Greeks, the, explanations of pre-eminence insufficient, 3-7; pre-eminence unexplained, 7-9; originality, 9; genius of race analogous to genius of individual, 9; powers of assimilation and reproduction, 10-12; important position between two civilisations, 11; effect of diverse influences, 11, 12; receptive, but not absorbed, 13, 14; persistence of characteristics, 15; accomplishments in world’s history, 16-18; influence of, 53; not wanting in love for nature, 59; why no means of expressing Christian spirit, 113; and Christianity, 113; race of varied experience, 116; sense of fitness in sculpture, 116; power of logic upon their minds, 152; triumphs gained by hard thinking, 179; traders, 187; attitude toward monarchy, 205; furnish lessons in failures as well as in achievements, 205, 206; middle classes most important, 206; adopt limitation of family, 207 Grote, George, historian, 56; not interested in travelling in Greece, 56; on Attic citizens, 208 Grotius, Hugo, _De Jure Pacis et Belli_, 198 _Guesses at Truth_, _see_ Hare H _Hamlet_ of Shakespeare, 48 Hare, _Guesses at Truth_, quoted, 52 Hecatæus, historian, 71 Hegemony of Greece, what it was, 201; leaders, 201 Hellenic race, _see_ Greeks Heracleitus of Ephesus, early writer of prose, 67; his fundamental element of the world, 219; on qualities of matter, 220, 221 Herculaneum, 145 _Hermes_ of Praxiteles, 106 _Hero and Leander_, 96 Herodotus, Father of History, world model of art of history, 71-75; subject, 71, 74, 78; essence of history as an art, 73; agrees with Aristotle as to style and subject of history, 74; style, 74, 75; so-called inventions of, 76; vindicated, 76; compared with Thucydides, 76, 78; on Cyrene, 77; quoted, 116 Heron, development of mechanics and hydrostatics, 147, 162, 167; ingenious inventions of, 162-164, 165 Herondas, _Mimes_, inferior poetry, 39 Hiero of Xenophon, 116 Hipparchus, astronomer, 167 Hippocrates of Kos, Father of Rational Medicine, 67, 171; founds school of medicine, 171; style of writing, 172; works out a system of treatment, 172; _Aphorisms_ quoted, 172; John Stearne on works of, 174; mental attitude of, 174; ignores supernatural causes of diseases and cures, 175; quoted, 175; combats superstition, 176; principles, 177; oath of practitioners, 178 Hipponax, 41 History, early annalists, 70; Herodotus and Thucydides, 71; models of the art and science of history, 71; Aristotle’s view of, 72, 74; Herodotus on history as art, 73, 74; views of Herodotus and Aristotle compared, 74; simplicity, 75; Herodotus vindicated, 76; Thucydides compared with Herodotus, 76; views of Thucydides, 77; style of Thucydides, 78, 79; human history as a great drama, 79; characteristics that will make it last, 80 _History of Greek Literature_, _see_ Mahaffy, J. P. Homer, understood by all generations, 14; his influence through Pope, 53