Dancing, and building, the two primary acts, 36; possibly accounts for origin of birds’ nests, 36 _n._; supreme manifestation of physical life and supreme symbol of spiritual life, 36; the significance of, 37; the primitive expression of religion and of love, 37, 38, 45; entwined with human tradition of war, labour, pleasure, and education, 37; the expression of the whole man, 38, 39; rules the life of primitive men, 39 _n._; religious importance of, among primitive men, 39, 40; connected with all religions, 40; ecstatic and pantomimic, 41, 42; survivals of, in religion, 42; in Christian worship, 42-45; in cathedrals, 44, 45; among birds and insects, 45; among mammals, 45, 46; a process of courtship and novitiate for love, 46, 47; double function of, 47; different forms of, 48-51; becomes an art, 51; professional, 52; Classic and Romantic, 52-60; the ballet, 53, 56-60; solo, 53; Egyptian and Gaditanian, 53, 54; Greek, 55, 56, 60; as morals, 60, 61, 63; all human work a kind of, 61, 62; and music, 61-63; social significance of, 60, 61, 63, 64; and war, allied, 63, 64; importance of, in education, 64, 65; Puritan attack on, 65; is life itself, 65; always felt to possess symbolic significance, 66; the learning of, a severe discipline, 277. Dancing-school, the function of, process of courtship, 47. D’Annunzio, Gabriele, 178. _Danse du ventre_, the, 49 _n._ Dante, 311, 349; dancing in his “Paradiso,” 43; intellectual life of, largely guided by delight in beauty of rhythmic relation between law and instance, 73. Darwin, Charles, 88; poet and artist, 128, 129; and St. Theresa, 198. Darwin, Erasmus, 181. David, Alexandra, his book, _Le Philosophe Meh-ti et l’Idée de Solidarité_, 26 _n._ Decadence, of art of living, 8 _n._; rigid subservience to rule a mark of, 173. Degas, 315 _n._ Democracies, the smallest, are highest, 300. Demography, 285. Demosthenes, 336. De Quincey, Thomas, the music of his style, 164. Descartes, René, on arts and sciences, 69; represents in France new impetus to sciences, 180; religious, though man of science, 208. Design, the arts of, 36. Devadasis, the, sacred dancing girls, 51, 52. Diaghilev, 59. Dickens, Charles, 311. Dickinson, G. Lowes, his account of the Chinese, 20, 21; his account of Chinese poetry, 21, 22. Diderot, Denis, wide-ranging interests of, 5; translated Shaftesbury, 268. “Dieta Salutis,” the, 43. Discipline, definition of a, 71 _n._ “Divine command,” the, 255. “Divine malice,” of Nietzsche, 155 _n._ Diving-bell, constructed by Leonardo da Vinci, 119. Divorces, as test of civilisation, 296. Doctor, and priest, originally one, 197 _n._, 203. Dogma, hypothesis, and fiction, 98, 99. Dogmas, shadows of personal experience, 217.