BOOK Ⅰ．PROEM 1
Ⅰ．Midas 1
Ⅱ．The Sphinx 7
Ⅲ．Manchester Insurrection 14
Ⅳ．Morrison＇s Pill 22
Ⅴ．Aristocracy of Talent 26
Ⅵ．Hero-Worship 32
BOOK Ⅱ．THE ANCIENT MONK 38
Ⅰ．Jocelin of Brakelond 38
Ⅱ．St．Edmundsbury 45
Ⅲ．Landlord Edmund 49
Ⅳ．Abbot Hugo 55
Ⅴ．Twelfth Century 60
Ⅵ．Monk Samson 64
Ⅶ．The Canvassing 71
Ⅷ．The Election 74
Ⅸ．Abbot Samson 81
Ⅹ．Government 87
Ⅺ．The Abbot＇s Ways 91
Ⅻ．The Abbot＇s Troubles 96
ⅩⅢ．In Parliament 101
ⅩⅣ．Henry of Essex 103
ⅩⅤ．Practical-Devotional 107
ⅩⅥ．St．Edmund 114
ⅩⅦ．The Beginnings 122
BOOK Ⅲ．THE MODERN WORKER 131
Ⅰ．Phenomena 131
Ⅱ．Gospel of Mammonism 139
Ⅲ．Gospel of Dilettantism 144
Ⅳ．Happy 147
Ⅴ．The English 151
Ⅵ．Two Centuries 160
Ⅶ．Over-Production 164
Ⅷ．Unworking Aristocracy 168
Ⅸ．Working Aristocracy 176
Ⅹ．Plugson of Undershot 181
Ⅺ．Labour 189
Ⅻ．Reward 193
ⅩⅢ．Democracy 201
ⅩⅣ．Sir Jabesh Windbag 214
ⅩⅤ．Morrison again 217
BOOK Ⅳ．HOROSCOPE 230
Ⅰ．Aristocracies 230
Ⅱ．Bribery Committee 242
Ⅲ．The One Institution 247
Ⅳ．Captains of Industry 259
Ⅴ．Permanence 266
Ⅵ．The Landed 271
Ⅶ．The Gifted 277
Ⅷ．The Didactic 282
Summary 288
Index 300