Conduct of life; English essays -- 20th century; Ethics; Philosophy
Religion, as the desire for the salvation of the soul, 8;
origin of dance in, 38;
connection of dance with, among primitive men, 39;
in music, 179;
and science, supposed difference between, 191-203;
its quintessential core, 191;
control of Nature through oneness with Nature, at the heart of, 194;
relation of, to science and magic, 194-96;
the man of, studying science, 202;
and science, the harmony of, as revealed in human history, 203-08;
and science, the harmony of, as supported by personal experience of
Havelock Ellis, 209-18;
asceticism has nothing to do with normal, 222;
and science, how they came to be considered out of harmony, 226-35;
the burden of the traditions of, 227;
and church, not the same, 228 _n._;
the instinct of, 234;
and science, harmony of, summary of considerations confirming, 235,
236;
is not science, 238-40;
an act, 243;
a restraint placed upon the possessive instinct, 339, 340;
to be replaced by æsthetic instinct, 340, 341.
_See_ Mysticism.
Religions, in every case originally saltatory, 40.
Religious dances, ecstatic and pantomimic, 41;
survivals of, 42;
in Christianity, 42-45.
Renan, J. E., his style, 161;
his _Life of Jesus_, 212;
on truth, 301.
“Resident in Peking, A,” author of _China as it Really Is_, 21, 22.
Revelation, Book of, 153.
Revival, the, 241, 243.
Rhythm, marks all the physical and spiritual manifestations of life,
37;
in work, 61.
Rickert, H., his twofold division of Reality, 325, 326.
Ridgeway, William, his theory of origin of tragedy, 56.
Roberts, Morley, ironical over certain “men of science,” 126 _n._
Robinson, Dr. Louis, on apes and dancing, 46;
on the influence of the drum, 63.
Rodó, his conceptions those of Shaftesbury, 269.
Roman law, 98.
Romans, the ancient, dancing and war allied among, 63, 64;
did not believe that living is an art, 252.
Romantic spirit, the, 206.
Romantics, the, 149, 156.
Rome, ancient, dancing in, 49;
genius built upon basis of slavery in, 292.
Rops, Félicien, 167.
Ross, Robert, 150.
Rouen Cathedral, Salome on portal of, 49 _n._
Rousseau, J. J., Napoleon before grave of, 11;
felt his lapses, 79;
grace of, 149;
love of Nature developed through, 238;
and Shaftesbury, 268, 269;
decided against civilisation, 298.
Roussillon, 44.
Rule, rigid subserviency to, mark of decadence, 173;
much lost by rigid adherence to, in style, 175.
_Rules for Compositors and Readers_, on spelling, Oxford University
Press, 174 _n._
Ruskin, John, 316;
a God-intoxicated man, 316 _n._
Russell, Bertrand, on the Chinese, 23;
on mathematics, 139, 140;
on the creative and the possessive impulses, 305-07, 341, 342;
system of, compared with Gaultier’s, 342, 343.
Russia, the genius of, compared with the temper of the population, 293.
Russian ballet, the, 58-60.
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