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 Rh Lieschen, 21

Life, Human, picture of, 18, 128, 145, 158; life-purpose, 113; speculative mystery of, 140, 203, 225; the most important transaction in, 143; nothingness of, 154

Light the beginning of all Creation, 165

Logic-mortar and wordy Air-Castles, 45; underground workshop of Logic, 57

Louis XV., ungodly age of, 138

Love, what we emphatically name, 114; pyrotechnic phenomena of, 115; not altogether a delirium, 121; how possible, in its highest form, 182, 250

Ludicrous, feeling and instances of the, 41

Magna Charta, 229

Malthus's over-population panic, 192

Man, by nature naked, 4, 48, 52; essentially a tool-using animal, 34; the true Shekinah, 56; a divine Emblem, 62, 224; two men alone honourable, 193. See Thinking Man

Metaphors the stuff of Language, 62

Metaphysics inexpressibly unproductive, 45

Milton, 139

Miracles, significance of, 217, 220

Monmouth Street, and its 'Ou' clo'&apos; Angels of Doom, 205

Mother's, a, religious influence, 84

Motive-Millwrights, 187

Mountain scenery, 129

Mystery, all-pervading domain of, 58

Nakedness and hypocritical Clothing, 51; a naked Court-Ceremonial, 51; a naked Duke addressing a naked House of Lords, 52

Names, significance and influence of, 74, 220

Napoleon and his Political Evangel, 151

Nature, the God-written Apocalypse of, 44; not an Aggregate but a Whole, 60, 218; Nature alone antique, 88; sympathy with, 129, 152; the 'Living Garment of God,' 159; Laws of Nature, 217

Necessity, brightened into Duty, 83

Newspaper Editors, 38; our Mendicant Friars, 214

Nothingness of life, 154

Obedience, the lesson of, 84, 211

Orpheus, 223

Over-population, 192

Own, conservation of a man's, 169

Paradise and Fig-leaves, 31; prospective, Paradises, 114, 122

Passivity and Activity, 84, 136

Past, the, inextricably linked with the Present, 145; forever extant, 221

Paupers, what to do with, 194

Peace-Era, the much-predicted, 148

Peasant Saint, the, 194

Pelham, and the Whole Duty of Dandies, 236

Perseverance, law of, 200

Person, mystery of a, 57, 110, 203

Philosophies, Cause-and-Effect, 30

Phœnix Death-birth, 200, 207, 228

Property, 169

Proselytising, 8, 250

Radicalism, Speculative, 13, 25, 54

Raleigh's, Sir Walter, fine mantle, 41

Religion, dead letter and living spirit of, 98; weaving new vestures, 183

Reverence, early growth of, 85; indispensability of, 212

Richter, 28

Saints, living Communion of, 209, 214

Sarcasm, the panoply of, 110

Sartor Resartus, genesis of, 8; its purpose, 227

Saturn or Chronos, 109

Savage, the aboriginal, 33

Scarecrow, significance of the, 53

Sceptical goose-cackle, 58

School education, insignificance of, 90; tin-kettle terrors and incitements, 89; need of Soul-Architects, 91

Science, the Torch of, 3; the Scientific Head, 57

Secrecy, benignant efficacies of, 185

Self-activity, 24

Self-annihilation, 157

Shame, divine, mysterious growth of, 34; the soil of all Virtue, 186

Silence, 152; the element in which all great things fashion themselves, 186

Simon's, Saint, aphorism of the golden age, 200; a false application, 252

Smoke, advantage of consuming one's, 127

Society founded upon Cloth, 43, 51, 55; how Society becomes possible, 182; Social Death and New-Birth, 183, 200, 228; as good as extinct, 195

Solitude. See Silence

Sorrow-pangs of Self-deliverance, 134; divine depths of Sorrow, 160; Worship of Sorrow, 162

Space and Time, the Dream-Canvas upon which Life is imaged, 46, 216, 221

Spartan wisdom, 194

Speculative intuition, 44. See German

Speech, great, but not greatest, 186