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CHAPTER II.

THE IRISH QUESTION IN IRELAND.

• Misunderstanding of the Irish People by the English and by Themselves
• Anomalies of Irish Life
• The New Movement—Position of Nationalists and Unionists in it
• North and South
• The Question of Rural Life
• Economic Side of the Question
• Grazing versus Tillage
• Peasant Organisation to be Supplemented by State-Aid
• Uneconomic Holdings too Prevalent
• Remedies Proposed
• Salvation not by Agriculture Alone
• Rural Industries and the Irish Home
• Reasons for Arrested Development of Home Life
• Inter-Dependence of the Sentimental and Practical in Ireland
• Outlines of Succeeding Chapters

CHAPTER III.

THE INFLUENCE OF POLITICS UPON THE IRISH MIND.

• Legislation as a Substitute for Work
• Political Shortcomings of Unionism and Nationalism Compared
• Action of the Unionist Party Reviewed
• Two Main Causes of its Lack of Success
• The Contribution of Ulster
• The Nationalist Party
• Are Irishmen Good Politicians?
• The Irish and the Scotch-Irish in America
• America's Interest in the Problem
• Part Played by English Government in Producing Modern Irish Disabilities
• Causes of the Growth of National Feeling
• Retardation of Political Education by the One-Man System
• And by Politicians of To-Day
• Defence of Nationalist Policy on Ground of Tactics Considered
• The Forces opposed to Home Rule—How Dealt with
• Local Government—How it might have been utilised
• After Home Rule?
• Beginnings of Political Education
• The Irish Parliamentary Party

CHAPTER IV.

THE INFLUENCE OF RELIGION UPON SECULAR LIFE IN IRELAND.