Clerks, their knowledge an aid to national intercourse, 149, 150. (See _Business_, _Languages_, etc.) Coats-of-arms: usurped, 135; in letters, 326, 327. (See _Rank_.) Cockburn, Sir Alexander, knowledge of French, 151. Cock Robin, boat, 138. (See _Boating_.) Coffee, satire on trade, 133, 134. Cologne Cathedral, 190. Colors, in painting, 232, 233. Columbus, Voltaire's allusion, 274. Comet, in Egyptian war, 229. (See _Superstition_.) Comfort, pursuit of, 27, 298, 299. (See _Philistinism_.) Commerce, affected by language, 148-150, 159, 160. (See _Business_, _Languages_, etc.) Communism, threats, 377. Como, Italy, solitude, 31. Companionship: how decided, 4; affected by opinions, 5, 6; by tastes, 7, 8; in London, 20; with the lower classes, 21-23; chance, 24-26; intellectual exclusiveness, 27, 28; books, 29; nature, 30; in Marriage (Essay IV.), 44-62; travelling, absence, 44; intellectual, 45; instances of unlawful, 46, 47; failures not surprising, 48; of Byron, 49, 50; Goethe, 51, 52; Mill, 53, 54; discouraging examples, 55, 56; difficulties of extraordinary minds, 57; artificial, 58; hopelessness of finding ideal associations, 59; indications and realizations, 60; trust, 61, 62; hindered by refinement, 71, 72; affected by cousinship, 73; parents and children (Essay VI.), 78-98 _passim_; Death of Friendship (Essay VIII.), 110-118; affected by wealth and poverty (Essays IX. and X.), 119-147 _passim_; between Priests and Women (Essay XIII.), 175-204. (See _Association_, _Friendship_, etc.) Comradeship, difficult between parents and children, 89. (See _Association_, etc.) Concession: weakening the mind, 147; national, 148; feminine liking, 175. Confessional, the: influencing women, 201-203; a supposititious compulsion, 281. (See _Religion_, etc.) Confirmation, priestly connection with, 185. (See _Women_.) Confusion: (Essay XX.), 280-294; masculine and feminine, 280; political, 280-284; rebels and reformers, 280; private and public liberty, 281; Radicals, 282; _égalité_, 283; religious, 284, 285; Philistines and Bohemians, 285-287; confounding people with their associates, 287, 288; vocations, 288, 289; persons, 290; foreign buildings, 291; inducing calumny, 292; caused by insufficient analysis, 292, 293; about inventions, 293; result of carelessness, indolence, or senility, 293, 294. Consolation, of clergy, 179-183. (See _Religion_.) Construing, different from reading, 154. (See _Languages_.)