Silence, discreet in a fool, 70; a virtue in wise men, 71; when it breaks, ignorance shows itself, 72; by keeping, fools acquire respect, 73; often taken as a mark of wisdom, 75; Illustrations: Sir Thomas Browne, Montaigne, Ben Jonson, C. Lamb, W. Irving, Jewsbury, Goldsmith, and others, 70-76. Sin of One Man, consequences of felt by whole nations, cases of Achan and David, 1; results of, felt in distant lands and by future generations, 2; affects others by force of example, 4; remote consequences of, even greater than present, 5; the effects of, often show when deed forgotten by sinner, 5; Illustrations from South, G. Eliot, Robert Browning, and others, 1-6. Sleep, Death compared to, in Scripture, 134; and Death as twin brothers, 135; a counterfeit of death, 136; Sancho Panza’s apostrophe to, 136; a daily death, 137; of a child, as death of a Christian, 138; Illustrations from Homer, Warton, Byron, Sir Thomas Browne, George Herbert, Mrs. Browning, and others, 134-139. Sleep, peaceful, destroyed by crime, 282; exceptions to the rule, 283; disturbed by feelings of remorse, 284; only enjoyed by an innocent mind, 286; Illustrations from “Macbeth,” G. W. Cooke, R. Lytton, Hawthorne, Godwin, Roscoe, Webster, 282-286. Society, regarded as a body, 353; each member in, has his peculiar functions, 353; subordination in, no degradation, 354; all service in, the same in God’s sight, 355; contentment to be found by each member of, in doing his duty, 356; Illustrations: F. W. Robertson, Mrs. Browning, R. Browning, Wordsworth, J. C. Hare, R. Lytton, G. Herbert, 353-357. Solitude, in death, 389; in a spiritual sense, not to the Christian, 390; the bitterest pang of humanity, 390; the choice of the animal creation, 391; a preference for, in some natures, 391; in a natural sense, a necessity, 393; our Lord, the highest example of, 396; Illustrations from Pascal, Wordsworth, Scott, Merivale, De Quincey, Crabbe, Robertson, W. Humboldt, Mrs. Browning, 389-396. Stage, this world considered as a, 114; man an actor on, 115; human life in its varieties, like a play, 116; one man plays many parts, 118; man of the world, only first-class actor, 118; Mary Stuart, an actress on the political, 119; every man spectator as well as actor, 120; players the representatives of human nature, 121; an epitome of this world, 121; necessity for each to act his part well, on, 123; Illustrations from Shakspeare, Sir Thomas Browne, Cervantes, Dr. Maginn, Sainte-Beuve, Chamfort, Hazlitt, Overbury, R. Hall, 114-125. Sympathy, as first shown by Job’s friends, 6; often best proved by silence, 7; moralizing no evidence of, 8; more strongly evidenced by deeds, 8; Illustrations from Steele, Rousseau, and others, 6-9.