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Index 



Mexico, conquest of, 201, 202. 

 Middle Ages, accumulated misery in, 



183, 184. 



Middlesex Fells, 227. 

 " Midsummer Night's Dream, A," 375. 

 Mill, J. S., 94, 335. 

 Milton, John, 125, 134, 139; his 



"Lycidas," 358; his verses on 



Shakespeare, 368, 369. 

 Minturn, R. B. , 95. 

 Mornrnsen, T., 30. 

 Montaigne, M. de, 390, 403. 

 Montcalm, 201. 

 Montezuma, 203. 

 Morality, beginnings of, 110. 

 Morell, J. D., 87. 

 Morgan, Appleton, 371. 

 Morse, Royal, 310. 

 Morphology, 15. 



Nash, Thomas, 384. 



Nasou, a paradoxer, 439. 



Natural selection, 24. 



Nebular theory, 26, 45, 46, 77. 



Neptune, the planet, discovery of, 5. 



Netherlands, toleration in, 135, 136. 



New Haven Colony, suppressed by 

 Charles II., 146. 



New Netherlands, 136. 



Newton, Sir Isaac, 2, 5, 6, 9, 27, 37, 

 66, 125, 126, 388, 418, 419. 



Noble Savage, 200. 



Nordenskjold, Baron, Swedish ex- 

 plorer, 424, 425. 



Norton, John, 146. 



" Noverint, trade of," a slang expres- 

 sion, 384. 



Octogenarian layman, an, 432-434. 



Odyssey, the, 210. 



Oersted, H. C., 27. 



Ogillalah Indians, 240. 



Old South Church, founding of, 146, 



299. 



Olney, Richard, 166, 175. 

 Ophelia, her right to Christian 



burial, 380. 

 Orang-outang, an infant, brought up 



by A. R. Wallace, 105, 106. 

 " Oregon Trail, The," by Francis 



Parkman, 236-248. 

 Orion, nebula of, 7. 



Orthodoxies, new and old, 129, 151. 

 Ovum, shows the process of develop- 

 ment in all its stages, 43, 44. 

 Owen, Orville, a paradoxer, 370, 403. 

 Oxenstjern, cynical remark of, 349. 



Paine, Thomas, 149. 



Paley, Frederick, 353. 



Paris, massacres of prisoners in, 287. 



Parker, Theodore, 144, 151, 230. 



Parkman, Ebenezer, 223. 



Parkman, Francis, as an historian, 

 194-222; his birth, 223; his boy- 

 hood, 226-230 ; his first journey to 

 Europe, 233-235; his life among 

 Indians, 235-246; his ill-health, 

 238, 239, 246-250, 254, 256, 261; 

 how he composed " The Conspiracy 

 of Pontiac," 249-251 ; his marriage, 

 253; his house at Jamaica Plain, 

 255, 256 ; his garden and green- 

 house, 257, 258 ; his eminence in 

 horticulture, 258 ; his pamphlets, 

 263 ; his death, 264 ; greatness of 

 his work, 264. 



Parkmau, Rev. Francis, 224, 225. 



Parkman, Samuel, 223. 



Parsons, Theophilus, 300. 



Parthenogenesis, 345-348. 



Passionists, a monastic order, 234. 



Pasteur, Louis, 29. 



Pauncefote, Sir J., 166. 



Peaceful tendencies of commerce, 187, 

 188. 



Peirce, Benjamin, 313. 



Pelopormesian War, 289. 



Pembroke, Earl of, 367. 



Pendulum, 27. 



Penn, William, 134, 138. 



Pennsylvania, 137. 



Perpetual motion, 417. 



Perspective, historic, 195, 196. 



Petersham, Mass., a religious com- 

 munity in, 444-452. 



Phlogiston, doctrine of, 2-4. 



Phokion, his estimate of popularity, 

 334. 



Photography, application to the tele- 

 scope, 8. 



Pi, a geometrical symbol, 405-407, 

 412. 



Pickering, Timothy, 300. 



