Index 



475 



Pisistratus, 352. 



Platte River, the- 203. 



Plowden's Reporcs, 381.' 



Plutarch, 358; his essay on supersti- 

 tion, edited by a paradoxer, 442. 



Poetry, eccentric, 443. 



" Pontiac, The Conspiracy of," 195, 

 249 251. 



Pope, Alexander, 387. 



" Popular Science Monthly, The," 98. 



Positivism, weakness of, 14. 



Pott, Mrs. H., a paradoxer, her edition 

 of the Promus manuscript, 394, 395. 



Prcemunire statutes, 130. 



Precision of detail in myths, 323-325. 



Presbyterianism, 131. 



Presbyterians, 142. 



Prescott, William, 201, 202. 



Pride's Purge, 163. 



Priestley, Joseph, hia discovery of 

 oxygen, 1-4, 26, 37; his treatise on 

 electricity, 27 ; burning of his house, 

 287. 



Proctor, Richard, 421. 



Profanity, silent, 339. 



Progressiveness of man, explanation 

 of the, 108. 



" Promus of Formularies and Elegan- 

 cies," 394. 



Prophecy lunatics, 432-434. 



Prospect Union, the, 315. 



Protection run mad, 219, 220. 



Prussia, revelation of her military 

 strength, 18G. 



Psychology, Spencer's masterly treat- 

 ment of, 48, 49. 



Puritan theocracy, 145, 146. 



Puritanism, origin of, 130-132. 



Putnam, Israel, 201. 



Pym, John, 157. 



Pyramid lunatics, 428-431. 



Pyramids of Egypt, 211. 



Quakerism, wherein distinguished 



from Independency, 138. 

 Quimby, W., a paradoxer, 431. 



Radcliffe College, 314. 



Radiata, 17. 



Raleigh, Sir Walter, 125, 364, 373, 393. 



Ranking, John, 437. 



Red Water, an Indian warrior, 241. 



Reed, Edwin, a paradoxer, 366, 367. 



Reform of human nature, slowness of, 

 76. 



Registration of experiences, 107, 108. 



Religion, reality of, 114, 115. 



Renaissance, 124. 



Rhode Island, 136; Catholics dis- 

 franchised in, 139. 



Richards, Father, 449, 450. 



Ripley, George, 92. 



Riverside Press, the, 308. 



Roberts, G. L., 93. 



Roblin, Captain, a paradoxer, 418. 



Roe, J. E., a paradoxer, 403. 



Romano, Julio, 372, 373. 



" Root and branch " men, 131. 



Rousseau, J. J., 200. 



Rowbotham, Samuel, a paradozer, 

 421. 



Rumford, Count, 27. 



Running for office in Tir na n-Og, 329. 



Russell, Lord John, 412. 



Rutherford, Samuel, 133. 



Saint-Hilaire, fitienne Geoffrey, 20. 



Saint-Hilaire, Isidore Geoffroy, 20. 



Saturn's rings, 27. 



Savage life, delights of, 207, 208. 



Savagery, types of, 32. 



Savages and barbarians, 211. 



Saxo Grammaticus, 359. 



Scheele, C. W., his relation to the 

 discovery of oxygen, 3. 



Schelling, F. W. J., 41. 



Schlegel, August von, 402. 



Schleicher, A., 30. 



Schleiden, M. J., his cell doctrine, 18. 



School-teacher, a model, 71. 



Schwann's cell doctrine, 18. 



Science, pure and applied, 29. 



Scofield, Catherine, 68. 



Scott, Sir Walter, 199. 



Selden, John, 374. 



Servetus, Michael, 401. 



Shakespeare, William, 125, 356-404. 



Shaw, Quincy, 203, 236. 



Shenandoah Valley, settlement of, 

 142. 



Shepard, Thomas, 293. 



Shepard Church in Cambridge, found- 

 ing of, 299. 



Shocks, nervous and psychical, 60. 



