Mass, dancing in ritual of, 43-45; analogy of Pagan Mysteries to, 242. Master of Arts, 69. Materialism, 97, 230. Materialistic, the term, 229. Mathematical Renaissance, the, 69. Mathematics, false ideas in, 94, 95; and art, 138-40. Matter, a fiction, 97, 229, 338; and spirit, 229, 230. Maupassant, Guy de, 311. McDougall, William, accepts magic as origin of science, 195; his criticism of the “moral sense,” 274 _n._; his study of civilisation, 298; on birth-rate, 298 _n._ _Me_ and _I_, 147. Mead, G. R., his article _The Sacred Dance of Jesus_, 44. Measurement, Protagoras’s saying concerning, 3, 302. Mechanics, beginning of science of, 74; theories of, studied by Leonardo da Vinci, 120. Medici, Catherine de’, brought Italian ballet to Paris, 57. Medicine, and religion, 197 _n._, 203. Medicine-man, the, 192-95. Meh-ti, Chinese philosopher, 26, 27. Men, of to-day and of former days, their comparative height, 142. “Men of science,” 125, 126. _See_ Scientist. Meteorological Bureau, the, 203. Metre, poetic, arising out of work, 62. Michelangelo, 311. Milan, the ballet in, 58. Mill, J. S., on science and art, 70; criticism of Bentham, 99. Millet, J. F., 311. Milton, John, his misuse of the word “eglantine,” 169; Tolstoy’s opinion of, 311. Mirandola, Pico della, 6 _n._ Mittag-Lefler, Gustav, on mathematics, 139. Möbius, Paul Julius, German psychologist, 109. Moissac, Salome capital in, 49 _n._ Montaigne, M. E. de, his style flexible and various, 148; his quotations moulded to the pattern of his own mind, 152; his style and that of Renan, 161; the originality of his style found in vocabulary, 165. Montesquieu, Baron de, his admiration for Shaftesbury, 268; on the evils of civilisation, 297. _Moral_, significance of the term, 246. Moral maxims, 254, 258. Moral reformer, the, 282. “Moral sense,” the term as used by Hutcheson and Shaftesbury, 273, 274; in McDougall’s _Social Psychology_, 274 _n._ Moral teaching, 246 _n._ Moral World-Order, the, a fiction, 100. Morand, Paul, 170 _n._ Moreau, Gustave, 167. Morgagni, G. B., 300. Morris, William, 350 _n._ Moses, 253, 282. Moszkowski, Alexander, his book on Einstein, 134 _n._ Moralist, the critic of the art of life, 247.