INDEX OF GENERAL TOPICS. 



413 



RACES, new development of, 243 



Rage, the, of fools, 295 



Rapacious character, the, 296 



Rapacious instincts, the physiognomy 

 of, 297 



Rapacious misfortune-seekers, 296 



Reasoning power in animals, the, 297 



Reciprocity, 180 



Reciprocity a law of Nature, 298 



Religious belief, innate, 299 



Remote influences, cumulative value 

 of small and, 300 



Reprisals, the principle of, 300 



Republican principle, the success of 

 the, 301 



Reputation, an undeserved, 303, 310 



Reputation, fictitious, 302 

 -deputation without reality, 302 



Resemblances may mislead, 303 



Rest and motion, 2 



Rest, the instinct of, 304 



Retaliation, a limited, 304 



Revengeful, the penalty of being, 305 



Revivification, 305 



Revolutionary forces, indeterminate- 

 ness of, 305 



Revolutions, the advantages of, 306 



Rich, the cost of getting, 307 



Righting themselves, 308 



Real good, seeming evil, 309 



Robbery, living by, 95 



Rule, no, without an exception, 308 



SCAVENGERS appointed by Nature, 108 

 Seasons appreciated by contrast, 17 

 Seeming generosity, 309 

 Self-adapting power, man's, 311 

 ^..-Self-deception, 311 



Self-dependence a condition of power, 



312 



Selfish kindness, 313 

 Self -protect] on, prudence in, 314 

 Self-sacrifice, 314 

 Senses, a conflict between the, 315 

 -- Sensibility blunted, 315 

 Sensual pleasures, 315 

 Sensuality, the valley of, 316 

 Severe afflictions require strong reme- 

 dies, 316 



Sham humility, 317 

 <Y ^Shrewd men, 3x7 



Silent aggressive forces, the achieve- 

 ments of, 319 



Silent forces, the mightiness of, 124 



Silent work may be stupendous, 318 



""* Similarity is no guarantee of union, 



S/i 



Sin's insidious attack, 320 



Sins, the growth and action of beset- 

 ting, 320 



Slanderer, the wounds of the, 321 

 Slanderous character, the, 321 

 Small beings, the capacity for mis- 

 chief possessed by, 322 

 Small natures, paltry battles of, 323 

 Small things, the day of, 323 

 Snare of simulated unity, the, 319 

 Sneakism, 324 



Social character, traits of, 324 

 Social elevation perilous to some, 326 

 Social gullibility, 327 

 Social isolation, the perils of, 327 

 Social life, inequalities in, 325 

 Social life, the undercurrents of, 328 

 Social skunks, 325 

 Solitude, the music of, 329 

 Sorrow mitigating anger, 329 

 Soul ascension, 330 

 Soul blossoming, 330 

 Sound, allured by mere, 330 

 Spiritual torpor, 331* 

 Splenetic force, 332 

 Standard of life-value, the, 26 

 Starvation, 71 



Starvation, the obligation of permit- 

 ting, 333 



Stomach, influence of the, 135 

 Subjection, easy, 336 

 Subterfuges the resort of the over- 

 powered, 336 



Success a constitutional trait, 337 

 Sudden death and immediate burial 



an old law of Nature, 337 

 Sunbeam, physical forces in the, 338 

 Superstition the protector of monstro- 

 sities, 338 



Suppletory elements, 339 

 Susceptible character, the, 340 

 Suspense inimical to work, 340 

 Suspicion sometimes the child of self- 

 knowledge, 341 

 Suspiciousness of despots, 82 

 Sweet disposition, the, 341 

 Sycophant's ascendancy, the, 341 

 Sympathy, 153, 342 

 Sympathy, the human soul seeks the 



face for, 343 

 Sympathy, the law of, 342 



TACT is superior to force, 343 

 Taming of animals, 187 

 Temper, the equable, 344 

 Temperament, the restless, 345 

 Temperament, the variable, 346 

 Temperature, accommodation of ani- 

 mals to different varieties of, 4 

 Temptation, inaccessibility to, 346 

 Terrestrial adaptations, the system of, 



347 

 Terror, the fascination of, 348 ,. 



