Patriotism: obligations, 12; Littré's, 210; Patriotic Ignorance (Essay XIX.), 264-279; places people in a dilemma, 264; anecdotes of French and English errors, about art, literature, mountains, landscapes, fuel, ore, schools, language, 265-277; ignorance leading to war, 277-279; suspected of lacking, 287-288. Peace, affected by knowledge of, languages, 148-150, 160. Peculiarity, of English people towards each other (Essay XVII.), 239-252. Pedagogues, their narrowness, 154. Pedestrianism: as affected by railways, 14; in France, 272, 273; not enjoyed, 302. Peel, Arthur, his indebtedness to trade, 135. Pencil, use, when permissible, 333. Periodicals, akin to correspondence, 30. Persecution, feminine sympathy with, 80, 181. Perseverance, Buffon's and Littré's, 209, 210. Personality: its "abysmal deeps," 11; repressed by conventionality, 15; accompanies independence, 17; affecting family ties, 63-77 _passim_; paternal and filial differences, 78-98 _passim_; its frank recognition, 98; confused, anecdotes, 289, 290. Persuasion, feminine trust in, 175. Pestilence, God's anger in, 222. Peter the Great, sad relations to his son, 95, 96. Philistinism: illustrative stories, 285, 286; defined, 297; passion for comfort, 298; asceticism and indulgence, 299, 300; a life-portrait, 300-303; estimate of life, 303; an English lady's parlor, 304, 305; contrast, 306; avoidance of needless exposure, 313. Philology: a rival of literature, 154; favorable to progress in language, 155. Philosophy: detached from religion, xii; rational tone, 193. Photography: a French experience, 24; under fixed law, 228. Physicians: compared with priests, 186; rational, 193; Littré's service, 210. Picturesque, regard for the, 7. Piety: and law (Essay XV.), 215-231 _passim_; shipwreck, 226, 227. Pitt, William, foreign disturbances in his day, 150. Pius VII., on Napoleon, 341. Play, boyish friendship in, 111. Pleasures, three in amusements, 399, 400. Plebeians, in England, 251, 252. Plumpton Correspondence, 318-323, 331. Poetry: detached from religion, xii; of love, 42; dulness to, 47; Shelley's, 47; Byron's, 50, 345-349; Goethe's, 51; and science, 57; Tennyson on Brotherhood, 67; lament, 73; art, 154; music in heaven, 191; Keble, 198; Battle of Ivry, 224; French, 268, 269; Latin, loyalty of Tennyson, 289; French couplet, 304; in a library, 305; "If I be dear," 325; Horace, 361; Palace of Art, 386; quotation from Morris, 393; line about anticipation, 399. Poets: ideas about the harmlessness of love, 36; avoidance of practical difficulties, 39; love in natural scenery, 43.