ii. 195, 196

Meetings, public political, establishment of the right of, i. 434. Passing of an Act intended to stifle religious or political meetings, 489

Melrose Abbey robbed by the English, iii. 15

Melville, Andrew, takes the lead of the Scotch reformed church, iii. 93. Begins a struggle with the State, which lasted for sixty years, 94. His name of [Greek: episkopomastix], 97 _note_. Appointed moderator at St. Andrew's in 1582, 101. His personal insult to the king, 110. Summoned by the king to England, 124. Imprisoned in the Tower, 124

Memory, aberrations of, the laws respecting the, i. 32

Mental laws, examination of the method employed by metaphysicians for discovering, i. 152. Failure of their two methods, 164. Mental laws either moral or intellectual, 168. Comparison between moral and intellectual laws, 168, 175. Necessity of ascertaining the fundamental laws of intellectual progress, 242. Advantages to be gained in that respect from studying the histories of Germany, America, France, Spain, and Scotland, 243

'Mence, Institutes of,' authority of in India, i. 75. Vast antiquity of the, according to the Hindu writers, 137

Menzies, John, the Aberdeen preacher, iii. 203 _note_

Mercenaries employed by William the Conqueror and his immediate successors, ii. 114

Mercury, mine of, at Almaden, ii. 540

Mescua, Mira de, the Spanish dramatist, ii. 479

Metaphysics; metaphysical inquiry preceded and often controlled by the physical, i. 10 _note_. The only successful mode of prosecuting the study of metaphysics, 17. Examination of the two metaphysical methods of generalizing mental laws, 156. Definition of the term metaphysics, 164 _note_. The English inductive and the Scotch deductive methods, 245 _et seq._ Robert Simson and Matthew Stewart, 247. Adam Smith, 249. David Hume, 250. Examination of the method employed by metaphysicians for discovering mental laws, 152. Failure of their two methods, 164. Descartes, the originator of the modern method of philosophy, ii. 81, 82. Analogy of his philosophy with the anti-theological policy of Richelieu, 83. The eminent characteristic of the philosophy of Descartes, 87. Analysis of his principles, 88, 89. Services which metaphysicians formerly rendered to the Church, 262. Analysis of the works of Helvetius and Condillac, 353-360. Rise of the reactionary party in France at the beginning of the present century, 389. See also Philosophy

Meteorology, causes which have retarded the progress of, i. 377 _note_. Supernatural causes attributed by ignorance to changes in the weather, 378 _note_

Method, importance of the philosophy of, ii. 387

Mey, suppression of his treatise on 'French Law,' ii. 237

Mexico, authentic existing materials for forming an opinion on the ancient state of, i. 95. Characteristics of the climate of, and reasons for its early civilization, 99. Exuberance of the maize plant in, 109. The potato introduced by the Spaniards into, 110, 111. Extraordinary fecundity of the banana in, 111. Success with which astronomy was cultivated in, 112. Condition of the upper and lower classes of the inhabitants of, when discovered by the Europeans, 114. Custom of caste in Mexico, 115. Frivolous waste of labour of the Mexicans, 116. Their immense buildings, 117

Mezeray, character of his 'History of France,' ii. 270, 271. How treated by Louis XIV., 274, 275. His 'Abrégé Chronologique,' 275 _note_

Michael, St., foundation of the order of, i. 313 _note_

Micrometer, discovery of the, ii. 192

Microscope, invention of the, ii. 198, 199

Middle Ages, the childish admiration of the, dispelled by Voltaire,