Sophists, Socrates and the, viii, 18; the Stoics compared with, viii, 53. Sophocles, v, 230. _Sordello_, Browning, v, 39. Sorrow, vii, 84. _Sortie of the Civic Guard_, Rembrandt, vi, 66. Soul, Emerson on the, viii, 403; growth of the, vi, 109; Plato on the, viii, 403. Southey, Robert, ii, 225; Greta Hall, home of, v, 279; parents of, v, 279; monument of, v, 281; Lord Byron, v, 281; Coleridge and, v, 301; his sonnet to Robert Emmett, v, 264; his estimate of Jane Austen, ii, 254; Lovell and, v, 301; on Lord Nelson, xiii, 398; Shelley and, v, 283; Mary Wollstonecraft and, xiii, 102; the Wordsworths and, i, 214; v, 303. Spain, England and, in the 16th century, iv, 81; senility of, iii, 232; under the rule of Philip II, vi, 171; dominion in the Netherlands, iv, 81. Spalding, Bishop, on Mill, xiii, 162. Spanish colonies in America, xii, 145. Spanish Inquisition, the, vi, 171. Sparrows, Grant Allen on, viii, 400. Spear, William G., custodian of the Quincy Historical Society, iii, 134; vi, 315. Specialist, age of the, iv, 120. _Speech for Unlicensed Printing_, Milton, xiii, 85. Speed, Joshua, Lincoln's law partner, iii, 303. Spelling-bees, iii, 255. Spencer, Herbert, parents of, viii, 325; personality of, viii, 352; as a civil engineer, viii, 352; as assistant editor _Westminster Review_, viii, 334; _Principles of Psychology_, viii, 342; _Manners and Fashion,_ viii, 342; Poultney Bigelow and, viii, 189; Charles Bradlaugh compared with, viii, 334; the Carlyles and, xii, 340; Comte and, viii, 261; Madame Curie and, viii, 259; Mrs. Eddy and, viii, 189; on education, xi, 171; Mary Ann Evans and, viii, 335; on genius, vii, 316; W. E. Gladstone and, xii, 230; Haeckel compared with, xii, 257; on the herding instinct, viii, 149; Huxley and, viii, 345; George Henry Lewes and, viii, 337; on morality, ix, 191; on Sir Isaac Newton, x, 366; quoted ii, 75; v, 70, 109; referred to, i, 56; ii, 290; v, 174, 289; xii, 207, 371; xiii, 85; Michael Rossetti on, viii, 344; on science, xi, 386; _Social Statics,_ viii, 336; on Swedenborg, viii, 190; on John Tyndall, xii, 34, 356; on the Unknowable, viii, 173; Prof. E. L. Youmans and, viii, 344. Spencerian system of writing, vi, 134. Spenser, Edmund, iv, 197; v, 14. Spinoza, Benedict, xi, 129; excommunication of, viii, 224; Grotius compared with, viii, 228; influence of, viii, 206; on the Mennonites, viii, 211; Novalis on, viii, 233; parents of, viii, 210; philosophy of, viii, 234; Renan on, viii, 229, 233; _Tractatus Theologico-Politicus_, viii, 232; Van der Spijck and, viii, 228. Spirit, of the hive, vii, 245; of mutual giving, vi, 237. Spiritism, Alfred Russel Wallace's views on, xii, 392. Spirits, disembodied, viii, 176. Spiritual companionship, v, 227; gravity, v, 241; relationship, vii, 385. Spiritualism, x, 342. Spirituality, religion and, iv, 236; sex and, xiii, 346.