Columbus, Christopher, 66 Communism, absurdity and impracticability of, 190 Confession of wrong-doing, the yearning for, 162-5 Consciousness of man, 204 Correggio, Allegri, 127 Cotta, Johann Friedrich, 277 Dante’s _Divina Commedia_, 224 Darwinian theory of evolution, 159 Degeneration, the causes of, 255 _ff._ Dishonesty as a means of acquiring wealth, 267-9 Drummond, Henry, 8, 12 Drunkenness in England, 136, 137 Egoism, 260 _ff._ Egomania, 230 England, degeneracy in, 136, 137; estimation of women in, 142, 217-9; æsthetic revolt in, 237; high moral responsibility of, 305, 306 English army, no degeneracy in, 134 Ethical Culture, Berlin Society for, 247, 248 Eroticism, 205 _ff._ Faraday, Michael, 54 France, marriage in, 90, 91; æsthetic revolt in, 234 _ff._ Free Labour Association, the, 31 French army, no degeneracy in, 134 French hatred of Germany, 24, 25 French symbolists, the, 76 _ff._, 94 Galileo, 66 Gautier, Théophile, 231 Germans, submission of, to discipline, 15 _ff._; their treatment of women, 18-19; ideas concerning marriage, 19; hatred of France, 24, 25 Germany, marriage in, 18, 19; army system in, 138; position of women in, 142 _ff._; influence of, upon Norway, 173 _ff._; causes of anti-semitism in, 187 _ff._; the development of the empire, 298; burdens upon the working people in, 298, 299; despotic rule of the Emperor, 299; bad effect of present system of government, 300-2; the coming catastrophe, 301-3 Gladstone, William Ewart, 137 Goethe, Johann Wolfgang, 56, 152, 224 Goethe’s _Werther’s Leiden_, 104; _Faust_, 157, 216 Gounod, Charles François, 226 Hanseatic League, the, 173 Heller, Ferdinand, 222, 223 Heredity, 159, 160 Hugo’s _Notre Dame de Paris_, 59 Human instincts, 270-2 Humanity, the religion of, 232 Hunt, Holman, 64, 68 Huxley, Professor Thomas Henry, 54 Huysman, Joris Karl, 236 Huysman’s _A Rebours_, 273 Ibsen, Henrik, 132 _ff._, 140 _ff._, 177, 258; influence of, upon women, 142 Ibsen’s _Ghosts_, 154, 155, 158; _Pillars of Society_, 155, 156; _The Lady from the Sea_, 157; _The Doll’s House_, 74, 179-81 Immorality, Association of Men for the Suppression of, 146 _ff._ Immoral literature, impossibility of prohibiting the circulation of, 249-51 Instinct in human beings, 270-2 Italian army, no degeneracy in, 134 Jew, the free-thinking, characteristics of, 20, 21 Jews, the, Wagner’s dislike of, 184; hatred of, in Russia, 185; in Germany and Austria, 187 _ff._; inherent good qualities of, 191, 192 Jones, Burne, 68, 127, 130, 258 Kant, Immanuel, 3 Kidd, Benjamin, 8, 12 Kock, de, Charles Paul, 277