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INDEX OF GENERAL TOPICS. 



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Casuist's defence, a, 38 

 Cemetery, the greatest, 38 

 Change, the instinctive love of, 38 

 Change the sine qua non of life, 39 

 ^ --- Change, superficial, without radical 



alteration, 40 

 Character, tests of, 41 

 Character defacement, 41 

 Character and circumstance, 42 

 Character consolidated by time, 43 

 Character, a test for, 44 

 Character and reputation, the distinc- 



tion between, 44 

 ^^^ Cheering trifles, 45 



Children, guardianship of, 212 

 Christianity perverted, 138 

 Church enemies, unsuspected, 377 

 ^-"-"Circumstances, accommodation to, 46 

 Circumstances, independent of, 46 

 Circumstances, influence of, 86 

 Circumstances, power of utilising, 47 

 Circumstantial evidence, a hint re- 



specting, 48 

 Circumstantial men, 45 

 Civilisation a river, 49 

 Climate and character, 50 

 Climate, effects of, on intellect and 



morals, 50 

 Colony, how to inaugurate a, wisely, 



Si 

 Colossal works unconsciously achieved, 



52 



Coloured by our associations, 53 

 Combination, a, of utility and beauty, 



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Combination is strength, 54 

 Combination and re-combination, prin- 



ciples of Nature, 55 

 Combination, results of right, 56 

 Commerce, the great uniter, 56 



&' 'Commotion, the advantages of a, 56 

 ^Compensation in modes of power, 58 

 Compensation, the law of, 57 

 Compressibility, the limits of, 58 

 Congregational Union, a, 59 

 Conscience, the, 59 

 Conscious strength despises tricks, 60 

 Constitution, conduct shaped by, 58 



O-""~Consumption without proportion, 60 

 Contrariety in character, 61 



xy--~Contrast, things appreciated by, 61 

 Conventional opinion, 62 

 Convulsive action, evils attendant on, 



63 



Counterfeiting, the power of, 63 

 Cowardice, the tactics of, 64 

 Cowards, the insolence of, 64 

 Crafty rogue, the, 65 

 Crafty, the tricks of the, 65 

 Credit wrongly ascribed, 66 



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Crises, the, and the crisis, 66 

 Cultivation, the effects of, 67 

 Curiosity seized as a snare, 68 

 Compensating faculty, a, 240 

 Contemptible life is difficult to de- 

 stroy, 282 



DANGER, the philosophic way of meet --- -0 



ing, 68 

 Danger, the unphilosophic way of 



meeting, 69 

 Danger is slight when evil is offensive, 



69 



Danger, escaping, and findingdeath, 70 

 Dead, the ministry of the, to the living, 



70 



Death better than starvation, 71 

 Death, anticipating another's, 72 

 Death, our, daily, and resurrection, 72 

 Death, an example and an emblem of, 



73 



Deceit lucrative, 73 ~. 



Deceivers, ingratitude of, 74 -" """*-' 

 Deep thought, the language of, 74 

 Defenceless, the, a natural defence for, 



75 



Degree makes all the difference, 75 

 Delude, self and circumstance con- 



spire to, 76 



Delusive daintiness, 77 

 Demagogues, uses of, 141 

 Democratic principle, the, 77 

 Depravity, specious appearance of 



moral, 78 

 Desolation, 79 



Desolation, a type of, 80 ^^ 

 Despicable conquerors, 81 -" 

 Despicable, the, the destructive, 8r 

 Despotism, a weak point in, 82 

 Destroyer, a, without sense of shame, 



82 



Destroyer's, a, art and force, 83 

 Destroyers, destruction of, 84 

 Destroyers, detection of, 84 

 Destruction and renovation principles 



of Nature, 85 



Destruction, elements that wait for, 85 

 Development, proper, dependent ou 



proper conditions, 86 

 Directness of course, 87 

 Disappointment excusable, 88 

 Disappointment, the influence of, 87 

 Discontented character, the, 88 

 Discretion the better part of valour, 89 

 Disseminators, unconscious, 89 

 Dissimiliar causes may produce like 



effects, 90 



Dissimiliar effects of the same cause ,90 

 Distance, delusive effects of, 91 

 Distance, the illusions of, 91 yt\ 



