oman annexation of, i. 248.

Egyptian ports opened, i. 77.
Theology i. 91.

Elcano, Sebastian de, the Lieutenant of Magellan, ii. 173.

Eleatic philosophy, i. 118.
Influence of the school, i. 220.

Electricity, discoveries in, ii. 377.

Electro-magnetism, ii. 378.

Elixir of Life, i. 407.
Effect of the search for, on medicine, i. 411.
Eloquence, Parliamentary, decline of its power, ii. 204.

Elphinstone, quotation from, i. 64.

Elysium, i. 36.

Emanation, doctrine of, i. 225.

Empedocles, biography of, i. 123.

Empirics, their doctrine, i. 399.

England, conversion of, i. 366.
Policy of an Italian town gave an impress to its history, ii. 17.
Its social condition, ii. 229.
Condition of, at the suppression of the monasteries, ii. 230.
Backward condition of, ii. 233.
State of, at the close of the seventeenth century, ii. 238.

Ephesus, Council of, called "Robber Synod," i. 297.
Determines that the two natures of Christ make but one person, i. 299.

Epictetus, his doctrines, i. 259.

Epicureans, modern, i. 168.

Epicurus, the doctrine of, i. 165.
His irreligion, i. 168.

Epicycles and eccentrics, Hipparchus's theory of, i. 202.

Epochs of individual life, i. 14.
Of national life, i. 19.

Erasmus becomes alienated from the Reformers, ii. 225.
Wonderful popularity of his "Colloquies," ii. 238.

Eratosthenes, the writings and works of, i. 196.
Astronomy of, i. 199.

Eremitism, its modifications, i. 432.

Erigena, John, a Pantheist employed by the Archbishop of Rheims, ii. 9.

Essenes, a species of the first hermits among the Jews, i. 425.

Ether, movements of, ii. 382.

Ethical philosophy, i. 143.
Its secondary analysis, i. 164.

Ethics of Plato, i. 158.

Ethnical element, definition of, and conditions of change in, i. 12.

Eucharist, difference of opinion about, ii. 210.

Euclid of Alexandria, his various works, i. 193.
His reply to Ptolemy Philadelphus, i. 398.

Euclid of Megara, an imitator of Socrates, i. 148.

Eugenius IV., Pope, dethroned by the Council of Basle, ii. 102.

Eumenes, King of Pergamus, establishes a second library in
Alexandria, i. 318.

Eunapius, his opinion of Plotinus, i. 212.

Eunostos, harbour of, connected by a canal with lake Mareotis, i. 323.

Euripides tainted with heresy, i. 50.

Europe, description of, i.