drian, i. 398.

Mediterranean Sea, its dependencies and extent, i. 28.
Propriety of its name, i. 39.
Wonders of, i. 41.
Trade of, ii. 158.

Megaric school, i. 148.

Melanchthon, ii. 211.

Melissus of Samos, an Eleatic, i. 123.

Melloni first polarizes light, ii. 390.

Mendicant Orders, establishment of, ii. 62.

Menu, institutes of, i. 63.
Extract from, i. 224.

Metaphysics, Aristotle's, i. 178.
Uncertainty of, ii. 344.

Meteoric stone, boasted prediction of fall of, i. 111.

Mexico, social condition of, ii. 175.

Michael the Stammerer, his incredulity and profanity, i. 420.

Middle Ages, their condition, i. 139.

Migration of birds, i. 6.

Milan, Bishop of, excommunicated, ii. 17.

Milky way, as explained by the Pythagoreans, i. 117.

Mill life, ii. 388.

Milton, his "Paradise Lost" a Manichean composition, ii. 245.
In favour of the Copernican system, ii. 260.

Miracle cure, i. 386.
Plays, ii. 246.

Missionaries, Irish and British, i. 366.

Mithridates, King of Pontus, studies poisons and antidotes, i. 400.

Moawiyah, Khalif, sends his lieutenant against Africa, i. 334.
Rebuilds the church of Edessa, i. 338.

Moestlin quoted in favour of the Copernican system, ii. 266.

Mohammed subject to delusions, i. 148, 330. History of, i. 329.

Mohammed II., ii. 107.

Mohammedanism, causes of the spread of, i. 337.
Popular, i. 345.
Sects of, i. 347.
Arrest of, in Western Europe, ii. 30.
Literature of, ii. 34.
Uniformly patronized physical science, ii. 121.

Monasteries, condition of Europe at the suppression of, ii. 230.

Monasticism, amelioration of, i. 431.
Spread of, from Egypt, i. 433.

Monks, African and European, i. 237.
Labours and successes of, i. 365.
Their origin and history, i. 424.
Differences of Eastern and Western, i. 434.
Their intellectual influence, i. 438.

Monotheism preceded by imperialism, i. 256.
Roman, its boundaries, i. 261.

Montanus, the pretended Paraclete, i. 291.

Moon, variations of, discovered by Aboul Wefa, i. 325.
Volcanic action in, ii. 304.

Moors boast of an Arab descent, i. 337.

Moral plays, ii. 248.

Moris, Lake, i. 96.

Moslems, their creed, ii. 37.

Motion, the three laws of, ii. 269.

Muggleton, Lewis, his doctrines, ii. 239.

Murdoch invents the locomotive, ii. 387.

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