Nor is it reasonable to sit back and say that this incidental demoralization is inevitable, a fixed price of progress. On the contrary, although it can never be altogether dispensed with, it can be indefinitely reduced, and every social institution or influence that tends to adapt the stress of civilization to the strength of the individual does reduce it in some measure. INDEX Adolescence, the self in, 169 Affectation, 173 ff, 320 Altruism, 4, 90; in relation to egoism, 92 ff, 115, 188 ff, 344 ff Ambition, 275 f Americanism, unconscious, 36 Anger, development of, 232 ff; animal, 240 Anglo-Saxons, cantankerousness of, 268; idealism of, 288 Antipathy, 233 ff Appreciation, necessary to production, 59 Art, creative impulse in, 57; personal symbols in, 71 ff; mental life a work of, 123 f; plastic, mystery in, 316 f; as idealization, 363 Ascendency, personal, 283–325 Asceticism, 154, 223 Augustine, St., 218 Aurelius, Marcus, on freedom of thought, 35; self-feeling of, 218 Author, an, as leader, 303 ff Authority, personal, in morals, 353 ff, 384. See also Leadership Baldwin, Prof. J. M., 15; on social persons, 90; 176, 271, 286 Bastien-Lepage, 355 Belief, ascendency of, 310 f, 317 f Beowulf, on honor, 209 f Bismarck, 254; ascendency of, 298, 302 Blame, nature of, 289 Blowitz, M. de, 298 Body, relation of, to the self, 144 f, 163 Booth, Charles, 276 Brotherhood, extension of the sense of, 114 f Brown, John, 377 Browning, 316 Bryant, Sophie, on antipathy, 235 Bryce, Prof. James, 38, 309 Burke, Edmund, 202, 302 f Burroughs, John, on the physiognomy of works of genius, 74 Cæsar, as a personal idea, 99 Cant, 320 Casaubon, Mr., 224 f Chagrin, 241 Charity, 238, 336. See also Altruism, Right Chicago, aspect of the crowd in, 37 Child, Theodore, 355 Child, a, unlovable at birth, 45 Children, imitation in, 19 ff; sociability of, 45 ff; imaginary conversation of, 52 ff; study of expression by, 62 ff; growth of sentiment in, 79 ff; development of self in, 142, 146; use of “I” by, 157 ff; reflected self in, 164 ff; anger of, 232 f; hero-worship of, 279; ascendency over, 289 f; habitual morality in, 340 f; moral growth of, 349 ff; causes of degeneracy in, 378 ff; what constitutes freedom for, 393 f, 398, 401; spoiled, 403 China, organization of, 399 Chinese, European lack of moral sense regarding, 362 Choice, in relation to suggestion, 14–44; as an organization of social relations, 16 f; practical limitations of, 31 ff; is exhausting, 33 f Christ, self-feeling of, 142; indignation felt by, 247; as leader, 323; as moral authority, 353 “Christian’s Secret of a Happy Life,” 34 Church, inculcation of personal authority in the, 353; freedom in the, 398, 403 City life, effect upon sympathy, 112 f