Conduct of life; English essays -- 20th century; Ethics; Philosophy
Sweetness, and goodness, in Shaftesbury’s philosophy, 262;
originally the same, 263.
Swift, Jonathan, laments “the corruption of our style,” 142;
beauty of his style, rests on truth to logic of his thought, 183;
utterance of, combining two conceptions of life, 333.
Swimming-belt, constructed by Leonardo da Vinci, 119.
Swinburne, C. A., on writing poetry to a tune, 62;
his _Poems and Ballads_, 172;
his _Songs before Sunrise_, 212.
Sylvester, J. J., on mathematics, 139.
Symphony, the development of a dance suite, 62.
Syndicalism, as test of civilisation, 296, 297.
Taglioni, Maria, 58.
Tahiti, dancing at, 50.
Tambourine, the, 53.
_Tao_, the word, 204.
Taste, the gospel of, 280.
Telegraph, the, 72 _n._
Telephone, the, 72 _n._
Tell-el-Amarna, 28.
Theology, 227.
Therapeuts, the worship of, 42.
Thing-in-Itself, the, a fiction, 101.
Things, are fictions, 98.
Thinking, of the nature of art, 85, 86;
and existing, on two different planes, 101;
the special art and object of, 101;
is a comparison, 102;
is a regulated error, 103;
abstract, the process of its birth, 108, 109.
Thompson, Silvanus, on Faraday, 132.
Thomson, James, influence of Shaftesbury on, 266.
Thomson, Sir Joseph, on matter and weight, 230.
Thoreau, H. D., on morals, 282.
Thought, logic of, inescapable, 183.
Tobacco, consumption of, as test of civilisation, 295.
Todas, the, of India, 203 _n._
Toledo, cathedral of, dancing in, 44.
Tolstoy, Count Leo, his opinions on art, 311.
Tonga, sacred position of carpenter in, 2.
Tooke, Horne, 151 _n._
Townsend, Rev. Joseph, on the fandango, 50.
Tradition, the corporeal embodiment of heredity, 161;
and instinct, mould morals, 254-59.
Traditions, religious, 227;
scientific, 228.
Triangles, 53.
Truth, the measuring-rod of, 230-32.
Tunisia, Southern, dancing in, 49.
T’ung, the story of, 33.
Turkish dervishes, dances of, 41.
Tuscans, the, 56.
_See_ Etruscans.
Tyndall, John, on Faraday, 130-32.
Tyrrells, the, the handwriting of, 157.
Ugliness, 328.
Ulysses, representative of ideal of totality of existence, 6.
United States, the genius of, compared with the temper of the
population, 293.
Universe, conceived as work of art by primitive philosopher, 1;
according to D. F. Strauss, 214;
according to Spencer, 215;
according to Hinton, 216;
according to Sir James Frazer, 219 _n._;
according to Bertrand Russell, 219 _n._;
conception of, a personal matter, 219 _n._;
the so-called materialistic, 229, 230;
Bovarism of, 337.
Utilitarians, the, 267, 268.
Uvea, 15.
_See_ Loyalty Islands.
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