Ignorance: Genteel (Essay XVIII.), 253-263; among French royalists, 254, 255; in religion, 256, 257; in regard to pecuniary conditions, 258, 259; of likeness and unlikeness, 260, 261; disadvantages, 262; drives people from society, 263; Patriotic (Essay XIX.), 264-279; a narrow satisfaction, 264; French ignorance of English art, 265, 267; of English game, 268; of English fruit, 269; English errors as to mountains, 270, 271; fuel, manly vigor, 272, 273; word _universal_, 274; universities, 275, 276; literature, 277; leads to war, 277, 278; not the best patriotism, 279; unavoidable, 301; contented, 302; of gentlewomen, 381, 382. (See _Nationality_, etc.) Imagination, a luxury, 300. Immorality: too easily forgiven in princes, 168; considered essential to Bohemianism, 295. (See _Vice_.) Immortality: connection with music, 191; menaces and rewards, 193. (See _Priests_, etc.) Impartiality, not shown by clergy, 194. Impediments, to national intercourse (Essay XI.), 148-160. Impertinence, ease of manner mistaken for, 250. Incompatibility: inexplicable, 10; one of two great powers deciding intercourse, 11. (See _Friendship_, etc.) Independence: (Essay II.), 12-32; illusory and real, influence of language, 12; illustrations, 13; railway travel destructive to, 14; conventionality and French ideas of _good form_, 15; social repressions and London life, 16; local despotism, 17; the French rural aristocracy, 18; illustrations and social exclusion, 19; humor and domestic anxiety, society not essential, 20; palliations to solitude, outside of society, absolute solitude, 21; rural illustrations, 22; incident in a French town, 23; one in Scotland, 24; on a steamer, 25; English reticence, 26; an evil of solitude, pursuits in common, 27; illustration from Mill, deterioration of an artist, 28; patient endurance, the refreshment of books, 29; companionship of nature, 30; consolation of labor, 31; an objection to this relief, 32; a fault, 69; of Philistines and Bohemians (Essay XXI.), 295-314 _passim_. (See _Society_, etc.) Independents, the, in England, 170. India: a brother's cold farewell, 67; relations of England, 279. Indians, their Bohemian life, 298, 306. Individualism, affected by railways, 13-15. Individuality, reliance upon our own, iv. Indolence: destroying friendship, 116; stupid, 197; causes wrong judgment, 293; part of Bohemianism, 295; in business, 356; in reading letters, 366-369. Indulgences, affecting friendship, 115. Industry: to be respected, 132; professional work, 196; Buffon's and Littré's, 209, 210; ignorance about English, 265, 266; of a Philistine, 300; in letter-writing, 356. Inertia, in middle-life, 302.