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 State activity, increase of, 18-22 ; value of, to the modern citizen, 224-226

Stationary state, its good and evil, 336-338 ; arguments against it," 339-341 ; invalid, 341, 342

Statistical Bureau of U.S., estimate by, 61

Strafford, a traitor, 190

Straits Settlement, Chinese in, 46, 47, and note

Straw, Jack, confession of, 208, note

Sweden, increase of population in, 70

Swift's view of servants, 256 ; a transcendent journalist, 319 ; on the ill-fate of great men, 329, 330

Swinburne on the stage, 165 ; sometimes irreverent, 201

Szechuen, fluctations of population in, 65

praises the Germans, 89 ; social sphere of, 157 ; on German marriages, 235 ; compared with Virgil, 302

Tae-Pings, character of their revolt, 34 ; how put down, 83 ; its effect on society, 34

Taine on English family life, 246, note 1

Talleyrand praises Hamilton, 6 ; his sagacity, 8, and note

Tara, Hill of, meeting at, forbidden, 281

Tarragona, storm of, 140

Tartufe, a representative of the religious man of his day, 274

Temper of European nations likely to change, 130, 131

Tennyson on the stage, 165 ; has changed the Arthurian legend for the worse, 296 ; his view of longevity, 322 ; his optimism, 340

Texas, whites can labour in, 33 ; its precedent, 59

Thackeray as lecturer, 164

Thirty Years' War, 81 ; its effect, 90

Thomas buys patent of sewing-machine, 102, note 1

Ticknor, M., prognostications by, 135, 170

Tocqueville, De, predictions by, 6, 8 ; statement about French society by, 151 ; re-cast a portion of modern history, 303 ; not exhaustive, 304

Towns increasing upon the country, 142, 143 ; partly because of improved communication, 143-145 ; partly because education makes men social and ambitious, 145-147 ; partly because city 'life stimulates talent, 147-150 ; though no fixed law can be laid down as to this, 150-152. But city life is unhealthy, 152-154 : though much is being done to improve it, 154, 155 ; and the town population is only kept vigorous by country immigrants, 155, 156. The old cities were open to country influences, and with a manageable society, 156-158. The tendency is for the individual to dwindle in town -life, 158-160. Family feeling withers up in town, 160-162 ; nor can improved conditions of policy altogether remedy this, 162, 163. On the other hand, towns offer women relief from ennui, 163, 164 ; though the intellectual interests stimulated are not the highest, 164-166 ; as the drama is dying, 166-168 ; the music-hall vulgar, 168. It seems accidental that avarice is less a passion in towns than in the country, 168, 169

Towton, battle of, 13~2

Transylvania, movement of population in, 69

Trevisano, Andrea, on Englishmen, 99, note

Trinidad, the marshes of, pestilential, 57

Tripoli, 44

Tunis, 44

Tschernischevski, dreams of, 290, and note

Turkestan, Eastern, 43, note, 44

Turkestan, Western, Russia may colonise, 45

Turkish Empire, dissolution of, predicted, 8 ; inevitable, 45 ; greatness of, in 16th century, 93

Turks depress higher races, 68 ; moral character of, 94, 95 ; how called by Luther, 133

Tyler's followers behead an archbishop, 208

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United States filling up rapidly, 14, 15; the better for the War of Independence, 141 ; urban population in, 142, 143

, Maximus, on continence, 239

Valmy, a victory by half-trained troops, 118

Venezuela, described by Eastwick, 59

Verbrugghe, M., defends climate of Nicaragua, 57

Victoria and State landlordism, 19 ; State employees in, 21, 22 ; effects of Chinese labour in, 125 ; clergy of, oppose State education, 215 ; having failed to educate, 215 ; law of divorce in, 239 ; Medical Board of, refused to register a Chinese doctor, 283, 284 ; its teaching service a close one, 284 ; death-rate of children in, 322

Virginia, a mere breeding-place, 210