Conduct of life; English essays -- 20th century; Ethics; Philosophy
Dostoievsky, F. M., 311, 349;
his masterpiece, “_The Brothers Karamazov_,” 135, 136.
Drama, Greek, origin of, 55, 56;
the real Socrates possibly to be seen in, 78.
Driesch, Hans, on his own mental development, 216 _n._
Drum, the influence of the, 63.
Dryden, John, 148.
Dujardin, Edouard, his story of Huysmans, 166;
on Bergson’s style, 177.
Dumont, Arsène, on civilisation, 298, 301.
Duncan, Isadora, 60.
Duprat, G. L., on morality, 34.
Dupréel, Professor, on Hippias, 6 _n._;
his _La Légende Socratique_, 82 _n._;
on the Protagorean spirit, 302 _n._
Duty, 275, 276.
Easter, dancing of priests at, 44.
Eckhart, Meister, 234, 336.
Education, importance of dancing in, 64, 65;
Einstein’s views on, 137;
and genius, as tests of civilisation, 291-93.
Egypt, ancient, dancing in, 42;
Classical dancing originated in, 52;
the most influential dancing-school of all time, 53;
musical instruments associated with dancing, originated or developed
in, 53;
modern, dancing in, 54 _n._;
importance of its civilisation, 307.
Eight-hours day, the, 357.
Einstein, Albert, 2, 69 _n._, 72;
substitutes new axioms for old, 95;
casts doubts on Leonardo da Vinci’s previsions of modern science, 120
_n._;
seems to have won a place beside Newton, 133;
an imaginative artist, 134;
his fondness for music, 134, 135;
his other artistic likings and dislikings, 135, 136;
an artist also in his work, 136;
his views on science, 137;
his views on education, 137, 138;
on the motives that attract people to science and art, 138, 321;
feels harmony of religion and science, 207;
concerned with truth, 327;
and “science for science’s sake,” 347 _n._
Eleusinian Mysteries, the, 240-43.
Eliot, George, her knowledge of the life of country people, 171;
Tolstoy’s opinion of, 311.
Ellis, Havelock, childhood of, 210, 211;
his period of emotional and intellectual expansion, 211;
loses faith, 212;
influence of Hinton’s “_Life in Nature_” on, 215-18.
Els Cosiers, dancing company, 45.
Emerson, R. W., his style and that of Bacon, 161.
Emmanuel, his book on Greek dancing, 55.
Empathy, 66.
Engineering, professional, Leonardo da Vinci called the founder of,
118, 119.
English laws, 98.
English prose style, Cartesian influence on, 180 _n._
English speech, licentiousness of, in the sixteenth century, 148;
the best literary prose, 155, 156.
Enjoyment, without possession, 343-46.
Epictetus, 249 _n._
Epicurus, 207.
Erosian, river, importance of, realised by Leonardo da Vinci, 120.
Eskimos, 255.
Este, Isabella d’, 123.
Ethics, and æsthetics, among the Greeks, 247.
Etruscans, the, 56, 308.
Eucharist, dancing at the, 43.
Eucken, Rudolf, on Shaftesbury, 271.
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