Leontius Pilatus, description of, by Boccaccio, ii. 194.

Lesches, poems of, i. 51.

Levites, their manner of healing, i. 400.

Lewenhoeck discovers spermatozoa, ii. 286.

Liberty not appreciated in India, i. 62.
Mental when maintained, ii. 227.

Libraries, Alexandrian, size of, i. 188.
Establishment of, i. 317.

Licinius neutralizes the policy of Constantine, i. 278.

Life, individual, is of a mixed kind, i. 2.
Social, its nature, i. 2.
First opinion of savage, i. 3.
Variable rapidity of, i. 18.

Light, velocity of motion of, ii. 279, 298.
Proves the age of the world, ii. 298.
White, ii. 379.
Chemical influences of, ii. 383.

Limestone deposited from the sea, ii. 321.

Lipari, the crater of, supposed to be the opening into hell,
i. 354, 357.

Lippershey first constructs a telescope, ii. 261.

Lisbon, the great earthquake of, ii. 302.

Listening contrasted with reading, ii. 203.

Lister, author of a synopsis of shells, ii. 286.
Ascertains the continuity of strata, ii. 286.

Literary men, their influence, ii. 150.

Literature, spread of gay, from Spain, ii. 60.
Profligate character of, in England, ii. 244.

Lithotomy, new operations for, by the Alexandrian surgeons, i. 399.

Livy, writings of, vindictively pursued by Gregory the Great, i. 357.

Locke, his theory of the sources of ideas, i. 231.

Locomotion, followed by mental development, ii. 119, 136.
Provisions for, show the social condition of a nation, ii. 239.

Locomotives, invented by Murdoch, ii. 387.

Logic, Aristotle's, i. 177.
Character of mediaeval, ii. 111.
Each age of life has its own, ii. 192.

"Logos," Philo's idea of the, i. 210.
Justin Martyr's idea of the, i. 274.

Lombards, converted at the beginning of the sixth century, i. 365.

London, condition of, towards the close of the seventeenth
century, ii. 238.

Lorenzo de' Medici, his patronage of literature and philosophy, ii. 195.

Loretto, miracle of, ii. 80.

Louis XIV., his order in council punishing sorcery, ii. 118.

Louis, St., his character, ii. 73.

Lucius Apuleius, i. 211.

Lucretius, the irreligious nature of his poem, i. 257.

Luitprand captures Ravenna, i. 422.

Luitprand quoted on Constantinople, ii. 58.

Luther, experiences of, ii. 117.
The revolt of, ii. 149.
History of, ii. 208.
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