Conduct of life; English essays -- 20th century; Ethics; Philosophy
Greeks, attitude of thinkers of, on life as art, 3, 247-53;
the pottery of, 32;
importance of dancing and music in organisation of some states of,
64;
books on, written by barbarians, 76 _n._;
mysticism of, 205-07, 240-43;
spheres of ethics and æsthetics not distinguished among, 247;
had a kind of æsthetic morality, 316-18;
recognised destruction of ethical and intellectual virtues, 330;
a small minority of abnormal persons among, 353 _n._
Greenslet, Ferris, on the Cartesian influence on English prose style,
180 _n._
Groos, Karl, his “the play of inner imitation,” 66;
has developed æsthetic side of _miterleben_, 332.
Grosse, on the social significance of dancing, 63, 64.
Grote, George, his chapter on Socrates, 76.
Grotius, Hugo, 261.
Guitar, the, an Egyptian instrument, 53.
Gumplowicz, Ludwig, on civilisation, 301.
Gunpowder, use made of, by Chinese, 22, 23.
Guyau, insisted on sociological function of art, 323, 324;
believes that poets and artists will be priests of social religion
without dogmas, 349, 350.
Gypsies, possible origin of the name “Egyptians” as applied to them, 54
_n._
Hadfield, Emma, her account of the life of the natives of the Loyalty
Islands, 13-18.
Hakluyt, Richard, 143;
his picture of Chinese life, 19.
Hall, Stanley, on importance of dancing, 64, 65;
on the beauty of virtue, 270 _n._
Handel, G. F., 62.
Handwriting, partly a matter of individual instinct, 156, 157;
the complexity and mystery enwrapping, 157;
resemblances in, among members of the same family, 157, 158;
atavism in, 157, 158.
Hang-Chau, 20.
Hardy, Thomas, his lyrics, 170 _n._;
his sensitivity to the sounds of Nature, 171;
his genius unquestioned, 187 _n._
Hawaii, dancing in, 51.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, his style, 161.
Hebrews, their conception of the fashioning of the universe, 1;
ancient, their priests and their prophets, 203;
never conceived of the art of morals, 253;
were no æsthetic intuitionists, 276.
Hegel, G. W. F., 90;
poetic quality of his philosophy, 84;
his attempt to transform subjective processes into objective
world-processes, 101.
Heine, Heinrich, 155 _n._
Hellenism, the revivalists of, 271.
Helmholtz, H. L. F., science and art in, 72.
Hemelverdeghem, Salome on Cathedral at, 49 _n._
Heraclitus, 74.
Herder, J. G. von, his _Ideen zur Geschichte der Menschheit_, 88;
inspired by Shaftesbury, 268.
Heredity, in handwriting, 157, 158;
in style, 158-61, 190;
tradition the corporeal embodiment of, 161.
Hincks, Marcella Azra, on the art of dancing in Japan, 42 _n._
Hindu dance, 41.
Hinton, James, on thinking as an art, 86 _n._;
on the arts, 111;
the universe according to, 215, 216;
Ellis’s copy of his book, 220;
on pleasure and pain in the art of life, 278;
on methods of arts and moral action, 281, 282.
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