INDEX.
Abolition of custom, how to effect, [252]
Abstinence from newspaper reading, [461]
Accomplishments, masculine and feminine, [303]
Accumulation of preparatory knowledge, [448]
Accumulators, great, of money, [237]
Activity, mere, a waste of time, [190]
Adult brain, the, [162]
Advantages of few authors to poor, [244]
— of experience, [420]
Affectations of caste, [351]
Affirmations based upon authority, [282]
African traveller and map-makers, [469]
Alcibiades, education of, [117]
Alphabet, Greek, [354]
Amateurism, [134]
Ampère, profoundly scientific, [278]
— anecdote of, [287]
Amusement, necessity of, [454]
Analytical observation, value of, [310]
Anatomy, difficulty of study, [116]
Ancients, incorrect use of word, [146]
— and moderns compared, [255]
Application and opportunities, [244]
Arabia, use of coffee, [40]
Archimedes in the bath, [310]
— at Syracuse, [539]
Aristocracy, liberal and illiberal, [358]
— unwritten religious law of, [366]
— and democracy, [341]
— spirit of, in reading, [472]
Arnold, Dr., quoted, [144], [535]
— definition of religion, [271]
— intellectual force, [278]
Arnold, Matthew, “Self-dependence” quoted, [458]
Art of reading, [211]
— of resting, [455]
Artist, idea of happy marriage, [289]
Artistic conception of black coats, [249]
Artists, drudgery of, [75]
— poor critics, [95]
Arts, practical pursuit of, [498]
Assimilating power of brain, [162]
Assimilation, power of, [167]
Association of ideas, [168]
Atheism, popular construction, [272]
Athenian education, [117]
Attraction of the future, [255]
Author in mortal disease, to an, [53]
— and tradesman compared, [236]
— his advice about notes, [167]
— his study described, [551]
Authors, dependence upon private means, [232]
— young, eagerness of, [419]
— selfishness of, [471]
— condition since Goldsmith’s time, [509]
Authorship, privilege of, [341]
Available knowledge, [115]
Baker, Sir Samuel, and wife, [302]
Balzac’s method in literature, [421]
Barbarian notions, return to, [356]
Bargeman’s wife, example of, [417]
Basis, moral, the, [67]
Baudelaire, Charles, quoted, [85]
Beckford, Mr., author of “Vathek,” [215]
— two thousand slaves labor for, [218]
Beer, use of, [36]
Belgian school of painting, [73]
Bixio, Alexandre, death-bed, [53]
Black coats artistic at dinner table, [249]
Blessing of good, cheap literature, [244]
Boar-hunt, the author at, [46]
Bodily exercise, neglect of, [48]
Body and brain, close connection, [21]
Book-making differs from literature, [83]
Books and newspapers, [470]
Bossuet, [232]
Bourgeoisie, low condition, [367]
Brain and body, close connection, [21]
Brain work unfavorable to digestion, [34]
“Bramleighs, The,” quoted, [501]
Bruno, Giordano, passion for philosophy, [79]
— constant work of, [541]
Buckland, Mrs., [303]
Bunyan, results of solitude, [411]
Burns, quoted, [353]
— separation from culture, [353]
— injustice of, [354]
Byron, cause of his death, [21]
— aristocracy of, [347]
— poetical inspiration of, [450]
Capacity and preference, relation, [87]
Careers aided by wealth, [225]
Carelessness, danger of, [224]
Carpenter, Dr., surrenders practice for science, [222]
Caste, prejudices of, [348]
Catholic Church power in 14th century, [257]
— Roman, belief of, [272]
Central passion of men of ability, [231]
Chance acquaintances, [376]
Character, positive or negative end, [475]
“Character” quoted, [507]
Charity, intellectual, [438]
Chemist, a product of industrial communities, [520]
Chemistry, intellectual, [105]
Children, imitative power, [162]
— proper division of time, [482]
Child-teaching, [155]
Christian, muscular, to a, [42]
Christianity, fashionable, [394]
Church of Rome, embodiment of tradition, [261]
— service to European civilization, [261]
Class jealousy, [518]
Classical accomplishments, [351]
Clergy at variance with scientists, [274]
— English, [490]
— restrictions of, [490]
— injustice and inaccuracy of, [491]
Clerical profession, advantages, [489]
— incompatible with intellectual freedom, [422]
Code of customs constitutes law, [251]
Coffee and tea, use of, [39]
Colloquial use of language, [147]
Communard’s hatred of superiority, [369]
Communicativeness of chance acquaintances, [376]
Community, intelligent, is conservative, [251]
Compensation, principle of, [212]
Completeness of education, [171]
Composition, drudgery of, [72]
Comte, Auguste, laments consequences of anxiety, [230]
— atheist and scientist, [279]
— voluntary isolation of, [411]
— abstinence from newspapers, [466]
— mysticism of, [468]
Condescension, intellectual advised, [402]
Conjugal felicity, degrees of, [297]
Contemporary literature, indifference to, [471]
Contempt for skill, [503]
— for trade, [522]
Continent, absence of gentlemen, [364]
Controversy, unfairness of, [464]
Conversation of women, [325]
— between the sexes, [332]
— generally dull, [398]
Cookery, science of, [35]
Copernicus, monument at Warsaw, [261]
Correspondents, the two contrasted, [345]
Cotton-manufacturer, letter to, [513]
Cotton-trade, effect on the mind, [525]
Country people, ignorance of, [439]
Cream and curacoa, [331]
Creative faculty may be commanded, [85]
Critical faculty of English clergy, [277]
Critics, artists as, [95]
Culture, moral utility, [101]
— proper limitations of, [106]
— how rich may best serve its cause, [323]
— of middle classes, [241]
— independent of sex, [304]
— induces sincerity, [332]
— hostility of democracy, [369]
— high, isolates, [407]
— facilities for obtaining, [432]
— individual, national gain, [433]
Curate, poor, in prosperous community, [287]
Custom and tradition, [246]
— the one law of society, [248]
— a necessary aid to religion, [248]
Custom nature’s provision for reform, [250]
— precious legacy of the past, [251]
— not final, but a form, [251]
— opposition unphilosophical, [251]
— how to procure abolition, [252]
— resistance sometimes imperative, [258]
Cuvier, a model student, [427]
Decline of old prejudices, [522]
Democracy and aristocracy, [341]
— envious, [360]
— its levelling down tendency, [363]
— intolerance of, [366]
— metropolitan and provincial, [368]
— hostile to culture, [369]
De Saussure, labors of, [229]
De Sénancour, [232]
— quoted, [406]
Descent of man, [274]
De Stael, Madame, literary methods, [62]
Development of natural gifts, [172]
— of faculty, [175]
Deviation produced by marriage, [317]
Dickens, narrowness of, [347]
— study described, [549]
Discipline necessary to success, [81]
— object of, [84]
— value and necessity, [449]
— of a professional career, [504]
Discussions with ladies, best course, [337]
Disease, effect of mental labor, [18]
Diseased, experience of, [55]
Disinterestedness, most essential virtue, [91]
Displacement of native tongue, [157]
Dissatisfaction of cultured persons, [431]
Distinctions in trade, [521]
Disuse of native tongue, [156]
Diversity of belief in religion, [265]
Domestic picture, a, [57]
Doré, Gustave, painting-room, [549]
Dress-coat, the young gentleman lacking, [245]
Drill, intellectual, advantages of, [459]
Drinks, question of, [35]
Drudgery in all work, [71]
Dullness of general conversation, [398]
Dunces, illustrious, [80]
Dürer, Albert, Melencolia, [424]
Duty, occasional, of eccentricity, [253]
— of cultured men to society, [401]
Eagerness of young authors, [419]
Eccentricity sometimes a moral duty, [253]
— sometimes an intellectual duty, [253]
Ecclesiastical authority, remarkable decline, [256]
Economy of time, [177]
Education, [104]
— use of the word, [173]
— completeness of, [171]
— want of thoroughness and reality, [290]
— of sexes compared, [290]
— fashionable, [380]
Educator, professional, practice the best, [226]
Egotism of the uneducated mother, [324]
Electricity practically annihilates distance, [257]
Elevation of intellectual life, [55]
Emerson’s rule, [472]
Empire, Second, vulgarity of, [367]
Énault, Louis, study of languages, [181]
Encouragement to the poor student, [243]
Energy, human, limitation of, [244]
English officer in Paris, [163]
— strong to resist voluptuousness, [218]
— recognize refining influence of wealth, [240]
— gentry, free expenditures, [241]
— gentleman, methods of culture, [241]
— clergy, criticism of literature, [277]
— tradesman, anecdote of, [313]
— correspondent quoted, [463]
Englishman, eminent, poor remuneration, [234]
Engraving, [76]
Ennui in work, [423]
Equality, theoretic, [372]
Erdan, M., letters by, [469]
Essential virtue, disinterestedness, chief, [91]
Etchers, the woes of, [76]
Etiquette of society bar to intellectual advance, [326]
European civilization, service of church, [261]
— governments resist power of church, [258]
Excesses, intellectual, dangers of, [101]
Excitement, cerebral, intellectual products, [446]
Exercise, bodily, need of, [49]
Exeter, bishop of, quoted, [70]
Experience, the lesson, [191] — advantages of, [420]
Experiment replaces tradition, [254]
Experiments on public taste, [235]
Facilities for obtaining culture, [432]
Facility of acquiring languages, [161]
Faculty, development of, [175]
Fane, Julian, religion of, [267]
— late hours, [467]
Faraday, intellectual career, [279], [505]
— a Sandemanian, [280]
Fashionable education, [380]
— religion, [393]
Fickleness of fashion, [392]
Fine arts, technical difficulties, [76]
— pursuit of, [498]
Five facts regarding languages, [152]
France, invasion by Germans, [95]
— intellectual isolation, [148]
— vulgar language of people, [365]
— low condition of bourgeoisie, [367]
French monarchy, question of, [94]
— college, to a principal of, [137]
— cook, perfection of art, [104]
— officer, incident of, [362]
— peasantry, intellectual apathy, [241]
— peasantry, parsimony, [241]
— peasantry without newspapers, [466]
— school of painting, [73]
— students of English, isolated, [122]
Frenchman writes a school-primer with good results, [234]
Fresco-painters, troubles of, [76]
Friendships of the intellect, reality of, [375]
— succession of, [376]
Future, attraction of, [255]
Galton, Mr., advice to travellers, [416]
Garibaldi, Italian follower of, [45]
Generation, our, poetical events, [95]
Genius, popular impression of, [447]
— military, of Napoleon, [448]
— dependent upon culture, [450]
Gentlemen, absence of, on Continent, [364]
German invasion of France, [95]
Germans, intellectual labor of, [200]
Germany, secular power resists ecclesiastical, [258]
Girardin, St. Marc, [255]
“Give it time,” [193]
Goethe, habits of, [33]
— pecuniary independence, [233]
— intellectual activity, [427]
— interest in intellectual labor, [427]
— production of Werther, [428]
— at bombardment of Verdun, [540]
Goldsmith, Oliver, elaborate dress, [390]
Good use of opportunity, [212]
— and cheap literature, [244]
Government patronage of intellectual pursuits, [138]
— and priests lack harmony, [492]
Great problem of human life, [242]
Greek, general view of, [146]
— uselessness in industry and commerce, [354]
— alphabet, imaginary terrors, [355]
Growing old, the rapidity of, [59]
Habits, sure to be acquired, [478]
Hack-writing, [508]
Heine, last years of, [534]
Helps, Sir Arthur, quoted, [186], [230]
Hermit, experience of, [405]
Highland scenery lacks humanity, [551]
Historians, partiality of, [95]
— future, value of journalist, [469]
Historical party in England, [257]
— party in France, [257]
Honesty, importance of, note, [97]
— value of, [265]
— foundation of intellectual life, [274]
Hoogstraten and Rembrandt, [378]
Hours of idleness, [198]
Household, intellectual level of, [434]
How to learn a language, [147]
— women help men, [297]
Hugo, Victor, intellectual decadence, [95]
Human energy, limitation of, [244]
— race, longevity, [274]
Humboldt, Alexander, intellectual greatness, [90]
Humboldt, Alexander, fortune servant of ambition, [223]
— in South America, [516]
— youth of, [538]
Hurry, evil consequences of, [209]
Huxley, Professor, quoted, [372]
Hygienics, intellectual, [415]
Ideal division of life, [412]
Ideas, association of, [168]
— ratio of narrowness, [241]
Idleness, hours of, [198]
— value of, [458]
Illusions, popular, concerning languages, [151]
Immorality of intellectual people, [99]
Inapplicability of past experience, [256]
Incompatibility, fashionable and intellectual life, [394]
Incongruous associations, [170]
Indirect uses of study, [131]
Indolent men who like to be hurried, [207]
Industrial classes, results of their labor, [520]
Infallibility of the pope, [281]
Infraction of custom, penalties, [247]
Ingres, counsel to pupils, [421]
Ingres, Madame, the first, [289]
Inspiration, sister of daily labor, [85]
— waiting for, [449]
Instinct of accumulation, [237]
— of solitude, [409]
Intellect does not recognize authority, [282]
Intellectual and religious questions, difference, [270]
— attainments of two houses of Parliament, [240]
— class necessary, [515]
— deviations resulting from marriage, [317]
— kingdom, difficult entrance of the rich, [220]
— life, inward law, [88]
Intellectual requirements of, [221]
— foundation, difficulty, [274]
— differs from religious life, [275]
— based upon personal investigation, [275]
— a solitary one, [298]
— absence of caste, [346]
— man rebels against custom, [250]
— two courses open in marriage, [287]
— methods independent of tradition, [288]
— nature of women, [306]
Intellectual natures need intellectual activity, [430]
— progress, necessity of, [521]
— reaction against money making, [229]
— religion, foundations of, [272]
— religion, search and result, [273]
— separation of the sexes, [303]
— stupidity of amassing money, [237]
— workers, suggestions to, [18]
International marriages, [162]
Interruption, evils of, [204]
Intolerance of democracies, [366]
Intoxication, literary, [67]
Invasion of France by Germans, [95]
Inventions a factor in politics, [256]
— mainly due to men, [311]
Inward law of intellectual life, [88]
Irregular verbs, time-wasters, [193]
Irrigation, intellectual, [436]
Isolation of high culture, [407]
Italian deserter, the, [157]
Jacquemont, Victor, letters of, [200]
Japanese, revolution of thought and practice, [354]
Jealousy of class, [518]
Johnson, dignity of his threadbare sleeves, [390]
Joubert, [441]
— productive power, [443]
— quoted, [255]
Journalism in England, [511]
Journalist, value to future historians, [469]
Journals, party, injustice of, [464]
Kant, Immanuel, habits of, [27]
Keats, genius dependent upon culture, [450]
Kepler, early struggles, [232]
Knight service in society, [251]
Knowledge of mankind, [457]
— selection of, [108]
Labor, pecuniary rewards of, [233]
— of previous ages, disdain for, [260]
— dominant and subordinate, [478]
— of preparation, [448]
Lalla Rookh, Moore’s trials, [72]
Language, Latin as a common, [127]
Language, facility of acquisition, [161]
— in France, vulgarity of, [365]
Languages, popular illusions, [151]
— five facts, [152]
— separation of, [159]
Late hours, [477]
Latin, modern ignorance of, [121]
— island, a, [128]
Latinist, the modern, [121]
Law, complex code of customs, [251]
— of society, [248]
Lawyers, superiority of, in certain directions, [495]
Lay element of Europe, powerful, [491]
Legal profession, advantages of, [493]
Leslie’s studio, [549]
Levels, intellectual, [435]
Lever, Charles, quoted, [501]
Lewes’ “Life of Goethe” quoted, [451], [547]
— quoted, [544]
Lewis, John, practice work of, [74]
Life, an ideal division of, [412]
Limited knowledge and experience of the poor, [240]
Limitation of human energy, [244]
Line-engraver, labor of, [76]
Linguist, the modern, [150]
Listening, the art of, [398]
Literature, to a student of, [130]
— good and cheap, [244]
— criticism of English clergy, [277]
— contemporary, indifference to, [471]
Literary intoxication, [67]
Littré quoted, [259]
Locality, mental effect of, [530]
Locke quoted, [85]
Loitering element in liberal education, [196]
Longevity, young men careless of, [65]
— of human race, [274]
Lost opportunities, [199]
Louvre, wanton destruction of, [368]
Love, necessity of, [454]
Lullo, Raimond, Oriental missionary, [541]
“Luxury,” article in Cornhill Magazine, [315]
— quoted, [316]
Lytton, Robert, letter of Lady Westmorland, [267]
— estimate of Julian Fane, [361]
Man unlike a planet, [452]
— need of pluck, [70]
Mankind, operations of riches and poverty, [239]
— best knowledge of, [457]
Marriage, [285]
— true, a slow intergrowth, [286]
— general ignorance regarding, [286]
— complex effects, [287]
— of intellectual men, [287]
— a distinguished artist’s views, [289]
— ideal for man of literary culture, [290]
— intellectual, [291]
— how decided, [293]
— of French professors, [294]
— of the Scotch lawyer, [296]
— the intellectual ideal, [299]
— the necessity of keeping up its interest, [301]
— frequently leads to intellectual deviation, [317]
— risk of eccentric men, [323]
— semi-publicity, [323]
Marriages, international, [162]
Maximilian, Emperor, execution of, [95]
Mediæval builders, [260]
Medicine, profession of, [495]
Meissonier, practice for self-instruction, [74]
“Melencolia” of Albert Dürer, [424]
Memory, defective, advantage of, [165]
— selecting, [166]
— rational art of, [169]
Men, how helped by women, [296]
— disguise their thoughts from women, [330]
Mental labor not injurious to healthy persons, [22]
— may aggravate disease, [18]
Mental stimulants, [69]
— refusals should be heeded, [88]
— powers, immoderate use, [20]
— work, physical preparation, [479]
Metaphor of the mountains, [228]
“Midshipman Easy,” allusion to, [188]
Military genius of Napoleon, [448]
— profession, [497]
— profession, intellectual poverty of, [498]
Milton, forced retirement, [411]
Mind of a fashionable person, [380]
Minds, three classes, [443]
Miracles, belief in, [272]
Miscalculation, bad results, [196]
Miscellaneous reading, our debt to, [132]
Mitford, Miss, quoted, [471]
Mobility of fashionable taste, [392]
Modern education, [116]
— inventions, power of, [256]
— languages, to student of, [149]
— languages, limits of soundness, [183]
— mind looks forward, [255]
Modern Painters, result of long study, [229]
— work of genius and wealth, [229]
Money, the influences of, [216]
— restraints of, [238]
— the guardian of peace, [238]
— accumulated labor of the past, [238]
— protector of intellectual life, [238]
Montaigne, early education of, [121]
— purchases of books, [405]
— his tower, [550]
Moore’s trials with “Lalla Rookh,” [72]
Moral basis, the, [67]
— utility of culture, [101]
Morality, individual theories, [99]
— public opinion regulates, [257]
— general advance of, [258]
Morbid mind, cure for, [430]
Morris, a diligent student, [450]
Mother and son, difference in religious views, [284]
— the uneducated, [325]
Mulready, preparation for new picture, [74]
Multiplicity of modern studies, [120]
Muscular Christian, to a, [42]
Music, refining influence of, [44], [132]
— limits of soundness, [183]
Napoleon, military genius of, [448]
Napoleon III., overthrow of, [95]
National intellectual life, [433]
Native tongue, results of disuse, [156]
Natural connection between wealth and culture, [240]
— gifts, development of, [172]
— laws, independent working, [282]
Nature, extraordinary reactions, [100]
— high life in, [359]
Nature, provision for intellectual life in marriage, [292]
— will be obeyed, [248]
Naval profession, [497]
Navy, English, reconstruction of, [262]
Neapolitan servant, case of, [158]
Necessity a help in industrial pursuits, [525]
— disturbs higher intellectual life, [225], [226]
Need of society and solitude, [403]
Negative end of character, [475]
— qualification for work, [109]
Neighbors, education of, [437]
Newspaper reading, abstinence from, [460]
Newspapers as educators, [437]
— daily house-talk of the world, [465]
— in United States, [466]
— in France, [466]
Newton, desire for solitude, [410]
Nervous system, physiological action, [17]
Nightingale, Florence, quoted, [204]
Night-work, medical objection to, [481]
Noblesse, old, ignorance of, [363]
Nomad, English, life of, [530]
Nomadic habits of higher classes, [356]
Obedience to nature, necessity of, [248]
Object of intellectual discipline, [84]
Occasion, mistaken estimates, [186]
Opposition to custom unphilosophical, [251]
— of method between intellect and faith, [282]
Oil painting, dangers of, [76]
Old prejudices declining, [522]
Opportunities lost, [199]
— unlimited, danger of, [214]
— and application, [244]
Origin of discipline, [82]
Orleans, Duchess of, [220]
— system of mental culture, [220]
Orthodoxy no guaranty of intellectual capacity, [299]
Outlet, intellectual, necessary, [435]
Painters, intellectual discipline of, [498]
Painting, different schools, [73]
Palgrave’s, Mr., “Travels in Arabia,” [40]
Papacy, decline and fall of temporal power, [469]
Papal infallibility, [281]
Paris, siege of, [95]
Parliament, houses of, high attainments, [240]
Parsimony of French peasantry, [241]
Party journals, injustice, [464]
Past, custom a precious legacy, [251]
— not reliable as a guide, [256]
Patriotism as a stimulant, [69]
Peasants, instruction of, [438]
Pecuniary rewards of labor, [233]
Pendennis, Major, typical life, [65]
Philistine intellects, [202]
Philosophy, popular acceptation of term, [273]
— a truly intellectual, [417]
Physical basis, the, [17]
— repugnances of surgeons, [87]
— preparation for mental labor, [479]
Physician, social rise of, [496]
Physiological action of nervous system, [17]
Pioneers, intellectual, [516]
Planet, dissimilarity of man to, [452]
Plans should be well arranged, [189]
Pluck, value of, [70]
Poet, the true, [447]
Poetical events of our generation, [95]
— teachings, true intentions, [453]
Political influence of culture, [436]
Politics, preponderance in newspapers, [465]
Polyglot waiters, [165]
Poor, limited knowledge and experience, [240]
— incompetent for work of Parliament, [240]
— independence of public opinion, [243]
— man desirous of culture, consolation, [243]
Pope of Rome, affirmed infallibility, [281]
Popular illusions regarding languages, [151]
— impression regarding genius, [447]
Positive end of character, [475]
Poverty and peace incompatible, [223]
— unfavorable to intellectual life, [224]
— advantage in liberal professions, [226]
— obstacle to intellectual perfection, [239]
Power of assimilation, [167]
— of time, [176]
Practical suggestions to intellectual workers, [18]
Practice, best professional as educator, [226]
— of journalism, [511]
Preference and capacity, relation, [87]
Prejudices of caste, [348]
— old, decline of, [522]
Preparatory labor, [448]
Prescott, Mr., instance of, [63]
Preservation of the senses, [60], [64]
Priests, manner of religious teaching, [270]
— and government not harmonious, [492]
Prince Consort, example and influence, [305]
Problem, great, of life, [242]
Products of cerebral excitement, [446]
Professions, liberal, advantages of poverty, [226]
— test of, [392]
— and trades, [488]
— purpose of, [507]
Progress, satisfactions of, [79]
— its debt to rebellion, [250]
— of work, interest necessary, [416]
Propositions about modern languages, [152]
Protection in intellectual pursuits, [137]
Public taste, experiments on, [235]
— opinion, regulator of morality, [257]
— opinion in France, [258]
Purpose of a profession, [506]
Qualifications for work, [109]
Railways, unforeseen effect, [356]
Rational art of memory, [169]
Ravignon, pere, [547]
Reactions of Nature, [100]
Reading, miscellaneous, advantage of, [132]
— painful to uneducated, [438]
— newspapers, abstinence from, [460]
— practised by most people, [474]
Rebellion, debt of progress to, [250]
Reconciliation of poverty and the soul, [242]
Refinements of a language, [164]
Reform and progress of custom, [250]
Refusals, mental, should be heeded, [86]
Regret for lost time, [456]
Regularity of work, [446]
Regulated economy of time, [203]
Relation between preference and capacity, [87]
— of trivial events to great principles, [329]
Religion as a stimulant, [69]
— requires aid of custom, [248]
— different views of mother and son, [264]
— indefinable, [271]
— according to popular instinct, [272]
— intellectual foundation of, [273]
— influence of caste-law, [366]
Religious vitality, periods of, [265]
— teaching, [270]
— and intellectual questions, difference, [270]
— creed does not weaken critical faculty, [277]
— belief, test of, [272]
Rembrandt, answer to Hoogstraten, [378]
Renan, M., charges Second Empire with vulgarity, [367]
Repugnances to be overcome, [87]
Resisting power of adult brain, [162]
Rest, necessary in intellectual labor, [454]
Resting, the art of, [455]
Restoration of French monarchy, [94]
Restraints of money, [238]
Retreats demanded by intellectual life, [221]
Return to barbarism, [356]
Rich man a director of work, [219]
— social diversions of, [220]
— vulgar people, [242]
Road to success, commonly gradual increase, [226]
Roman Catholic, belief of, [272]
Romans, education of, [118]
Roscoe, William, Italian studies, [134]
Rosse, Lord, colossal telescope, [220]
— useful application of wealth, [220]
Rossini, advice to young composer, [195]
Ruskin, Mr., value of artistic perception, [62]
— extract from Modern Painters, [215]
— wealth of material, [229]
— career of, [229]
Sacerdotal system, [270]
Sadness of intellectual workers, [426]
Sainte Beuve, example of self-discipline, [83]
— system of living, [236]
— atheist and scientist, [279]
— quoted, [458]
Saint-Bernard at Lake Leman, [547]
Saint-Hilaire, Geoffroy, in blindness, [57]
Saint-Hilaire, Geoffrey, at Alexandria, [540]
Sand, George, working under pressure, [23]
— quoted, [86]
— novel of “Valvèdre,” [319]
Satisfactions of intellectual riches, [424]
Schiller, literary hack-work of, [233]
Schoolmaster, thankless office of, [337]
Science, methods and laws of, [283]
— requires heat and heroism, [276]
— of living, [395]
Scientific cookery, importance of, [35]
— writers and thinkers, independence, [258]
— at variance with clergy, [274]
Scott, Sir Walter, physical exercise, [24]
— habits of, [33]
— writing-closet, [549]
Secular power resists ecclesiastical, [258]
Selection of knowledge, [108]
Selfishness of authors, [471]
Senses, usefulness to intellectual life, [60]
Separation of languages, [159]
Shelley, boating exercise, [24]
— the morality of, [99]
— writings unprofitable, [232]
— desire for solitude, [409]
Ships of the line, old, [262]
Shopkeepers, treatment by English authors, [348]
Siege of Paris, [95]
Silent student, attainments, [444]
Simon Jules, allusion to, [141]
Sincerity induced by culture, [332]
Skill, indifference to, [502]
Skip judiciously in reading, [211]
Small talk in England and France, [399]
Smiles, Mr., Character quoted, [506]
Smith, Sydney, quoted, [173]
— common sense of, [277]
Smoking, moderate and excessive, [39]
Social diversions of the rich, [220]
Society, penalties for infringing custom, [247]
— will be obeyed, [248]
— desires harmony, [249]
— and solitude, [374]
— fashionable demands, [380]
— external deference to culture, [393]
Solitude and society, [374]
— traditional view of, [405]
— effects upon man, [406]
Soul and poverty, reconciliation, [242]
Soundness, requisite to best success, [179]
Spain, secular power resists ecclesiastical, [250]
Spenser, the fables of, [251]
State schools, exclusion of theology, [491]
Station fetters intellect, [371]
Steam makes cities of States, [257]
Stimulants, effects of, [37]
— mental, [69]
Stone in Glen Croe, the, [455]
Structural relations of languages, [170]
Student, the poor, encouragement, [243]
— the poor, sad story, [344]
— dangers of society, [382]
Study, indirect uses of, [131]
— of medicine, [495]
Substitution of experiment for tradition, [251]
Success, result of discipline, [81]
— common road, gradual increase, [226]
Sue, Eugene, daily habits, [24]
Surgeon, social rise of, [496]
Surroundings of cultivated men, [434], [531]
Swiss gentleman, anecdote of, [276]
Systematic arrangement of work, [478]
Taste, public, experiments on, [235]
Tea and coffee, use of, [39]
Teachings, poetical, true intentions, [458]
Telescope, colossal, of Lord Rosse, [220]
Temptations of wealth, [218]
Test of religious belief, [272]
Theology, exclusion from state schools, [481]
Theoretic equality amongst men, [372]
Thiers, antecedents of, [463]
— elevation of, [464]
Thoughts upon “Government” quoted, [96]
Thrift, the principle of, [193]
Tillier, Claude, doctrine of, [457]
Time, the power of, [176]
— loss of, [177]
— mistaken estimates, [186]
— regulated economy, [203]
Titian, early surroundings, [544]
Tobacco, use of, [38]
Trade distinctions, [521]
— contempt for, [522]
Trades and professions, [488]
Tradition and custom, [246]
— rejected for experiment, [254]
— decline of authoritative influence, [200]
— church of Rome, embodiment, [261]
— in industrial and fine arts, note, [263]
Training, intellectual, [214]
Tranquillity conducive to intellectual success, [480]
Travellers, Mr. Galton’s advice, [416]
Triumph of discipline, [86]
Trivial events, relation to great principles, [328]
Truth a law of religion, [265]
Turner’s studio, [549]
Tyco Brahe, princely ease, [233]
— surroundings of, [537]
Ultramontane party, [91]
Undisciplined writer, to an, [80]
United States, influence of newspapers, [486]
Unknown element of all problems, [188]
Unproductive class, the, [444]
Utility, moral, of culture, [101]
“Valvedre,” extract from, [319]
Variety of labor for children, [482]
Various pursuits, objection to, [114]
Vathek, written at a single sitting, [26]
— author of, [216]
Vatican, council of, [127]
Vinci, Leonardo da, education of, [172]
Waiting for inspiration, [449]
Want hinders intellectual pursuits, [231]
Warsaw, monument to Copernicus, [261]
Wealth, double temptation of, [218]
— an obstacle to labor, [219]
— inordinate respect for, [502]
Werther indicative of Goethe’s ennui, [428]
Westmorland, Lady, letter to Robert Lytton, [267]
Why men choose their wives, [292]
Wine, use of, [35]
Wives of French professors, [294]
Women and marriage, [285]
— how they help men, [297]
— incapacity for solitary mental labor, [302]
— intellectual nature of, [306]
— absence of scientific curiosity, [308]
— rarity of invention among, [310]
— lack inherent force for advance, [311]
— do not hear the truth from men, [330]
— conversation of, [325]
Wordsworth, love of pedestrian excursions, [51]
— failure as a London journalist, [232]
— happy results of a legacy, [232]
— advice to tourists, [288]
Work, systematic arrangement desirable, [478]
Work, article in Cornhill Magazine, [480]
World recognizes performance only, [500]
Wœpke, Franz, remarkable extent of studies, [103]
— mathematician and orientalist, [223]
— pension of Italian prince, [223]
Writing against time, [209]
— as a profession, [509]
Young men careless of longevity, [65]