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[71] The whole argument seems to have little foundation. Are we to assume, for example, that the “average ability” of the Greeks before and after their great period, or of the English before and after the Elizabethan age, was enormously inferior because the proportion of very illustrious men was so much less? Why should not the average be higher, the ability (through intermarriage) being more equally distributed?

[72] If Galton had referred only to the Athenians of the great period, as Wallace imagined, the statement would have been even more absurd. It would then mean that an African tribe of blacks might suddenly become as intelligent as ourselves, continue so for two generations, and then relapse at once into their old barbarism. Yet Dr. Verrall went some distance in this direction, for he says the Athenians of the great period “had plainly an immense superiority of mind in comparison with their predecessors.” (_The Bacchants of Euripides_, _p. 168_).

[73] I may add, however, one personal remark. I am quite well aware—and my friends persistently and painfully impress the fact upon me—that this book will be reviewed by gentlemen who have been imbued from youth with even greater enthusiasm, seeing that the tendency has grown stronger and stronger since that time. Those reviewers will probably feel shocked that the naked facts should be set before the general public. I can quite understand this feeling, but I do not sympathize with it. Truth comes first, and I have no sympathy with the feminine view of truth (see p. 343), which is the same as the Jesuitical view. I do, however, sympathize with them in one respect, that the truth should be stated at an unfortunate time, when the beautiful Greek language and its glorious literature seem likely to be put on a back shelf with Hebrew and Sanskrit. It will be a sad thing if this should happen (I would much prefer to sacrifice the inferior Latin, in spite of the special reasons for its study), but the first and last word always is—_Truth_.

[74] “May moderation befriend me, the finest gift of the gods.”

[75] It would be interesting to trace the earliest references to love of Nature. They may, perhaps, be found in the Bible. In the Song of Solomon (which, however, in its present form is now supposed to date back only to the Fourth Century, B.C., and, therefore not to be by Solomon) we have the spring-song of love, with flowers and budding trees and vines and the singing of birds (II, 10-13). Professor Naylor also reminds me of our Lord’s Sermon on the Mount, “Consider the lilies, etc.”

I repeat here what I say in the Preface that Professor Naylor takes no responsibility for any of the views I express in my notes on the Greeks.

[76] Their actual life was of course indescribably squalid and filthy, as could only be expected in a primitive race.

[77] Even as regards the human form Greek art is limited, as is seen in the Laocoon where the boys are simply miniature men. (The Laocoon, although of very late date, is nevertheless Greek with all the traditions of the art behind it.) I know very little on this subject, but it seems to me that something of much importance yet remains to be discovered about Greek sculpture.

[78] An excessive importance is attached to the cold conventional foliated designs.

INDEX OF SUBJECTS

Ability, Average. 374-78

Absurd Prescriptions. 320

Abt Vogler. 275

Acquaintanceship, Pre-matrimonial. 131

Acquiring and Using. 208

Action and Inaction. 25

Adelaide Edition. ix

Adelaide Libraries. xii

Adonis, Feast of. 86

Advance, the Age’s. 272

Adventure, Created Empire. 358

Advice, like Snow. 315

Advice, Micawber’s. 284

Aestheticism. 310

Age, Men Product of Their. 266

Age, Old. 96, 164, 240

Age, Old, over Cautious. 34

Age, Spirit of The. 266

Agnostic. 110-12

Agnosticism. xi

Aims, Great. 260

Alcibiades. 292

Alexander and Parmenio. 197

Alice in Wonderland. 35

Allotment Holders. 269

Altruism. 116-7, 328

Ambition. 109, 197

America. 2, 240

Amphibium. 236

Anacreontic. 354

Ancestral Stain. 24

Ancient and Modern World. 95

Ancients, Cruelty of. 172

Ancients, Ethics of The. 207

Angels. 106, 159, 348

Animal Intelligence. 113

Animals, Greeks and. 370

Anthology, Greek, 8-11, 306

Anthropomorphism. 112, 128

Anticipated Thoughts. xii

Anticipating Trouble. 121, 189, 305

Apelles. 334

Apelles, Proverbs of. 335

Apollo’s Song. 302

Apothegms. 12, 21, 39, 48, 49, 51, 59, 62, 63, 72, 73, 78, 80, 90, 91, 94, 96, 97, 101, 107, 115, 116, 130, 131, 135, 139, 149, 150, 151, 159, 160, 162, 165, 170, 172, 175, 178, 179, 182, 184, 192, 196, 197, 198, 202-5, 215, 226, 228, 229, 233, 236, 240, 242, 249-51, 256-7, 259, 262, 264, 268-9, 272-4, 279-80, 282-5, 287, 295, 306-7, 312, 314-15, 319, 331-2, 335, 339, 341

Arcadia. 148

Arnold, Matthew. 19, 176, 265, 266, 291

Art. 317, 349

Ascendancy, Greek, Misleading. 363

Aspiration, Moral. 24, 139

Astrology. 31, 40

Athenian Ability. 374-5

Athenian Religion. 367

Athens. 365

Audience, the Poet’s. 137

Aunt, an Old Maiden. 130

Australia and England. 7

Australia and Literature. x

“Avalon.” 307

Babe Christabel. 22

Babies. 52, 169

Bacchus and Neptune. 306

Backbiters. 306

Bait. 339

Balder and Death. 184

Ballad upon a Wedding. 363

Ballads and Legislation. 352

Banbury Puritans. 253

Baptism. 15

“Barren Orthodoxy.” 16

Battle Hymn, America’s. 240

Beans, Corn and Poetry. 345

Beauties, Proud. 159

Beauty, Divinity of. 352

Beauty, Divine use of. 193, 313

Beauty, Invisible. 178

Beauty, Inward. 17

Beauty, Is Truth. 162

Beauty, Necessity of. 164

Beauty, Praise of. 338

Beauty, Sense of. 178, 379

Beauty, Worse than Wine. 362

Beauty’s Silent Music. 321-22

Bee, The. 222

Beef and Beer. 69

Belief. 83

Belief, Loss of. 260, 327-29

Belfast Address, The. 66

Bell, The Dinner. 69

Belle of the Ballroom. 206

Beloved Die. 181

Beneath My Window. 153

Benefactor, A. 150

Bentham, Jeremy. 116-7, 181-2

Bereavement. 29-30

Best, Imperfect. 135

Best People Slandered. 148

Bethlehem. 25

Bible, Literal Interpretation of. 344

Birth. 306

Birth, Death As. 238

Birthdays. 135, 160

Bishop, Most Diligent, The. 137

Blackstone. 181

Blake, William. 105, 109, 266-7

Blanco, White J. xi, 252

Blindness. 53-4, 155

Body and Mind. 283

Book of Snobs. 280

Bourdillon, F. W. x

Bouts Rimés. 284

Boys’ Pastimes. 229

Brain, Atrophied. 319

British Dominions and “Home.” 8

British Empire Created by Adventure. 358

Browning, E. B. 293

Browning, R. xi, 19, 204

Browning, R., Heaven of. 204

Brownings’ Love Story, The. 45, 47

Browning Society, The. 19

Buchanan, R. x

Bulwark, England A. 2

Burial. 349

Butcher, Professor. 348

Butterfly, The Doleful. 261

Buyer and Seller. 306

Byronic Gloom. 170

“By the North Sea.” 341-3

Cabbages, Critics And. 360

Cain, Father of Art and Science. 247

Cambridge Examinations. 153-5, 208

Cana, Miracle of. 361

Canadian Boat Song. 198

Carlyle’s French Revolution. 332

Carlyle’s Requiem. 332

Carnivorous. 148

Carpe Diem. 195, 354

Cat, Sabbatarian’s. 253

Catholic and Protestant. 124

Cato and Public Honours. 175

Causality. xi

Causes Small, Events Great. 161

Celtic Imagination. 358

Cerebration, Unconscious. 151

“Chamouni and Rydal.” 175

Champions, Incompetent. 138

Changeless. 90, 152, 158

Character. 141, 229, 260

Character and Reputation. 196

“Charge, A.” 82

Charites, The. 292

“Charitie, An Excelente Balade of.” 42

Chatterton. 45

Child, A. 310

Child, Eyes of a. 147

Child, Grace for a. 239

Child, Mother and. 267

Child Slaves. 48

“Childhood and his Visitors.” 243

Children. 143, 144, 146-7, 169-70

Children, Cruelty to. 48, 96

Children, Death of. 316

Children, Employment of. 48

Children, Games of. 229

Children, Sufferings of. 96

Children’s Hymn. 319

Child’s Outlook, The. 146-7

Chinese, The. 255

Chivalry. 96

Christ. 133, 142, 180, 318

Christ, Has He Failed? 95

Christ’s Love for Man. 268

Christianity, Evidence for. 251

Church of England. 15, 16

Cigar Preferred to Woman. 242

City Ideal, The. 269

Civilization and Shambles. 148

Classical Enthusiasm. 290, 292, 364, 366, 374

Classical Men as Critics. 291

Classics and English. 291

Cleopatra. 270

Cleon. 5

Clifford. xi

Coleridge, S. T. 74, 312, 313

Colenso. xi, 344

Committee of Shakespeares. 247

Communication from the Dead. 36, 172

Compensation. 158, 278

Compliment, A Pretty. 359

Composition, Inspiration and. 142

Conceit. 258, 279

Confession a Relief. 256

Conservative, A. 261

Conservatism. 181

Consolation, Tobacco’s. 241-2

Constancy. 301, 309

Constitution, English, The. 181

Contemplation, Time for. 318

Content. 114

Contentedness. 221, 252, 270

Convulsionnaires. 349

Contingencies. 140-1

Coral Reef, The. 153

Cosmical Development. 303-4

Courage. 360

“Courtin’, The.” 98

Courting after Marriage. 236

Courts, Law, Satan’s Home. 184

Cowardice. 80

Cowper. 108

“Creation,” Story of, The. 189

Creation, Continuous. 273

Creeds, Beauty in Old. 343

“Crisis, The Present.” 2

Critics and Cabbages. 360

Critics’ Misjudgments. 132

Criticism, The Higher. 344

Crofter Exiles, The. 198

“Crossing the Bar.” xi

Cruelty. 138, 172

Culture, Speculative. 309

Cunning. 226

Cupid, Bust of. 160

Cyclades, The. 364

Cynic, The. 257

Cyrus in Mesopotamia. 333

Dahlia, The. 359

“Dark Companion, The.” 55

Darwin, Charles. xi, 318

Darwinism. 64, 65, 66, 68

Dauntlessness. vii, 257

Day. 95

Day is Dying. 249

Days Lost. 135

Dead, Communication from The. 36, 172

Dead, Most and Merriest. 262

Death, A Mockery. 232

Death and Fear. 330

Death as Birth. 238

Death as Sleep. 148

Death awakens. 114

Death, Painless. 148

Death, Shadow of. 184

Death, Survival after. 151, 250, 329, 346-48

“Death’s Jest Book.” 305-6

Debate. 59, 205, 340

Decisions in Life. 321

Deeds, Indestructible. 12

Deities. 31

Deification of Man. xi, 129

Democracy and Empire. 5

Democracy, Greeks and. 5, 368

Dependence, Man’s. 295

De Quincey. 227

Desert, London A. 105

Despair. 170

“De Tea Fabula.” 17

Devil, The. 41, 42, 137, 159

Dickinson, G. Lowes. 368

Die, Longing to. 250

Dining. 69-71

Disciple, The. 179

Divine Birth. 140

Divine Discontent. 232

Divine Love. 55

Divine, The. 271

Divine Will, The. 104, 303-5

Divinities, Pleasing. 31

Divinity. 351-2

Divinity and Harmony. 108

Divorce, Law of. 183

Dogs before Men. 241

Do it Now. 228

Doubt. 179

Downward Path, The. 34

Drama. 214

Dream, A Child’s. 147

“Dream of Fair Women, A.” 270

Dreams, Analysis of. 151

Dreams, Unrealised in his Life. 316

Dreamthorp. 158

Drift, Letting Ourselves. 39

Drink. 160, 306

“Drink to me only with thine Eyes.” 10

Drinking, Five Reasons for. 160

Duchess, Painted, The. 249

Duty. 1, 80-3, 349-50

Duty of Delight. 192-3

Dying Day. 249

Dying Emperor. 238

Dying, On. 148, 149

Each for Each. 184

Each Man Three Personalities. 59

“Ear of Dionysius.” 172, 348

Earth Dear, Heaven Free. 264

Earth Goeth to Earth. 354

Earth made for Man. 116

Earth, Mother. 209-12

Earth, Presiding Spirit of the. 278

Earth, The Wholesome. 201

East, The Unchanging. 152

“Ecce Homo.” 16

Economy. 284

Education. 143, 180, 358

Effective Literature. 6, 48, 352

Effort. 250

Electricity and Plant Life. 72

Eliot, George. 327-8, 343

Elizabethan Authors. 357

Emerson’s Heaven. 205

Emotion and Intellect. 202

Emotions, The Blunting of. 274-5

Empire and Adventure. 358

Empire and Democracy. 5

Empty Heads. 233

Enduring Literature. 227

England. 1, 2, 178

English and Classics. 291

English as Dreamers and Idealists. 358

English Characteristics. 358

English Conservatism. 181

English Constitution. 181

English Delusions. 358

English Faults. 358

English Superiority. 358

English Visitors. 178

English Wealth of Poetry. 358

Enough. 204

Enthusiasm, Early. 24

Epigrams. 144, 226-28, 251

Epitaphs. 96, 178, 287, 339, 354

Epitaphs, Exaggeration In. 178

Equality. 280

Error dies. 132

Essays. 347

Estrangement. 280-1, 301

Eternal Life. 214

Eternal Love. 122

Eternal Punishment. 123

Eternity. 166

Ethics, Ancient. 207-9

Et in Arcadia Ego. 148

Eugenics. 247

Events Great, Cause Small. 161

“Everlasting Yea,” The. 83

Every Tale Told. 188

Evil chiefly Mental. 280

Evolution. 64-8, 189, 303-5, 306

Evolution, A Speculation Opposed to. xi, 303-5

Exaggeration. 178, 338

Examinations. 153-55, 207-8

Example to Others. 61, 351

Excuses for Drinking. 160

Exemplary Life. 268

Exiles, Highland. 198-9

Existence, Previous. 92, 203-4

Experience. 73, 149-50, 256, 280, 309

Eyes, Infants’, Solemnity of. 147

Faculties. 323

Fair Spectacle, A. 25

Faith. 165

Falsities, Rooted. 96

Fame. 85, 175

Familiarity destroys Romance, 280

Faust. 41

Fear and Death. 330

Fearlessness. vii, 257

Fear of Mrs. Grundy. 289

Fellow Feeling. 335

“Feast of Adonis, The.” 86

Few Wise. 146

Fickleness. 285-6

Fidelity. 221, 232

Fight On. 205

First Love. 325, 352

Fitzgerald’s Omar Khayyam. 268

Flowers. 7, 149, 169

Folly, Proof of Our. 314

Fool, Gravest Man a. 257

Fools, One makes Many. 146

Fool, Playing The. 322

Fooling the People. 306

Fools, Majority Are. 146

Fools, We are. 22

Foresight. 351

Forestalled. xii

Forethought. 172

Forgeries, Literary. 45, 231

Forget Me. 28

Forgiveness. 51, 135

Franchise, Women and The. 314

Fraud, The Worst. 229

Freaks of Nature. 325

Freedom. 1, 6, 80

“Free Trade” Fetish. 358

Friend and Foe. 107

“Friend of Humanity, The.” 223

Friends. 93

Friends, Breach Between. 301

Friends, Death of. 340

Friendship, Temporary. 107

Fugue. 13

Furnivall, Dr. 19

Future Life. 84, 127, 134, 204-5, 327-9, 346-8, 350

Future, The. 361

Gains. 195

Galton, Sir F. 247, 374-8

Game of Chance Clergy Favour. 91

Gem, The. 277

Genealogy. 247

Genius and Thought. 78

Genius, Prerogative, of. 78

Genius, The Greek. 290, 366, 374

Gentleman, The First. 133

German Illusions. 166

German, Sword, The. 3

German Teaching. 2

Germans Surpassed. 358

Gethsemane, Solitude Of. 332

Giant, Sleep as a Gentle. 115

Gifts, Man’s. 63

“Gipsy Child,” To a. 237

Gissing’s “Henry Ryecroft.” 292

Giving and Having. 188

Giving is Receiving. 146

Gladstone, W. E. 339

Glaucus the Sea God. 129

“Globe, Letty’s.” 327

Gluttony. 306

God. 1, 2, 128, 160, 197, 233, 260, 271

God ever Present. 197, 285, 331

God, Evolution of. 166

God, Forgiveness Of. 287

God, Forgotten. 1

God, Guidance of. 285

God, Living To. 261

God, Man Like. 275

God, Man’s Reflex. 128

God Watching. 2

Gods and Spectres. 144

Gods are Brethren. 97

Gods are Dumb. 111

Gods, Greek. 293, 381

Gods, The on the side of the Strongest. 49

God’s Rest. 285

Gods that Pity. 215

Good, Doing. 150, 182, 201, 228

Good in every Man. 259

Good Nature. 151

Good never Lost. 275

Gorham Case, The. 15, 16

Grace for a Child. 239

Gravest Man a Fool. 257

Gray’s Elegy. 109, 376

Great Man, The. 260

Great Men. 51

Greece, Foundations of. 289

Greece, Influence of. 289

Greek Anthology, The. 8-11, 306

Greek Civilization. 371

“Greek Genius, The.” by R. W. Livingstone. 290, 366-7, 374

Greek Glamour. 363-6

Greek Gods. 293

Greek Infanticide. 172-3

Greek, Incorrect Translation from The. 173, 292-3, 372-3

Greek Intellect. 289, 369

Greek Life. 381

Greek Plays. 371

Greek Poetry. 290

Greek Religion. 217-18, 366-8, 370-2

Greek Sense of Beauty. 379

Greek Sense of Colour. 380

Greek Sense of Humour. 365, 369

Greek Statesmen. 5, 375

Greek Statues and Temples. 380-81

Greek Vice. 369

Greek Virtues. 368

Greek Want of Humanity. 173-4

Greek Women. 86-90, 173

Greeks, Falsehood, Theft, etc. 366-7

Greeks and Equality. 5

Greeks, Ignorance of The. 293, 369-71

Greeks or Germans? 5, 367

Greeks, Shelley on the. 173, 289

Grief, Nation’s. 3

Grief, Dry-eyed and Silent. 12

Grief, Solitary. 332

Griffin, The. 311

Grocer, The Fraudulent. 282

Grown Up. 142

Grundy, Mrs. 289

Habit. 172

Haeckel. 65-8

Hafiz and Tamerlane. 338

Happiness. 83, 233

Harmony and Divinity. 108

Harrison, F. xi

Harrison, Jane. 292

Harvard University Men. 2

Harvest of Pain. 213, 263, 268

Harvests, The Two. 233

Head, Heart Rules The. 241

Heart, A Wounded. 162

Heart’s Compass. 324

Heaven. 84, 123, 358

Heaven alone Free. 264

Heaven and Hell. 123

Heaven, Browning’s. 204

Heaven, Emerson’s. 205

Heaven, Myers’. 205

Heaven Remembered. 243

Hebrides. 198

Hebrew Prophets. 134

Hegel’s Philosophy. 105

Helen of Troy. 270

Hell. 123-4

Hellenism. 364

Herbert’s Collection of Proverbs. 306

Herodotus. 173

Hero Worship. 323

Hidden, What Can’t Be. 96

High Failure, Low Success. 233

Higher Criticism, The. 344

“Higher Mountain, The.” 236

Highland Evictions. 198-9

Hilton, A. C. 50

History’s Record. 2

Hodgson, Richard. vii, ix, x, 207-9, 346

Hogg, James. 340

Home is Homely. 184

Home, Satan At. 184

Home Thoughts. 345

Hope. 33, 42, 139, 359, 361

Homer. 292

Horrors. 148

Human Life. 251

Human Personality. 151, 346

Human Settees. 287

Humanity. 96, 138, 267

Humanity, The Spirit of. 209

Humour, Sense of. 248, 365

Huxley, T. H. 64-6

Hymn. 240, 319

“Hymn to God the Father, A.” 61

Hypnotism. 151

Hysteria. 151

“I am Sick for Yesterday.” 333

Ideal City. 269

Ideal Ills. 280

Ideals. 156

Ideals dragged to Earth. 269

Ideas Outgrown. 179

Ideas Superseded. 272

Idleness. 108, 262

“Identity.” 130

Ills. 280

Illusions. 274

Imagination. 36-9, 146-7, 290, 357-8

Imagination aids Intellect. 357-8

Imagination, Characteristic of the English. 358

Imagination, Practical Utility of, The. 39, 356-8

“Imbuta.” 324

Immortality. 346

Immortality, Promise of. 317

Immortality, Song and. 11, 347

Imperfection, Essential to Life. 335

Impudence. 20

Inaction. 25

Independent Thinkers. 51, 54

Indexes, Want Of. 291

Industry, Satan’s. 137

Infant, Dead. 316

Infanticide. 172-74

Influence of undistinguished Lives. 333

Influence of Women. 242, 333, 354

Influence of Wordsworth. 176-8

Ingratitude, Public. 1

“In Memoriam.” 253

Innocence, Lost. 97

Insight. 323

Insomnia. 240

Inspiration. 10, 125, 214, 240

Insults, Emperors and. 338

Intellect and Morality. 323

Intention, Counts with God. 194

Interests, Conflicting. 282

Interests, Vested. 96

Intimacy and Indifference. 264

Inventors. 72

Invisible, Tidings of the. 90

Inquisition, The. 16

Irony. 183

Irrevocable. 97

Iscariot, Judas. 74

Isocrates. 202

Isolation. 265-66, 280-1, 301-2

I, What Am? 103

Jansenists, The. 349

Jennie Kissed Me. 278

“Jest Book, Death’s.” 305-6

Jester’s Plea, The. 289

Jesus, Logia Of. 331

Johnson, Dr., and the Scots. 196-7

Jonah and the Whale. 7

Judas Iscariot. 74-7

Judges, Competent. 132

Justice and Empire. 5

Justice and Money. 182-3

Justice and Power. 166

Justice of God, The. 287

Kaiser. 3, 338

Keats. 74

Kind, Make Haste to Be. 201

Kindred Souls, Failure to Recognise. 187

Kipling, Rudyard. 131-2

Know, What do the Wisest? 110

Knowledge. 101, 110-11

Knowledge, Obstacles To. 351

“Kritik of Practical Reason.” 350

“La Belle Dame Sans Merci.” 271

Labour, Loftiness of. 108

Labour, Uses of. 204

Ladder, Sorrows The. 263

Ladder, Vices as a. 262-3

“Lady’s ‘Yes’, The.” 153

Lamb, Charles and Mary. 159-60

“Lamb, The.” 115

Land Crabs. 163

Land, Silent The. 95

Laissez-Faire. 358

Laocoon, The. 380

Late, Too. 58

Latin, Pronunciation of. 19

Law, Court of, Satan’s Home. 148

Law, English. 181

Law, Money and. 182-3

Law Reform. 181-4

Law Making, Ballad Making Before. 352

Lead, The. 257

Ledgers, Men change Swords for. 1

“L’Envoi.” 244-6

Lése-majesté. 338

Let it be There. 62

“Letty’s Globe.” 327

Life. 13, 100, 114, 117-21, 152, 214, 227-8, 238-9, 251, 267-9, 310, 354, 360, 362

Life and Death. 250, 325

Life, Cruelty of. 148, 239

Life, is it Worth Living? 165

Life, Memories of a Previous. 91-2

Life, Perilous. 321

Life, Prized. 250

Life, Sadness of. 239

Life, Secret of. 117

Life, Short. 201

Life, Struggle. 260

Life, Sweet. 347

Life, Tragedies of. 274-5, 294

Life, Uncertain. 140

Light, a Point in the Darkness. 269

Light and Life. 252

Light, the Speech between the Stars. 12

Lincoln, President. 306

Litany, Old Monkish. 309

Literature, Classification of. 227

Literature, Effective. 6, 48, 352

Literature of the 16th and 17th Centuries. 283-4

Literature Superseded and Surviving. 227

Literature, why the best Survives. 132

Literary Circles, Australia and English. x

Lives, Sad. 294

Living Past, The. 170

Living, Sympathy with the. 192

Locke, John, on Education. 180

Logia of Jesus. 331

London a Desert. 105-6

Long Expected. 125

Lost Days. 135

“Lotos Eaters, The.” 329

Love. 12, 13, 24, 27, 41, 49, 78, 142, 158, 164-5, 196, 205, 222, 224, 244, 259, 306, 319, 355, 359

Love, Analysis of. 103

Love and a Cough. 96

Love and Duty. 224

Love and Life. 334

Love and Self. 199

Love, Brevity of. 13, 27, 30, 149, 162-3, 248, 274, 288

Love, Brotherly. 134

Love, Characteristics of. 134

Love Divine. 54, 315

Love Ennobles. 156

Love Episode, A. 326

Love, Eternal. 122

Love, First. 324-5, 352-3

“Love in the Valley.” 302

Love, Mortal. 162

Love, Quest of. 41

Love, Second. 324

Love, Herbert Spencer, on. 103

Love, Stillborn. 255

“Love Sweetness.” 330

Love, The meaning of the World. 323

Love, Wakes Men Once. 147

Love, What is? 103

Loved Things Die. 181

Love’s Cruelty. 126-7

Love’s Delay. 57-9

“Love’s Last Messages.” 157

Love’s Lovers. 248

Lover, Role of, Brief. 322

Lunacy. 35, 160, 215

Machiavelli. 312

Maiden Aunt, A. 130

Maiden’s Heart, A. 107

Make Haste. 201

Making of Man, The. 216

Malays. 263

Mallock’s “New Republic.” 9, 310

Man. 81, 275

Man, Loveable. 259

Man, Stereotyped. 150

Man’s Dependence. 295

Man’s Gains Remain his Own. 149-50

Man’s Gifts. 63

Man’s Greatness. 97

Man’s Importance to Himself. 113

Man’s Life. 100

Man’s Perdition. 5

Man’s Price. 77

Man’s Vision. 323

Man’s Work can help God. 165

Many Fools. 146

Marcus Aurelius. 215

Marriage. 90-1, 236

Marriage, only Game of Chance Clergy Favour. 91

Marriage, Wife Requires to be Courted, after. 236

Martineau, James. xi

Martyr, The. 155

Master of All. 160

Master, Our. 143

Marvel, A Two-fold. 131

Materialism. xi, 64-6, 102, 303-5, 316, 327, 330

Materialism, Modern. 303-4

Matter. 104

Matter, Mind and. 102

Medical Prescriptions, Wesley’s. 320

Meditations. 110-113

Melrose Abbey. 69

Memories. 161-2, 255, 314

Memories of This Life Hereafter. 170

Memories, Sweet. 255

Memory. 33, 159

Men and Beasts. 113

Men and Dogs. 241

Men before Angels. 348

Men, Great. 51-2

Men, Sameness of. 150

Men, Tall. 233

Men, Women made Foolish to Match. 80

Menzies, P. S. Sermons of. 271-3

Mercy. 287

Mercies, Small. 221, 222

Mermaid Tavern, The. 313-14

Micawber’s Advice. 284

“Milk of Paradise.” 313

Mill, James. 101

Mill, John Stuart. 116

Milton. 155, 343

Milton, Parody on. 274

Miltons, Mute. 357, 376

Mimnermus in Church. 347-8

Mind Affected by Age. 179

Mind and Body. 283

Mind and Matter. 102

Miracles. 315, 349

Miscellaneous. 48, 51, 60, 62-3, 182-4, 196-8, 268-70, 294-5, 332-5, 360-3

Misfortunes of Others. 251

Mistakes. 244

Modern Religious Thought. 141

Molière. 32, 284

Money and Innocence. 97

Money and Law. 182

Money, God’s Estimate of. 204

Monica’s Vision. 144

Monkey, Man’s Descent from. 64

Moon, The. 20

Morality and Intellect. 323

Mors et Vita. 348

Moslem Rule. 25

Moth, The. 222

Mother Earth. 209-13

Mother who Died Too, The. 316

Müller, F. Von. 318

Multiplex Personality. 150-1

Murder. 34

Murray’s, Gilbert, Euripides. 371-3

Music. 154

Music. 13-14, 108, 275-77, 302, 321-2

Music, Beauty like. 321-22

“Music in their Heart.” 55

Muttons, Return to our. 182

“My Commonplace Book.” 291

Myers, F. W. H. 205, 277, 316-17, 346-7, 363-81

Mythology, Greek. 292

Nakedness. 239

Nation’s Ballads and Legislation. 352

Nation’s Heart, Song that Nerves a. 352

“Natural Religion.” 330

Nature. 47, 90, 188, 240, 246, 252, 283-4

Nature, Contrary to. 47

Nature Echoes and Reflects. 189

Nature, Freaks of. 325

Nature, Good. 151

Nature, Intellectual and Moral Inseparable. 323