ABOUT'S satire and irony, 134.
Absolute, Amiel's craving for the, 43.
conception of the, 215, 230.

Absolutism, 170.

Accident, philosophy of, 53, 54.
and Providence, 137.

Ackermann, poems of Madame, 214.
Acorn and oak, 280.
Action, Amiel's cross, 81.

= concrete thought, 4.

how to recover courage for, 31.
requisites for, 269.

Activity of the Western Nations,
unholy, 264.

Annihilation of Buddha, 152.
Anonymous souls, 156.
Ant v. swallow, 64.

A priori speculations, 194.
Arcadia, an expedition into, 220.
Aristotle, 230.

Art, decadence of, 141.

grand and simple, 249.
and imagination, 253.
reveals Nature, 83.

Ascension Day, 260.

Atala and René, Châteaubriand's, 66,

67.

Atheism, effects of, 234.

Epicurus, 262.

Epigrammatic productions, 281.
Equality a bad principle, 96, 103.
doctrines, 186.

of functions, American, 167.
results of, 13, 14, 141, 257.
the counterpoise of Darwinism,
259.

Equilibrium of forces, 54.

'Errare, humanum est,' 268.
Error, emancipation from, 195.

Errors, moral and psychological, 211.
E sempre bene, 277.

Esoteric beauty, 189.

Esprit defined, 254.

Essay, function of the, 245.
Etrangères, Amiel's, 228.

EAST and West contrasted, 112, 113.
Ecclesiastical struggles, worthlessness
of, 121.

Education and development, 179, 180.
Effect, the misfortune of Victor Hugo,
91.

Effort of modern morality, 180.
Ego, Claparède's view of the, 131.
Egotism, 14, 17.

Eighteenth century criticism, 211.
Emerson's ideal, 17, 21.
English children, 196.

homes, attractiveness of, 195.
Englishmen, twofold character of,
118.

Enthusiasm, cultivation of, 95.

two forms of, 202.

Enthusiastic women, 201.
Epicureanism, intellectual, 85.

False flag of Christendom, 235.
originality, 242.

shame, Amiel's, 204.
Fame, achievement of, 234.
Family life, value of, 196.
Fanatics, Indian, 149.
Fastidium, how to avoid, 277.
Faust, 70.

Feeling v. irony, 236.

precedes will, 40.

respect for, 22.

Feeling, suppression of, 178, 182.

the bread of angels, 107.

and thought, 201.

Feminine nature, infirmity of the,

202.

Festinat ad eventum, 294.

Feuerbach, 12.

Feuille Centrale de Zofingen, 277.

Fiat justitia, pereat mundus, 165.

Fichte, 17, 132.

Finite and infinite, 215.

Flânerie, 24.

Flattery of the multitude, 212.
Fog, poetry of, 117.

Fontaine's defects and beauties, 242.
Fontanès, 156.

Fools, behaviour towards, 46.
Force, external, 235.

Forces, opposing, 54.

Fragmentary contemplation, 253.
France, Christianity in, 243.

fundamental error of, 202.
v. Geneva, 276.

and Germany, 183.

philosophic superficiality of, 42.
the centre of the world, 130.
Francis of Assisi, 123.

Frankness and self-knowledge, women
deficient in, 146.

Freethinkers, puerility of the, 170.
Freethought, republic of, 211.
French Academy, eloquence of the,
221.

drama, an oratorical tourna-
ment, 89.

and German literature con-
trasted, 139.

ignorance of liberty, 172.

literary method, 172.

Gallery, playing to the, 220, 223.
Galley-slaves, modern, 180.
Geneva, appeal to, 272.

characteristics of, 273.
v. France, 276.
oath of old, 287.
Genevese Liberalism, 65.
Genghis Khan, 266.
Genius and talent, 60.

writers of, 161.

Gentleman defined, 117-119.

the Shibboleth of England, 117.

German and French literature con.

trasted, 139.

novels, 181.

society, vulgarity of, 181.

thinkers, their repugnance to
public life, 31.

Germanic mind, tendency of the, 246.
Germans, artistic devotion of the, 246.
the, masters of the philosophy
of life, 54.

Germany and France, 183.

Germs of good and bad in every heart,
101.

Gethsemane, 290.

Ghost, Amiel a living, 279.

Gifts considered acquisitions, 26.
Gioberti on the French mind, 219.
Gioconda, la, 227, 253.
Glory of God, 238.
Glow-worm, 26.

God, communion with, 1.

conquest of, 44, 52.
harmony with, 128, 142.
life in, 96.

'God and my right,' 118, 196.
and Nature contrasted, 112.
recognition of, 170.

submission to, 116, 219, 288
289, 294, 296.