Sunshine, definition of, i, 339. Superior class, the, v, 291; xiv, 320. Superstition, iv, 124; v, 153; vii, 17; ix, 182; x, 366; Hypatia on, x, 275; Voltaire on, viii, 293. Supreme Court, first chief justice of, iii, 246. Surveying, the business of, xii, 389. Swedenborg, Emanuel, the mystic, iii, 28; viii, 174; parents of, viii, 181; _The Animal Kingdom_, viii, 194; his experiments in motive power, xii, 21; _Conjugal Love_, viii, 191; Darwin compared with, viii, 179; _The Economy of the Universe_, viii, 194; Mary Baker Eddy and, viii, 190; x, 355; Emerson on, viii, 177; inventive genius of, viii, 186; love-affair of, viii, 183; on marriage, viii, 191; _Principia_, viii, 192; quoted, xiv, 170; Herbert Spencer on, viii, 190; Shakespeare compared with, viii, 177; _Spirit World_, viii, 172; travels of, viii, 186. Swedenborgians, the, viii, 196. Sweden, Florida compared with, viii, 182; literacy of, viii, 181. Swett, Leonard, friend of Lincoln, iii, 288. Swift, Jonathan, mother of, i, 143; birthplace of, i, 144; youth of, i, 145; misanthropy of, i, 146; ambition of, i, 148; wit of, i, 149; popularity of, i, 151; personality of, i, 152; religion of, i, 152; love-affair of, i, 158; grave of, i, 160; referred to, iii, 60; v, 258; xiv, 262; on the celibacy of the Catholic clergy, i, 153; epitaph of, i, 158; his characterization of Lord Halifax, v, 250; Stella and, vi, 177; Voltaire and, viii, 295. Swimming, the art of, viii, 328. Swinburne, Algernon Charles, ii, 127; his description of Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal, xiii, 265. Swing, David, reformer, ix, 282; Philip D. Armour and, xi, 186. Swinton, Prof., and Henry George, ix, 76. Switzerland, supremacy of, vi, 193. _Sybil_, Disraeli, v, 341. Symonds, John Addington, referred to, i, 170; iv, 27; on Cellini, vi, 274. Sympathy, v, 169, 239. _Synthetic Philosophy_, Spencer, viii, 344. Taine, M., on Lord Byron, v, 215; on Carlyle, viii, 312; on Dickens, i, 265; _English Literature_, xiii, 171; on educated Englishmen, vi, 274; viii, 328; on Leonardo, vi, 38; quoted, vii, 180; on Thackeray, i, 240. _Taking of the Smalah of Abd-el-Kader_, Vernet, iv, 215. Talent, xiv, 302; distinguished from genius, vi, 56. _Tale of a Tub_, Swift, i, 142. _Tale of the Hollow Land, The_, William Morris, v, 15. _Tales From Shakespeare_, Mary Lamb, ii, 233. Talleyrand, quoted, ii, 166, 173, 280; iv, 97. Talmage, Rev. T. De Witt, ix, 283; compared with Beecher, vii, 359; on Darwinism, xii, 228; as an orator, vii, 22; on regeneration, iii, 41; Spurgeon compared with, ix, 284. Tamerlane, Tatar conqueror of Asia, xii, 38. _Tancred_, Disraeli, v, 341. _Tannhauser_, Wagner, iv, 259; xiv, 29. Tantrum, defined, viii, 70. Tarbell, Ida, xi, 359. Tarquin referred to, i, 306. Tasso and Cellini, vi, 282. Taylor, Bayard, on Mendelssohn, xiv, 178. Taylor, Gen. Zachary, iii, 269. Taylor, Jeremy, xii, 338.