For this, our life of comedy and poetry, which is real only as it is both, no principle can come nearer to the very foundation of duty than just the principle, deeply true: _Whatever is, is right_. Men have laughed and men have wept over this truth. Was ever more perfect mingling of doubt and belief? Was ever greater jest? Or more tragic fact? But truth it is; _the_ truth of all duty; and it is life's eternal comedy--the alpha and the omega, too, of life's own poem. [1] As a positive event in history, belonging to the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, Machiavellism was symptomatic of the great change of the period. Cherished institutes, whether of politics or economics, of art or morals, of the spiritual life or the intellectual life, were becoming instruments. Thus, democracy was supplanting monarchy, Protestantism Catholicism, modern science scholasticism, etc. [2] The late Professor C.C. Everett, of Harvard University. INDEX A Abstraction, of science, 58, 107; and duplicity, 61 Agnosticism, 75, 106; special dangers of, 111, 117; dogmatic and instrumental, 120; as call for action, 125; as passion for real life, 128 Analogy, among the sciences, 97; of individual self to environment, 155; of universal to particular, 33, 220 Anaxagoras, 94 Anaximander, 34, 94, 147 Anti-vitalism, 147 Aristotle, 155, 156 Atomism, 97, 102 B Babylonians, 106 Bacon, 176 Baldwin, 15 Belief, as unquestioning, 8, 194; and doubt, 53, 105, 107, 130, 133, 192, 248 Biology, 88, 90, 104, 110 Boehme, 177 Body, and soul, 227, 237; immortality of, 141, 234 Bradley, 153 n. Burns, 94 C Candour, of the English, 270 Carlyle, 126 Catholicism, 175 Causation, 39, 82, 83, 109, 205 Change, and habit, 15; as motive, 17; of purpose, 11 Charron, 177, 180 Chemistry, 34, 36, 88, 90, 91, 110 Christ, 51, 246, 263 Christianity, and immortality, 240; preparation for, 266; different views of history of, 266 Christian Science, 2, 32 n. Class, the social, 62, 126, 162; relation of, to doubt and belief, 171 Comedy, 275 Companionship, with nature, 21, 71; with man, 24; with God, 26 Contradiction, in ordinary views, 30; in idea of reality, 30; of unity, 33; of space and time, 38; of causation, 39; of knowledge, 41; of morality, 44; of law, 49; as of value in experience, 4, 37, 131; and dualism, 101; as corrective of narrowness, 100, 116, 143; as meaning action, 136; as realizing unity, 137; as securing reality and practicality, 145; as requiring society, 147; as not to be cultivated for its own sake, 151; as related to person and class, 170 Conventionalism, 66, 260 Creationalism, 82, 202 Crusades, 267 D