Conversation of women, 325 -- between the sexes, 332 -- generally dull, 398 Cookery, science of, 35 Copernicus, monument at Warsaw, 261 Correspondents, the two contrasted, 345 Cotton-manufacturer, letter to, 513 Cotton-trade, effect on the mind, 525 Country people, ignorance of, 439 Cream and curacoa, 331 Creative faculty may be commanded, 85 Critical faculty of English clergy, 277 Critics, artists as, 95 Culture, moral utility, 101 -- proper limitations of, 106 -- how rich may best serve its cause, 323 -- of middle classes, 241 -- independent of sex, 304 -- induces sincerity, 332 -- hostility of democracy, 369 -- high, isolates, 407 -- facilities for obtaining, 432 -- individual, national gain, 433 Curate, poor, in prosperous community, 287 Custom and tradition, 246 -- the one law of society, 248 -- a necessary aid to religion, 248 Custom nature's provision for reform, 250 -- precious legacy of the past, 251 -- not final, but a form, 251 -- opposition unphilosophical, 251 -- how to procure abolition, 252 -- resistance sometimes imperative, 258 Cuvier, a model student, 427 Decline of old prejudices, 522 Democracy and aristocracy, 341 -- envious, 360 -- its levelling _down_ tendency, 363 -- intolerance of, 366 -- metropolitan and provincial, 368 -- hostile to culture, 369 De Saussure, labors of, 229 De Sénancour, 232 -- quoted, 406 Descent of man, 274 De Stael, Madame, literary methods, 62 Development of natural gifts, 172 -- of faculty, 175 Deviation produced by marriage, 317 Dickens, narrowness of, 347 -- study described, 549 Discipline necessary to success, 81 -- object of, 84 -- value and necessity, 449 -- of a professional career, 504 Discussions with ladies, best course, 337 Disease, effect of mental labor, 18 Diseased, experience of, 55 Disinterestedness, most essential virtue, 91 Displacement of native tongue, 157 Dissatisfaction of cultured persons, 431 Distinctions in trade, 521 Disuse of native tongue, 156 Diversity of belief in religion, 265 Domestic picture, a, 57 Doré, Gustave, painting-room, 549 Dress-coat, the young gentleman lacking, 245 Drill, intellectual, advantages of, 459 Drinks, question of, 35 Drudgery in all work, 71 Dullness of general conversation, 398 Dunces, illustrious, 80 Dürer, Albert, _Melencolia_, 424 Duty, occasional, of eccentricity, 253 -- of cultured men to society, 401 Eagerness of young authors, 419 Eccentricity sometimes a moral duty, 253 -- sometimes an intellectual duty, 253 Ecclesiastical authority, remarkable decline, 256 Economy of time, 177 Education, 104 -- use of the word, 173 -- completeness of, 171 -- want of thoroughness and reality, 290 -- of sexes compared, 290 -- fashionable, 380