LOVE, absent from Eden, 1; evolution of, in history, 7, 8; evil influence of theology on, 8; the Gospel of, "The Song of Songs" viewed as, 13, 14; its change in Sappho's time, 54; Plato's view of, 65-66; in the _Phædrus_ of Plato, 66; in the _Symposium_ of Plato, 66; argument on, by Plato, 66-67; not every love divine, 67; two loves in the human body, 67; in relation to astronomy, 68; religion, intermediary of, 68; duality of, explained by Aristophanes, 68; Socrates's statement of the essence of, 69-70; exerted in happiness in immortality, 70; higher mysteries of, 71; its value to life, 71-72; how regarded by Plato, 74; the new ideal of, through Christ, 111; dispersed the darkness of the Middle Ages, 138; how regarded in the Age of Chivalry, 145-146; exalted under Feudalism, 148; joy of, its humanizing influence, 150; Courts of, 155-157; code of, in chivalry, 153-155; its merits, 158; cases of, in chivalry, 158-160; a picture of, in mediæval times, 162-163; the religion of the troubadours, 175; to Petrarch, 188; to Dante, 189; as viewed by Boccaccio, 188-190; as viewed by Plato, 203; Platonic, 205-206; as influenced by Platonism, 205-207; as influenced by Venice, 207; as shown by Marguerite of France, 209-210; a high summit reached in Michael Angelo and Vittoria Colonna, 212; _non inferiora secutus_, 212; in the seventeenth century, 213-236; its modern history opens with laughter, 213; its melody in Platonism, its parody in gallantry, 213; always educational, 213; in Spain, Germany, France, and England in the seventeenth century, 214; under François I, 215; under Henry IV, of France, 218-222; its degradation under the Restoration, 224; the Scudéry map of, 228-230; in the eighteenth century, 237-250; in Germany in the eighteenth century, 241; the dawn of its rebirth in the eighteenth century, 245; the lowest depths of, 249; changes in form but never in character, 250; as defined by Gautier, 251; the subject for philosophy, 251; its basis, 252; first analyzed by Plato, 252; its nature elaborated by Schopenhauer, 252-257; a manifestation of the Genius of Species, 253; its nature is will for the purpose of creation, 253; used by Nature as a means to an end, 254-255; Nature's veil of illusion, 255; the manifestation of an instinct, 255; its purpose, the materialization of a particular being, 256; wrongly diagnosed by Schopenhauer, 259-260; its advance in evolution, 260; modern, 260-261 LOVERS, Socrates's ideal, 171 LUCRETIA, 82 LUCREZIA BORGIA, 204 LUCULLUS, 84 LUTHER, the true founder of modern society, 201 LYCURGUS, his laws on marriage, 44 MACAULAY, 222, 223 MACON, second council of, on woman, 127 MACROBIUS, his description of Roman Saturnalia, 75-76