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350 Bolivia, Indians of, 52 ; a tropical Switzerland, 58

Booth's analysis of London population, 154

Borde on Englishmen, 99, note

Borneo, Chinese in, 47

Boudeuse, La, captain of, kills prisoners, 139, note

Bourrienne clothes French troops in England, 184, note

Boyle's estimate of Indian population, 54

Bradlaugh edits jest on the Trinity, 201

Brazil unfitted for Europeans, 53 ; largely negro, 59, 60

British North Borneo Company is stimulating immigration, 49

British rule, its tendencies in India, 51

Browne, Sir T., uncritical, 305

Browning, on the stage, 165 ; reflective, 167 ; only honoured when old, 331

Brunswick, Duke of, his invasion of France, 116-118

Bryce on laws restraining immigration, 15, note 2 ; on town population in America, 143, note 2 ; on the population of Mexico, 346, note

Buckle's success, 309

Buff on, fascinating style of, 312

Bukhara, 43, note

Bunyan, John, 274

Burke, predictions by, 2, 3 ; describes ravage of the Carnatic, 82 ; a worthy expression of English genius, 151

Burleigh's (Lord) view of marriage, 241, note 1

Bury as historian, 313

Bushmen worthless as slaves, 35 ; exterminated, 36.

, sympathisers with, behead a bishop, 208

Caesar's (Julius) massacres in Gaul, 81 : he saves Rome from the patricians, 326

Caesar, Augustus, 326

Calderon gives the primitive view of marriage, 234

California, chances in, 169

Calvin's rigorous discipline, 195

Cambodia, fine ruins in, 91, 92

Canada, consequences of its conquest, 5 ; mentioned, 44

Canning, prediction by, 3 ; knew English literature, 311

Canterbury, Archbishop of, opposes un-denominational education, 215

Cape Colony, 35, 36

Carera, an Indian, 56

Carlyle approves Frederick II. 's political economy, 107 ; restricts his social intercourse, 157 ; only moderately successful as lecturer, 164

Carnatic ravaged, 82

Carnot organises the French army, 118

Cashmere not adapted for colonisation, 35

Castilla, 56

Catholicism parodied, 24

Cato the Younger lends his wife, 229, note 2

Cato the Censor blamed by Plutarch, 239, note 1

Cavaliers not disinterested, 191

Charles II. a rare exception, 190

Chateaubriand, 151

Chatham as orator, 313, 314 ; gave England an Empire, 326, 327

Chatham, Lord, an incapable general, 280

Chesterfield, Lord, predicts French Revolution, 5 ; his opinion of Chatham as orator, 313, 314, and note

Child on the Act of Uniformity, 193, note

China has little to dread from civilised nations, 34 ; her facilities for colonising Turkestan, 43, 44 ; certain to grow, 45-51 ; could support a larger population, 64-67 ; form its development will take, 95, 96 ; forced into civilisation, 111, 112

Chinamen, 31, 33 ; mortality of, in Nicaragua, 57 ; numbers of, in Siam, 66 ; have supplanted a higher race in Cambodia, 92 ; probable influence of their example upon Europeans, 123-126 ; supplant white labour, 125 ; have added nothing to thought, 341

Choiseul predicts loss of America to England, 5

Cholera, its effects in 1831-32, 153

Christianity copied Paganism, 24

Church has been very useful in the past, 192-194 ; its authority became intolerable, 194-196; inefficient against blasphemy and immorality, 196-198 ; could only succeed at the cost of liberty, 199-201 ; was less capable than the State is of enforcing purity, 201-203 ; was less capable of tolerance than the State is, 203-205 ; was inefficient in its dealing with pauperism, 205-209 ; and with slavery, 209-211 ; and has everywhere opposed a thorough system of national education, 211-216 ; has lost its hold on popular imagination, 216, 217 ; has a lower humanity than the State, 217-220 ; has evaded the recognition of divorce, 235 ; discourages critical examination, 264 ; distrusts the growing power of the State, 266

Cicero loathes life out of Rome, 148