ue, results of disuse, 156

Natural connection between wealth and culture, 240
-- gifts, development of, 172
-- laws, independent working, 282

Nature, extraordinary reactions, 100
-- high life in, 359

Nature, provision for intellectual life in marriage, 292
-- _will_ be obeyed, 248

Naval profession, 497

Navy, English, reconstruction of, 262

Neapolitan servant, case of, 158

Necessity a help in industrial pursuits, 525
-- disturbs higher intellectual life, 225, 226

Need of society and solitude, 403

Negative end of character, 475
-- qualification for work, 109

Neighbors, education of, 437

Newspaper reading, abstinence from, 460

Newspapers as educators, 437
-- daily house-talk of the world, 465
-- in United States, 466
-- in France, 466

Newton, desire for solitude, 410

Nervous system, physiological action, 17

Nightingale, Florence, quoted, 204

Night-work, medical objection to, 481

Noblesse, old, ignorance of, 363

Nomad, English, life of, 530

Nomadic habits of higher classes, 356

Obedience to nature, necessity of, 248

Object of intellectual discipline, 84

Occasion, mistaken estimates, 186

Opposition to custom unphilosophical, 251
-- of method between intellect and faith, 282

Oil painting, dangers of, 76

Old prejudices declining, 522

Opportunities lost, 199
-- unlimited, danger of, 214
-- and application, 244

Origin of discipline, 82

Orleans, Duchess of, 220
-- system of mental culture, 220

Orthodoxy no guaranty of intellectual capacity, 299

Outlet, intellectual, necessary, 435

Painters, intellectual discipline of, 498

Painting, different schools, 73

Palgrave's, Mr., "Travels in Arabia," 40

Papacy, decline and fall of temporal power, 469

Papal infallibility, 281

Paris, siege of, 95

Parliament, houses of, high attainments, 240

Parsimony of French peasantry, 241

Party journals, injustice, 464

Past, custom a precious legacy, 251
-- not reliable as a guide, 256

Patriotism as a stimulant, 69

Peasants, instruction of, 438

Pecuniary rewards of labor, 233

Pendennis, Major, typical life, 65

_Philistine_ intellects, 202

Philosophy, popular acceptation of term, 273
-- a truly intellectual, 417

Physical basis, the, 17
-- repugnances of surgeons, 87
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