J. de Gaultier, “Art et Civilisation,” _Monde Nouveau_, February, 1921. INDEX Abortion, once practised, 354. Absolute, the, a fiction, 101. Abyssian Church, dancing in worship of, 45. Acting, music, and poetry, proceed in one stream, 36. Adam, Villiers de l’Isle, his story _Le Secret de l’ancienne Musique_, 25. Addison, Joseph, his style, 161-63, 184. Adler, Dr. Alfred, of Vienna, 336, 337. Adolescence, idealisation in, 107, 108. Æschylus, developed technique of dancing, 56. Æsthetic contemplation, 314, 315, 325, 326; recognised by the Greeks, 330, 331; two kinds of, that of spectator and that of participator, 331, 332; the Shaftesbury attitude toward, 332, 333; the Swift attitude toward, 333; involves life as a spectacle, 333, 334; and the systems of Gaultier and Russell, 343; engenders neither hatred nor envy, 346. Æsthetic instinct, to replace moralities, religions, and laws, 340, 341, 343-45; differentiated from other instincts, 346; has the character of morality, 346. Æsthetic intuitionism, 260, 276, 279, 314. Æsthetic sense, development of, indispensable for civilisation, 345; realises morality when unburdened with moral intentions, 346; mixed with primitive manifestations of life, 350; correlated with diffused artistic instinct, 350 _n._; seems to be decreasing, 350-52. Æsthetics, and ethics, among the Greeks, 247; with us, 348; in the Greek sense, 263; the founders of, 271, 329; and art, the unlikeness of, 325-28; on same plane with mysticism, 330 _n._ Africa, love-dance in, 46, 49, 50. Akhenaten, 28. Alaro, in Mallorca, dancing in church at, 44, 45. Alberti, Leo, vast-ranging ideas of, 5. Alcohol, consumption of, as test of civilisation, 295, 296. Anatomy, studied by Leonardo da Vinci, 120. Anaximander, 89. Ancestry, the force of, in handwriting, 157, 158; in style, 158-61, 190. Anna, Empress, 59. Antisthenes, 249 _n._ “Appearance,” 219 _n._ Aquinas, Saint Thomas, 202. Arabs, dancing among, 38. Arbuckle, one of the founders of æsthetics, 271; insisted on imagination as formative of character, 272. Architecture. _See_ Building. Aristophanes, 311. Aristotle, 89; on tragedy, 56; on the Mysteries, 242; on the moral quality of an act, 248; his use of the term “moral sense,” 273; on Art and Nature in the making of the State, 313; his use of the term “artists,” 313; his view of poetry, 318; and the contemplative life, 330 _n._