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Chapter 21: INDEX.
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A travel writer chronicles a month among Swiss mountains, combining vivid descriptions of ice, snow, and lofty peaks with close-up sketches of local life. Episodes of landscape observation alternate with essays on industriousness, frugality, education, land tenure, and popular government, and comparisons are drawn with earlier travels in different climates. A child who accompanies the author provides occasional personal color, and the narrative admits autobiographical glimpses. Underlying reflections consider how natural surroundings and social arrangements shape religious ideas, moral feeling, and the habits of communities, presented in granular, contemplative vignettes rather than a continuous plot.

INDEX.

  • Aar, 150-2
  • Aigle, 183
  • Absenteeism, 43
  • Agriculture, capital improves, 60.
    • In the United States, 69.
    • Burnt stick and hoe eras, 81.
    • Progress in size of farms, 83-85.
    • In Alsace, 230
  • American lads mountaineering, 13
  • Americans in Switzerland, 200
  • Animal worship, rationale of, in the ancient Egyptians, 253
  • Antithesis, an Alpine, 13
  • Anza, 126
  • Apostolism, true, 243
  • Armies of the Romans, 141
  • Art, place of, in religion, 241
  • Auroch, 212
  • Austrian marriages, 100.
  • Avalanches, 22, 158
  • Blue boy, 13, 16, 141, 142, 154, 163, 164, 171, 184-193
  • Bonus amicus pro vehiculo, 133
  • Breakfast at a monster hotel, 195
  • Bridge, from the present to the future, 260
  • Brieg, 140
  • Brienz, 155
  • Brussels, 247.
    • Hôtel de Ville, unsatisfactory, 248
  • Bubble schemes why alluring, 67
  • Buffers, our labourers have three, 105, 106
  • Butterflies, 53, 151
  • Camping out, 177
  • Capital, power of, in modern societies, 50.
    • Revolution effected by, 53.
    • Inversion of land and, 54.
    • Peel and Gladstone, due to, 55.
    • A ladder, 56.
    • Era of, on Visp-side, 50-66.
    • Will improve agriculture, 61.
    • Flow of, to the land will counterbalance cities, 62.
    • Moral and intellectual effects, 63.
    • Increases size of agricultural concerns, 85.
    • Size of estates in era of, 94.
    • Is king, 103.
    • Essence of all property, 106, 107.
    • Uses of, discriminated, 108, 109
  • Carpet, magical bit of, 3
  • Caterpillar, 53, 127
  • Cathedral of Metz, 238-242
  • Ceppo Morelli, 127
  • Certificates of land-shares, 87, 89, 93, 94
  • C’est un pauvre pays, 217
  • Change, modern craving for, 4, 5
  • Christianity, in what sense a recast of religious thought, 255.
    • A
  • modern parallel to the ground taken by first promulgators of, 261-263
  • Church, value of establishment, 65.
    • Effect of disestablishment, 97
  • Cities, land counterpoise to, 62;
    • and land, 93
  • Classics, place of, in English education, 222, 223.
    • Unfairly weighted, 226
  • Colmar and Mulhouse, cotton industry of, 230
  • Continuity of human history, 213
  • Co-operation inapplicable to land, 104-106
  • Corporate estates, 74, 76, 96
  • Cost of Swiss travel, 176
  • Coups manqués of humanity, 202
  • Cranoges, Irish and Scotch, 210
  • Curé of Sainte Marie aux Chênes, 235
  • Danube, Roman road on the banks of the, 126
  • Dinner, last, in London, 3.
    • At Macugnaga, 125.
    • At a monster hotel, 196
  • Disorder, temporary, permitted at Strasbourg and Metz, 246
  • Distel, 122
  • Dogs, why bay the moon, 181
  • Domo D’Ossola, 128
  • Drama of the Mountains, 184-193
  • Drunkenness, how may be discouraged, 85.
    • Want of drink-water a cause of, 209
  • Dust, 174
  • Eclipse, feelings caused by, 182
  • Edelweiss, 161
  • Education, property is an, 33.
    • What would promote, 84.
    • Spread of, unfavourable to
  • existing land-system, 97.
    • Range and method of teaching, 192, 193.
    • Swiss aims, 218-221.
    • How applicable, and how not, to us, 221-223.
    • Sciences of humanity needed, 221, 222.
    • Imagination should be cultivated, 223.
    • Place of poetry in, 224
  • Eggishorn, 143
  • Elsass, agricultural wealth of, 230
  • Empire, how retained, 245
  • Enthusiastic ladies, 200
  • Establishments, religious, useful under landlordism, 65.
    • Effect of disestablishment, 97
  • Etymology of field, 82.
    • Of Scotland, 247
  • Expected, what is, seldom happens, 245
  • Eyes in back of the head, 97
  • Fallows abandoned, 83
  • Falls of Frosinone, 135.
    • Another, 136.
    • Aar and Handeck, 152.
    • Staubbach, 152.
    • Reichenbach, 154
  • Fee, 116
  • Field, etymology of, 82
  • Feudalism, none in our landlordism, 77
  • Findelen, 17
  • Fireworks at Interlaken, 164
  • Flies, 147
  • Flowers, 14, 18
  • France, a cause of its wealth, 98.
    • Insisted on war, 231
  • French petty proprietors, 105, 106, 110
  • Frosinone, 135
  • Fruit, religion is a, 254
  • Fungus, a Brobdingnagian, 144
  • Game, 82
  • Gasteren, 167
  • Gauter, 139
  • Gemmi, 167-71
  • Geneva, Lake of, excavated by glacier, 8
  • Genius loci, 133
  • Geology of Rhone Valley, 7.
    • Of Alpine valleys, 134.
    • Of Delta of the Kander, 166
  • German professor, 114.
    • Travellers, 156, 201.
    • At Gravelotte, 232-6.
    • At Metz, 237.
    • Conquests will be retained, 245
  • Glacier action, 7.
    • Bies, 9.
    • Gorner, 9.
    • Fee, 116.
    • Allalein, 119.
    • Kaltenwasser, 138.
    • Rhone, 146.
    • Old Aar, 150.
    • Grindelwald, 162
  • Gladstone, the Right Hon. W. E., 55
  • Gneiss, channel how cut in, 151
  • God, the focal name, 239
  • Gondo, 135
  • Gorner Grat, 12
  • Government, modern Swiss, 146
  • Gravelotte, battle of, 232-6
  • Grimsel, 149
  • Grindelwald, 160
  • Guide, 18, 115, 123, 127
  • Guttanen, 153
  • Handeck, 151, 152
  • Health, better to keep than to recover, 183
  • Helle Platte, 150
  • History, continuity of, 213
  • Homer, a simile of his, 178, 183
  • Honesty, 36, 39
  • Hornli, 17
  • Hospice, Simplon, 135.
  • Hotels, St. Niklaus, 8.
    • Riffel, 16.
    • Saas, 115.
    • Mattmark See, 120.
    • Macugnaga, 125.
    • Ponte Grande, 127.
    • Domo D’Ossola, 128.
    • Simplon, 135.
    • Du Glacier du Rhone, 147.
    • Interlaken, 156.
    • Grindelwald, 161.
    • Schwarenbach, 168.
    • Swiss monster hotels, 194-204.
    • Zurich, 215.
    • Metz, 244
  • Human interest of improved agriculture, 86
  • Humanity, sciences of, place in education, 221
  • Humility, true, 216
  • Ice sent from Grindelwald to Paris, 162.
    • Ice-field of Bernese Oberland, 174
  • Ignorance of the day, some address themselves to, but not for the purpose of removing it, 259
  • Imagination, place in education, 223.
    • How to be cultivated, 224
  • Imhof, 153
  • Industry, Swiss, 34-8, 46, 129
  • Intellectual life among peasant proprietors, 32.
    • Under landlordism, 48.
    • Under capital, 63, 107
  • Interlaken, 155, 156
  • Investments for all, 87, 88
  • Invidious position, 101, 102
  • Italians compared to Swiss, 129
  • Jack of many trades, 118
  • Joint-stock cultivation of the land, 78-89
  • Jungfrau, 156-8
  • Kander, Delta of the, 166
  • Kandersteg, 167
  • King, capital is, 103
  • Kitchen-maids, acquisition and use of capital within reach of, 109
  • Knights’ fees, number of, 77
  • Knowledge, what it is, 227.
    • Grammatical and theological studies obscure, 229.
    • Its effects on religion, 257
  • Lake-villages, 210-215
  • Land, reclamation, and cultivation of, 21.
    • In Greece and Rome, 51.
    • In feudal times, 52.
    • Inversion of land and capital, 54.
    • Settlement of, prevents distribution, 70.
    • Joint-stock principle applicable to, 78.
    • Land mobilised, 88.
    • Increased value under joint-stock cultivation, 88, 89.
    • Land and cities, 93.
    • Size of landed estates in era of capital, 94.
    • Might be sold subject to rent-charge, 95.
    • Tendency of things with respect to; corporate estates, 96.
    • Disestablishment, 97.
    • Increasing size of estates, 97.
    • Education, 97.
    • Perception of cause of wealth of France, 98.
    • Increase in our population and wealth, 98.
    • Popular character of modern legislation, 99.
    • Rise in cost of labour, 99.
    • How two kinds of wills affect land, 110.
    • Culture and price of, in Switzerland, 206
  • Landlordism, 41, 50.
    • Political effects in Ireland and Scotland, 111
  • Landowners, advantage to, of joint-stock cultivation of the land, 89.
    • Diminishing numbers, 97
  • Lausanne, 3
  • Lauterbrunnen, 157
  • Leukabad, 172-174
  • Life, who scared by phenomena of, 257
  • Literary and theological training, effects of, 256
  • Lords of creation, 124
  • Lothringen, 231
  • Lowe, Right Hon. R., 65
  • Luxembourg, 247
  • Macugnaga, 125
  • Magician, capital a, 107
  • Man, conditions antecedent to, 116
  • Matterhorn, 12, 17, 18
  • Mattmark See, 119, 120
  • Meiringen, 153
  • Men and women highest form of wealth, 32
  • Methods of teaching, 192, 193
  • Metz, 230
  • Money-lords, 55
  • Monte Leone, 138
  • Moon on the Jungfrau, 165.
    • Witchery of the, 179.
    • Why dogs bay, 181
  • Moral value of peasant-proprietorship, 34-40.
    • Under landlordism, 46
  • Morality, man lives not only by or for, 40
  • Moro, Monte, 123
  • Mortmain, history of abolition of, 74.
    • Its failure, 75
  • Mother of Curé of Ste. Marie aux Chênes, 235
  • Mountaineering, 10, 19, 20
  • Mountains seen face to face, 121
  • Munster, 144
  • Museum of Lake-Villages, 210, 215
  • Myriad-minded, 223
  • Nature, 192, 225
  • Nautical felicity, 6
  • New world’s contributions to old, 7
  • Niesen, 175
  • Nonconformity, strength and weakness of, 241, 242
  • Oberwald, 146
  • Opinion, how stream of tendency affects, 99
  • Organisation, religious, 241
  • Ownership of land, proposed form of, 89
  • Paganism, modern, 26
  • Parallelism of the present religious situation and that at the promulgation of Christianity, 261-263
  • Paris, 1
  • Parquetry flooring, 182
  • Pauper, euthanasia of agricultural, 86
  • Peak-climbers and pass-men, 10, 18, 175, 199
  • Peasant-proprietorship, 29-40.
  • Pedestrianism, pedantry of, 144
  • Peel, Sir R., 55
  • Personal worth, 103
  • Physical science teaches what truth is, 228
  • Picturesque will not stop advances, 86
  • Pié de Muléra, 128
  • Pinus Cembra, 11, 159. Pumilio, 150
  • Platform road, 126
  • Poetry of Vale of Grindelwald, 161.
    • Classical and modern, 224
  • Pompeii, 52
  • Ponte Grande, 127
  • Poor-law, rationale of, 106
  • Population under peasant-proprietorship, 31.
    • Under landlordism, 45
  • Porter and practical man, 156
  • Possibilities, 27
  • Post-office, Swiss, 118
  • Potatovors, Irish, 105, 106
  • Practical man and porter, 156
  • Prasias, Lake, 210
  • Prayers played for, 24
  • Primogeniture, 90
  • Property, educational effects of, 33
  • Prophesying, place of, in religion, 241, 242
  • Prospects of great proprietors, 100
  • Railways, delays on Swiss, 138
  • Récolte des voyageurs, 217
  • Reichenbach, falls of, 154
  • Religion, 25.
    • Its primitive and modern forms, 145.
    • Relation to art, organisation, and prophesying, 141, 142.
    • Error and perversion in, 242, 243.
    • Relation of the knowledge of nature and of man to, 251.
    • How affected by the conditions of society, 253.
    • Progressive, 254.
    • A parellelism, 261-263
  • Religious establishments, when useful, 64
  • Rent-charge, land might be sold subject to, 95
  • Responsibility in the formation of opinions, 264
  • Revolution, a great but bloodless, 53
  • Rhone, Delta of Upper, 7.
    • Source of, 146
  • Riffel, 11, 16
  • Rocky mountains, young pines in, 160.
    • Camping out in, 177
  • Romanism, decay of, 25, 26.
    • How uses art, organisation, and prophesying, 241
  • Saas, 113, 121
  • Sac, lost, 131
  • St. Niklaus, 8, 21
  • Ste. Marie aux Chênes, fight in, 234.
    • Mother of curé of, 235
  • Saltine, 139
  • Saracens, 124
  • Savings’ bank for all, 87, 109
  • Scene from Gorner Grat, 12.
    • Valley of Saas, 113.
    • Mattmark, 120.
    • Macugnaga, 125.
    • Gemmi, 169
  • Schwartz See, 16, 17
  • Scotland, a Belgian’s etymology of, 247
  • Selborne, White of, 4.
  • Self, when to be considered, 132.
    • When not, 243
  • Sermon on the Riffel, 15.
    • Effect of fluency and imagination on, 165
  • Settlement of land prevents distribution, 70.
    • Action of settled estates, 72.
    • How preventible, 73
  • Shawls, fine, better than rugs, 117
  • Simplon, 131-139
  • Size of estates in era of capital, 94
  • Slavery, 82
  • Society, conditions of, affect religion, 253
  • Sprite, the reprobate, 203
  • Spurgeon, Mr., 239, 243
  • Stalden, 113
  • Steam culture, 83
  • Stenches in hotels, 8, 147, 148
  • Stone age, 81, 211
  • Strasbourg, 230
  • Sugar factories, 84
  • Sun, colourless risings, 175.
    • Of England has set, 202.
    • A good sunset, 216, 217
  • Swiss life in a valley, 23, 29, 40.
    • Compared with Italians, 129.
    • Monster hotels, 194-204.
    • Swiss sights suggestive, 264
  • Teaching, range and method of, 192, 193
  • Technical University of Zurich, 218
  • Tendency of events as respects land, 96
  • Tents, travelling with, in Switzerland, 177
  • Testimony, fallibility of, 118
  • Theology, 256
  • Thun, 163
  • Too soon but late at last, 168
  • Travel, order of, 5
  • Travellers in monster hotels, 198.
    • Swiss, classified, 199, 203
  • Trust-funds, investment proposed for, 89
  • Twice as clever, 171
  • United States, answer to a question asked in the, 68
    • Agriculture of, 69
  • Urus, 212
  • Val Anzasca, 126, 129, 130
  • Valleys, geology of Alpine, 134.
    • View of Grindelwald, 160
  • Venice, 210
  • Verrieres, 2
  • Villages of Upper Rhone Valley, 144.
  • Vines and vineyards, 205
  • Virgin, the Holy, at Ste. Marie aux Chênes, 236
  • Virtue, highest form of, 38
  • Visp, 8.
    • Life and religion in Valley of the, 21-27.
    • Thoughts about land suggested by the Valley of the, 28-112
  • Voiturier, boorish, 143.
    • Dilatory, 165.
    • Payment should depend on time, 166
  • Water-supply in Switzerland, 206-209.
    • In England, 207, 208.
    • Would lessen drunkenness, 209
  • Waterloo, 248, 249
  • Weather, 175
  • Well-being, constituents of, 40
  • Wengern Alp, 157, 158
  • Wheat cultivated by Old Lake villagers, 212
  • White of Selborne, 4
  • Widows and younger children provided for by landowners, 93
  • Wife, 5, 142, 162, 168, 171
  • Wildstrubel, 169
  • Will strengthened, 139
  • Wills, two errors with respect to, 110
  • Wine, 197
  • Wood-carving, 155
  • Zermatt, 9, 10, 115
  • Zmutt glacier, 17
  • Zurich Museum of lake village antiquities, 210-215.
    • Modern city, 214.
    • Technical University, 218