Isolation of the United States, impossibility of maintaining,193.Jackson, Hughlings,361,362.James I.,131.James II.,137.James, William,446,448.Jamestown, founding of,190Japan, Mongolian invasion of,437.Jefferson, Thomas,141,142,150,305.Jennings, Isaac, a paradoxer,452.Jesuits in New France,127.Jevons, Stanley,388.Johnson, Edwin, a paradoxer,438,439.Johnson, Rev. Samuel,88.Jones, Inigo,374.Jonson, Ben,357,366-370,374,378,385.Joule, J. P.,27.Jupiter, the planet, still feebly self-luminous,8.Kabaosa,200.Kant, Immanuel,26,150.Keats, John,359,374.Keely motor,417.Kelvin, Lord, on the size of atoms,29.Kepler, Johannes,8.King, Rufus,300.King of Sweden, as an umpire,167.Kinship, reckoned through the mother,33.Kirk, H. C., a paradoxer,452.Koch, Robert,29.Kuhn, Adolph,30.Lalemant, J.,199.Lamb, Charles,350.Lander, William, a paradoxer,419.Landis, John, eccentric poet,443.Lang, Andrew, on the Homeric poems,355.Langdon, Samuel,301.Laplace, Marquis Pierre Simon de,434.La Salle, Robert,199.Lavoisier, A. L., his theory of combustion,3,37.Lecturer, hardships of a,84.Lectures on science by E. L. Youmans,82-87.Leibnitz, G. W.,389.Leslie, Alexander,158.Levée en masse, system of,185,186.Lewes, G. H.,361-333.Lewis and Clark,203.Light, undulatory theory of,27.Lindemann's researches on Pi,407.Linguistic Society of Paris,21.Linnæus, his system of classification,16;his relation to evolution,41.Little, Brown & Co.,194,205.Locke, John,125,134.Lollardism,130.London, size of, in Shakespeare's time,375.Longfellow, H. W.,312.Lotze, H. R.,341.Louis XIV.,216.Lovering, Joseph,454.Lowell, J. R.,299,312,399.Lubbock, Sir J.,95.Luther, Martin,125.Lutherans,142.Lyell, Sir Charles, greatness of his work,10-13; 7.Macaulay, Lord,156,387.Madison, James,141-143,157.Maine, Sir Henry,21,30.Malpighi, M.,401.Manipulation, its importance in the evolution of man,117,118.Manuscripts used by Parkman,204.Marie de l'Incarnation,199.Marlowe, Christopher,373,385.Maryland,136.Massachusetts, growth of liberal thought in,144-149.Masson, David,156.Mastodon,437.Materialism, attacked by Herbert Spencer,50.Mather, Cotton,294.Maurer, K.,30.Maurice, F. D.,341.Mayer, J. R.,27.Maypoles,375.Mega-ergaton docile,459.Megalomania of cranks,410.Memorial Hall at Cambridge, Mass.,313."Merchant of Venice," its crazy law,386.Meres, Francis, his praise of Shakespeare,376,377.Mermaid Tavern,374.Metamorphosis of motions,55-57.Methodism,148.Mexico, conquest of,201,202.Middle Ages, accumulated misery in,183,184.Middlesex Fells,227."Midsummer Night's Dream, A,"375.Mill, J. S.,94,335.Milton, John,125,134,139;his "Lycidas,"358;his verses on Shakespeare,368,369.Minturn, R. B.,95.Mommsen, T.,30.Montaigne, M. de,390,403.Montcalm,201.Montezuma,203.Morality, beginnings of,110.Morell, J. D.,87.Morgan, Appleton,371.Morse, Royal,310.Morphology,15.Nash, Thomas,384.Nason, a paradoxer,439.Natural selection,24.Nebular theory,26,45,46,77.Neptune, the planet, discovery of,5.Netherlands, toleration in,135,136.New Haven Colony, suppressed by Charles II.,146.New Netherlands,136.Newton, Sir Isaac,2,5,6,9,27,37,66,125,126,388,418,419.Noble Savage,200.Nordenskjöld, Baron, Swedish explorer,424,425.Norton, John,146."Noverint, trade of," a slang expression,384.Octogenarian layman, an,432-434.Odyssey, the,210.Oersted, H. C.,27.Ogillalah Indians,240.Old South Church, founding of,146,299.Olney, Richard,166,175.Ophelia, her right to Christian burial,380.Orang-outang, an infant, brought up by A. R. Wallace,105,106."Oregon Trail, The," by Francis Parkman,236-248.Orion, nebula of,7.Orthodoxies, new and old,129,151.Ovum, shows the process of development in all its stages,43,44.Owen, Orville, a paradoxer,370,403.Oxenstjern, cynical remark of,349.Paine, Thomas,149.Paley, Frederick,353.Paris, massacres of prisoners in,287.Parker, Theodore,144,151,230.Parkman, Ebenezer,223.Parkman, Francis, as an historian,194-222;his birth,223;his boyhood,226-230;his first journey to Europe,233-235;his life among Indians,235-246;his ill-health,238,239,246-250,254,256,261;how he composed "The Conspiracy of Pontiac,"249-251;his marriage,253;his house at Jamaica Plain,255,256;his garden and greenhouse,257,258;his eminence in horticulture,258;his pamphlets,263;his death,264;greatness of his work,264.Parkman, Rev. Francis,224,225.Parkman, Samuel,223.Parsons, Theophilus,300.Parthenogenesis,345-348.Passionists, a monastic order,234.Pasteur, Louis,29.Pauncefote, Sir J.,166.Peaceful tendencies of commerce,187,188.Peirce, Benjamin,313.Peloponnesian War,289.Pembroke, Earl of,367.Pendulum,27.Penn, William,134,138.Pennsylvania,137.Perpetual motion,417.Perspective, historic,195,196.Petersham, Mass., a religious community in,444-452.Phlogiston, doctrine of,2-4.Phokion, his estimate of popularity,334.Photography, application to the telescope,8.Pi, a geometrical symbol,405-407,412.Pickering, Timothy,300.Pisistratus,352.Platte River, the,203.Plowden's Reports,381.Plutarch,358;his essay on superstition, edited by a paradoxer,442.Poetry, eccentric,443."Pontiac, The Conspiracy of,"195,249-251.Pope, Alexander,387."Popular Science Monthly, The,"98.Positivism, weakness of,14.Pott, Mrs. H., a paradoxer, her edition of the Promus manuscript,394,395.Prœmunirestatutes,130.Precision of detail in myths,323-325.Presbyterianism,131.Presbyterians,142.Prescott, William,201,202.Pride's Purge,163.Priestley, Joseph, his discovery of oxygen,1-4,26,37;his treatise on electricity,27;burning of his house,287.Proctor, Richard,421.Profanity, silent,339.Progressiveness of man, explanation of the,108."Promus of Formularies and Elegancies,"394.Prophecy lunatics,432-434.Prospect Union, the,315.Protection run mad,219,220.Prussia, revelation of her military strength,186.Psychology, Spencer's masterly treatment of,48,49.Puritan theocracy,145,146.Puritanism, origin of,130-132.Putnam, Israel,201.Pym, John,157.Pyramid lunatics,428-431.Pyramids of Egypt,211.Quakerism, wherein distinguished from Independency,138.Quimby, W., a paradoxer,431.Radcliffe College,314.Radiata,17.Raleigh, Sir Walter,125,364,373,393.Ranking, John,437.Red Water, an Indian warrior,241.Reed, Edwin, a paradoxer,366,367.Reform of human nature, slowness of,76.Registration of experiences,107,108.Religion, reality of,114,115.Renaissance,124.Rhode Island,136;Catholics disfranchised in,139.Richards, Father,449,450.Ripley, George,92.Riverside Press, the,308.Roberts, G. L.,93.Roblin, Captain, a paradoxer,418.Roe, J. E., a paradoxer,403.Romano, Julio,372,373."Root and branch" men,131.Rousseau, J. J.,200.Rowbotham, Samuel, a paradoxer,421.Rumford, Count,27.Running for office in Tir na n-Og,329.Russell, Lord John,412.Rutherford, Samuel,133.Saint-Hilaire, Étienne Geoffroy,20.Saint-Hilaire, Isidore Geoffroy,20.Saturn's rings,27.Savage life, delights of,207,208.Savagery, types of,32.Savages and barbarians,211.Saxo Grammaticus,359.Scheele, C. W., his relation to the discovery of oxygen,3.Schelling, F. W. J.,41.Schlegel, August von,402.Schleicher, A.,30.Schleiden, M. J., his cell doctrine,18.School-teacher, a model,71.Schwann's cell doctrine,18.Science, pure and applied,29.Scofield, Catherine,68.Scott, Sir Walter,199.Selden, John,374.Servetus, Michael,401.Shakespeare, William,125,356-404.Shaw, Quincy,203,236.Shenandoah Valley, settlement of,142.Shepard, Thomas,293.Shepard Church in Cambridge, founding of,299.Shocks, nervous and psychical,60.Silliman, B.,453.Silsbee, Edward,88.Skinner, a paradoxer,430.Smallwit, Mr., substituted name for a paradoxer,408,409.Smith, James, a circle-squarer,411.Smith, Captain John,203.Smyth, C. Piazzi, a paradoxer,426-429.Society and organism, deepest distinction between,47.Solar system,5.Solemn League and Covenant,158.Sophocles, E. A.,312.Southampton, Earl of,370.Spain, her methods in America,214,215.Spanish literature and science,126.Speaking with tongues,451.Spectrum analysis,6,7.Spedding, James,386.Spencer, Herbert,20,25,26,39-51,55,66,67,86-96,339,341,361-363;some ambiguities of expression,58-61.Spencerians, forty years ago,93.Spenser, Edmund,374;his compliment to Shakespeare,376.Spinoza, B.,388.Spot Pond,227.Stahl, G. E.,2-4,37.Standard of degrees of organization,45.Stars, multiple,6,7.Stone Age, men of the,210,240,291.Story, Joseph,300.Strafford, Earl of,154.Stratford, its dirty streets,365.Strong, Caleb,300.Stuyvesant, Peter, his treatment of Quakers,137.Suffrage, limited to church members in Massachusetts and New Haven,145,146.Sullamar, Henry, a circle-squarer,434.Sully, Duke of,190.Swan of Avon,366,367.Swift, Jonathan,404.Symmes, Americus, a paradoxer,424,425.Symmes, J. C., a paradoxer,421-423.Synods and congregations,133.Taylor, Robert, imprisoned for blasphemy,439.Telescope-making in Cambridge,309.Theocritus,358.Thirst for knowledge,70.Thomson, Sir William.SeeKelvin, Lord.Thomson, Sir Wyville,345."Thou" and "you" in Shakespeare's time,392,393.Thunder-fighters, the,242.Ticknor & Fields,89.Tir na n-Og, the land of youth,328."Top-knot come down,"348.Tory party in New England,146.Tourneur, Cyril,373.Town meetings,305.Trade between Europe and Asia,122,123.Trent, affair of the,172,178,179.Tribunals of arbitration,167-170.Troilus and Cressida,359.Trollope, Anthony, his controversy with E. A. Freeman as to fox-hunting,