But on the other hand, Nietzsche would not make the appeal he does if man did not shrink from every vision of peace that has ever been offered to him, as from something worse than nonentity. Indeed we “envy not the dead that rest.... “What peace could ever be to me The joy that strives with strife?” * * * * * Thus it would seem that the philosophy which alone can bring to pass that gladness of the moment which comes not from its content, but from what there is mixed in it of fulfilment and of promise--that philosophy must give validity to two theses: (1) Reality must in all its aspects be shown to be such a thing as human effort may make and mould. (2) This effort must set before itself an ideal in which are consistently included all that is genuine in the old ideals calling themselves Peace and War. If the first of these theses was the topic of the chapter on Pragmatism, the second was that which inspired the conception of Progress. Only if to each moment of life there is vividly present the sense that it is a moment of creation, and equally present a satisfaction in the vision of what is to be created, can the moment be a joyous one. Not joyous in a way to wring from us a “Verweile doch! du bist so schön!” But joyous with that quality which would let our _Ave_ be a welcome to the hoped for, our _Vale_ a benediction on a promise left behind. * * * * * If our Modern Thinkers have done aught to help us so to pass a moment, why, so, let them pass. Finis INDEX à Kempis, Schopenhauer and, 167. Amiel, 217. amoralist, 274, 276. Antigone, 264. _a posteriori_, 105. _a priori_, 105, 137. Aquinas, 24, 308. Aristotle, 24, 25, 89, 289, 290. art, and the universal, 170-172; individuates, 294-296. asceticism, Schopenhauer on, 176-178. assent, Newman’s “Grammar of,” 242. _aviditas vitae_, Huxley’s, 205. Bacon, Francis, 57, 104, 247, 248. Balfour, 246, 247. beautiful, Schopenhauer’s theory of the, 170-172. Berti, _Vita di Giordano Bruno_, 11. body, and mind, 45, 46. Bourdeau, J., 241, 242. Bourdeau, L., 223-226. Bourget, “Le Disciple,” 68-95. Brahminism, Schopenhauer and, 167. Browning, 203. Bruno, iii, Mocenigo’s denunciation of, 3-8; trial at Venice, 9-18; recantation, 18; new astronomy, 18-21; ethical and religious consequences, 21-26; “new philosophy,” pantheism, 29-31; Schoppius on sentence and execution of, 33-34; and Spinoza, 39, 40; 197. Buddhism, Schopenhauer and, 167, 178, 179, 189. cannibals, Melville on, 251-253; Montaigne on, 253-256. categorical, good, _ought_, see imperative. Christianity, Kant and, 146, 147; Schopenhauer and, 167; Nietzsche and, 187, 206; its intellectual task, 300. civilization, a decadence, 257, 258. Clifford, 312. Clough, 228.