Progress, the law of human, II. 241. Defined, II. 267. Same long unrecognized, II. 252,--but disclosed in part by Vico, II. 254. Universal, II. 244, 275. Not recognized in antiquity, II. 247. Christianity the religion of, II. 251. Announced by Leibnitz, II. 255,--by Lessing and Herder, II. 256,--by Descartes, II. 257,--by Pascal, II. 258,--by Perrault and Fontenelle, II. 260, and by Turgot, II. 262. Condorcet’s Work on, II. 264. Bacon’s ideas on, II. 265. History of Greece and Rome not inconsistent with, II. 268-270. Relation of China to, II. 270. Indefinite duration of mankind favors, II. 274. Proved by statistics of life, II. 274. Gradual, II. 278; XVII. 179. Resisted by prejudice, II. 279. Examples of resistance to, II. 279-285. Certainty of, II. 286-288; XVII. 177. Faith in, encouraging, II. 286. Agents of, XVII. 177. Property, man can have none in man, VI. 131, 218, 319; VIII. 261; XI. 200 _et seq._ Value of, in slave and free States, VI. 146. Confiscation of, in war, IX. 35; XVII. 13-15. As a qualification for the franchise, XIII. 220, 297, 327. See _Confiscation_. Provisional governments and Reconstruction, IX. 162. See _Military Government_. Prussia, army of, in 1845, I. 75. Relative expenditure of, for war-preparations, I. 78. Military system of, in 1870, XVIII. 246. Numerical size of its Parliament, XX. 2. See _Franco-German War_ and _Germany_. Publishers, letter to committee of, V. 58. Pulci, his prediction of a new world, XV. 258. Puritans, the, IV. 75 _et seq._ Q. Quakers, escape of, from pirates, II. 46. Opposed to slavery, III. 289; XII. 151-153. Lincoln on, XII. 263. See _Friends_. Qualification, defined, XIII. 308; XVI. 248; XVII. 40. Quincy, Josiah, on patriotism, I. 325. Tribute to, VI. 37. Quincy, Josiah, Jr., his report of Chatham’s speech quoted, I. 375. Quorum, of the Senate, IX. 169; XII. 358. In Parliament, IX. 169-171. Fixed in United States by Constitution, IX. 171. Authorities on rule for, IX. 172. Of States, requisite for adoption of a constitutional amendment, XII. 357. Powers of the two Houses of Congress in absence of a, XV. 185. R. Races, all alike entitled to human rights, V. 18; XVII. 134. Number and distinctions of, XVII. 148-151. Origin of, XVII. 152. Arguments for a common origin of, XVII. 153-157; authorities favoring same, XVII. 155-157. Common destiny of all, XVII. 162 _et seq._, 168, 178. Railroad, Pacific, IV. 32; IX. 318. Air-line, from Washington to New York, IX. 121. Usurpation in New Jersey, XII. 105. Railways, opposed at first by Quarterly Review, II. 283. Rantoul, Robert, Jr., tribute to, III. 246. Raynal, Guillaume, Abbé, his famous work, XV. 326 _et seq._ His predictions concerning America, XV. 329-331.