Conduct of life; English essays -- 20th century; Ethics; Philosophy
Isocrates, on beauty and virtue, 247.
Italy, Romantic dancing originated in, 53, 56;
the ballet in, 56-58.
Jansenists, the, 303.
Japan, dancing in, 42, 49.
Java, dancing in, 49.
Jehovah, in the Book of Genesis, 1.
Jeremiah, the prophet, his voice and instrument, 178, 179.
Jeres, cathedral of, dancing in, 44.
Jesuits, the, 303-05.
Jesus, and Napoleon, 10, 11;
and the Platonic Socrates, 82, 83;
asserts principle of eugenics, 353, 356;
and Plato, 356.
Joël, Karl, on the Xenophontic Socrates, 78;
on the evolution of the Greek philosophic spirit, 206.
John of the Cross, 237.
Johnson, Samuel, the pedantry of, 156;
Latin-French element in, 162;
his idea of “matter,” 230.
Johnston, Sir H. H., on the dancing of the Pygmies, 51.
Jones, Dr. Bence, biographer of Faraday, 130.
Jonson, Ben, 184.
Joyce, James, 172, 184;
his _Ulysses_, 185, 186.
Kant, Immanuel, 89;
germs of the doctrine of the “as if” in, 87;
his idea of the art of morals, 253, 254;
influenced by Shaftesbury, 253, 254, 266;
anecdote about, 257 _n._, 276;
rationalises morality, 281.
Keats, John, concerned with beautiful words in “The Eve of St. Agnes,”
167.
Kepler, Johann, his imagination and his accuracy in calculation, 132,
133.
Keyserling, Count Hermann, his _Philosophie als Kunst_, 83 _n._
“Knowing,” analysis of, 70, 71.
Kolbe, Rev. Dr., illustrates æsthetic view of morals, 276 _n._
Lamb, Charles, 184.
Landor, W. S., 149;
on vulgarisms in language, 151 _n._;
on the poet and poetry, 154, 172;
on style, 163.
Lange, F. A., his _The History of Materialism_, 73 _n._, 83;
sets forth conception of philosophy as poetic art, 83;
the Neo-Kantism of, 87;
his influence on Vaihinger, 92, 93.
Language, critics of present-day, 141-51;
of our forefathers and of to-day, 143;
things we are told to avoid in, 145-51;
is imagery and metaphor, 165;
reaction of thought on, 179-81;
progress in, due to flexibility and intimacy, 183.
Languages, the Yo-heave-ho theory of, 61.
Lankester, Sir E. Ray, 70.
Lao-tze, and Confucius, 25, 26;
the earliest of the great mystics, 204;
harmony of religion and science in his work, 204, 205.
Law, a restraint placed upon the possessive instinct, 339, 340;
to be replaced by æsthetic instinct, 340, 341.
Laycock, on handwriting, 158 _n._
Leibnitz, Baron S. W. von, 6 _n._;
on space, 95;
on music, 135;
admired Shaftesbury, 268.
“L’Esprit Nouveau,” 179.
Libby, M. F., on Shaftesbury, 273.
Lie, Jonas, 163.
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