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INDEX OF GENERAL TOPICS. 



Nemesis, the dastard's, 246 

 Nervousness initiates bad policy, 246 

 Neutral line, the, 115 

 Nonchalance assumed as a stratagem, 



246 

 Nothing new under the sun, 247 



OBJECTIONABLE beings may perform 



excellent services, 248 

 Obscure workers, 155 

 Offensiveness the aliment of some, 249 

 Officious services, the routine of, 250 

 Opportunists, the, 252 

 -"'Opportunity, the power of, 251 

 *-+ .^Opportunity, the selection of, 252 



Opposite qualities often found in the 



same substance, 253 

 Opposites, the combinations of, 253 

 Opposites, the resemblance of, 254 

 Opposites, thetransformability of, 255 

 Oratory, 101 

 Organ, loss of, by disuse of function, 



255 



Over-crowding, Nature's provision 

 against, 257 



PAIN, excessive, terminates in its con- 

 trary, 258 



Pain, the relation of, to pleasure, 257 



Pampered, people who are, 267 



Panic, the peril of, 258 



Paradoxes, 259 



Parallax movement, the, 260 



Parasites' offerings, 261 



Parasites, social, 261 



Parasites, the uncertain pleasures of, 

 261 ^ 



Parents and their children, 179 



Parents, protection of the, by their 

 offspring, 285 



Parliamentary tactics, 262 



Paroxysmal methods, 263 



Partisan colours, 263 



Party idiosyncrasies, the neutralisa- 

 tion of, 264 



Party secession, 264 



Passion, the absurdity of, 265 



Passion, the batteries of, 266 



Passionate character, the, 266 



Patriotism, genuine, 267 



Periodicity, the law of, 269 



Perpetual change a law of Nature, 269 



Pertinacity rewarded, 270 



Physical agents, alteration of, would 

 be catastrophic, 270 



Physical cultivation, injurious effects 

 of excessive, 19 



Pilgrim natures, 270 



Pioneers, unexpected, 271 



Pleasure is seldom unalloyed, 273 



Pleasurable, the poisonous lurking in JL 



the, 275 

 Pleasure, varieties and contrarieties in 



the idea of, 273 

 Pleasure, where to find, 272 

 Pliability, perils from, 274 

 Poison as a protection, 274 

 Poison, the, of one is the food of an- 

 other, 274 



Poisonous influences, 275, 279 / 

 Polished people, 276 /_ 



Political notions, the alternity of, 277 

 "Poor worms," 378 

 Popular ideas, growth and persistency 



of, 278 



Popular thought, currents of, 277 

 Posthumous injuries, the propagation 



of, 169 



Posthumous space, 279 

 Power, a, without an explanation, 



280 



Power, the avarice of, 

 Precedence, 281 

 Prejudices, the tenacity of, 282 

 Preparatory intellectual processes, 282 

 Preparedness, constant, 283 -- 

 Pretensions, disappointing, 283 

 Priests and fictitious credit, 66 

 Prodigal endowment, 283 

 Profitable panic-mongering, 284 

 Progress sometimes only sesrning, not ^ 



real, 284 



Protective influences, 285 

 Protectiveness in perils, 286 

 Protectors, undesirable, 367 

 Prudence, 314 - 

 Prudence a natural instinct, 286 

 Pugnacity, inherent, 286 

 Pugnacity of small natures, 288 

 Pugnacity, political, 287 

 Pugnacity, the folly of, 287 

 Puny creatures, the destructive power 



of, 288 



Puny, the might of the, 288 

 Puny things, the posthumous uses of, 



289 

 Purpose, a destroyer of pain, 290 



QUARREL-MONGERS, 290 



Quarrelling profitless, 291 

 Quarrels imperfect, acquaintance ac- 

 counts for, 291 



Quarrelsome character, the, 292 

 Quarrelsomeness, the blunders of, 292 

 Quarrelsomeness, the penalties of, 293 

 Questions, Nature's method of answer- 

 ing man's, 293 



Quiescence, objections to, 294 

 Quiet, the wisdom of being, 294 

 Quite at home, 295 



