state of, 1857, 84.
" thunderclouds in, "the winepress of God's wrath," 77.
Italian character, 84.
Jewels, cutting of, 52.
" modern, bad and costly, 159.
" property in, 146.
Jews, Christian dislike of, 81.
Keats, quoted, "a joy for ever," 1880 _pref._ ix-x.
King, the virtues of a (Siena fresco), 60.
Kingship, crowned by charity (Siena fresco), 59.
" modern contempt for, 177.
Labour, a claim to property, 145.
" constant, not intermittent, needed, 11.
" end of, is happiness, not money, 174.
" " to bring the whole country under cultivation, 12.
" management of, _is_ economy, 7.
" organisation of, no "out of work" cry, 11-12.
" " under government, planned, 127-31.
" sufficiency of a man's labour for all his needs, 7.
" " " nation's " its " 7.
Labour, _continued_;--
" waste of, in various kinds of useless art, cut-glass, mosaic, &c, 34.
" " dress, 50 _seq._
Lace-making, 52.
" machine and hand-made, 170.
" value of, in its labour, 171.
Laissez-aller, a ruinous principle, 16.
Land, the laws of cultivation, the same for a continent as for an acre, 12.
-owners, their duties, 143.
Law and liberty, 123.
" most irksome, when most necessary, 15.
" principles of, applied to minor things, 123.
" should regulate everything it can, 126.
" systems of, none perfect, 124.
" to be protective, not merely punitive, 15.
Legislation, paternal, dialogue on, 121.
Leonardo da Vinci, an engineer, 21.
" " " pupil of Verrocchio, 46.
" " "work by, at Florence, 164.
Leonidas' death, 109.
Lewis, John, his work, and its prices, 102 n.
Liberalism in government, true, 58.
Liberty, law and, 123.
" to be interfered with, for good of nation, 123-26.
Life, battles of early, for men of genius, 23.
" ideal of, simplicity _plus_ imagination, 147.
Literature, cheap, modern, 65.
Lombard architecture at Pisa and Verona, 76.
London season, cost of, in dress, 55.
Look, people will not, at things, 141.
Lorenzetti, Ambrozio, his frescoes of "government" at Siena, 57.
Love and Kingship, _see_ s. Charity.
Luxury, articles of, as "property," 146.
" does not add to wealth, 48.
" the influences of, 138.
Macaulay's false saying, "the giants of one age, the pigmies
of the next," 168.
Magnanimity, the virtue of, its full meaning, 60.
Mammon worship, in English commercial centres, 151.
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