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 424 Index Labyrinth, Cretan, 122 Lahore, 273 Lake Ontario, 319 Land scorpions, 22 Langley, Professor, 344 Languages of mankind, 92, 93, 98, 104, 105, 106, 128, 139, 149, 168, 192, 193, 194, 220, 226, 233, 234, 218, 309, 311 Lao Tse, 127, 162 et seq., 212, 408 Lapland, 223 Latin Emperor, 248 Latin language, 192, 193, 194, 226, 248 (Cf. also Languages) Latins, the, 258, 259, 260, 411 Law, 228 Laws, Plato's, 136 League of Nations, 400, 401, 402, 403, 413 Learning, 244 Lee, General, 366, 368 Legionaries, 219 Lemurs, 41 Lenin, 396, 398 Leo III, Pope, 253, 260, 410 Leo X, Pope, 294, 296, 411 Leonidas, 130 Leopold I, 334 Leopold of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, 413 Lepanto, battle of, 278 Lepidus, 186 Lexington, 320 Liberia, 378 Libraries, 145, 148, 162 Liegnltz, battle of, 274, 275, 411 Life, beginnings of, the record of the rocks, 10 et seq. ; progressive nature of, 15 ; of what it consists, 15 ; theory of Natural Selection, 16 ; origin of, 17 ; a teachable type : advent of, 38 Lincoln, Abraham, 365, 366, 367, 368, 413 ; assassination of, 369 Linen, 99 Lions, 40, 122 Lisbon, 279, 298, 312 Literary criticism, evolution of, 196 Literature, European, 283 Literature, pre-historic, 112 Lizards, 26, 27 Llamas, 40 Lob Nor, 284 Lochau, battle of, 297 Locke, John, 352 Logic, science of, 136 Lombard kingdom, 248 Lombards, 409 Lombardy, 410 London, 279, 392 Lopez de Recalde, Inigo, 292. (See also Ignatius of Loyola) Lorraine, 371 Louis XIV, 308, 412 Louis XV, 412 Louis XVI. 325, 326, 412 Louis XVIII, 333, 413 Louis PhiUppe, 333, 413 Louis the Pious, 254, 410 Louisiana. 319, 365 Lu. state of, 160 Lucretius, 279 LucuUus, 184 Lunar month, 64 Lung, the, 23 Luther, Martin, 290, 294, 411 Luxembourg, 334 Luxor, 99 Lvoft, Prince, 395 Lyceum, Athens, 136, 138 Lydia, 96, 128 Lydians, 92 Lyons, 328 M Macao, 312 Macaulay, Lord, 178 Maccabeans, 175 Macedonia and Macedonians, 125, 129, 133, 139, 171, 276, 333 Machinery, 306, 338 Madeira, 118, 286 Madras, 155 Magellan, Ferdinand, 287 Magic, 162 Magna Grsecia, 124, 170 Magnesia, battle of, 174 Magyars, 252, 253, 258, 275 Mahaffy, Professor, 145 Maine, 319, 321 Majuba Hill, battle of, 378 Malta, 373, 386 Mammals, the earliest, 31 ; viviparous, 32 ; egg-laying, 32 ; the Age of, 36 et seq. Mammoth, 41, 47 Man, brotherhood of, 206, 214, 360 Man, 41 ; Heidelberg, 43 ; Eoanthropus, 45 ; Neanderthal, 45, 46 et seq. ; earliest known, 51 el seq. Manchu, 316, 412 Manchuria, 188, 380, 382, 383 Mangu Khan, 276, 411 Mani, 231, 258, 409 Manichajans, 231, 243 Mankind, racial divisions of, 52, 69 Mantua, 327 Maoris, 69 Marathon, 130 Marathon, battle of, 130, 408