ii. 125

Criminals, mode of examining, in France, ii. 124

Cromwell, Oliver, his alliance with Cardinal Mazarin, ii. 98. Irritation of the orthodox with their union, 98. His hostility to the Church not theological, but political, 361 _note_. His plebeian origin, ii. 156. Capacity of his lieutenants, 156, 157. His chain of fortresses in Scotland, iii. 194. His treatment of the Scotch people, 195 _note_

Crusades, theological feeling of the English as to the, ii. 6 _note_

Crystallography, discoveries of De Lisle and Haüy in, ii. 400, 401. Power of crystals, in common with animals, of repairing their own injuries, 403 _note_. Hunter's inquiries into the malformation of crystals, iii. 443

Cudworth, comparison of the method employed by Hume in his 'Natural History of Religion' compared with that of Cudworth's 'Intellectual System,' iii. 348

Cullen, William, account of his generalizations respecting pathology, iii. 413. His love of theory, 414. His method of studying pathology compared with that of Adam Smith, 417. His theory of the solids, 418. Character of his premisses and conclusions, 418-421. His theory of fever, 424. His nosology, 426

Culloden, results of the battle of, to the Highland Chieftains, iii. 168 _note_

Cumberland, Dr., Bishop of Peterborough, his system of morals without the aid of theology, i. 425. Relation between Hume and Cumberland, 426 _note_

Cuvier, Baron, his labours in geology, ii. 369. Impetus given by him to the study of zoology, 376. His overthrow of the Linnæan system, 376, 377

D'Alembert, his professed atheism, ii. 352

D'Alibard, his experiments on electricity, ii. 362

Damiens, his attempted assassination of Louis XV., ii. 345

Dancing forbidden by the French Protestants, ii. 69, 70. And by the Scotch clergy, iii. 258

Darigrand, suppression of his work on 'Finance,' ii. 238

Dates, effect of the cheapness and abundance of, in Egypt, i. 83

David IV. of Scotland, his imprisonment by the English, iii. 20

Daubenton, his application of the principles of comparative anatomy to the study of fossil bones, ii. 371

Dead, adoration of the, i. 145 _note_

Death, influence of the fear of, on the imagination, i. 127

Debating clubs, establishment of, i. 433. Authorities as to, 433 _note_

Deccan, bards of the, i. 292 _note_

Dedications, servility of the, in books of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, i. 438. Abolition of mean and crouching, 438

Defender of the Faith, title of the, conferred on James V. of Scotland, iii. 6

De Grana, entrusted by the King of Spain with the defence of the Netherlands, ii. 515

De Lisles, Romé, his studies in crystallography, ii. 400

Deluge, the predicted, of St[oe]ffler, i. 330

De Maistre, his method, ii. 389 _note_

Democracy, Calvinism always connected with, ii. 339. Physical science essentially democratic, 409. Democratic tendency, observable in France in the change of dress just before the Revolution, 410. And in the establishment of clubs, 412

Denmark, Mallet's 'History' of, ii. 299

Desaguliers, Dr., his success in popularizing physical truths, i. 432 _note_

Descartes, Réné, his military genius and learning, i. 200. Effect of his secular philosophy, 329. His profundity, ii. 77. His physical discoveries and speculations, 78, 79. Recognizes Harvey's discovery of the circulation of the blood and Aselli's discovery of the lacteals, 81. His origination of the modern method of philosophy, 81, 82. Reasons why he deserves the gratitude of posterity, 82. Account of his philosophy as showing its analogy with the anti-theological policy of Richelieu, 83, 92. His words of wisdom addressed to his countrymen, 85. Compared with Montaigne, 86. Eminent characteristic of his philosophy, 87. Analysis of his principles, 88, 89. Mischief done by his principles to the old theology, 90. And to the inordinate respect with which antiquity was regarded, 91. Period in which he flourished, 189

Desfontaines, his botanical discoveries, ii. 397

Desforges, imprisoned for his work respecting the Pretender, ii. 238

Desmarest, his geological labours, ii. 368

Desmoulins, Camille, his knowledge of the English language and literature, ii. 224

De Thou, raised to the presidency of parliament in France, ii. 26. His great French historical work, 266

Devil, horrible notions of the Scotch clergy concerning, iii. 232

Dhourra of Upper Egypt, its cheapness and abundance, i. 86

Diderot, his knowledge of the English language and literature, ii. 218. His talents, 240. His imprisonment in Vincennes, 242. His professed atheism, 352

Diogenes Laertius, on the physical which preceded metaphysical inquiries, i. 10 _note_. On the preservation of consciousness in dreams and in insanity, 17 _note_

Diplomacy, commencement of a purely secular era in the history of, ii. 41

Disease, theological theory of, in the middle ages and in our own times, i. 127, 128 _note_. Authorities as to the nature and treatment of a disease and the belief that such disease is caused by supernatural power, and is to be cured by it, 129 _note_. The origin of almost all the cruel diseases of Europe to be found in Asia, 130. Hunter's theories of diseases, iii. 448

Dissenters, persecution of the, in England, in the reign of James II., i. 397. Union of the clergy and dissenters and its result, 399, 400. Authorities for the cruelties inflicted upon them in the reign of Charles II. and James II., 419. Principles avowed by the clergy in justification of the persecution, 419 _note_. Persecutions in the reign of Anne, 419, 420. Repeal of the laws against them, 420. The Toleration Act regarded by the Dissenters as their Magna Charta, 402 _note_. Favour shown to them by William III., 405, 406. Their struggle with the clergy, 420. Wesley and Whitefield, 421. Loss of their intellectual vigour, 422. Causes of their recent mental penury, 422. Nonconformist statistics, from the reign of William III. to the present time, 423 _note_. Treatment which the Wesleyans received from the clergy, 423 _note_, 424 _note_. Combination of the Dissenters with the Government against the clergy and the Pretender, 443 _note_. Passing of the Schism Bill, 452. Burke's support of measures for the relief of the, 463

Divine right of Kings, results of the abandonment of the theological fiction of, ii. 182

Dolben, John, his character as Archbishop of York, i. 392

Dolomieu, his geological labours, ii. 368

'Domat, Life of,' by Prévost de la Jannes, suppressed, ii. 237

Douglas, Earls of, treacherously murdered by James II., iii. 49-52. Subsequent power of the family, 57. Driven into exile, 60. Harboured by Henry VIII. in England, 64. Return home, 69

Dramas, French, of the seventeenth century, ii. 208

Dreams, Plato's conclusion as to the truth or falsehood of, i. 16 _note_

Dress, interference of the French Protestants with, ii. 60, 71. Dress of the French during the reign of Louis XIV., Louis XV., and just before the Revolution, 411

Droughts, frequency of, in Spain, ii. 427

Dryburgh Abbey, burnt by the English, iii. 15

Dryden, John, little effect of the intellect of France on his works, i. 235. His satires, 235 _note_

Duclos, his 'History of Louis XI.' suppressed, ii. 238. His method of writing history, 300

Duellings, causes of the greater popularity of, in France than in England, ii. 136. Relation between chivalry and duelling, 137 _note_

Duhamel de Monceau, his botanical discoveries, ii. 397

Dukes, the order of, in abeyance in England for fifty years, ii. 146

Dumouriez, his familiarity with the English language and literature,