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354 influences, 273 ; his poetry compared with Burke's prose, 300-302

Mirabeau approves Frederick II. 's political economy, 107

Molière may become archaic, 332

Moltke's (Von) soldiers comparatively humane, 141

Monasteries and pauperism, 205, 206

Money, love of, likely to be a permanent force, 333-335 ; will be desired from more selfish motives than now, 335, 336

Montaigne's allusions to well-known names, 332

Morality not easily distinguished from religion, 265

Morazan, 56

More, Sir Thomas, his principles of action, 193 ; his doctrine of prayer, 170

Moreau, a civilian-made soldier, 118

Morocco, 44

Morris, his conception of a reformed England, 27

Mozambique, 35

, forecasts by, 7, 8 ; estimate of French revolutionary levies by, 117-119 ; his wars reduced French stature, 153 ; he regulates divorce, 238 ; adopts promotion by merit, 279 ; rescued France from anarchy, 326, 327 ; is becoming impossible in France, 328 ; his view of fame, 331

Napoleon, Louis, believed in by English society, 4 ; called a tyrant, 194 ; not reproved by the clergy, 198

Nasmyth, 101 ; his hammer first used in Creuzot, 102

Natal, example of, 36-38

Needle-gun tried and rejected by English officers, 103

Negroes, American, dangerous increase of, 10, 11, 59-63. Appendices A, B Nelson would not be allowed to save the Empire, 202

Newman, J. H., avoids London, 157

Newspapers are superseding the pamphlet, the book of travel, and the philosophical argument, 315-317

Newton discovered the one great secret, 291 ; made it familiar, 303

Nicander Nucius on Englishmen, 99, note Nicaragua, few whites in, 33 ; impossible for Europeans, 57 ; filibusters meant to work in, with slaves, 58

Nicholas I., 9

Nicias, timidity of, 263

Noblemen, English, die out rapidly, 70-73

Novel, the, cannot take the place of poetry, 301, 302

on the migration of population, 144, 155

Olmsted on comparative health of white and negro, 62

Ontario, education law in, 214

Orissa, famine in, 84

Ortou's (Professor) views about Indians, 52 ; about whites in the Amazon, 53 ; finds an Indian governor, 56

Ovid loathes life out of Eome, 148

beaten before New Orleans, 115

Palatines, settlement of, in England, 283

Palmerston controlled by his supporters, 327

Parents and children, legal relations of, 247-249 ; partly superseded by State control, 249-251

Paris like Athens and Eome, 149, 263 Pascal a Jansenist, 274 ; a Puritan of speculative genius, 275 ; a writer for the day's need, 318

Patriotism will become increasingly important, 181, 182 ; a virtue of a peculiar kind, 182-185 ; a very mixed virtue, 185-187 ; is gradually taking definite shape, 187, 188 ; and becoming more possible in its best form, 188-190 ; a higher feeling than loyalty, 190-192

Pauperism in England and Scotland, 208, 209

Pecock, Bishop, disgraced, 213 ; statement of, about population, 339

Peel knew English literature, 311 ; was steadily reviled, 330, 331

Pennsylvania, repudiation by, 176

Pepys, Samuel, 256

Pericles charged with impiety, 262

Persia, population of, 52 ; Shah of, 93

Peru, Indians of, not exterminated, 33 ; a tropical Switzerland, 58 ; early civilisation of, 91

Peter the Great, 8, 46 ; his treatment of his son, 229, 230

Peterborough a typical Englishman, 100

Philip II. 's treatment of his son, 229, 230

Philippe, Louis, a teacher, 284

Philoctetes, 148

Pitt attacked for purity of his life, 201

Pizarro, 33, 34

Plate, Lower, whites can labour in, 33

Plato's imperishable prose, 312

Pliny, social sphere of, 157

Poetry is dying out, except lyrical, 292-295 ; which is becoming richer and more various, 295, 296 ; but which may soon be exhausted, 300, 301, See Drama