Index.

• ABELARD, 69, 116
• Ackerman, Madam, Her Pessimism, 201
• Adams, 242
• Adelaide of Luxembourg, 114
• AEschylus, 45
• AEsthetic Sense, 212
• AEneas, 223
• AEthiopica, 76
• Agnes, St., 72
• Ahura Mazda, 53
• Airy, G. B., 242
• Albertus Magnus, 116
• Alcaeus, 59
• Alcuin, 114
• Albigensian heresy, 110
• Alexandrian Schools, 67
• Alfred, King, 80
• Alte and der Neue Glaube, 141
• Ambrose, St., 73
• Amiel, on Schopenhaner, 197
  On Hartmann, 200
  On Renan, 204
  On Christianity, 207
• Amphitheatre, The Roman, 45
• Anacreon, 59
• Angelo. Michael, 46
  He defines genius, 239
• Anro-Mainyas, 53
• Anselm, St., 98
• Aquinas, St. Thomas, 99, 101, 103, 188, 234, 266
• Architecture and Literature, 33
• Archimedes, 59
• Areopagus, 67
• Aristophanes, 59
• Ariosto, 89
• Aristotle, 15, 61
• Arthur, King, 38
• Arthurian Cycle, 90, 94
• Artist, the literary, 239
• Aryan Races, 25
• Aryan and Semite, 29
• Ascham Roger, 95
• Athenagoras, 68
• Athalie, 243
• Athenians, 68
• Augustine, St 12, 255
  His Confessions, 77
  His "City of God," 77
  Estimate of his genius, 79
• Autos Sacramentales, 111
• Averroes, 119, 186
• Avesta, The 53, 54

• BACON, Lord, 44, 143
  His Inductive Method, 145
• Bacon and final cause, 148
• Bacon, Roger, 149
  That he anticipates the Chancellor in every characteristic point of his philosophy, 150-156
• Balmes, 19, 82, 87, 139, 214, 253
• Barbe, (note) 98
• Bartlett, 101
• Bascom, Error regarding Beauty, 211
• Basil, St., 73, 75
• Bayle, (note) 76
• Bazin, (note) 26
• Beautiful, The, in literature, 209
• Beauty, various kinds of, 210
  Cousin's error regarding, 210
  The sense of, 212
  Definition of, 216
• Beethoven, 236
• Bembo, Cardinal, 120
• Beowulf, 14
• Bernard, St., 69, 98
• Bible, the Holy, 17, 19, 23, 26
• Bischafshein, 114
• Boëtius, 70, 80, 114
  On Personality, 189
• Boniface, St., 114
• Book of Common Prayer, 128
• Boron, Robert, 91
• Boscovitch, 101
• Bossuet, 239
• Bournouf; 25, 26
• Breviary, The Roman, 112
• Browning, 268
• Brownson, Dr., 213
• Bruno, St., 115
• Buddhism, 57
• Bunsen, 40
• Burke, Edmund, 133, 139

• CAEDMON, 32
• Caesar, 161
• Calderon, 44, 111
• Cain, 193
• Cainites, 21
• Candide, 193
• Cantù, 97, 119, 123
• Carlovingian Cycle, 85
• Carlyle on Genius, 239
• Cathari and Paterini, 118
• Caus eries du Lundi, 263
• Cervantes, 44, 97
• Chaldaeans, 49
• Chamberlain, B. H., 26
• Chanson de Roland, 88
• Chariclea, 76
• Charlemagne, 88
• Chateaubriand, 193, 243
• Chaucer, 80
• Chemi, 36
• Chesterfield's Letters, 250
• Childe Harold, 164
• China, 19
• Chivalry, 87
• Chrestien of Troyes, 91
• Christianity, 64
  And Barbarism, 81
  Lecky on, 66, 67
• Cicero, 123, 161
• Cid 32
• Classic, defined, 221
  The best representative of a people's literature, 209
• Claudian, poet, 71
  A pagan panegyrist in a Christian Court, 71
• Clement of Alexandria, 68 159
• Columbanus, St., 114
• Comte, 174
• Condillac, Abbe, 125
• Constantinople, Fall of 120,
• Confucius, 17, 52, 53
• Copperfield, David, 12
• Corcoran, Mgr. James A., 12
• Cosmos, 228
• Councils of the Church, 17
• Cousin, 110, 210, 245
• Critique of Pure Reason, 203
• Church, The, on the miseries of life, 201
• Critic, The, his noble position, 254

• D'ALEMBERT and Diderot, 173
• Dante and Vergil, 15
  Cardinal Wiseman on, 39
  On Boëtius, 81
  Estimate of his genius, 105
• Darwin. 17, 242
  On descent of man, 174
  On the mind, 173
  On conscience, 177
• Darwinism not Evolutionism, 181
• Defensor Pacis, 118
• De Maistre, 51
• Demosthenes, 59
• Dendara, 36
• De Rouge,
• Descartes, 132
  His fundamental principle, 133
• Dionysius the Areopagite, 67, 93
• Disraeli, 109
• Divina Commedia, 105
• Don Quixote, its influence, 96
  The great classic of Spain, 97
• Douglass, 52, 53, 58
• Drama, 46

• EAST, the,
• Ecclesiastes, 229
• Eclectic School of Alexandria, 68
• Edkins, 24
• Education, Religious element in, 231
• Egypt, 24, 36
• Elizabeth, of Hungary, St., 85
• El Diablo Mundo, 201
• Ellora, 34
• Emerson, 215, 267
• England, her philosophy materialistic, 157
• Esnah, 36
• Erasmus, 123
• Erigena, Scotus, 114
• Essay on Man, 193
• Eschenbach, Wolfram von, 39
• Evangeline, 32
• Evolutionism and literature, 174
• Positivism, 174
• The Supernatural, 175
• Absolute Morality, 176
• The Moral Sense, 176
• Theological Habits of thought, 179
  Its Attractions, 180
  Its Lessons, 180
  Its Limitations, 181
• Evolutionism and the Human body, 182
  The Species, 183
  The intellectual faculties, 184
  Idea of immortality, 185
  Human soul, 186
  Church, 186
• Excursion, 164
• Expression, 214
• Euclid, 59

• FARADAY, 101
• Fathers, The Early, 72
• Faust, 141
• Fenelon, 239
• Fergusson on China, 19
  On the architecture of the Hindus, 34
• Feudalism, 89
• Ficino, Marsilius, 119
• Fichte, 70, 133
  His Philosophy, 18
• Final Cause, consequence of its denial, 226, 227
• Fiske, Prof. John, 17
  On Scepticism, 179
• Francis of Assisi, St., 84
• Frederick II, 84
• French and German Literature compared, 260
• Friends of God, 107

• GAMUT, 235
• Gautama, 65
• Genesis, 22
• Genera and species, 68
• Genius, 20, 239, 240
• Geoffrey of Monmouth, 91
• Gerbert, (Sylvester II), 116
• Ginestra, La, 195
• Goethe and the Reformation, 140
  And Spinoza, 141
  Poetry of 141
• Gontran, 114
• Görres,
• Gothic Cathedral, 37
• Greece, her language, 27
  Her architecture, 36
  Her golden epoch, 45
  Her educative influence, 58, 59, 60
  Her philosophy, 60-63
• Gregorian Chant, 236
• Gregory of Nazeanzen, St., 73
• Gregory of Nyssa, St., 73
• Grimm, 86
• Grove on Force, 103
• Gryfidd of Conan, 92
• Guariai, 76
• Guatama, 65
• Guelf and Ghibelline, 105
• Guido Aretino, 235
• Guizot, 142
• Guillaume Court-Nez, the hero of song, 90

• HALLAM, 116, 128
• Hamilton, Sir William, 173
• Hamlet and OEdipus Rex compared, 165
• Hamlet, 223
• Harms, his criticism on Hegel, 192
• Hartmann on Evolution, 12
  Pessimism, 198
  Existence, 199
  Pain, 199
  His remedy for life's misery, 200
• Hegel, 34
  Hegel and a Personal God, 188
  On History, 189
  On Freedom, 190
  The fallacy in his philosophy, 195
• Hegelism and Literature, 187
• Heine, 193, 263
• Heiric of Auxerre, 115
• Heliodorus, Bishop, 76
• Heraclitus, 62
• Herder, 22
• Herodotus, 59
• Hermann and Dorothea, 141
• Hill, Father, on the. Beautiful, 210
• Hippocrates, 245
• History, 40
• Hitopadesa, 53
• Holy Grail, 37, 39, 92, 93
• Homer, 15, 17, 33, 161
• Honorius, 72
• Horace, 44
• Hrosvitha, 114
• Hugo of St. Victor's, 98
• Huguenots, 110
• Humanists, 119
• Humboldt, W. Von, 23
• Huet, 76

• IDEA, an all-absorbing, essential to complete literature, 163, 164
• Ideal, the, 212, 213
  Expression of the Word, 221
• Identity, universal, 187 "Idols" of Lord Bacon, 157
• Iliad, 84
• I-Li, quoted, 170
• Idyls of the King, 95
• Imitation of Christ, 107
• Indifferentism, induced by the Renaissance, 121
• India,
• Intellect, Emancipation of, 129
• I Promessi Sposi, 195
• Irish Bards, 92
• Irish Monks, 115
• Isidore of Seville, St., 114.
• Incarnation of the Word, 230
• In Memoriam, 14
• Italy, Literary men of, Catholic, 125
• Instinct and Reason, 227, 228

• JACOBUS, 71
• James of Compostello, St., 89
• James of Voragine, 86
• Janssen, 243
• Jerome, St., 73
  Teaches pagan classics, 74
  Censures clergy for making exclusive study of pagan authors, 75, 76
• Jesus, Our Saviour, 64
  What He did for man, 65
  Compared with other reformers, 65
  His love for souls, 16
• Job, 12, 206.
• John Chrysostom, St., 73
• Joseph of Arimathea, 92
• Julian Emperor, 70
• Julius Valerias, 90
• Julien, Stanislaus, 52
• Juvenal, 46
• Jurisprudence, Roman, 64

• KAILASA, 34
• Kalidasa, 44
• Kant, 52, 213
  And Transcendentalism, 187
  His Teachings, 187
  On Morality, 203
• Karolus Magnus, 88
• Koran, 30
• Kubla-Khan, 263
• Keltic Legends, 90
• Keltic Poems, 92

• LACORDAIRE, 224
• La Ginestra, 195
• Lalande, r43
• Lamartine, 193, 263
• Lambert the Crooked, his epic on Alexander, 90
• Language and climate, 27
  Psychologically considered, 31
• Languages, common origin of, 22
• Lanfranc, 114
• Langue d'Oil, 110
• Lao-tsze, 52, 170
• Last Judgment, The, of Michael Angelo, 50
• Lateran, Council of, 117
• Law of Beauty, 216
  Classical literature, 221
  Criticism, 257
  Cycle, Arthurian, 90
  Intelligence
  Intelligibility
  Literary epochs, 41
  Literary growth
  Literary variations, 1
  Christian influence on Literary growth, 165
  Thought, 159
• Lecky, 67
• Legenda Aurea, 85
• Leibnitz, 101, 133, 192, 242
  His system of Theology, 136
• Lenormant, 40, 49, 50
• Leo X., 44, 46
• Leo XIII;, 73, 80, 90
• Leopardi and Pessimism, 193
  His view of life, 194
  The despair of his poems, 194, 265
• Leopardi and Manzoni, 195.
• Lepsius, 40
• Le Roy, Onesime, 111
• Leverrier, 242
• Lenau, 193
• Literary Criticism, 257
  Twofold, 259
  Analytical, 259
  Synthetic, 260
• Literary Epochs, 41
  Ideals, 13
• Literature, defined, 11
  Characteristics, 12
  Fundamental principle, 13
  Forms, 13
  Functions, 14
  Origin, 16
  Difference between Ancient and Modern, 161
  Harmonious development of Ancient, 161
  Beauty characterizing works of Ancients, 161
  Paganism in harmony with man's passions, 102
  Subjectivism in Modern, 164
• Lackadaisical in, 252
  And the Reformation, 122
• Lioba, St., 114
• Livy, 44
• Locke, 125
• Lockyer, 243
• Lollards, the, 57
• Lorinzer, 108
• Lope de Vega, 44
• Louis XIV., 44
• Luther, 121, 234

• MABILLON, 114
• Macaulay's History and Essays, 266
• Madre Natura, 120
• Magnus, 74
• Maitland, 75
• Mallock, on the mystery of belief, 206
• Man, a religious being, 222
• Manfred, 193
• Manichaeism, 57, 77
• Manzoni, 195
• Mapes, Walter, 91
• Mariette, 18, 40
• Massiglio of Padua, 118
• Matter and Form, 101
• Maximus, Neo-Platonist, 69
• Maya, 35
• Mayer, 104
• Meiners, 115
• Melanie, St., 114
• Menander, 59, 75
• Middle Ages, 38
• Mill, J. Stuart, 224
• Miracle Plays and Moralities, 108-113
• Mithra, 53
• Milton, 260
• Mivart, on Man's Origin, 184
• Mohammed, 65
• Mohammedanism, 57
• Molière, 44
• Mommsen, 40
• Monotheism, prior to polytheism, 170
• Montaigne, 130
• Montalembert, 85
• Montesquieu, 156
• Morality, literary, 247
• Mores Catholici, or Ages of Faith, 118
• Morte d'Arthur, 95
• Moses, The, of Michael Angelo, 46
• Mozart, 236
• Müller, Max, 35
• Music and the Church, 235
• Mystics, the, 106

• NEO-PLATONISTS, 77
• Nevin, Dr., 113
• Newman, Cardinal, 278
  On investigation, 239
  On thought
  On the soul, 186
• Newton, 242
• Nicephorus, 76
• Niebelungen-lied, 32, 83
• Niebuhr, 40
  On lyric poetry, 164
• Nirvana, 28
• Nominalism, 98
• Novum Organum, 150-155
• Nursery-tales, 85

• OEDIPUS Rex, 165
• Offenbach, 236
• Opus Majus of Roger Bacon, 150-I55
• Orcagna, 112
• Origen, 68, 75
• Orlando Furioso, 89
• Orpheus, 92
• Ovid, 18
• Oxygen and hydrogen, 103
• Ozanam, 75

• PAGANISM, 71, 72
• Palestrina, 236
• Paradise Lost, 111, 264
• Parcival, 39
• Paris, Paulin, 93
• Paul, St., 205
• Pellicer, 109
• Pendennis, 12
• Pericles, 45
• Peristephanon 71, 72
• Pessimism in Literature,
  And optimism, 192
  In Russia, 201
  Its subjective character, 202
  Fundamental error in, 203
  Its underlying truths, 205
• Peter d'Ureña, 236
• Petrarch, 108
• Phaedrus, 60
• Phoenicia, her philosophy, 157
• Picture-writing, 24
• Pindar, 59
• Pita-Hotep, his teachings, 54-56
• Plato, De Maistre on, 51
  His philosophical problems, 60
  His invigorating thought, 6i
  And Aristotle, 61
  His doctrine of reminiscence, 212
  one of the great literary masters, 123, 121, 234
• Plautus, 45, 59
• Plotinus, 70
• Poe, 263
• Pope and Optimism, 193, 239
• Porphyry, 69, 70
• Positivism, 167
• Based on an hypothesis, 169
  Sophistry of, 172
  Spirit of, 173
• Posnett, 45
• Prayer, its influence, 232
• Priestley, 242
• Prisse Papyrus, oldest book on record, 54
• Proslogium, 98
• Provence, 110
• Prudentius, 71, 72
• Puritanism, 95
• Pythagoras, 59

• QUEEN, Faerie, Spenser's, 95
• Queen Meibbe, 92

• RABELAIS, 94, 131
• Racine, 44, 243
• Ramayana, 34
• Raphael, 46, 76, 112
• Rationalism, 119, 125
• Rawlinson, 40
• Reader, duty of, 254
• Reading, rules for, 256
• Reformation, The, a current of rationalism, 125
  In England, 126
  A dead issue, 142, note.
  Unfavorable to literary development, 142
• Realism, 98
• Reflections on the Revolution in France, 140
• Religion, 16
  The absorbing idea of the Middle Ages, 98
  The basis of literature, 222
• Religious teaching, 163
• Renaissance, 113
• Rénan, 65, 116
  On virtue, 203
• Revolt of Islam, 164
• Richet, defines pain, 199
• Richardson, 15
• Risbis, 20
• Roscelin, 69, 98
• Rovsellini on the Egyptians, 35
• Rome, 63
  The literature of, 45, 46
  The jurisprudence of, 64
• Round Table, 38
• Ruskin on architecture, 59

• SAINTE Beuve, 263
• Sakya, Mouni, 197
• Sallust, 239
• Sanskrit, 27.
• Sartor Resartus, 164
• Savonarola, Jerome, 211
• Sayce, Prof. A. H., 25, 40
• Scheele, 242
• Schelling, 70
  His philosophy. 188
• Sehiller, quoted, 233
• Schlegel, Von A. W., on devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary, and its influence, 83
  Defines genius, 239
• Schlegel, Von F., on faith in Christianity, 19
  On language and climate (note) 27
  On the Hebrew language, 28
  On plastic moments, 32
  On the Sacontala (note) 44
  On mathematicians, 173
• Scholasticism, 98
  Reconciled with modern science, 101-104
• Schopenhauer, 192
  On Hegelism, 195 -
  His doctrine of will, 196
  On pleasure and pain, 196
  And Kant, 196
  His remedy for life's misery, 197
• Semitic race and influence, 29, 30
• Sension, 102
• Sethites, 21
• Shaftesbury and Optimism, 193
• Shakespeare, 32, 44, 129, 234
• Shang-ti, 170
• Shih-King, 26
• Society, condition of in the fifteenth century, 121
  When most perfect, 120
• Socrates, 60, 162
• Solon and the Egyptian priest, 51
• Sophocles, 45, 169
• Souvestre, Emile, 13
• Spenser's Faerie Queen, 95
• Spencer, Herbert, 16
  And Evolution, 174
  More logical than Cointe,
  Still illogical, 179
• Spinoza, 266
• Staël, Madame de, 142
• Summa, 37, 240
• Suso, Henry, 107
• Syllogism, 51
• Syncretism, 69

• TACITUS, on the spirit of the times, 162
• Taine, 223
• T'ang, 52
• Tao, 170
• Tao-teh-King, 52
• Tasso, 76
• Tauler, 107
• Taylor on the alphabet, 24
• Tennyson, 15, 39, 95, 238
• Terence, 13, 45, 59
• Thackeray, 15
• Thales, 59
• Theaetetus, 60
• Theogenes, 76
• Theologicum Systema, 137
• The Ring and the Book, 14
• The Schoolmaster, 95
• Thucydides, 59
• Ticknor on Cervantes, 96
• Tieck on Mediaeval Poetry, 84
• Tiraboschi on Petrarch, 119
• Titian, 112
• Transcendentalism, Modern, 70
• Truth, different ways of viewing, 263
  Independent of man, 158
• Turanian race, 34
• Turpin, Archbishop, 88
• Transfiguration, The, 46
• Troubadour and Trouvère, 110, 111

• ULYSSES, 223
• Unconscious, Philosophy of the, 198

• VAIHINGER on Schopenhauer, 198
• Vedas, 17 169
• Vendidad, 54
• Vergil, 15, 44, 170
• Victor Hugo, 37
• Vikramaditya, 44
• Villemain, 96, 108, 125
• Virgilius Maro, 64
• Vishnu-Sarman, 55
• Vogelweide, Walther von der, 84
• Voltaire and Optimism, 193
  And Dante, 234

• WALDENSES, 57, 110
• Walker, 92
• Wallace, A. R., 242
• Warton, 110
• Watson, 92
• Wat Tyler, 234
• Weber, 26, 44, 85
• Whewell, 155, 156
• White, Richard Grant, 108
• Wigand on Darwinism, 182
• Wiseman, Cardinal, 22
• Word, The, 159, 216, 217, 230
• Wordsworth on reminiscence, 212
  His poems, 268
• Worldspirit, the, 188
• Wyciffe, 233

• XENOPHON, 59, 239

• YEARNINGS of the soul explained, 230
• Yogi, 106
• Youmans, his edition of the Conservation of Forces quoted, 103, 104

• ZEUS, 169
• Zoroaster, 65