Part 87

Priests, parasitic on families, 4; their attitude towards superstitions, 59; their acquisitiveness, 60; a decayed profession, 60, 154; fight on side of brigands, 215; connaisseurs of wine, 3O7-

Privacy, lack of feeling for, 66.

Procida, John of, 8.

Proclus, 285.

Procopius, 109.

Properties, large, their break-up, 96; synonymous with malaria, 289.

Propertius, 80.

Ptolemy, 281.

Public opinion, non-existent, 277.

Puccini, archbishop, recommends fetishism, 26.

Pythagoras, 282; explanation of his popularity, 309; a glorified marabout, 311.

Quinine-policy, governmental. See Malaria.

Race-characters, delusion as to their immutability, 91, 126. Rada, G. de, Albanian prophet, 187; his mystic tendencies, 189; patriotic labours, 190 seq.; his death, 192.

Ragona, village, 292.

Railway stations in Italy, 117, 118.

Rainfall, diminution in, 217, 241, 285, 306.

Rath, G. von, 287.

Rathgeber, G., 175.

Rationalist Congress of 1904, leads to counter-demonstration, 32, 269.

Reggio, 135, 137; effects of earthquake, 234, 236; its cemetery, 235.

Regio, P., 256.

Relics, sacred, 208, 247, 251, 263.

Religion in south Italy, its intense realism, 60; contrasted with English, 265.

Renaissance, injures angelic shapes, 25; produces historical panegyrists, 142; falsifies place-names, 196; imports Pythagoras and Plato, 311.

Rhaetia, its dragons, 104.

Rhetoric, perverts course of justice, 276, 277.

Rhodiginus (Richerius, L. C.), 197.

Ricca, brigand, 211.