The Promise of American Life eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 620 pages of information about The Promise of American Life.

The Promise of American Life eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 620 pages of information about The Promise of American Life.

China, questions raised concerning American foreign policy by, 309-310.

Christianity a common bond between early European states, 217 ff.

Church,
  change in function of the, resulting from change in modern nations, 283.

Cities,
  relations of state governments to, 347-348;
  as fields for economically and socially constructive experimentation,
      349;
  home rule in, 348-350;
  policy of, toward public service corporations, 372-373;
  measures to be taken against monopolies in, 374.

City states,
  Greek and mediaeval, 215.

Civil service reform, 143;
  disappointing results of, 334-335;
  causes of partial failure of, 335-337.

Civil War,
  a case of a justifiable war, 255-256;
  as a surgical operation, 269.

Class discrimination, 129, 191.

Clay, Henry,
  Whig doctrine of, 52, 66;
  reason for failure of ideas of, 69-70;
  as a believer in compromises, 76;
  an example of cheapening of intellectual individuality of leaders
      during Middle Period, 427.

Cleveland, Grover, 168.

Colonial expansion,
  the principle of nationality not hostile to, 259;
  incompatibility of, for European powers, with aggrandizement at
      home, 260-262;
  not a cause of wars, but the contrary, 260-261;
  question of what are limits of a practicable, 262-263;
  is accomplishing a work without which a permanent international
      settlement would be impossible, 263;
  validity of, even for a democracy, 308;
  of the United States, 308-310.

Commerce,
  question of control of, by state or Federal government, 351-357.

Commissions,
  supervision of corporations by, 360-361;
  the objection to government by, 362;
  false principle involved in government by, in that commissions make
      the laws which they administer, 364;
  public ownership contrasted with government by, 366;
  the great objection to government by, in its effect on the capable
      industrial manager, 368.

Communal state,
  the mediaeval, 215, 216.

Communities,
  religious, 283;
  various brands of socialistic, during American Middle Period, 422.

Competition,
  wastes of, lessened by big corporations, 115;
  restriction of, by labor unions, 127, 386-388;
  cooeperation substituted for, by big corporations, 359.

Compromise,
  erected into an ultimate principle by British governing class, 234, 238;
  in America in the interests of harmony, to be avoided, 269-270.

Congressional usurpation, danger to American people from, 69.

Constabulary,
  state, 344-345.

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