INDEX. ABOUT'S satire and irony, i. 298. Absolutism, ii. 70. Accident, philosophy of, i. 119. and Providence, i. 306. Ackermann, poems of Madame, ii. 167. 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; ii. 200. moral, ii. 58. Americans, the, ii. 279. 365 Amusement and instruction, ii. 269. kills spontaneity, ii 257. A priori speculations, ii. 123. 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. universal in Paradise, i. 233. Beauty = the spiritualisation of matter, i. 233. 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 heart), i. 266. Brahma, ii. 83. his dream, i. 294. Brahmanic aspirations, ii. 190. Brahmanising souls, ii. 291. Brain-decay, Amiel's, ii. 218. Buddha, ii. 78. method of, ii. 330. Buddism, ii. 29, 52, 167. Buddhist tendency of Amiel, i. 273. Buisson, ii. 37. CESARISM, the counterpoise of equality, i. 229, 230. Catholic superstition, ii. 141. 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, persistence in, ii. 89. rules the world, i. 215. 251. Changeable character, Amiel's, i. 281, 301. temperament, and individuality, ii. 47- Châteaubriand, i. 146, 245. and Rousseau, i. 148. Cherbuliez, i. 312. Mephistophelian novel, ii. 216. first conversations of, i. 53. Children, i. 152. Chivalry, Cherbuliez on, i. 175. Christendom and Ascension Day, ii. 270. preaching, confusions of, ii. 161. Christianity a vast ocean, ii. 18. essence of, i. 82. |