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CAN RAILWAY-PASSENGER FARES BE LOWERED?

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OUR DEALINGS WITH THE POOR. By Miss Octavia Hill
THE NEXT PARLIAMENT. By Edward Dicey

A WAR CORRESPONDENT'S REMINISCENCES. By Archibald Forbes
THE FUTURE OF LANDSCAPE ART. By James Stanley Little
DEMOGRAPHY. By Sir Douglas Galton

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FRONTIERS AND PROTECTORATES. By Sir Alfred C. Lyall
ELECTORAL FACTS-No. 3. By W. E. Gladstone

THE BRITISH IN EAST AFRICA. By the Marquis of Lorne
THE LAST BIT OF NATURAL WOODLAND. By Auberon Herbert .
FERDINAND LASSALLE. By Mrs. Arthur Kennard
COMPULSORY INSURANCE IN GERMANY. By Professor Geffcken
THE REAL STATUS OF WOMEN IN ISLAM. By Mr. Justice

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1. AN ENGLISH VIEW. By Lord Brassey.

2. AN AMERICAN VIEW. By Andrew Carnegie

FEDERATING THE EMPIRE: A COLONIAL PLAN. By Sir Charles
Tupper (High Commissioner for Canada).

THE QUESTION OF DISESTABLISHMENT. By Professor Goldwin

Smith

THE PRIVATE LIFE OF SIR THOMAS MORE. By Miss Agnes
Lambert

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THE WILD WOMEN AS SOCIAL INSURGENTS. By Mrs. Lynn
Linton

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THE NAVAL POLICY OF FRANCE. By G. Shaw Lefevre
THE MILITARY FORCES OF THE CROWN. By Sir John Adye
STRAY THOUGHTS OF AN INDIAN GIRL. By Miss Cornelia

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A BARDIC CHRONICLE. By Emily Lawless

ANCIENT BELIEFS IN A FUTURE ŠTATE. By W. E. Gladstone
ON SPURIOUS WORKS OF ART. By Sir Charles Robinson
UNPUBLISHED PAGES OF PEPYS'S DIARY. By H. B. Wheatley
THE CHRISTIAN HELL. By James Mew

IS MAN THE ONLY REASONER? By James Sully

THE MIMES' OF HERODAS. By Č. Whibley

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FRENCH AUTHORS ON EACH OTHER. By E. Delille

IS OUR YEOMANRY WORTH PRESERVING ? By the Earl of

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LIFE IN A JESUIT COLLEGE. By H. Dziewicki

DARWINISM IN THE NURSERY. By Louis Robinson

MY CRITICS. By Edward Dicey

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A RAILWAY JOURNEY WITH MR. PARNELL.

THE NEW SCIENCE-PREVENTIVE MEDICINE. By Dr. Armand

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SHAKESPEARE AND MODERN GREEK. By Professor Blackie
MOLTKE AND MOLTKEISM. By Archibald Forbes.

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THE

NINETEENTH

CENTURY

No. CLXXIII—JULY 1891

GAMBLING AND THE LAW

THE late action about baccarat has raised once more the questions whether gambling is wrong, and in what light it ought to be regarded by the law-questions on which the opinion of the world at large appears to be even worse informed than it usually is. These questions, indeed, are incapable of being solved without a greater grasp of moral principles than is at all common; for in order to solve them it is necessary to have distinct and reasonable notions both of morals and of law, and of the relation between the two, and such knowledge is very rare. The question Is gambling wrong, and why? is continually asked by people who tacitly assume that every action or omission whatever is found in one of two schedules respectively headed 'right and wrong,' and that the question in all cases is in which of these the given act is specified. Of course no such schedule ever was attempted to be made, but the conception of it haunts the people's mind. A striking form of the kind of morality which it implies is to be found in the complaint that a man might keep both in letter and in spirit every one of the Ten Commandments, and yet be devoted to gambling and pass his time in the wanton indulgence of cruelty to animals. It might be said in the same spirit that only one form of falsehood is forbidden by a code which forbids bearing false witness against your neighbour, but permits false witness in his favour, and that the great duty of obeying lawful authority is at most obscurely and indirectly intimated by an injunction to honour one's father and mother.

These criticisms upon such a document as the Ten Commandments throw little light upon the moral foundations of the horror of VOL. XXX-No. 173

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