Solidarity, socialistic, among the Chinese, 26, 27. Solmi, Vincian scholar, 114. Sophists, the, 4, 302, 302 _n._ Sophocles, danced in his own dramas, 56; beauty and moral order in, 247; Tolstoy’s opinion of, 311. Soul, a fiction, 100; in harmony with itself, 219; the moral life of, as a dance, 251, 252. South Sea Islands, dancing in, 49. Space, absolute, a fiction, 95. Spain, dancing in, 44, 50, 54. Speech, the best literary prose, 155; in Greece, 155; in England, 155, 156; the artist’s, 156; a tradition, 161. Spelling, and thinking, 127 _n._; has little to do with style, 173; now uniform and uniformly bad, 174, 175. Spencer, Herbert, on science and art, 68; on use of science in form of magic, 195; the universe according to, 215; on the harmlessness of moral teaching, 246 _n._; on diminishing birth-rate, 294 _n._ Spengler, Dr. Oswald, on the development of music, 135 _n._; argues on the identity of physics, mathematics, religion, and great art, 138; his theory of culture and civilisation, 309, 310. Spinoza, Baruch, 89; has moved in sphere where impulses of religion and science spring from same source, 207; transforms ethics into geometry, 281; has been called a God-intoxicated man, 316 _n._; his “intellectual love of God,” 342. Spirit, and matter, 229, 230. Statistics, uncertainty of, 286; for measurement of civilisation, 286-88; applied to France to test civilisation, 295-97. Steele, Dr. John, on the Chinese ceremonial, 29 _n._ Stephen, Sir Leslie, on poetry and philosophy, 85; could see no good in Shaftesbury, 268. Stevenson, R. L., 188. Stocks, eradication of unfit, by Man, 354; recommended by Jesus, 355, 356. Stoics, the, 207. Strauss, D. F., his _The Old Faith and the New_, 214. Style, literary, of to-day and of our fore-fathers’ time, 143; the achievement of, 155; grace seasoned with salt, 155; atavism in, in members of the same family, 158, 190; atavism in, in the race, 160, 190; much that is instinctive in, 163; the music of, 163, 164; vocabulary in, 164, 165; the effect of mere words on, 165-67; familiarity with author’s, necessary to understanding, 171, 172; spelling has little to do with, 173; much lost by slavish adherence to rules in, 175; must have clarity and beauty, 176-78; English prose, Cartesian influence on, 180 _n._; personal and impersonal, 182, 183; progress in, lies in casting aside accretions and exuberances, 183; founded on a model, the negation of style, 188; the task of breaking the old moulds of, 188, 189; summary of elements of, 190. _See_ Writing. Suicide, rate of, as test of civilisation, 295, 296. Swahili, dancing among, 38. Swedenborg, Emanuel, his science and his mysticism, 208. Swedish ballet, the, 60. _Sweet_ (_suavis_), referring to moral qualities, 264.