mil Contents. 



CHAPTER VII. DRUNKENNESS. 



The Prevalence of Drunkenness Causes and Consequences Cost of 

 Stimulants Numbers Supported by the Trade The Spectacle of 

 Drunkenness Scenes in Liverpool and Manchester Increase of 

 Drunkenness The Temperance Movement in England Medical 

 Testimony Balance Sheet, ...... 42-47 



CHAPTER VIII. DISHONESTY AND CRIME. 



Man alone Criminal Crimes of English Life Lying and Cheating 

 Perjury Pecuniary Dishonesty The Criminal Classes Statistics of 

 Crime Cost of Crime Dishonesty of Servants Dishonesty ripens 

 into Crime The Gardens of Guilt, ... . . . 48-55 



CHAPTER IX. VICE AND IMMORALITY. 



Crime and Vice Exceptional Statistics of Illegitimacy Morals of England, 

 Scotland, and Sweden Immorality of the Lower Orders Mortality 

 of Illegitimate Children The Gang System South Wales Rural 

 Morals Statute Fairs and Hirings Middle and Upper Classes- 

 Unequal Numbers of the Sexes Preference for Unmarried Wet- 

 Nurses Children Born to Vice A Sensual Literature A Lower 

 Deep, 55-64 



CHAPTER X. PROSTITUTION AND ITS CONSEQUENCES. 



Sexual Abuses peculiar to Humanity Women driven to Prostitution 

 Corruption by Fraud or Force Seduction and Prostitution of Children 

 East End of London In the Parks Garrisons Characters of 

 Prostitutes Scenes at the West End Toleration of Prostitution 

 Demand and Supply The Evil Consequences The Plague of Syphilis 

 Extent of its Ravages Frightful Disease and Mortality Effect on 

 the Army Right and Despotism Liberty and Law, . 65-80 



PART IL MATTER, FORCE, AND LIFE. 

 CHAPTER I. MATTER. 



Evils and their Remedy Matter a Mystery Solid, Liquid, Gaseous 

 Atoms and Molecules No Contact of Atoms Expansion, Contrac- 

 tion, Elasticity, Vibration Size of Atoms Microscopic Wonders 

 Elementary Bodies and their Combinations The Earth The Chief 

 Elements of Nature Points of Force, . . . .81-92 



CHAPTER II. FORCE. 



What is Gravitation? Magnetism Atomic Attraction and Heat Cohesion 

 Repulsive Forces Attraction of Liquids and Solids for Gases- 

 Solution and Crystallisation Capillary Attraction Electricity Gal- 

 vanism Is Heat a mode of Motion? What is Heat? Force of the 

 Sun Unused and Unrecognised Forces, . . . 93-105 



