ead vocables, 80

Laughter, significance of, 24

Leo X., the elegant Pagan Pope, 363

Liberty and Equality, 357, 428

Lieschen, 17

Life, Human, picture of, 14, 115, 129, 141;
life-purpose, 101;
speculative mystery of, 125, 181, 198;
the most important transaction in, 128;
nothingness of; 138, 139

Light the beginning of all Creation, 148

Literary Men, 383;
in China, 397

Literature, chaotic condition of, 387;
not our heaviest evil, 398

Logic-mortar and wordy Air-Castles, 40;
underground workshop of Logic, 50, 166

Louis XV., ungodly age of, 123

Love, what we emphatically name, 102;
pyrotechnic phenomena of, 103, 166;
not altogether a delirium, 109;
how possible, in its highest form, 145, 161, 221

Ludicrous, feeling and instances of the, 36, 136

Luther's birth and parentage, 358;
hardship and rigorous necessity;
death of his friend Alexis, 359;
becomes a monk;
his religious despair;
finds a Bible, 360;
his deliverance from darkness;
at Rome, 361;
Tetzel, 362;
burns the Pope's Bull, 363, 364;
at the Diet of Worms, 364;
King of the Reformation, 368;
'Duke Georges for nine days running,' 370;
his little daughter's deathbed;
his solitary Patmos, 371;
his Portrait, 372

MAGNA CHARTA, 203

Mahomet's birth, boyhood, and youth, 286;
marries Kadijah, 288;
quiet, unambitious life, 288;
divine commission, 290;
the good Kadijah believes him, 292;
Seid, his slave, 293;
his Cousin Ali, 293;
his offences and sore struggles, 293;
flight from Mecca; being driven to take the sword, he uses it, 295;
the Koran, 298;
a veritable Hero, 305;
Seid's death, 306;
freedom from cant, 306;
the infinite nature of duty, 309

Malthus's over-population panic, 170

Man, by nature _naked_, 2, 42, 46;
essentially a tool-using animal, 30;
the true Shekinah, 49;
a divine Emblem, 54, 165, 167, 180, 199;
two men alone honourable, 171.
_See_ Thinking Man.

Mary, Queen, and Knox, 378

Mayflower, sailing of the, 373

Mecca, its rise, 285; Mahomet's flight from, 294, 295

Metaphors, the stuff of Language, 54

Metaphysics inexpressibly unproductive, 40, 51

Middle Ages, represented by Dante and Shakspeare, 329, 333

Milton, 124

Mirabeau, his ambition, 450

Miracles, significance of, 191, 197

Monmouth Street, and its 'Ou' clo'' Angels of Doom, 181

Montrose, the Hero-Cavalier, 453, 454

Mother's, a, religious