Art, life as, more difficult to realise than to act, 1, 2; universe conceived as work of, by the primitive philosopher, 1; life as, views of finest thinkers of China and Greece on, 2-6, 247-52; whole conception of, has been narrowed and debased, 6, 7; in its proper sense, 7, 8; as the desire for beautification, 8; of living, has been decadent during the last two thousand years, 8 _n._; Napoleon in the sphere of, 10; of living, the Lifuan, 13-18; of living, the Chinese, 27; Chinese civilisation shows that human life is, 30; of living, T’ung’s story the embodiment of the Chinese symbol of, 33; life identical with, 33-35; of dancing, 36, 51-67, _see_ Dancing; of life, a dance, 66, 67; science and, no distinction between, in classic times, 68; science and, distinction between, in modern times, 68-70; science is of the nature of, 71; represented by Pythagoras as source of science, 74; Greek, 76 _n._; of thinking, 68-140, _see_ Thinking; the solution of the conflicts of philosophy in, 82, 83; philosophy and, close relationship of, 83-85; impulse of, transformed sexual instinct, 108-12; and mathematics, 138-40; of writing, 141-190, _see_ Writing; Man added to Nature, is the task in, 153; the freedom and the easiness of, do not necessarily go together, 182; of religion, 191-243, _see_ Religion; of morals, 244-84, _see_ Morals; the critic of, a critic of life, 269; civilisation is an, 301, 310; consideration of the question of the definition of, 310-12; Nature and, 312, 313; the sum of the active energies of mankind, 313; and æsthetics, the unlikeness of, 314, 315, 325-28; a genus, of which morals is a species, 316; each, has its own morality, 318; to assert that it gives pleasure a feeble conclusion, 319; on the uselessness of, according to Schopenhauer and others, 319-21; meaninglessness of the statement that it is useless, 322; sociological function of, 323, 324; philosophers have failed to see that it has a morality of its own, 324, 325; for art’s sake, 346, 347. Artist, partakes of divine nature of creator of the world, 2; Napoleon as an, 10-12; the true scientist as, 72, 73, 112; the philosopher as, 72, 73, 85; explanation of, 108-12; Bacon’s definition of, Man added to Nature, 153; makes all things new, 153; in words, passes between the plane of new vision and the plane of new creation, 170, 178; life always a discipline for, 277; lays up his treasure in Heaven, 307; Man as, 310; is a maker, 312; Aristotle’s use of the term, 313; reveals Nature, 320; has to effect a necessary Bovarism, 348, 349. Artistic creation, the process of its birth, 108, 109. Arts, sometimes classic and sometimes decadent, 8 _n._; and sciences, 68-70; Master of, 69. “Arty” people, 6, 7.