Chinese, the, the accounts of, 18-21; their poetry, 21, 22, 29, 32; their etiquette of politeness, 22; the quality of play in their character, 22-24; their life regulated by music and ceremony, 24-26, 29; their civilisation shows that life is art, 27, 28, 30; the æsthetic supremacy of, 28-30; endurance of their civilisation, 28, 30; their philosophic calm, 29 _n._; decline in civilisation of, in last thousand years, 30; their pottery, 32, 33; embodiment of their symbol of the art of living, 33. Chinese life, the art of balancing æsthetic temperament and guarding against its excesses, 29. _Choir_, the word, 42. Christian Church, supposed to have been originally a theatre, 42. Christian ritual, the earliest known, a sacred dance, 42. Christian worship, dancing in, 42-45; central function of, a sacred drama, 43. Christianity, Lifuan art of living undermined by arrival of, 18; dancing in, 40-45; the ideas of, as dogmas, hypotheses, and fictions, 99; and the Pagan Mysteries, 242; and asceticism, 249 _n._; the Hebrew mode of feeling grafted into, 276. Chrysostom, on dancing at the Eucharist, 43. Church, and religion, not the same, 228 _n._ Church Congress, at Sheffield in 1922, ideas of conversion expressed at, 220 _n._ Churches, 351. Cicero, 73, 252. Cinema, educational value of, 138. Cistercian monks, 43. Cistercians, the, 347. Civilisation, develops with conscious adhesion to formal order, 172; standards for measurement of, 285; Niceforo’s measurement of, 286; on meaning of, 287; the word, 288; the art of, includes three kinds of facts, 289; criminality as a measure of, 290, 291; creative genius and general instruction in connection with, 291-93; birth-rate as test of, 294; consumption of luxuries as test of, 294, 295; suicide rate as test of, 295; tests of, applied to France by Niceforo, 295-97; not an exclusive mass of benefits, but a mass of values, 297; becoming more complex, 298; small minority at the top of, 298; guidance of, assigned to lower stratum, 298, 299; art of eugenics necessary to save, 299, 300; of quantity and of quality, 300; not to be precisely measured, 301; the more rapidly it progresses, the sooner it dies, 301; an art, 301, 310; an estimate of its value possible, 302; meaning of Protagoras’s dictum with relation to, 302; measured by standard of fine art (sculpture), 307, 308; eight periods of, 307, 308; a fresh race needed to produce new period of, 308; and culture, 309; æsthetic sense indispensable for, 345; possible break-up of, 358. Clarity, as an element of style, 176-78. _Clichés_, 149-51. Cloisters, for artists, 358. Cochez, of Louvain, on Plotinus, 249 _n._ Coleridge, S. T., his “loud bassoon,” 169; of the spectator type of the contemplative temperament, 332. Colour-words, 164 _n._ Colvin, Sir Sidney, on science and art, 70.