The Dance of Life

Name: The Dance of Life
Author: Ellis, Havelock

Ellis, Havelock

Conduct of life; English essays -- 20th century; Ethics; Philosophy

Gaultier, Jules de, 330 _n._;
   on Buddhist monks, 224 _n._;
   on pain and pleasure in life, 278 _n._;
   on morality and reason, 281;
   on morality and art, 284;
   on the antinomy between morals and morality, 319;
   on beauty, 327;
   on life as a spectacle, 333;
   the Bovarism of, 335-37;
   his philosophic descent, 337;
   applies Bovarism to the Universe, 337;
   his philosophy seems to be in harmony with physics, 338;
   the place of morality, religion, and law in his system, 338-40;
   place of the æsthetic instinct in his system, 341, 343-45;
   system of, compared with Russell’s, 342, 343;
   importance of development of æsthetic sense to, 345;
   and the idea of pure art, 346, 347;
   considers æsthetic sense mixed in manifestations of life, 349, 350;
   had predilection for middle class, 356, 357;
   sees no cause for despair in break-up of civilisation, 358.

 Gauss, C. F., religious, though man of science, 208.


 Genesis, Book of, the fashioning of the cosmos in, 1, 314.

 Genius, the birth of, 109;
   and education, as tests, of civilisation, 291-93;
   of country, and temper of the population, 292, 293.

 Geology, founded by Leonardo da Vinci, 120.

 Geometry, Protagoras’s studies in, 3;
   a science or art, 68.

 Gibbon, Edward, 162.

 Gide, André, 322.

 Gizycki, Georg von, on Shaftesbury, 260, 267.

 God, a fiction, 100, 337.

 Goethe, J. W., 342;
   representative of ideal of totality of existence, 6;
   called architecture “frozen music,” 135;
   his power of intuition, 137;
   his studies in mathematical physics, 137 _n._;
   use of word “stamped” of certain phrases, 149;
   mistook birds, 168;
   felt harmony of religion and science, 207;
   and Schiller and Humboldt, 275.

 Gomperz, Theodor, his _Greek Thinkers_, 4, 5, 6 _n._; 75, 78.

 Goncourt, Jules de, his style, 182, 183.

 Goncourts, the, 183.

 Good, the, and beauty, among the Greeks, 247.

 Goodness, and sweetness, in Shaftesbury’s philosophy, 262;
   and sweetness, originally the same, 263;
   moral, originally expressed in terms of taste, 263.

 Gorgias, 302.

 Gourmont, Remy de, 65;
   his remark about pleasure, 24;
   on personality, 144;
   on style, 177;
   on civilisation, 298;
   on the Jesuits, 304, 305;
   on beauty, 315;
   on art and morality, 321;
   on sociological function of art, 323.

 Government, as art, 3.

 Grace, an element of style in writing, 155, 156.

 Grammar, Protagoras the initiator of modern, 4;
   a science or art, 68;
   writing not made by the laws of, 172, 173.

 Grammarian, the, the formulator, not the lawgiver, of usage, 148.

 Great Wall of China, the, 28.

 Great War, the, 339.

 Greece, ancient, genius built upon basis of slavery in, 292;
   the spirit of, 292.

 Greek art, 76 _n._

 Greek dancing, 55, 56, 60.

 Greek drama, 55, 56, 78.

 Greek morality, an artistic balance of light and shade, 260.

 Greek speech, the best literary prose, 155.

 Greek spirit, the, 76 _n._

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The Dance of Life

Ellis, Havelock

Conduct of life; English essays -- 20th century; Ethics; Philosophy

Gaultier, Jules de, 330 _n._;
   on Buddhist monks, 224 _n._;
   on pain and pleasure in life, 278 _n._;
   on morality and reason, 281;
   on morality and art, 284;
   on the antinomy between morals and morality, 319;
   on beauty, 327;
   on life as a spectacle, 333;
   the Bovarism of, 335-37;
   his philosophic descent, 337;
   applies Bovarism to the Universe, 337;
   his philosophy seems to be in harmony with physics, 338;
   the place of morality, religion, and law in his system, 338-40;
   place of the æsthetic instinct in his system, 341, 343-45;
   system of, compared with Russell’s, 342, 343;
   importance of development of æsthetic sense to, 345;
   and the idea of pure art, 346, 347;
   considers æsthetic sense mixed in manifestations of life, 349, 350;
   had predilection for middle class, 356, 357;
   sees no cause for despair in break-up of civilisation, 358.

 Gauss, C. F., religious, though man of science, 208.


 Genesis, Book of, the fashioning of the cosmos in, 1, 314.

 Genius, the birth of, 109;
   and education, as tests, of civilisation, 291-93;
   of country, and temper of the population, 292, 293.

 Geology, founded by Leonardo da Vinci, 120.

 Geometry, Protagoras’s studies in, 3;
   a science or art, 68.

 Gibbon, Edward, 162.

 Gide, André, 322.

 Gizycki, Georg von, on Shaftesbury, 260, 267.

 God, a fiction, 100, 337.

 Goethe, J. W., 342;
   representative of ideal of totality of existence, 6;
   called architecture “frozen music,” 135;
   his power of intuition, 137;
   his studies in mathematical physics, 137 _n._;
   use of word “stamped” of certain phrases, 149;
   mistook birds, 168;
   felt harmony of religion and science, 207;
   and Schiller and Humboldt, 275.

 Gomperz, Theodor, his _Greek Thinkers_, 4, 5, 6 _n._; 75, 78.

 Goncourt, Jules de, his style, 182, 183.

 Goncourts, the, 183.

 Good, the, and beauty, among the Greeks, 247.

 Goodness, and sweetness, in Shaftesbury’s philosophy, 262;
   and sweetness, originally the same, 263;
   moral, originally expressed in terms of taste, 263.

 Gorgias, 302.

 Gourmont, Remy de, 65;
   his remark about pleasure, 24;
   on personality, 144;
   on style, 177;
   on civilisation, 298;
   on the Jesuits, 304, 305;
   on beauty, 315;
   on art and morality, 321;
   on sociological function of art, 323.

 Government, as art, 3.

 Grace, an element of style in writing, 155, 156.

 Grammar, Protagoras the initiator of modern, 4;
   a science or art, 68;
   writing not made by the laws of, 172, 173.

 Grammarian, the, the formulator, not the lawgiver, of usage, 148.

 Great Wall of China, the, 28.

 Great War, the, 339.

 Greece, ancient, genius built upon basis of slavery in, 292;
   the spirit of, 292.

 Greek art, 76 _n._

 Greek dancing, 55, 56, 60.

 Greek drama, 55, 56, 78.

 Greek morality, an artistic balance of light and shade, 260.

 Greek speech, the best literary prose, 155.

 Greek spirit, the, 76 _n._

Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.

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