Love, a noble emotion, iii. 10; color a type of, v. [320] (note); source of unity, ii. 50; as connected with vital beauty, ii. 89; perception quickened by, i. 52; want of, in some of the old landscape painters, i. 77; finish proceeding from, i. 84; nothing drawn rightly with out, iv. 33; of brightness in English cottages, iv. 320; of horror, iv. 328; characteristic of all great men, ii. 90; higher than reason, ii. 114; ideal form, only to be reached by, ii. 121; loveliest things wrought through, ii. 131, v. [348]; good work only done for, v. [346]-348; and trust the nourishment of man’s soul, v. [348].
Lowell, quotation from, v. [347].
Lowlander, proud of his lowlands (farmer in “Alton Locke”), iii. 182.
Magnitude, relation of, to minuteness, v. [175]-177; love of mere size, v. [176]; influence of, on different minds, v. [177].
Man, his use and function, ii. 4; his business in the world, iii. 44, v. [1]; three orders of, iii. 286; characteristics of a great, iii. 260; perfection of threefold, v. [326]; vital beauty in, ii. 111-131; present and former character of, iii. 149-151; intelligibility necessary to a great, iv. 74; adaptation of plants to needs of, v. [2], [3]; influence of scenery on, v. [133]-135; lessons learnt by, from natural beauty, v. [146]; result of unbelief in, v. [345]; how to get noblest work out of, v. [346]-348; love and trust necessary to development of, v. [347]; divided into five classes, v. [159]-162; how to perceive a noble spirit in, iv. 18; when intemperate, ii. 13; pursuits of, how divided, ii. 8, v. [159]-162; life of, the rose and cankerworm, v. [324], [332]; not intended to be satisfied by earthly beauty, i. 204, iv. 131; his happiness, how constituted, iii. 303, v. [327]-330; his idea of finish, iii. 113; society necessary to the development of, ii. 116; noblest tone and reach of life of, v. [331].
Marble, domestic use of, iv. 370; fitted for sculpture, iv. 127; colors of, iv. 140.
Mediæval, ages compared with modern, iii. 250; not “dark,” iii. 252; mind, how opposed to Greek, iii. 193; faith, life the expression of man’s delight in God’s work, iii. 217; admiration of human beauty, iii. 197; knights, iii. 192-195; feeling respecting mountains, iii. 192, 196, 229, iv. 377; want of gratitude, iii. 193; sentimental enjoyment of nature, iii. 192; dread of thick foliage, iii. 213; love for color, iii. 219, 220; dislike of rugged stone, iv. 301; love of cities, v. [4]; love of gardens, iii. 191; love of symmetry, iii. 199; neglect of earth’s beauty, v. [5], iii. 146; love of definition, iii. 209; idea of education, v. [5]; landscape, the fields, iii. 191-228; the rocks, iii. 229-247.
Mica, characteristics of, iv. 105; connected with chlorite, iv. 113; use of the word, iv. 114; flake of, typical of strength in weakness, iv. 239.
Michelet, “L’Insecte,” quoted on magnitude, v. [176].
Middle Ages, spirit of the, iii. 151; deficiency in Shakspere’s conception of, iv. 364-368; baronial life in the, iii. 192, 195; neglect of agriculture in, iii. 192; made earth a great battlefield, v. [5]. See Mediæval.