Pluck, value of, 70 Poet, the true, 447 Poetical events of our generation, 95 -- teachings, true intentions, 453 Political influence of culture, 436 Politics, preponderance in newspapers, 465 Polyglot waiters, 165 Poor, limited knowledge and experience, 240 -- incompetent for work of Parliament, 240 -- independence of public opinion, 243 -- man desirous of culture, consolation, 243 Pope of Rome, affirmed infallibility, 281 Popular illusions regarding languages, 151 -- impression regarding genius, 447 Positive end of character, 475 Poverty and peace incompatible, 223 -- unfavorable to intellectual life, 224 -- advantage in liberal professions, 226 -- obstacle to intellectual perfection, 239 Power of assimilation, 167 -- of time, 176 Practical suggestions to intellectual workers, 16 Practice, best professional as educator, 226 -- of journalism, 511 Preference and capacity, relation, 87 Prejudices of caste, 348 -- old, decline of, 522 Preparatory labor, 448 Prescott, Mr., instance of, 63 Preservation of the senses, 60, 64 Priests, manner of religious teaching, 270 -- and government not harmonious, 492 Prince Consort, example and influence, 305 Problem, great, of life, 242 Products of cerebral excitement, 446 Professions, liberal, advantages of poverty, 226 -- test of, 392 -- and trades, 488 -- purpose of, 507 Progress, satisfactions of, 79 -- its debt to rebellion, 250 -- of work, interest necessary, 416 Propositions about modern languages, 152 Protection in intellectual pursuits, 137 Public taste, experiments on, 235 -- opinion, regulator of morality, 257 -- opinion in France, 258 Purpose of a profession, 506 Qualifications for work, 109 Railways, unforeseen effect, 356 Rational art of memory, 169 Ravignon, _pere_, 547 Reactions of Nature, 100 Reading, miscellaneous, advantage of, 132 -- painful to uneducated, 438 -- newspapers, abstinence from, 460 -- practised by most people, 474 Rebellion, debt of progress to, 250 Reconciliation of poverty and the soul, 242 Refinements of a language, 164 Reform and progress of custom, 250 Refusals, mental, should be heeded, 86 Regret for lost time, 456 Regularity of work, 446 Regulated economy of time, 203 Relation between preference and capacity, 87 -- of trivial events to great principles, 329 Religion as a stimulant, 69 -- requires aid of custom, 248 -- different views of mother and son, 264 -- indefinable, 271 -- according to popular instinct, 272 -- intellectual foundation of, 273 -- influence of caste-law, 366 Religious vitality, periods of, 265 -- teaching, 270 -- and intellectual questions, difference, 270 -- creed does not weaken critical faculty, 277 -- belief, test of, 272 Rembrandt, answer to Hoogstraten, 378