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INDEX.

ABOUT'S satire and irony, i. 298.
Absolute, Amiel's craving for the, i. 96.
conception of the, ii. 169, 203.

Absolutism, ii. 70.

Accident, philosophy of, i. 119.

and Providence, i. 306.

Ackermann, poems of Madame, ii. 167.

Acorn and oak, ii. 315.

Action, Amiel's cross, i. 182.

= concrete thought, i. 8.

how to recover courage for, i. 69.

requisites for, ii. 290.

Activity of the Western Nations, unholy, ii. 279.

Adoration and consolation essential in religion, i. 178.

Advice, giving, ii. 117.

Eschylus's Prometheus and Eumenides, ii. 136.

Affected poets, ii. 244.

Affirmation and examination, ii. 123.

Age, loss of respect for, i. 230.

the servitude of, ii. 24.

Alcibiades, ii. 209.

Algebra v. life, ii. 95.

All or nothing, ii. 169.

Alps, the, i. 94, 287; ii. 75.

Ambition, Amiel's horror of, i. 189; fi. 200.

moral, ii. 58.

Americans, the, ii. 279.

Amusement and instruction, ii. 269.
Analysis, extreme, i. 185.

kills spontaneity, ii. 257.
of self, Amiel's, i. 279.
woman's dislike of, i. 304.
Analytic minds, i. 292.
Anger, conquest of, ii. 319.
Animality, the laws of, ii. 214.
Animals, treatment of, i. 274.
Annihilation of Buddha, ii. 29.
Anonymous souls, ii. 37.
Ant v. swallow, i. 142.

A priori speculations, ii. 123.
Arcadia, an expedition into, ii. 182.
Aristotle, ii. 203.

Art, decadence of, ii. 4.

grand and simple, ii. 245.

and imagination, ii. 253.

reveals Nature, i. 186.

Ascension Day, ii, 270.

Atala and René, Châteaubriand's, i. 146, 149

Atheism, effects of, ii. 212.

Atomism, philosophy of, i. 230.

Attila, ii. 287.

Augustine and Lucian contrasted, ii. 217.

Authority v. liberty, ii. 37.

Autumn, melancholy of, ii. 176.

of life, ii. 12.

twofold, i. 223.

Azote, woman the social, ii. 135.

BABBLE, ignorant, ii. 240.

Bach's prelude, i. 88.

Bacon on religion, i. 253.

Bahnsen's pessimism, ii. 115.

Balzac, ii. 94.

Bannière Bleue, la, ii. 285.

Banter not humour, ii. 318.

Barbarism, possible triumph of, i. 232.
Basle, ii. 81.

Bayle and Saint Simon, ii. 48.

Beauty, female, i. 301.

v. goodness, ii. 217.

and pathos, i. 152, 153.

and ugliness, ii. 113.

universal in Paradise, i. 233.

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the spiritualisation of matter, i. 233.

Beethoven and Mozart contrasted, i. 88, 89.
Being, consciousness of, ii. 308.

and non-being, ii. 274.

Beranger, ii. 51.

Berkeley, i. 46.

Berlioz, Romeo and Juliet, ii. 228.

Bewusstsein, ii. 342.

Biedermann on Strauss, ii. 320.

Biran's Journal, i. 138-140.

Birds in bad weather, i. 278.

Bismarck, i. 306.

Blases of the world, ii. 298.

Boileau and Fontaine contrasted, ii. 231.

Book, function of the, ii. 235.

Bossuet on charity, ii. 265.

Bourse, movements of the (the beat of the common

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CÆSARISM, the counterpoise of equality, i. 229, 230.
Cartesian dualism, ii. 122.

Catholic superstition, ii. 141.
Catholicism, i. 93.

essence of, i. 214.

and revolution, ii. 67.

Causeries Athéniennes, Cherbuliez, i. 176.

Cellérier on St. James, i. 53.

Chance and Providence, i. 306.

Change not improvement, i. 251.
persistence in, ii. 89.

rules the world, i. 215.

Changeable character, Amiel's, i. 281, 301.
Character, how to judge, ii. 317.

temperament, and individuality, ii. 47.
and will, Amiel's lack of, i. 180.
Charity, democratic character of, ii. 269.
Charm, ii. 113.

Châteaubriand, i. 146, 245.

and Rousseau, i. 148.

Cherbuliez, i. 312.

Mephistophelian novel, ii. 216.
on chivalry, etc., i. 175, 218.
Cherry trees and lilacs, i. 3.
Childhood, Amiel's second, i. 219.

blessings of, i. 296.

first conversations of, i. 53.
revived impressions of, ii. 165.

Children, i. 152.

Chivalry, Cherbuliez on, i. 175.

Christendom and Ascension Day, ii. 270.

Christian nations, aspiration of, ii. 526.

preaching, confusions of, ii. 161.

Christianity a vast ocean, ii. 18.

different aspects of, ii. 19.

essence of, i. 82.

Christianity from a human point of view, ii. 14.

historical aspects of, ii. 120.

liberal, ii. 34.

of dignity instead of humility, i. 174.

and reconciliation, ii. 272.

v. religion, i. 271.

task of, i, 6, 8, 72, 73.

true, i. 214.

Church and State, proper aims of, ii. 267.

separation, rejected by the Genevese people, ii. 297.

Churches (the) and Jesus, ii. 3.

Churchyard, reflections in a, ii. 170.

Cid and Rodogune, artificiality of, i. 196.
Circumstances, force of, ii. 197.

influence of, i. 232.

Civilisation, corrupting tendency of, ii. 287.
confounded with the inner life, i. 92.
in the light of religion, ii. 55.

Claparède, Edouard, i. 292.

Classification of men, twofold, ii. 322.

Cleanthus, ii. 31.

Cleons, modern, i. 214.

Clever folk defined, ii. 246.

Cleverness, negative character of, i.

300.

Cohabitation of individuals, man's chief problem, ii. 262.

Cohesion essential to society, i. 277.

Comic poets, rôle of the, ii. 215.

Common sense, i. 76.

v. the ideal, i. 126.

rebellion against, ii. 168.

worship, i. 44.

Commune of Paris, ii. 105.

Compliance, good-humoured, ii. 154.
Composition, Amiel's laborious, ii. 191.
the process of, ii. 244.
Compound character of Amiel, ii. 42.

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