Bolivia, Indians of, 52 ; a tropical Switzerland, 58
Booth's analysis of London population, 154
Borde on Englishmen, 99, note
Borneo, Chinese in, 47
Boudeuse, La, captain of, kills prisoners, 139, note
Bourrienne clothes French troops in England, 184, note
Boyle's estimate of Indian population, 54
Bradlaugh edits jest on the Trinity, 201
Brazil unfitted for Europeans, 53 ; largely negro, 59, 60
British North Borneo Company is stimulating immigration, 49
British rule, its tendencies in India, 51
Browne, Sir T. , uncritical, 305
Browning, on the stage, 165 ; reflective, 167 ; only honoured when old, 331
Brunswick, Duke of, his invasion of France, 116-118
Bryce on laws restraining immigration, 15, note 2 ; on town population in America, 143, note 2 ; on the population of Mexico, 346, note
Buckle's success, 309
Buff on, fascinating style of, 312
Bukhara, 43, note
Bunyan, John, 274
Burke, predictions by, 2, 3 ; describes ravage of the Carnatic, 82 ; a worthy expression of English genius, 151
Burleigh's (Lord) view of marriage, 241, note 1
Bury as historian, 313
Bushmen worthless as slaves, 35 ; exterminated, 36.
Cade, sympathisers with, behead a bishop, 208
Caesar's (Julius) massacres in Gaul, 81 : he saves Rome from the patricians, 326
Caesar, Augustus, 326
Calderon gives the primitive view of marriage, 234
California, chances in, 169
Calvin's rigorous discipline, 195
Cambodia, fine ruins in, 91, 92
Canada, consequences of its conquest, 5 ; mentioned, 44
Canning, prediction by, 3 ; knew English literature, 311
Canterbury, Archbishop of, opposes un-denominational education, 215
Cape Colony, 35, 36
Carera, an Indian, 56
Carlyle approves Frederick II. 's political economy, 107 ; restricts his social intercourse, 157 ; only moderately successful as lecturer, 164
Carnatic ravaged, 82
Carnot organises the French army, 118
Cashmere not adapted for colonisation, 35
Castilla, 56
Catholicism parodied, 24
Cato the Younger lends his wife, 229, note 2
Cato the Censor blamed by Plutarch, 239, note 1
Cavaliers not disinterested, 191
Charles II. a rare exception, 190
Chateaubriand, 151
Chatham as orator, 313, 314 ; gave England an Empire, 326, 327
Chatham, Lord, an incapable general, 280
Chesterfield, Lord, predicts French Revolution, 5 ; his opinion of Chatham as orator, 313, 314, and note
Child on the Act of Uniformity, 193, note
China has little to dread from civilised nations, 34 ; her facilities for colonising Turkestan, 43, 44 ; certain to grow, 45-51 ; could support a larger population, 64-67 ; form its development will take, 95, 96 ; forced into civilisation, 111, 112
Chinamen, 31, 33 ; mortality of, in Nicaragua, 57 ; numbers of, in Siam, 66 ; have supplanted a higher race in Cambodia, 92 ; probable influence of
their example upon Europeans, 123-126 ; supplant white labour, 125 ; have added nothing to thought, 341
Choiseul predicts loss of America to England, 5
Cholera, its effects in 1831-32, 153
Christianity copied Paganism, 24
Church has been very useful in the past, 192-194 ; its authority became intolerable, 194-196; inefficient against blasphemy and immorality, 196-198 ; could only succeed at the cost of liberty, 199-201 ; was less capable than the State is of enforcing purity, 201-203 ; was less capable of tolerance than the State is, 203-205 ; was inefficient in its dealing with pauperism, 205-209 ; and with slavery, 209-211 ; and has everywhere opposed a thorough system of national education, 211-216 ; has lost its hold on popular imagination, 216, 217 ; has a lower humanity than the State, 217-220 ; has evaded the recognition of divorce, 235 ; discourages critical examination, 264 ; distrusts the growing power of the State, 266
Cicero loathes life out of Rome, 148
