Democracy and Liberty. William Edward Hartpole Lecky

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СКАЧАТЬ 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 ‘Book of Sports’

       Triumph of Puritanism

       The Elizabethan Sunday not revived at the Restoration

       Observance of Sunday in the eighteenth century

       Effect of the Evangelical movement

       It has now spent its force

       Restriction of Sunday labour passing from a theological to a utilitarian foundation

       Tendency to enforce it by law and custom on the Continent

       Advantages of the Sunday rest

       Suppression of Sunday amusements—The Puritan Sunday

       Its gradual mitigation in England—Sunday opening of museums, &c

       State of public opinion on the subject

       Sunday opening of theatres

       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

       An increasing evil

       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

       To noxious adulteration

       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

       American views of the subject

       Detention of inebriates in retreats—The Commission of 1893

       Inutility of short sentences—Proposed reformatory treatment of drunkenness

       Law of Massachusetts

       Connection between drunkenness and crime

       Local veto proposals

       Less popular in England than in other English-speaking countries

       Sunday closing—Shorter hours in public-houses

       Too numerous drink-shops

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