She is all things. She rewards herself and punishes herself; and in herself rejoices and is distressed. She is rough and gentle, loving and terrible, powerless and almighty. In her everything is always present. Past or Future she knows not. The Present is her Eternity. She is kind. I praise her with all her works. She is wise and still. No one can force her to explain herself, or frighten her into a gift that she does not give willingly. She is crafty, but for a good end; and it is best not to notice her cunning. She is whole and yet never finished. As she works now, so can she work for ever. To every one she appears in a form of his own. She hides herself in a thousand names and terms, and is always the same. She has placed me in this world; she will also lead me out of it. I trust myself to her. She may do with me as she pleases. She will not hate her work. I did not speak of her. No! what is true and what is false, she has spoken it all. Everything is her fault, everything is her merit. INDEX Absent, the, 47. Absolute, the, 238. Abstractions, how destroyed, 203. Absurdities, 229, 575. Acquaintances, new, 432. Acquirements, 344. Acting unlike oneself, 298. Activity, 342, 368, 372, 401. Æschylus, saying of, 121. Age, 391. Age and Youth, 37, 233-4, 237, 295, 321, 374. Ages of life, 390. Agreement and disagreement, 384. Aims, 278, 342, 500. Altruism, 167, 214, 583. Analogies, 46, 523. Analysis, 568. Ancient literature, 447. Ancients, the, 443, 445, 570. Anthropomorphism, 165. Antiquities, 325. Antiquity and posterity, 190. Architecture, a speechless music, 493. Aristotle, 559. Art, 492, 494, 499, 508. Art and Nature, 482-3, 490-1, 509, 512. Art and the World, 485-6. Artist, the, 495-8. Artistic criticism, 116. Assemblies, 281. Attainable, the, 48. Attainments, 584, 587. Authority, 534-7. Authorship, 418. Ballads, 477-8. Beauty, 136, 232, 481. Bible, the, 457-9. Books, 417, 420, 432, 456. Cause and effect, 394. Century, the, and the individual, 581. Character, 367. Characteristics, 7, 29, 74, 91, 110, 179, 291, 297, 311, 344. Children, 245-7. Christ, 314. Classicism, 462-3. Clever folly, 175. Common-sense, 49, 217. Complications, 45. Confession of error, 529. Confidences, 142. Conscience, 125. Conscience and intellect, 530. Contemporaries, 386, 454. Contradictions, 87, 102, 223, 288-9, 378, 382. Converts, 170. Criticism, 146, 182, 304, 456. Critique of common-sense, 393. Critique of the senses, 514. Cryptogamy, 574. Culture, 328-9, 412. Dangerous men, 275-6. Debtor and creditor, 282-3. Deception, 320, 400. Defects, 89. Despotism, advantages of, 209. Dialectic, 379. Difficulties, 277-8, 330, 398. Dilettanti, 159. Discovery, 397, 553. Dispositions, like and unlike, 380. Distinctions, 166. Doggerel, 506. Doing good, 98. Dürer, Albrecht, 502-3. Duties and rights, 150. Duty, 3, 38, 402.