Marriage: responsibility increased, 25, 26; or celibacy? 34; Shelley's, does not assure love, 35; following love, 36; irregular, 37; restraints of superior intellects, 38; love outside of, 40; early marriage restrained by civilization, 41; philosophy of this, 42; Companionship in (Essay IV.), 44-62; life-journey, 44; alienations for the sake of intellectual companionship, 45; illustrations, 46, 47; mistakes not surprising, 48; Byron, 49, 50; Goethe, 51, 52; Mill, 53, 54; difficulty in finding true mates, 55; exceptional cases not discouraging, 56; easier for ordinary people, 57; inequality, 58; hopeless tranquillity, 59; youthful dreams dispelled, 60; Nature's promises, how fulfilled, 61; "I thee worship," 62; wife's relations, 73; filial obedience, 94-97; destroying friendship, 115; affecting personal wealth, 119; social treatment, 120; of children, 123; effect of royal religion, 166; and of lower-class, 171; civil and religious, 184, 185; clerical, 196, 198-201; of absent friends, 338; French customs, 339; Montaigne's sentiments, 351, 352; slanderous attempts to prevent, 371-375; household cares, 381; breakfasts, 385, 386. (See _Women_, etc.) Mask, a simile, 370. Mediocrity, dead level of, 236. Mediterranean Sea, allusion, 399. Meissonier, Jean Ernest Louis, his talent, 284. Melbourne, Bishop of, 221. Men, choose for themselves, 197. (See _Marriage_, _Sons_, _Women_, etc.) Mephistopheles, allusion, 235. Merchants, connection with national peace, 149, 150. Mérimée, Prosper, Correspondence, 321. Metallurgy, under fixed law, 228. Methodists, the: in England, 170; hymns, 257. Michelet, Jules: on the Church, 189, 190; on the confessional, 202, 203. Middle Classes: Dickens's descriptions, 20; rank of some authors, 56; domestic rudeness, 75; table customs, 103; religious freedom, 170; clerical inferences, 183. (See _Classes_, _Lower Class_, etc.) Mignet, François Auguste Marie: friendship with Thiers, 120; condition, 121. Military Life: illustration, 21; filial obedience, 80; religion, 123; religious conformity, 169; antagonistic to toleration, 173, 174; French, 272; allusion, 300, 307. Mill, John Stuart: social affinities, 20; aversion to unintellectual society, 27, 28; relations to women, 53-55; social rank, 56; education by his father, 81-84; on friendship, 112, 113; on sneering depreciation, 237; on English conduct towards strangers, 245; on social stupidity, 263. Milnes, Richard Monckton. (See _Lord Houghton_.) Milton, John, Palmer's constant interest, 313. Mind, weakened by concession, 147. Misanthropy, appearance of, 27. Montaigne, Michel: marriage, 59; letter to wife, 351, 352. Montesquieu, Baron, allusion, 147.