Religion: affecting human intercourse, xi-xiii; detached from the arts, xii; affecting friendship, 5, 6; conventional, 15; Cheltenham prejudice, 19; formal in England, 63; affecting fraternity, 64; affecting family regard, 74; clergyman's son, 90, 91; family differences, 93, 94; to be respected in guests, 105, 106; destroying friendship, 113; Evangelical, 123; personal deterioration, 124; mercenary motives, 132, 133; title-worship, 137; an Obstacle (Essay XII.), 161-174; the dominant, 161; a hindrance to honest people, 162; dissimulation, 163; apparent liberty, 164; social penalties, 165; no liberty for princes, 166; French illustration, 167; royal liberty in morals, 168; official conformity, 169; greater freedom in the lower ranks, 170; less in small communities, 171; liberty of rejection and dissent, 172; false position, 173; enforced conformity, 174; Priests and Women (Essay XIII.), 175-204; of love, 178, 179; Why we are Apparently becoming Less Religious (Essay XIV.), 205-214; meditations of ladies of former generation, 205; trust in Bible, 206; idealization, 207; Nineteenth Century inquiries, 208; Buffon as an illustration, 209; Littré, 210; compared with Bible characters, 211; the Renaissance, 212; boundaries outgrown, 213; less theology, 214; How we are Really becoming Less Religious (Essay XV.), 215-231; superstition, 215; supernatural interference, 216, 217; idea of law diminishes emotion, 218; railway accident, 219; prayers and accidents, 220; future definition, 221; penitence and punishment, 222; war and God, 223; natural order, 224; Providence, 225; salvation from shipwreck, 226; _un hazard providentiel_, 227; _irreligion_, 228; less piety, 229; devotion and science, 230; wise expenditure of time, 231; feuds, 240; genteel ignorance of established churches, 255-258; French ignorance of English Church, 275; distinctions confounded, 281, 282; intolerance mixed with social contempt, 284, 285; activity limited to religion and riches, 301; in old letters, 320, 321, 323; female interest in the author's welfare, 377, 378; in theology, 379, 380. (See _Church of England_, _Methodism_, _Protestantism_, etc.) Rémusat, Mme. de, letters, 350. Renaissance, expansion of study in the, 212. Renan, Ernest, one objection to trade, 132. Republic, French, 254, 283, 284. Residence, affecting friendship, 116. Respect: the road to filial love, 98; why liked, 122; in correspondence, 316. Restraints, of marriage and love, 36, 37. Retrospection, pleasures of, 400. Revolution, French, 209, 246, 283. (See _France_.) Riding, Lever's difficulties, 260. Rifles: in hunting, 391-393; names, 392.