special misfortune to be trained up among the Uneducated
classes, 15; Religion not to be divorced from, 16; machines
for, 74.
Egoism, 122, 273.
"Essays and Reviews," 269.
Evangelicals, the, 268.
Everlasting Yea, the, 101.
Extempore Writing, 45-48.
Faith: 7, 172, 175, 210, 242; Cromwell quoted, 251; an inward
force, 252, 253; has well-nigh vanished, 253; ages of, 260.
Falsehood Bankruptcy, a bottomless gulf into which all False-
hoods disappear, 190, 191; divergence in thought, 192;
where thou findest a Lie that is oppressing thee, extinguish
it, 193.
Fiction partakes of the nature of lying, 49, 50; should at least be
probable, 51; "Tom Jones, Meister, Crusoe," 51; as the
vehicle for fact, 52; Reality, the only genuine Romance for
grown persons, 54-57; Boswell, and White in Selborne, 57, 58;
Homer's Iliad is no Fiction, 60.
Fine Arts, the: a windy gospel, 59; best to be silent about, 59 ;
fiction, even to the Fine Arts, not quite permissible, 59.
Fontenelle's aphorism, 188.
Force the all-encircling mysterious tide of, 55; no corner of the
world where it is not, 171.
Formulas: true Formulas indispensable, 212, 213; the "skin" and
"muscular tissue," 213, 214; when they become dead, 213,
214; the briefest definition of, 215; as "clothes," 230; be-
come superannuated, 230.
France French Republics, 138; anarchy in 1789, 143.
Frederick the Great, 100, note; 177, note; 286, 287..
French Philosophes, Acts of the, 28.
Genius veracity the basis of, 40; is to work faithfully, 105; is
"the inspired gift of God," 221.
Genius, Man of, 221, 222.
Genius, Man of counterfeit, 222.
God, Proof of a. See Proof of a God.
God's Judgments on the enemies of God, 196; are sure enough,
197; national suffering is a "judgment of God "; and has ever
been preceded by national crime, 198; why populations suffer
for their guilty Kings? 198;
66 are abroad in the world," 198.
God's Laws: can thunder from all the thirty-two azimuths make
them more god-like to me? 179, 180; are written if not on
stone tables, yet on the Azure of Infinitude, 180; terrible
"penalties" for disobeying, 180, 181; "thou shalt," from of
old the condition of man's being, 182; not to know them, the
highest disgrace for a man, 182.
Goethe, 13; quoted, 173.
Gospels, the basis of all, 271.
Government: reform of, 77; the noble People makes the noble
Government, 79; the hereditary principle in, goes for a great
deal, 153; as keeper of the peace, 154, 155; taxes, 240, 241.
"Grace of God, the," 236.
Great men may be unknown, 5; sincerity essential, 7, 8; but a
man need not be great in order to be sincere, 259, 260; the
Guides, Leaders, 31-33; sons of Order, 145; spiritually, 218;
nothing else admirable, 218; in defect of, let there be noted
men, 223; are inspired Texts, 224.
Happiness what if predestined not to be Happy, but to be
Unhappy? 100; love not pleasure; love God, 101; the pre-
tension to, not yet two centuries old, 102; the night once come,
our happiness, our unhappiness, it is all abolished, 102, 103.
Health, 257, 258.
Heaven's Register: an official register correct to the most evanescent
item, 199; used to be a well-known fact, 199; "the iron leaf,"
200, 202; the Four Gospels a cash-account, and balance-state-
ment, worth attending to, 201; no fable, 202.
Hengst and Horsa, 27, 28.
Heptarchy, Saxon, 27.
"Hercules," the constellation of "Physical Power," 84.
"Hercules, Choice of," 274, 276.
Hero-worship: what it is, 217, 218; Religion stands upon it, 218;
changing in shape, but in essence unchangeable, 222; no other
religion of the slightest consequence in comparison with, 223.
Heroes the dullest day-drudge may kindle into a Hero, 90; the
greatest of all, One-whom we do not name here, 219-222;
god-created, and true to their origin, 243.
History 19, 20, 22; not perfect, 23; the kind of, that survives, 23,
25-27; the law of perspective in, 27, 28; of Great Men, 28,
224; a Prophetic Manuscript, 29; must yet be attempted on
quite other principles, 29, 30.
Homer, 38, 40, 41, 60.
Homer's Iliad, 60.
Hope: much available to mankind in all the battles they have,
89, 90; acknowledged grounds of, are the mere precursors of
Despair, 255.
Humour the exponent of common life, 42; he who wants it, has
only half a mind, 42; not grinning inanity, 43, 44.
Idle-speaking, 201.
Idols (symbols), 212, 213.
Ignatius, 285.
Ignorance, 177, 178, 229.
Iliad, the, 60.
Ill-will, 108.
Imitation, 31, 32, 213.
Immortality, 277.
Incredibilities, Creed of, 286.
"Infamous, The," 286, 287.
Infidelity, 201.
Insight what it depends on, 5; the Power of, 9; he who has it, is
the strong man; the wise man, 98; the real Force, which
in this world all things must obey, 98. See also Judgment of
any man or thing.
Inspiration, Plenary, 226.
Intellect is the highest quality of all, and includes all, 6, 7 ; rever-
ence for, 6, 7; our "Fortieth" Article, 7; is not speaking and
logicising, but doing, 8; its best progress in the old times, 69.
Intellect, the Man of. See Man of Intellect.
Ireland, Misgovernment of. See Misgovernment of Ireland.
Isaac Newton, 32, 71.
Jesuitism: the expulsion of the Jesuit Body avails us little, 285;
celebrated virtues in, 285.
Jesus of Nazareth, our divinest Symbol, 215, 216.
Johnson, Samuel, 274.
Judgment, of any man or thing: know good qualities first, 1;
failure of Tacitus to judge of Christ, 1, 2; uncertainty in esti-
mating present things and men, 2; love, tolerance, sympathy
necessary, 2-4; of enemies, 3, 4; no man can explain himself
or get himself explained, 4, 5. See also Insight.
Kingship, Real. See Real Kingship.
Knowledge, 253.
Knox, 243, 245, 246.
Labour, 106, 107.
Labour, Organisation of. See Organisation of Labour.
Letters, Men of. See Men of Letters.
Liberty the not being oppressed by your fellow man, indis-
pensable; yet one of the most insignificant fractional parts of,
140, 141.
Life a Battle: 87; the battle itself is victory, 90; man is created to
fight, 97; not a May-game, 219; continually along the edge of
Red Republic too, 224; One Life; a little gleam of Time
between two Eternities, 262.
Literature fast becoming all in all to us, 165; equivalent to
Democracy, 168; will have itself organised by and by, 168,
169; its tendency is to a universal European Commonweal,
170; the "Bible of Modern Literature," 207.
Logic: 171, 181, 191; logical theories, 214, 215; the healthy
Understanding is not the Logical, 257.
Luther, 71, 80, 242, 287.
Machiavellism, 188.
Machinery, our Age of. See Age of Machinery.
Magna Charta, 27.
Man of Genius, 221, 222.
Man of Genius: counterfeit, 222.
Man of Intellect, the: if men follow him, it will be well with them,
6; is sincere, 7, 8; at the top of affairs, 152.
Marten, Henry, quoted, 92.
Mathematics, 76.
Melton Mowbray, 161.
Men of Letters: the Writer of a Book is a Preacher, 165; Printing
has metamorphosed all Universities, 167; what is the good of
St. Stephen's now when there is a Times Newspaper? 168.
Merry Monarchs, 135.
Mesmerists, 282.
Metaphysics: a perennial disease; and why, 254; the Christian
Religion dissipating itself into, 268.
Methodism its torturing anxiety of Hope and Fear, 272, 273.
Methodists, 276.
Mights and Rights: the rights of man have no concern with the
Forty-third of Elizabeth, 94, 95; man's first right is to be
delivered from his own indolence, 96; Mights, in the long
run, mean Rights, 97, 98; man was not to die of starvation:
that is among the Rights of Man, and also among the
Mights, 99.
Milton, John, 27, 221, 257.
Minorities, 129.
"Miracles, Essays on," 267.
Misfortune, 87.
Misgovernment of Ireland: Injustice abounds, or Ireland would
not be miserable, 147; England is guilty in regard to, 148.
Misunderstanding, the cause of war, 4, 160.
Moderation, 189.
Montesquieu, 63.
More's Utopia, 66.
National Church, Scotch, 242.
Necessity man not the thrall of, 33; how to triumph over it, 33,
34; compassed round with, 88.
New Religions: amazing what quantities and kinds of extinct ideas
apply for belief, 279; you will not get this new religion, 280;
this sick croaking for a Morrison's Pill religion, 280, 281;
Inspiration or Madness, thou partly hast it in thy choice which
of the two, 281.
New Testament, 221.
Newton, Isaac, 32, 71.
Novalis his the devoutest heart I knew, 218; quoted, 218;
"Selbsttödtung," 273.
Obedience: is the primary duty, 91; whoso cannot obey cannot be
free, still less bear rule, 92; no act more moral between men
than that of rule and obedience, 150; man, a social being in
virtue of this necessity, 151.
Organisation of Labour: by the State, 110; Souls'-Overseers; the
last finish of the State's efforts in the, 112, 113; is the Problem
of the whole Future, 110, 114: Permanent Contract, the basis
of organisation, 115; some Chivalry of Labour" will yet be
realised on this Earth, 115, 116.
Originality, its merit not novelty, 260.
Orthodoxy, 269.
Paganism, 218, 288.
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