Fashion, transient, 307. Fathers: separated from children by incompatibility, 10; by irascibility, 75; by brutality of tongue, 76; and Sons (Essay VI.), 78-98; unsatisfactory relation, interregnum, 78; old and new feelings and customs, 79; commanding, 80; exercise of authority, 81; Mill's experience, 82; abdication of authority, 83; personal education of sons, 84, 85; mistakes of middle-age, 86; outstripped by sons, 87; intimate friendship impossible, 88; differences of age, 89; divergences of education and experience, 90, 91; opinions not hereditary, 92, 93; the attempted control of marriage, 94; Peter the Great and Alexis, 95; other illustrations of discord, 96; satire and disregard of personality, 97; true foundation of paternal association, 98; death of a French parent, 182; a letter, 319-322. Favor, fear of loss, 147. Ferdinand and Isabella, religious freedom in their reign, 164. Fiction: love in French, 41; absorbing theme, 42; in a library, 305. Fletcher, Thomas, firearms made by, 391, 392. Florence, Italy, pestilence, 222. Flowers: illustration, 179; church use, 188; Flower Sunday, 189. (See _Women_, etc.) Fly, artificial, 377. Fog, English, 270. Foreigners: associations with, 7; view of English family life, 63; in travelling-conditions (Essay XVII.), 239-252 _passim_; association leads to misapprehension, 287; in England, 291. Fox-hunting, 180, 398, 399. (See _Amusements_, _Sports_, etc.) France: a peasant's outlook, xii; social despotism in small cities, 17-19; pleasant associations in a cathedral city, 23, 24; political criticism, 115; noisy card-players, 128, 129; disregard of titles, 136, 137; adage about riches, 145; English ideas slowly received, 150; travel in Southern, 150; religious freedom, 165; marriage, 184; railway accident, 218-220; the Imperialists, 225; feudal fashions, 246; obstinacy of the old régime, 254-256; mountains, 271; vigor of young men, 272, 273; universities, 275, 276; equality attained by Revolution, 283; bourgeois complaint of newspapers, 286; mineral oil, 288; confusion of tourists, 291; Goldsmith's travels, 309, 310; landscape painter, 310; end of Plumpton family, 323; use of telegraph, 323; letters shortened, 325; letter-paper, 328; post-cards, 330; chirography, 332; New Year's cards, 339; _carton non bitumé_, 358, 359; habits of tradesmen, 360, 361, 365; the _Salon_, 367; old maids, 381; a _corvée_, 389, 390; Leloir the painter, 401. (See _Continent_, etc.) Fraternity, _fraternité_, 282, 283. (See _Brothers_.) Freedom: national, 279; public and private liberty confounded, 281, 282.