Conduct of life; English essays -- 20th century; Ethics; Philosophy
Eugenics, art of, necessary for preservation of civilisation, 299;
Galton the founder of the modern scientific art of, 353;
assertion of principle of, by Jesus, 355, 356;
question of raising quality of population by process of, 358.
Eusebius, on the worship of the Therapeuts, 42.
Evans, Sir Arthur, 112.
Evolution, theory of, 88, 104;
a process of sifting, 355;
and devolution, 355;
social, 357, 358.
Existence, totality of, Hippias’s supreme ideal, 6.
Existing, and thinking, on two different planes, 101.
“Expression,” 324.
Facts, in the art of civilisation, material, intellectual, and moral
(with political), 289.
Fandango, the, 50.
Faraday, Michael, characteristics of, trust in facts and imagination,
130-32;
his science and his mysticism, 208.
Farnell, L. R., on religion and science, 197 _n._
Farrer, Reginald, on the philosophic calm of the Chinese, 29 _n._
Faure, Elie, his conception of Napoleon, 10;
on Greek art, 76 _n._;
has faith in educational value of cinema, 137;
on knowledge and desire, 154;
on the Greek spirit, 292 _n._
Ferrero, Guglielmo, on the art impulse and the sexual instinct, 109.
Fiction, germs of doctrine of, in Kant, 87;
first expression of doctrine of, found in Schiller, 89;
doctrine of, in F. A. Lange’s _History of Materialism_, 93;
Vaihinger’s doctrine of, 94-103;
hypothesis, and dogma, 98, 99;
of Bovarism, 335, 336;
character constituted by process of, 336.
Fictions, the variety of, 94-100;
the value of, 96, 97;
summatory, 98;
scientific and æsthetic, 102;
may always be changed, 103;
good and bad, 103.
Fiji, dancing at, 49.
Fijians, the, 13 _n._
Fine arts, the, 70;
civilisation measured by standard of, 307;
not to be pursued for useful end outside themselves, 322.
Fireworks, 22, 23.
Flaubert, Gustave, is personal, 144;
sought to be most objective of artists, 182.
Flowers, the attitude of the poet toward, 168, 169.
Flying-machines, 72 _n._;
designed by Leonardo da Vinci, 119.
Foch, Ferdinand, quoted, 103.
Fokine, 59.
Folk-dances, 62.
Force, a fiction, 96.
Fossils, significance of, discovered by Leonardo da Vinci, 120.
Fox, George, 237.
France, tests of civilization applied to, by Niceforo, 295-97.
Francis of Assisi, 237.
Franck, César, mysticism in music of, 237.
Frazer, J. G., on magic and science, 195, 196.
Freedom, a fiction, 100.
French ballet, the, 57, 58.
French speech, its course, 148, 149.
Freud, Sigmund, 111, 318 _n._;
regards dreaming as fiction, 103;
on the probability of the disappearance of religion, 228 _n._
Frobisher, Sir Martin, his spelling, 173, 174.
Galen, 120.
Galton, Francis, a man of science and an artist, 126-28;
founder of the modern scientific art of eugenics, 353;
and Jesus’s assertion of the principle of eugenics, 356.
Games, the liking of the Chinese for, 23.
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