Life, more difficult to realise it as an art than to act it so, 1, 2; as art, view of highest thinkers of China and Greece on, 2-6, 247-52; ideal of totality of, 6; art of, has been decadent during last two thousand years, 8 _n._; of the Loyalty Islanders, 13-18; the Lifuan art of, 13-18; the Chinese art of, 27, 28; Chinese civilization proves that it is art, 30; embodiment of the Chinese symbol of the art of, 33; identical with art, 33-35; the art of, a dance, 66, 67; mechanistic explanation of, 216; viewed in its moral aspect, 244; the moralist the critic of the art of, 247; as art, attitude of Romans toward, 252; as art, attitude of Hebrews toward, 253; the art of, both pain and pleasure in, 277, 278; as art, a conception approved by men of high character, 278, 279; not to be precisely measured by statistics, 302; as a spectacle, 333, 334. Lifu. _See_ Loyalty Islands. Lifuans, the, the art of living of, 13-18. Limoges, 44. Linnæan system, the, a fiction, 99. Liszt, Franz, 329. Livingstone, David, 38. Locke, John, and Shaftesbury, 261, 262. Locomotive, the, 72 _n._ Lodge, Sir Oliver, his attempt to study religion, 201. Logic, a science or art, 68; and fiction, 94; of thought, inescapable, 183. Loret, on dancing, 54 _n._ Love, dancing the primitive expression of, 37, 45; curiosity one of the main elements of, 112. Love-dance, 45-51. _See_ Dance, Dancing. Loyalty Islands, the, customs of the natives of, 13-18. Lucian, 353 _n._; on dancing, 40, 45. Lucretius, 207. Lull, Ramon, 237. Lulli, J. B., brought women into the ballet, 57. Luxuries, consumption of, as test of civilisation, 294-97. Machinery of life, 216. Madagascar, dancing in, 49. Magic, relation of, to science and religion, 193-96. Magna Carta, 98. Malherbe, François de, 148. Mallarmé, Stéphane, music the voice of the world to, 166. Mallorca, dancing in church in, 44, 45. Mammals, dancing among, 45, 46. Man, has found it more difficult to conceive life as an art than to act it so, 1; his conception less that of an artist, as time went on, 2; in Protagoras’s philosophy, 3, 4, 302; ceremony and music, his external and internal life, 25; added to Nature, 153; has passed through stages of magic, religion, and science, 196; an artist of his own life, 271; is an artist, 310; as artist and as æsthetician, 314; becomes the greatest force in Nature, 339; practices adopted by, to maintain selection of best stock, 354. Mandeville, Sir John, on Shaftesbury, 262. Manet, 311. Marco Polo, his picture of Chinese life, 19, 20; noticed absence of beggars in China, 31; on public baths in China, 32. Marett, on magic and science, 195. Marlowe, Christopher, 170, 184. Marquesans, the, 13 _n._ Marriott, Charles, on the union of æsthetic sense with artistic instinct, 350 _n._ Martial, 54.