Oh, the blessedness of motion, of a spur to action, of a current in one’s days, of something to stimulate the will, to help reach a decision, to carry down stream the waste and débris of one’s life! Hardly a life anywhere so befouled or stagnant, but it would clear and renew itself, if the currents were set going by the proper kind and amount of honest work! INDEX Addison, Joseph, 53, 69, 71. Alcott, A. Bronson, 76. American literature, art in, 16. _See also_ Literature. Amiel, Henri Frédéric, on Renan, 65; on Cherbuliez, 188; his _Journal_, 229; quotation from, 188. Analogy, a frequent form of argument, 27; between man and nature, 27, 28, 48-50; metaphors, 28-31; legitimate uses of, 31, 32; accidental and essential, 32; immortality in, 32-39; in theology, 39; false and true, 39-44; between mind and body, 44, 45; in the physical world, 45-47; between art and nature, 50, 54; rhetorical and scientific, 51. Arnold, Matthew, 34, 50, 53, 59, 70, 78, 79; as a critic, 90-92, 228; 93, 96; greatest as a literary critic, 97; his _Thyrsis_, 103; his aristocratic ideals, 112-114, 118; 123, 124, 133, 184, 189, 206, 210; his _Literature and Dogma_, 228, 229; quotations from, 53, 93. Art, disinterestedness of, 134, 135; universality of, 135-142; disinterestedness not indifferentism in, 142-148; treatment of vice and sin in, 148-150. Bacon, Francis, 205, 218. Bagehot, Walter, 26; quotation from, 26. Barante, Baron de, 104. Baudelaire, Charles, 20. Birds, dusting and bathing, 174. Books, the enduring, 3; the re-reading of, 216-231. _See also_ Literature. Boswell, James, his _Life of Samuel Johnson_, 225. Brontë, Charlotte, 103. Browne, Sir Thomas, his _Religio Medici_, 229; on the past, 241; quotation from, 241. Browning, Robert, 2; his _How they brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix_, 70, 166; 114, 184. Brunetière, Ferdinand, 71, 85; his criticism, 87; 90, 96, 104, 107, 109; a critic of the aristocratic type, 112, 118. Bunting, snow (_Passerina nivalis_), 174. Burney, Fanny, 62. Butler, Joseph, 33, 34. Byron, Lord, 131, 141; eloquent but not truly poetical, 165; an example of his eloquence, 166; quotation from, 166. Campbell, Thomas, 166; his _To the Rainbow_, 166; 182.