target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="#litres_trial_promo">Signs of increasing Sabbatarianism—Dr. Bownd
Conflict between the two parties under James I
Laws suppressing Sunday amusements under Charles I
The Elizabethan Sunday not revived at the Restoration
Observance of Sunday in the eighteenth century
Effect of the Evangelical movement
Restriction of Sunday labour passing from a theological to a utilitarian foundation
Tendency to enforce it by law and custom on the Continent
Suppression of Sunday amusements—The Puritan Sunday
Its gradual mitigation in England—Sunday opening of museums, &c
State of public opinion on the subject
Sabbatarian provisions in the game laws
Wise legislation following opinion is seldom strictly logical
Relations of moral and penal legislation
The province of restrictive laws—Kant, Herbert Spencer, Mill
Their doctrines correspond to the Free Trade doctrine of Adam Smith
Arguments against legislative interference with acts not directly injurious to others
True as a general rule, but the prevailing tendency is to multiply exceptions
Examples of them in English law—How far law strengthens morals
Grounds on which laws suppressing immoral acts were originally proposed
Gambling
Craving for excitement the secret of its popularity
Capriciousness of English law in dealing with it
Suppression of public gambling-houses
Intoxicating Drink
Difficulties of legislating on this subject
Drunkenness not an increasing evil
Largely due to bad houses and bad cooking
To unhealthy or excessive labour
To the absence of other tastes and pleasures
To the want of provident habits
Judicious taxation can encourage sobriety
Distinction to be drawn in temperance legislation
Should simple drunkenness be treated as a crime?
Drunkenness sometimes preventible, sometimes not
Drunkenness a disease—Its medical treatment
Detention of inebriates in retreats—The Commission of 1893
Inutility of short sentences—Proposed reformatory treatment of drunkenness
Connection between drunkenness and crime
Less popular in England than in other English-speaking countries
