ration for mental labor, 479

Physician, social rise of, 496

Physiological action of nervous system, 17

Pioneers, intellectual, 516

Planet, dissimilarity of man to, 452

Plans should be well arranged, 189

Pluck, value of, 70

Poet, the true, 447

Poetical events of our generation, 95
-- teachings, true intentions, 453

Political influence of culture, 436

Politics, preponderance in newspapers, 465

Polyglot waiters, 165

Poor, limited knowledge and experience, 240
-- incompetent for work of Parliament, 240
-- independence of public opinion, 243
-- man desirous of culture, consolation, 243

Pope of Rome, affirmed infallibility, 281

Popular illusions regarding languages, 151
-- impression regarding genius, 447

Positive end of character, 475

Poverty and peace incompatible, 223
-- unfavorable to intellectual life, 224
-- advantage in liberal professions, 226
-- obstacle to intellectual perfection, 239

Power of assimilation, 167
-- of time, 176

Practical suggestions to intellectual workers, 16

Practice, best professional as educator, 226
-- of journalism, 511

Preference and capacity, relation, 87

Prejudices of caste, 348
-- old, decline of, 522

Preparatory labor, 448

Prescott, Mr., instance of, 63

Preservation of the senses, 60, 64

Priests, manner of religious teaching, 270
-- and government not harmonious, 492

Prince Consort, example and influence, 305

Problem, great, of life, 242

Products of cerebral excitement, 446

Professions, liberal, advantages of poverty, 226
-- test of, 392
-- and trades, 488
-- purpose of, 507

Progress, satisfactions of, 79
-- its debt to rebellion, 250
-- of work, interest necessary, 416

Propositions about modern languages, 152

Protection in intellectual pursuits, 137

Public taste, experiments on, 235
-- opinion, regulator of morality, 257
-- opinion in France, 258

Purpose of a profession, 506

Qualifications for work, 109

Railways, unforeseen effect, 356

Rational art of memory, 169

Ravignon, _pere_, 547

Reactions of Nature, 100

Reading, miscellaneous, advantage of, 132
-- painful to uneducated, 438
-- newspapers, abstinence from, 460
-- practised by most people, 474

Rebellion, debt of progress to, 250

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