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not all mountains, 51

Africa, Central, colonisation of, by whites impossible, 38-41

Agassiz, early training of, 305

Ainos, 49

Albert, Archbishop, on the human heart, 208

Alcibiades charged with impiety, 262

Alexander's successors, effects of wars by, 90

Algeria, 44, 63, note ; influence of, upon French society, 124

Almaden, mines of, 107

Amazon, Indians of, 52 ; whites of, 53

America, Central and Southern, not fitted for white men, 53

America, Southern, clergy control schools, 214

America, tropical, proportions of races in, Appendix A

America, U.S., white population in, 64 ; emigration to, 96 ; European heroism more than matched in, 218-220; experience of, about divorce, 245 ; displacement of office-bearers in, 279 ; not quite unreasonable, 280

American militia not very successful in War of Independence, and beaten in 1812, 115, 116

Anaxagoras charged with impiety, 262

Angola, 35

Anselm revives philosophy, 90 ; compassionate to animals, 218

Apaches untameable, 34

Araucanians uutameable, 34

Argentine Republic, its circumstances exceptional, 58

Arminius, 89

Arnold, Matthew, failed as a lecturer, 164 ; jests on the Trinity, 201 ; responsible for a story about French schools, 223, 224 ; overpraises small men, 309

Asia, Central, capabilities of, 43, 44

Athens an instance of highly-developed city life, 148 ; under the best conditions, 156 ; in the Peloponnesian war, 181, 182 ; energy of its people, 263

Atrato, mouths of, pestilential, 57

Attila, 90

Australia the best inheritance of the higher races, 16 ; an instructive instance of new tendencies, 17, 18 ; peculiarly fitted for settlement, 42 ; emigration to, 96 ; urban population in, 142, 143 ; well-being of its people, 163 ; splendid chances in, 169 ; high schools in, 310

Australia, South, and progressive land-tax, 19

Austria gained by Solferino, 141

Austrian Parliament and Darwin, 267

Aztecs, 56 ; docile, 59

, Roger, 13 ; pathetic fate of, 212

Balzac paints the French peasant, 169 ; and filial ingratitude, 297

Bankruptcy, national, examples of, 177, 178 ; consequences of, 178

Barrios, a half-caste, 56

Baylen, capitulation of, its character, 120

Beaconsfield, Lord, on critics, 307

Belgium, education in, 214

Bell, Graham, invents telephone, 102, note 1

Bell, Patrick, invents reaping-machine, 102, note 1

Beluchistan not all desert, 51, and note

Bert, Paul, revives Pascal's charges, 216

Bichat essentially a thinker, 151

Birkenhead, heroism of men of the, 139

Black Belt, States of the, 60, 62

Blucher's soldiers comparatively barbarous, 140

Boers, 36 ; occupy Natal, 36 ; defeat English at Majuba Hill, 114, 121, 122