Bible, the, the source of its long life, 179. _See_ Old Testament, Revelation. Birds, dancing of, 36 _n._, 45; the attitude of the poet toward, 168. Birth-rate, as test of civilisation, 294, 296, 299 _n._ “Bitter,” a moral quality, 264. Blackguard, the, 244, 245. Blake, William, on the Dance of Life, 66; on the golden rule of life, 281. Blasco Ibañez, 171. Blood, Harvey’s conception of circulation of, nearly anticipated by Leonardo da Vinci, 120. Boisguillebert, Pierre Le Pesant, sieur de, his “barometer of prosperity,” 287. Botany, studied by Leonardo da Vinci, 119. Botticelli, Sandro, 56. Bouguereau, G. A., 315 _n._ Bovarism, explanation of, 335; applied to the Universe, 337; a necessary, effected by the artist, 348, 349. Brantôme, Pierre de B., his style, 161. Braun, Otto, 357. Breton, Jules, 311. Bridges, Robert, 272. Browne, Sir Thomas, his style, 161, 175, 176, 178. Browning, Robert, 113; too clumsy to influence others, 184. Brunetière, Ferdinand, a narrow-minded pedagogue, 125. Bruno, Giordano, 207. Bruno, Leonardo, 207. Bryce, James, on democracies, 300. Bücher, Karl, on work and dance, 61, 62. Buckle, H. T., 99. Buddhist monks, 224 _n._ Building, and dancing, the two primary arts, 36; birds’ nests, the chief early form of, 36 _n._ Bunyan, John, 79. Burton, Robert, as regards his quotations, 152. Bury, J. B., 287 _n._ Cabanel, 315 _n._ Cadiz, the dancing-school of Spain, 54. Camargo, innovations of, in the ballet, 57. Carlyle, Thomas, revelation of family history in his style, 158, 159; compared to Aristophanes, 159 _n._; too clumsy to ninfluence others, 184. Carpenter, the, sacred position of, in some countries, 2. Carr-Saunders, A. M., on the social ladder and the successful climbers, 299, 300; on selecting the best stock of humanity, 354. Cassirer, Ernest, on Goethe, 137 _n._ Castanets, 54. Casuistry, 304 _n._, 305. Categories, are fictions, 94. Cathedrals, dancing in, 44, 45. Ceremony, Chinese, 22, 29; and music, Chinese life regulated by, 24-26. Cézanne, artist, 153, 315 _n._ Chanties, of sailors, 61, 62. Cheetham, Samuel, on the Pagan Mysteries, 241 _n._ Chemistry, analogy of, to life, 33-35. Chess, the Chinese game of, 23. _Chiaroscuro_, method of, devised by Leonardo da Vinci, 117. Chidley, Australian philosopher, 79-82. China, finest thinkers of, perceived significance in life of conception of art, 3; art animates the whole of life in, 27, 28; beggary in, 31.