Mother and son, difference in religious views, 284 -- the uneducated, 325 Mulready, preparation for new picture, 74 Multiplicity of modern studies, 120 Muscular Christian, to a, 42 Music, refining influence of, 44, 132 -- limits of soundness, 183 Napoleon, military genius of, 448 Napoleon III., overthrow of, 95 National intellectual life, 433 Native tongue, results of disuse, 156 Natural connection between wealth and culture, 240 -- gifts, development of, 172 -- laws, independent working, 282 Nature, extraordinary reactions, 100 -- high life in, 359 Nature, provision for intellectual life in marriage, 292 -- _will_ be obeyed, 248 Naval profession, 497 Navy, English, reconstruction of, 262 Neapolitan servant, case of, 158 Necessity a help in industrial pursuits, 525 -- disturbs higher intellectual life, 225, 226 Need of society and solitude, 403 Negative end of character, 475 -- qualification for work, 109 Neighbors, education of, 437 Newspaper reading, abstinence from, 460 Newspapers as educators, 437 -- daily house-talk of the world, 465 -- in United States, 466 -- in France, 466 Newton, desire for solitude, 410 Nervous system, physiological action, 17 Nightingale, Florence, quoted, 204 Night-work, medical objection to, 481 Noblesse, old, ignorance of, 363 Nomad, English, life of, 530 Nomadic habits of higher classes, 356 Obedience to nature, necessity of, 248 Object of intellectual discipline, 84 Occasion, mistaken estimates, 186 Opposition to custom unphilosophical, 251 -- of method between intellect and faith, 282 Oil painting, dangers of, 76 Old prejudices declining, 522 Opportunities lost, 199 -- unlimited, danger of, 214 -- and application, 244 Origin of discipline, 82 Orleans, Duchess of, 220 -- system of mental culture, 220 Orthodoxy no guaranty of intellectual capacity, 299 Outlet, intellectual, necessary, 435 Painters, intellectual discipline of, 498 Painting, different schools, 73 Palgrave's, Mr., "Travels in Arabia," 40 Papacy, decline and fall of temporal power, 469 Papal infallibility, 281 Paris, siege of, 95 Parliament, houses of, high attainments, 240 Parsimony of French peasantry, 241 Party journals, injustice, 464 Past, custom a precious legacy, 251 -- not reliable as a guide, 256 Patriotism as a stimulant, 69 Peasants, instruction of, 438 Pecuniary rewards of labor, 233 Pendennis, Major, typical life, 65 _Philistine_ intellects, 202 Philosophy, popular acceptation of term, 273 -- a truly intellectual, 417 Physical basis, the, 17 -- repugnances of surgeons, 87 -- preparation for mental labor, 479 Physician, social rise of, 496 Physiological action of nervous system, 17 Pioneers, intellectual, 516 Planet, dissimilarity of man to, 452 Plans should be well arranged, 189