of his. (194.)-Know the men that may be trusted: Alas, this is yet, in these days, very far from us. Cromwell's hypochondria: His reputed confusion of speech: His habit of prayer. His speeches unpremeditated and full of meaning. His reticences; called 'lying" and 'dissimulation: Not one falsehood proved against him. (199.)-Foolish charge of 'ambition.' The great Empire of Silence: Noble silent men, scattered here and there, each in his department; silently thinking, silently hoping, silently working. Two kinds of ambition; one wholly blamable, the other laudable, inevitable: How it actually was with Cromwell. (204.)-Hume's Fanatic-Hypocrite theory. How indispensable everywhere a King is, in all movements of men. Cromwell, as King of Puritanism, of England. Constitutional palaver: Dismissal of the Rump Parliament. Cromwell's Parliaments and Protectorship: Parliaments having failed, there remained nothing for him but the way of Despotism. His closing days: His poor old Mother. It was not to men's judgments that he appealed; nor have men judged him very well. (209.)—The French Revolution, the 'third act' of Protestantism. Napoleon, infected with the quackeries of his age: Had a kind of sincerity,—an instinct towards the practical. His faith, the Tools to him that can handle them,' the whole truth of Democracy. His hearthatred of Anarchy. Finally, his quackeries got the upper hand: He would found a 'Dynasty:' Believed wholly in the dupeability of Men. This Napoleonism was unjust, a falsehood, and could not last. (218.)
AGINCOURT, Shakspeare's battle of, 102.
Ali, young, Mahomet's kinsman and con-
vert, 54-
Allegory, the sportful shadow of earnest
Faith, 5, 28.
Ambition, foolish charge of, 205; laudable
ambition, 207.
Arabia and the Arabs, 44.
Balder, the white Sungod, 17, 31.
Belief, the true god-announcing miracle,
53, 70, 134, 161; war of, 189. See Re-
ligion, Scepticism.
Benthamism, 69, 159.
Books, miraculous influence of, 148, 152;
our modern University, Church and
Parliament, 150.
Boswell, 169.
Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress, 6.
Burns, 173; his birth, and humble heroic
parents, 174; rustic dialect, 175; the
most gifted British soul of his century,
176; resemblance to Mirabeau, 176; his
sincerity, 178; his visit to Edinburgh,
Lion-hunted to death, 179.
Elizabethan Era, 94.
Faults, his, not the criterion of any man, 43.
Fichte's theory of literary men, 145.
Fire, miraculous nature of, 16.
Forms, necessity for, 190.
Frost. See Fire.
Goethe's 'characters,' 97; notablest of
literary men, 146.
Graphic, secret of being, 86.
Gray's misconception of Norse lore, 31.
Hampden, 191.
Caabah, the, with its Black Stone and Heroes, Universal History the united bio-
sacred Well, 46.
Canopus, worship of, 9.
Charles I. fatally incapable of being dealt
with, 198.
China, literary governors of, 156.
Church. See Books.
Cromwell, 191; his hypochondria, 195,
200; early marriage and conversion; a
quiet farmer, 196, his Ironsides, 198;
his Speeches, 202, 215; his 'ambition,'
and the like, 204; dismisses the Rump
Parliament, 211; Protectorship and Par-
liamentary Futilities, 214; his last days,
and closing sorrows, 217.
Dante, 80; biography in his Book and
Portrait, 80; his birth, education and
early career, 81; love for Beatrice, un-
happy marriage, banishment, 81; un-
graphies of, 1, 27; how 'little critics'
account for great men, 12; all Heroes
fundamentally of the same stuff, 26, 40,
74, 107, 143, 176: Heroism possible to
all, 118, 134; Intellect the primary out-
fit, 98; no man a hero to a valet-soul,
169, 192, 199.
Hero-worship the tap-root of all Religion,
10-14, 39; perennial in man, 13, 78, 117,
187.
Hutchinson and Cromwell, 191, 217.
Iceland, the home of Norse Poets, 15.
Idolatry, 112; criminal only when insin-
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Leo X., the elegant Pagan Pope, 122.
Liberty and Equality, 117, 187.
Literary Men, 143; in China, 156.
Literature, chaotic condition of, 147; not
our heaviest evil, 157.
Luther's birth and parentage, 118; hard-
ship and rigorous necessity; death of
Alexis; becomes monk, 119; his reli-
gious despair; finds a Bible; deliver-
ance from darkness, 120; Rome; Tet-
zel, 122; burns the Pope's Bull, 123; at
the Diet of Worms, 124; King of the
Reformation, 127; 'Duke Georges nine
days running, 129; his little daughter's
deathbed; his solitary Patmos, 130;
his Portrait, 131.
Mahomet's birth, boyhood, and youth, 47;
marries Kadijah, 49; quiet, unambi-
tious life, 50; divine commission, 51;
the good Kadijah believes him; Seid;
young Ali, 53; offences, and sore strug-
gles, 54; flight from Mecca; being
driven to take the sword, he uses it,
55; the Koran, 59; a veritable Hero,
65: Seid's death, 66; freedom from
Cant, 66; the infinite nature of Duty,
69.
Mary, Queen, and Knox, 137.
Mayflower, sailing of the, 132.
Mecca, 46.
Middle Ages, represented by Dante and
Shakspeare, 90, 94.
Montrose, the Hero-Cavalier, 211.
Musical, all deep things, 78.
Napoleon, a portentous mixture of Quack
and Hero, 218; his instinct for the prac-
tical, 219; his democratic faith, and
heart-hatred for anarchy, 220; aposta-
tised from his old faith in Facts, and
took to believing in Semblances, 221;
this Napoleonism was unjust, and could
not last, 222.
Nature, all one great Miracle, 7, 62, 130;
a righteous umpire, 56.
Novalis, on Man, 10; Belief, 53; Shak-
speare, 100.
Odin, the first Norse 'man of genius,' 19;
historic rumours and guesses, 20; how
he came to be deified, 22; invented
'runes,' 25; Hero, Prophet, God, 25.
Olaf, King, and Thor, 36.
Original man the sincere man, 42, 1:5.
Paganism, Scandinavian, 3; not mere
Allegory, 5; Nature-worship, 7, 27;
Hero-worship, 10; creed of our fathers,
14, 33, 35; Impersonation of the visible
workings of Nature, 15; contrasted
with Greek Paganism, 18; the first
Norse Thinker, 19; main practical Be-
lief; indispensable to be brave, 28;
hearty, homely, rugged Mythology;
Balder, Thor, 31; Consecration of
Valour, 37.
Parliaments superseded by Books, 152;
Cromwell's Parliaments, 211.
Past, the whole, the possession of the
Present, 37.
Poet, the, and Prophet, 75, 93, 102.
Poetry and Prose, distinction of, 77, 84.
Popery, 126.
Poverty, advantages of, 95.
Priest, the true, a kind of Prophet, 107.
Printing, consequences of, 152.
Private judgment, 115.
Progress of the Species, 109.
Prose. See Poetry.
Protestantism, the root of Modern Euro-
pean History, 114; not dead yet, 126;
its living fruit, 132, 184.
Purgatory, noble Catholic conception of,
89.
Puritanism, founded by Knox, 132; true
beginning of America, 132; the one
epoch of Scotland, 133: Theocracy,
140; Puritanism in England, 188, 190,
208.
Quackery originates nothing. 4, 40; ago
of, 162; Quacks and Dupes, 199.
Ragnarök, 35.
Reformer, the true, 107.
Religion, a man's, the chief fact with re-
gard to him, 2; based on Hero-worship,
Io; propagating by the sword, 56; can-
not succeed by being 'easy,' 64.
Revolution, 182; the French, 154, 218.
Richter, 8.
Right and Wrong, 69, 90.
Rousseau, not a strong man; his Portrait;
egoism, 170; his passionate appeals,
172; his Books, like himself, unhealthy;
the Evangelist of the French Revolu-
tion, 173.
Scepticism, a spiritual paralysis, 157-164,
Scotland awakened into life by Knox, 133.
Secret, the open, 75.
Seid, Mahomet's slave and friend, 53, 66.
Shakspeare and the Elizabethan Era, 94;
his all-sufficing intellect, 95, 98; his
Characters, 97; his Dramas, a part of
Nature herself, 100; his joyful tranquil-
lity, and overflowing love of laughter,
100; his hearty Patriotism, 102; glimpses
of the world that was in him, 102; a
heaven-sent Light-Bringer, 103; a King
of Saxondom, 105.
Shekinah, Man the true, 9.
Silence, the great empire of, 93, 206.
Sincerity, better than gracefulness, 28;
the first characteristic of heroism and
originality, 41, 50, 116, 118, 144.
Theocracy, a, striven for by all true Re-
formers, 141, 208.
Thor, and his adventures, 16, 31-35; his
last appearance, 36.
Thought, miraculous influence of, 19, 26
153; musical Thought, 77.
Thunder. See Thor.
Time, the great mystery of, 8.
Tolerance, true and false, 128, 138
| Turenne, 74.
Valour, the basis of all virtue, 29, 32;
Norse consecration of, 37; Christian
Voltaire-worship, 13.
Valour, III.
Wish, the Norse god, 17; enlarged into
a heaven by Mahomet, 70.
Worms, Luther at, 124.
Worship, transcendent wonder, 8. See
Hero-worship.
Zemzem, the sacred Well, 46.
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