that Governments should only resign on a vote of want of confidence
Probability that democratic Parliaments will sink in power
Democratic local government—Success of English local government
Largely due to property qualifications
Almost all of them now abolished—Act of 1894
This is the more serious on account of the great increase in taxation
Increase of State Taxation in Europe—Its Causes
Military expenditure—Standing armies
Buckle's prediction of the decline of wars
The commercial spirit now favours territorial aggrandisement
Growing popularity of universal military service
Importance of the question to the English race
Conscription and universal suffrage connected
But the military system may come into collision with the parliamentary system
National education—Its social and political effects
Primary education assuming the character of secondary education
Reformatories and prison reform
Increased taxation due to increased State regulation—Herbert Spencer's views
Necessity for some extension of State control
Advantages of State action in some fields
Government credit—Enterprises remunerative to the State
Unremunerative forms of literature and art
Dangers of State regulation and subsidies
Change in the character of democracy since Joseph Hume
Motives that have led to State aggrandisement
Attempts to push it still further—The Manchester school repudiated
Tendency to throw all taxation on one class
Tocqueville and Young on English taxes in the eighteenth century
Abolition of taxes on the necessaries of life
Bentham, Mill, and Montesquieu on exempted incomes
Lord Derby's description of English taxation
Taxation mainly on the rich and chiefly for the benefit of the poor
Adam Smith on the rules for taxation
Advantages of taxation of luxuries
Growing popularity of graduated taxation—Its early history
Taxation in Switzerland, the Netherlands, and New Zealand
In France and the United States
Arguments against graduated taxation
Probability that it will increase
Its effect on the disposition of landed property
On the position and habits of the upper classes
