Parachute, constructed by Leonardo da Vinci, 119. Paris, dancing in choir in, 44; the ballet at, 57. Parker, Professor E. H., his book _China: Past and Present_, 23 _n._; his view of Chinese vermin and dirt, 31, 32. Parks, 351. Parmelee, Maurice, his _Criminology_, 291 _n._ Parsons, Professor, 142. Pascal, Blaise, and the Jesuits, 303, 304. Pater, W. H., the music of his style, 164. Pattison, Pringle, his definition of mysticism, 192 _n._ Paul, Vincent de, his moral attitude, 279, 280. Paulhan, on morality, 284. Pell, E. C., on decreasing birth-rate, 294 _n._ Pepys, Samuel, the accomplishment of his “Diary,” 176. Perera, Galeotto, his picture of Chinese life, 19; noticed absence of beggars in China, 31. Pericles, 289. Personality, 144. Pessimism, and optimism, 90-92. Petrie, Dr. W. M. Flinders, his attempt to measure civilisation by standard of sculpture, 307, 308. Peyron, traveller, 50. Phenomenalism, Protagoras the father of, 3. Philosopher, the primitive, usually concluded that the universe was a work of art, 1; a creative artist, 72, 73, 85; curiosity the stimulus of, 104, 105. Philosophy, of the Chinese, 32; solution of the conflicts of, in art, 82, 83; and art, close relationship of, 83-85; and poetry, 83, 85; is music, 179. Physics, and fiction, 95. Pictures, revelation of beauty in, 328, 329; should be looked at in silence, 329 _n._ Pindar, calls Hellas “the land of lovely dancing,” 55. Planck, Max, physicist, 136. Plato, Protagoras calumniated by, 3; made fun of Hippias, 4; his description of a good education, 64; a creative artist, 73; his picture of Socrates, 75, 78; the biographies of, 76, 77; his irony, 78, 83; a marvellous artist, 82; a supreme artist in philosophy, 83; a supreme dramatist, 83; his “Ideas” and the “As-If world,” 88; the myths, as fictions, hypotheses, and dogmas, 99; represents the acme of literary prose speech, 155; and Plotinus, 222; on the Mysteries, 242; asceticism, traced in, 249 _n._; on justice, 289; his ideal of wise moderation addressed to an immoderate people, 292; Sophists caricatured by, 302; his “guardians,” 306; the ultrapuritanical attitude of, 317, 318 _n._; and Bovarism, 336; on the value of sight, 345 _n._; wished to do away with imaginative literature, 353 _n._; and Jesus, 356. Pleasure, a human creation, 24; and pain, united, 278. Pliny, 353 _n._ Plotinus, 222; Greek moral spirit reflected in, 249; his doctrine of Beauty, 250, 251; his idea that the moral life of the soul is a dance, 251, 252; his simile of the sculptor, 276 _n._; founder of æsthetics in the philosophic sense, 329; recognised three aspects of the Absolute, 330; insisted on contemplation, 330 _n._, 331; of the participating contemplative temperament, 332.