Police, how recruited in Loudon, 154, note
Pompey, 239, note 1
Population, increase of, difficult to predict, 67, 68 ; methods to stint may be adopted, 130
Prayer, belief in, modified, 269-271
Protection likely to be adopted by the higher races, 128-130
Protestantism copied Catholicism, 24
Protestants, early outrages by, 200
Prussia a first-rate power, 110
Prussian army, size of, in 1740, 95, note 1
Ptolemais as described by Synesius, 182
Puritans favour Church interference, 196 ; awake to repress incontinence, 198 ; Puritan superstition, 268 ; the Puritan household, 275, 276
Ramus silenced, 213
Reformation, the work of men under forty, 325
Reichshoffen, French cuirassiers at, 139
Rémusat, De, on Juuius, 319
Renaissance, the, excited great hopes, 340
Reuchlin attacked, 213
Revolution, French, the work of men under forty, 325 ; excited great hopes, 340
Revolutions likely to be less violent, 322, 329
Richelieu a dictator, 326
Rochambeau powerfully assists the Americans, 115
Rogers, Professor, on condition of working-class anciently, 127
Roland, Mdme., marriage of, 241, 242 Roman Empire under Trajan, 87, 88 ; causes of its decline, 88, 90 ; despondency attending its break-up, 321
Roman law of marriage, 236
Ross of Bladensburg beats American militia, 115
Rothschild smuggles gold, 184, note
Rousseau predicts Revolution, 5 ; unlike Voltaire, 150 ; his treatment of his children reprobated, 229 ; superstitious experiment by, 268, note 3
Rowe, 307
Russia and Turkestan, 43, 44 ; effects of conquest by, in Turkey in Asia, 63 ; capable of supporting a large population, 105 ; strong for aggression, 110 ; has aims on Persia, 111 ; gained by defeat in Crimea, 141 ; is oppressing Jews and Germans, 285 ; is largely indebted to foreigners, 285 ; Russian army, size of, in 1740, 95 note 1
Saffi taught in Oxford, 286
Saint invents sewing-machine, 102 note 1
St. Aignan, 241.
St. Simon's view of marriage, 241, and note 1
Salvation Army, 156
Sand's (G.) views on marriage, 243-245
Sanguin, 241
San Sebastian, surrender of, 139 ; atrocities at, 140, note
Saragossa, defences of, their character, 120, 121
Sardou, 167
Science not reconcilable with faith, 288-290 ; is ceasing to impress the imagination, 290-292
Scotland, increase of population in, 75
Scotchmen frugal, 169
Scott, Sir W., did admirable work, 301 ; yet may be superseded, 302
Senegambia, 35
Sepoy outrages, 82
Sertorius thought of sailing for the Fortunate Isles, 343
Servants, changed relations of, to employers, 256, 257
Sèvres, porcelain of, 107
Sewell on the typical vertebra, 305
Shaftesbury, Lord, legislation by, 154
Shakespeare on the stage, 165 ; his songs, 168 ; his tragedy of Lear, 297
Shelburne, Lord, prediction by, 2
Shelley on the stage, 165 ; ostracised, 286, 302 ; not read in his lifetime, 331
Sheridan's oratory, 313, 314
Shirley on English pedigrees, 71
Shrewsbury, 210
Sidgwick (Prof. H.) on patriotism, 183
Smith, Adam, on mortality, 153, 154
Smith (H. J. S., Prof.) on constructive chemistry, 291 ; on the crowding-out of talent, 331
Smith, 210
Socialism, State, its essential aims in land laws, 20 ; how it may be introduced, 103-105 ; what influences will modify it, 122, 123 ; it may tend to promote health, 321
Socrates charged with impiety, 262
Spain, possessions of, under Philip II., 92, 93 ; praised for policy, 93 ; capable of supporting a large population, 105
Spaniards, greatness of, 93
Stae'l, Auguste de, advised by Napoleon, 286
Stae'l, Mdme. de, why she loved Paris, 149
