Memory, Predominant tendencies in, 61; untrustworthy, 17. Men, Great, as makers of history, 150. Mendelssohn, 145, 213 n., 215, 216. Mental chemistry, 82. Merchant sailors, 282. Metamorphosis, 28; of deities, 129; Regressive, 171. Metaphysical speculation, 251; thought, Stages of, 252. Metaphysics, 252 ff. Methods of invention, 243. Meynert, 100. Michaelangelo, 145, 148, 149. Michelet, 186, 306. Middle Ages, predominantly imaginative, 174. Military invention, 295; Conditions of, 297. Mill, John Stuart, 82, 284. Milton, 73. Mimicry, 98. Mind, Varieties of, 320. Mission, Consciousness of, 148. Misunderstanding of the new, 151. Mobility of inventors, 258. Monadology, 253. Money, Invention of, 286; sought as an end, 289. Monge, 237. Moses, 300. More, 303, 309. Morgan, Lloyd, 99. Mormons, 307. Monoideism, 87. Montgolfier, 277. Moral geniuses, 301. Moravian brotherhood, 307. Mosso, 71, 340. Motor elements in all representation, 4; elements, Role of, 7; manifestation basis of creation, 9. Movements, Importance of, in imagination, 3. Mozart, 73, 145. Mueller, Max, 120, 129, 130. Mummy powder, 261. Muensterberg, 60. Muses, 50. Music an emotional language, 220; Precocity in, 144. Musical imagination, 212, 350. Musset, Alfred de, 335. Myers, 342. Mystic imagination, 221 ff., 335. Mystics, Abuse of allegory, by, 225; Belief of, 227; Metaphorical style of, 224. Mysticism by suggestion, 229. Myth, defined, 123; Depersonification of, 133; in Plato, 134; in science, 134; Subjective and objective factors in, 122. Myths, Significance of, 119; Variations in, 127. Myth-making activity, viii, 331. Napoleon, 10, 66, 71, 142; his war practice, 298. Natural, and human phenomena, 299; law, Uniformity of, opposed to dissociation, 21; motors, Use of, 275. Naville, 245. Need of knowing, 314. Neglect of details in sensation, 20. Nerval, Gerard de, 229, 324. Nervous overflow, 71. New Larnak, 309. Newbold, 340. Newcomen, 270. Newton, 58, 87, 146. Nietzsche, 150. _Nomina Numina_, 120, 262. Nordau, 142. Numerical imagination, 207 ff.; mysticism, 226; series unlimited, 207. Objective study of inventors, 71. Oddities of inventors, 72. Oelzelt-Newin, 33, 95. Old age, Effect of, on imagination, 77. Organic conditions, 65. Orientation conditioned by individual organization, 48; Personal, 270. Owen, Robert, 309. Paradox of belief, 242. Paralysis by ideas, 6. Pascal, 146, 244. Pasteur, 142, 143, 251. Pathological view of genius, 141. Pathology and physiology, 74. Perception, 15; and conception, 184; and imagination, 106. Perez, B., 115. Persistence of ideas due to feeling, 79. Personification, 186; characteristic of aborigines and children, 27; source of myth, 28. Phalanges, Organization of society into, 305. Philippe, J., 17 n. Philosophy, a transformation of mystic ideas, 233. Phlogiston, 248. Physiological states, 70.