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Preface to the 1914 Edition | p. vii |
Introduction | p. xi |
Mutual Aid Among Animals | p. 1 |
Struggle for existence | |
Mutual Aid | |
A law of Nature and chief factor of progressive evolution | |
Invertebrates | |
Ants and bees | |
Birds: Hunting and fishing associations | |
Sociability | |
Mutual protection among small birds | |
Cranes; parrots | |
Mutual Aid Among Animals (continued) | p. 26 |
Migrations of birds | |
Breeding associations | |
Autumn societies | |
Mammals: small number of unsociable species | |
Hunting associations of wolves, lions, etc. | |
Societies of rodents; of ruminants; of monkeys | |
Mutual Aid in the struggle for life | |
Darwin's arguments to prove the struggle for life within the species | |
Natural checks to over-multiplication | |
Supposed extermination of intermediate links | |
Elimination of competition in Nature | |
Mutual Aid Among Savages | p. 62 |
Supposed war of each against all | |
Tribal origin of human society | |
Late appearance of the separate family | |
Bushmen, Hottentots | |
Australians, Papuas | |
Eskimos, Aleoutes | |
Features of savage life difficult to understand for the European | |
The Dayak's conception of justice | |
Common law | |
Mutual Aid Among the Barbarians | p. 95 |
The great migrations | |
New organization rendered necessary | |
The village community | |
Communal work | |
Judicial procedure | |
Inter-tribal law | |
Illustrations from the life of our contemporaries | |
Buryates | |
Kabyles | |
Caucasian mountaineers | |
African stems | |
Mutual Aid in the Mediaeval City | p. 126 |
Growth of authority in Barbarian Society | |
Serfdom in the villages | |
Revolt of fortified towns: their liberation; their charts | |
The guild | |
Double origin of the free mediaeval city | |
Self-jurisdiction, self-administration | |
Honourable position of labour | |
Trade by the guild and by the city | |
Mutual Aid in the Mediaeval City (continued) | p. 154 |
Likeness and diversity among the mediaeval cities | |
The craft-guilds: State-attributes in each of them | |
Attitude of the city towards the peasants; attempts to free them | |
The lords | |
Results achieved by the mediaeval city: in arts, in learning | |
Causes of decay | |
Mutual Aid Amongst Ourselves | p. 184 |
Popular revolts at the beginning of the State-period | |
Mutual Aid institutions of the present time | |
The village community: its struggles for resisting its abolition by the State | |
Habits derived from the village-community life, retained in our modern villages | |
Switzerland, France, Germany, Russia | |
Mutual Aid Amongst Ourselves (continued) | p. 216 |
Labour-unions grown after the destruction of the guilds by the State | |
Their struggles | |
Mutual Aid in strikes | |
Co-operation | |
Free associations for various purposes | |
Self-sacrifice | |
Countless societies for combined action under all possible aspects | |
Mutual Aid in slum-life | |
Personal aid | |
Conclusion | p. 242 |
Appendix A | |
Swarms of Butterflies, Dragon-flies, etc. | p. 248 |
The Ants | p. 249 |
Nesting Associations | p. 250 |
Sociability of Animals | p. 251 |
Checks to Over-Multiplication | p. 252 |
Adaptations to Avoid Competition | p. 254 |
The Origin of the Family | p. 256 |
Destruction of Private Property on the Grave | p. 261 |
The "Undivided Family" | p. 261 |
The Origin of the Guilds | p. 262 |
The Market and the Mediaeval City | p. 265 |
Mutual-Aid Arrangements in the Villages of Netherlands at the Present Day | p. 266 |
The Struggle for Existence in Human Society by Thomas H. Huxley | p. 268 |
Index | p. 289 |
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