Forman, Captain, a paradoxer, 412, 413.
Forsyth, W., 194.
Foster, John, 155.
Fox-hunting, condemned by E. A. Freeman, 283.
France and England, their struggle for North America, 216.
Franklin, Benjamin, 69, 145, 150.
Freedom of thought, unpopularity of, 128, 152.
Freeman, E. A., 30; his birth, 265; leading events of his life, 266; his early work in architecture, 267; his breadth of view, 268; his historical essays, 269; his book on federal government, 269-272; his "Norman Conquest" and "William Rufus," 272-274; his miscellaneous work, especially relating to eastern Europe, 275; his lectures on comparative politics, 276; his work on historical geography, 277; other work, 278, 279; his history of Sicily, 279, 280; his premature death, 281; his warfare against fools and tyrants, 281, 282; his wholesome view of the Eastern Question, 282; his condemnation of fox-hunting, 283; his domestic habits, 283.
French heroism, 218.
French materialists of the 18th century, 116, 117.
French war of 1755-1763; its importance not generally comprehended, 251.
Fresnel, A. J., 27.
Frontenac, Count, 210.
Frothingham, Octavius Brooks, 225, 257, 260.
Froude, J. C., 194.
Fuller, Thomas, 374.
Gaelic language, its pathetic fate, 320-323.
Galapagos Islands, 23.
Galen, 400.
Galileo, 444, 453.
Garcilasso de la Vega, 202.
Gardiner, S. R., 156.
Gerry, Elbridge, 300.
God's Acre in Cambridge, 296.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, one of the first among evolutionists, 14, 15, 41, 62.
Gravitation, theory of, called atheistic, 9; forbidden to be taught in Spain, 126.
Gray, Asa, 30, 312, 349.
Gray, Thomas, 157.
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