ambitious life, 308; divine commission, 310; the good Kadijah believes him; Seid; young Ali, 313; offences, and sore struggles, 314; flight from Mecca; being driven to take the sword, he uses it, 315; the Koran, 319; a veritable Hero, 326; Seid's death, 326; freedom from Cant, 328; the infinite nature of Duty, 330
Mary, Queen, and Knox, 404
Mayflower, sailing of the, 398
Mecca, 314
Middle Ages, represented by Dante and Shakspeare, 352, 355
Montrose, the Hero-Cavalier, 482
Musical, all deep things, 338
Napoleon, a portentous mixture of Quack and Hero, 490; his instinct for the practical, 491; his democratic faith, and heart-hatred for anarchy, 492; apostatised from his old faith in Facts, and took to believing in Semblances, 493; this Napoleonism was unjust, and could not last, 494
Nature, all one great Miracle, 264, 323, 396; a righteous umpire, 316
Novalis, on Man, 266; Belief, 312; Shakspeare, 362
Odin, the first Norse 'man of genius,' 277; historic rumours and guesses, 279; how he came to be deified, 280; invented 'runes,' 283; Hero, Prophet, God, 284
Olaf, King, and Thor, 295
Original man the sincere man, 300, 380
Paganism, Scandinavian, 259; not mere Allegory, 261; Nature-worship, 263, 286; Hero-worship, 267; creed of our fathers, 271, 291; Impersonation of the visible workings of Nature, 273; contrasted with Greek Paganism, 275; the first Norse Thinker, 277; main practical Belief; indispensable to be brave, 288; hearty, homely, rugged Mythology; Balder, Thor, 290; Consecration of Valour, 296
Parliaments superseded by books, 418; Cromwell's Parliaments, 483
Past, the whole, the possession of the present, 296
Poet, the, and Prophet, 335, 365
Poetry and Prose, distinction of, 337, 345
Popery, 391
Priest, the true, a kind of Prophet, 370
Printing, consequences of, 418
Private judgment, 379
Progress of the Species, 373
Prose. See Poetry
Protestantism, the root of Modern European History, 378; not dead yet, 391; its living fruit, 453
Purgatory, noble Catholic conception of, 350
Puritanism, founded by Knox, 397; true beginning of America, 398; the one epoch of Scotland, 399; Theocracy, 407; Puritanism in England, 457, 460
Quackery originates nothing, 260, 299; age of, 428; Quacks and Dupes, 469
Ragnarök, 294
Reformer, the true, 371
Religion, a man's, the chief fact with regard to him, 259; based on Hero-worship, 267; propagating by the sword, 316; cannot succeed by being 'easy,' 325
Revolution, 451; the French, 453, 489
Richter, 265
Right and Wrong, 330
Rousseau, not a strong man; his Portrait; egoism, 439; his passionate appeals, 439; his Books, like himself, unhealthy; the Evangelist of the French Revolution, 440
Scepticism, a spiritual paralysis, 424-429
Scotland awakened into life by Knox, 399
Secret, the open, 335
Seid, Mahomet's slave and friend, 313, 326
Shakspeare and the Elizabethan Era, 357; his all-sufficing intellect, 357, 360; his Characters, 359; his Dramas, a part of Nature herself, 362; his joyful tranquillity, and overflowing love of laughter, 363; his hearty Patriotism, 364; glimpses of the world that was in him, 364; a heaven-sent Light-Bringer, 366; a King of Saxondom, 368
Shekinah, Man the true, 266
Silence, the great empire of, 355, 476
Sincerity, better than gracefulness, 286; the first characteristic of heroism and originality, 309, 380, 382, 409
Theocracy, a, striven for by all true Reformers, 407
Thor, and his adventures, 274, 291; his last appearance, 295
Thought, miraculous influence of, 277, 418; musical Thought, 338
Thunder. See Thor
Time, the great mystery of, 268
