Loitering element in liberal education, 196 Longevity, young men careless of, 65 -- of human race, 274 Lost opportunities, 199 Louvre, wanton destruction of, 368 Love, necessity of, 454 Lullo, Raimond, Oriental missionary, 541 "Luxury," article in Cornhill Magazine, 315 -- quoted, 316 Lytton, Robert, letter of Lady Westmorland, 267 -- estimate of Julian Fane, 361 Man unlike a planet, 452 -- need of pluck, 70 Mankind, operations of riches and poverty, 239 -- best knowledge of, 457 Marriage, 285 -- true, a slow intergrowth, 286 -- general ignorance regarding, 286 -- complex effects, 287 -- of intellectual men, 287 -- a distinguished artist's views, 289 -- ideal for man of literary culture, 290 -- intellectual, 291 -- how decided, 293 -- of French professors, 294 -- of the Scotch lawyer, 296 -- the intellectual ideal, 299 -- the necessity of keeping up its interest, 301 -- frequently leads to intellectual deviation, 317 -- risk of eccentric men, 323 -- semi-publicity, 323 Marriages, international, 162 Maximilian, Emperor, execution of, 95 Mediæval builders, 260 Medicine, profession of, 495 Meissonier, practice for self-instruction, 74 "Melencolia" of Albert Dürer, 424 Memory, defective, advantage of, 165 -- selecting, 166 -- rational art of, 169 Men, how helped by women, 296 -- disguise their thoughts from women, 330 Mental labor not injurious to healthy persons, 22 -- may aggravate disease, 18 Mental stimulants, 69 -- refusals should be heeded, 88 -- powers, immoderate use, 20 -- work, physical preparation, 479 Metaphor of the mountains, 228 "Midshipman Easy," allusion to, 188 Military genius of Napoleon, 448 -- profession, 497 -- profession, intellectual poverty of, 498 Milton, forced retirement, 411 Mind of a fashionable person, 380 Minds, three classes, 443 Miracles, belief in, 272 Miscalculation, bad results, 196 Miscellaneous reading, our debt to, 132 Mitford, Miss, quoted, 471 Mobility of fashionable taste, 392 Modern education, 116 -- inventions, power of, 256 -- languages, to student of, 149 -- languages, limits of soundness, 183 -- mind looks forward, 255 _Modern Painters_, result of long study, 229 -- work of genius and wealth, 229 Money, the influences of, 216 -- restraints of, 238 -- the guardian of peace, 238 -- accumulated labor of the past, 238 -- protector of intellectual life, 238 Montaigne, early education of, 121 -- purchases of books, 405 -- his tower, 550 Moore's trials with "Lalla Rookh," 72 Moral basis, the, 67 -- utility of culture, 101 Morality, individual theories, 99 -- public opinion regulates, 257 -- general advance of, 258 Morbid mind, cure for, 430 Morris, a diligent student, 450