, 104, 110, 119

on shoes, 108

socialist capital, 105

special privilege, 118

Theory and faith, 131

Thievery

charity and, 38

government, 104

liberty and, 11, 28

property rights and, 32

public or private, 30

unrestrained morals, 34

Thoreau, Henry David, 27

Thought

control of, 21

social insects, 63

Tools, ownership and progress, 33, 101

Toynbee, Arnold J., 75

Trespass on rights, 31, 42, 46

Tribe in cocial development, 47

Truth

compromise impossible, 64, 82

defined, 132

liberty and, 126

new discoveries disbelieved, 73

progress and, 67, 71, 144

protection of discovery, 77

search for, 7, 72, 133

Tyranny, 11, 13, 49, 113

U

Union, labor, 26, 89

Universe

natural law, 132

variation, 135

V

Variation

laws aimed at, 78

natural law, 66, 70, 83, 135

persons, 135

purpose of, 61, 67, 139

science of, 66, 136

source of progress, 67, 80

Vocabulary, variation in, 138

Voluntarism

charity and, 38

conflict and, 86

cooperation and, 16

tax payments and, 104

Voting, see Democracy

W

Wage control, violation of liberty, 150

Want, freedom from, 18

Wants, expressed in free market, 143

War

conflict of, 84

defensive, 88

defined by Bentham, 90

extent in Europe, 85

government and, 49, 86, 91

prevention, 92

social insects, 63

threat, atomic, 48

Wealth

confiscating and dividing, 112, 121

discoverer gains little in form of, 74

variation, 137

Webster, Daniel, 115

Welfare, tools as cause of economic, 33

Will of the people as democratic liberty, 58

Wisdom, liberty and, 14, 15

Wish, social insects incapable of, 63

Wolf economy, 29, 119, 121

Work, amount to pay taxes, 108

Worship, freedom of, 18

Wright, Q., 85

Wright brothers, 74

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