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CHAPTER flourishing of the private individual, which I XVII. have ventured to describe as being (for art at recent times least) the most salient characteristic of our time, last result is but the last and most complete development of a process of a tendency which belongs to modern art and belongs to literature more or less from their first dawn, in contrast and separates them, as by a great gulf, from the ancient art. art, the literature, and the life antique.

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A.

Abercrombie on memory, i. 215.
Absence of mind, i. 228.

Activity the source of pleasure, ii. 50.
AGREEMENT OF THE CRITICS. Chap. 5.
i. 97.

Association, the law of inseparate, i.
306 note.

Aristotle, i. 26; theory of art, i. 79;

its weakness, i. 80; and Greek cri-
ticism, i. 108.

Arnold, Matthew, on English cri-
ticism, i. 29; characteristics of his
writings, i. 38, 39, 65, 67; on the
master-current of our time, ii. 247.
Ars Simia Naturæ, i. 82 note.
Art-cannot be acquired, yet princi-
ples may be deduced, i. 64; cha-
racter varies, i. 88; generally ad-
mitted, and neglected, i. 88-91;
how it affects the mass, i. 127; the
sorrows of, i. 161; the opposite of
science, i. 312; its region, i. 313;
must remain veiled, i. 316; its im-
portance, ii. 145; endurance and
success (ibid.); memorial character
of, ii. 146, 147; power of intellect
devoted to, ii. 150; is it as good as
it is great? ii. 153; much doubted,
ii. 154, 155; doubts not established,
ii. 156, 157; moral influence of, ii.
160; sermonizing, not the work of,
ii. 163; in relation to the nation, ii.
165; general and special influence
of, ii. 175; frequent grossness of its
pleasure, ii. 179; false defence of, ii.

183; the goodness of, ii. 195; op-
posed to law-righteousness, ii. 197;
means employed by, ii. 209: some-
times accused of mendacity, ii. 211;
why regarded as false, ii. 219; not
always orthodox, ii. 219; fictitious,
ii. 222; ancient theory of, ii. 224;
double tendency of, ii. 227; its his-
torical character, ii. 146, 227.
Art-criticism disposed to move in cir-
cles, i. 91; why, i. 92; conse-
quences, i. 93.

Arts, the relationship of the, i. 76.

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Brain-power, its influence and secrecy,
i. 243.

Byron's misanthropy, i. 50.

C.

Causes, some mighty results from
small, ii. 309; the alphabet, ii.
310; printing, ii. 311.
Cervantes, questions of criticism dis-

cussed in Don Quixote, i. 123.
Character, creation of, i. 302; some
influences that go to form modern,
ii. 264-271.

Charles II., grossness of the drama
during his reign, ii. 182.
Chemistry, not perfect yet, i. 63.
Choice and pleasure not synonymous,
i. 150 and 152.

Christian art, indecencies of, ii. 181.
Church, influences at work in the, ii.
315.

Classical art, especial grossness of,

ii. 180.

Coleridge asserted the theory of imi-
tation, i. 81; but failed in proof, i.
83; perverted the doctrine of Greek
criticism, i. 109; his definition of
imagination, i. 192.

Comedy, painfulness of, ii. 54, 55.
Commerce, its effect on character, ii.
252, 258, 261, 264.
Commonplace, the value of, i. 4.
Comparative criticism, foundation for
a science, i. 24; illustrated by
Leibnitz's theory of the world, i. 24;
its importance, i. 41.
Conscience and nature, ii. 194.
Consciousness, not always desirable,
i. 228.

Conscious thought, is partial; hidden,
is not, i. 305.

CORNER STONE, THE. Chap. 4. i. 75.
Cousin, M., his effort to regard history

by the light of philosophy, i. 68;
refuses the theory of pleasure, i.
145; his objection discussed, i. 146-

150.

Critical, how far the present age is, ii.
248, 249.

Criticism, principles of a science of, i.

6; Arnold on, i. 9; in its strict
sense, i. 10; limits as to poetry,
i. 11; not yet a science, i. 11;
opinions on, i. 12, 13; abuse of,
i. 13; its various forms, editorial,
i. 14; biographical, i. 18; his-
torical, i. 21; of art, i. 22; from
comparative C must proceed the
science of, i. 23; the problem of, i.
24; modern C; devoted too much
to language, i. 26; Johnson's idea
of, i. 27; Ruskin on modern, i. 28;
the defect of German, i. 29; Arnold
on English, i. 29; Hegel on, i. 30;
Schelling's theory of, i. 30; a mid-
dle-course system required, i. 30;
of what use without canons, i. 32;
its impotence, i. 33; school influ-
ence in Greece and France, i. 37;
psychology the corner-stone of, i.
42; despised by some, because fal-
lible, i. 65.

Critics, fail in system, i. 25.
Crystal Palace, marks progress in
science and art, i. 52.
Crusades, the epic of the, ii. 228.
Cuvier, i. 51; definition of instinct,
i. 241.

D.

De Quincey, opium dreams, i. 212.
Despair of metaphysics, an error, i.

71.

DESPAIR OF A SCIENCE. Chap. 3.
i. 48.

Doges of Venice, ii. 262; their strength
of character, ii. 263, 264.
Drama, the, its rise and progress, ii.

167; its fall, ii. 169; new processes
at work in, ii. 318; influence of
education on, ii. 319.
Dramatic construction, i. 302.

action, nature of, ii. 60;
truth of, ii. 100.
Dreamland, not altogether a vanity,
i. 172.
Drunkenness, the philosophy of, i. 231.
Dryden, on Music, i. 76.

E.

Early Christian art, lewdness of, ii.
181.

Editorial criticism, generally a failure,
i. 14-18.

Education-influence on the drama,
ii. 319; too heavily drawn upon,
ii. 320.

Egotism, as an element of imagina-
tion, i. 281.

Electricity, i. 52.

new life from Italy, i. 135; the
days of its purification, i. 136; the
précieuses, i. 137; re-modelled
French taste, i. 139.

Froude, on a science of history, i. 60,
61.

Fuller, Thomas, on poetry and music,
i. 77.

G.

Elizabethan opinions of its own times, Gay Science, derivation of the term,

ii. 244.

Elmsley, as a critic, i. 18.
English school of criticism

from

Bacon, i. 164; from Dryden, i. 165;
teaches the doctrine of pleasure,
i. 166; its peculiar view, i. 167;
holds imagination pre-eminent, i.
168; its deficiency, i. 73.
English beauty, ii. 245.

English testimony to the uncon
sciousness of pleasure, ii. 124, 125.
Essay literature-the popularity and
influence of, i. 59.

ETHICAL CURRENT, THE. Chap. 17,
ii. 243.

ETHICS OF ART, THE. Chap. 14, ii.
143.

Ethics of art, importance of the in-
quiry, ii. 144.
European philosophy, ii. 22.

F.

Fancy and imagination, i. 271.
Fiction, power and varieties of, ii.
215; of art and philosophy, ii.
216; of sense, ii. 217; of religion
(ibid.); of thought in general, ii.

218.

FICTION, THE WORLD OF. Chap. 16,

ii. 209.

French school of criticism, i. 130—

holds the doctrine of pleasure, i.
131; its peculiarity, i. 132; saved
from contempt by the ladies of
the 17th century, i. 132, 133; state
at the death of Henry IV., i. 134;

i. 3.

George Eliot, on the relations of pain
and consciousness, ii. 124.

German school of criticism, i. 153—
representatives (ibid.); special cha-
racteristics, i. 154; where it is
imperfect, i. 29, 38, 155; confusion
of theories involved, i. 156; guided
and ruled by beauty, i. 157; its
notion of beauty, i. 158; various
definitions, from Schelling to Rus-
kin, i. 159; the conclusion of the
matter, i. 160.

Girardin, M. St. Marc-on comedy,
ii. 55; on suicide, ii. 118; on two
aspects of literature, ii. 237 note.
Goethe, i. 51; anecdote of, ii. 229.
Gorgias, the saying of, i. 101.
Greek art, its unity, i. 62.

drama prominence of the
chorus, i. 105; its advantages, i.
103, 104.

school of criticism, i. 98; its
representatives (ibid.); its reason-
ing, i. 99; chief element, i. 100;
the Greek doubt, i. 101.

H.

Hamilton-on unconscious thought,
i. 203; on pleasure, ii. 12, 29; as
a philosopher, ii. 13; objection to
the theory of hidden feeling, ii. 127
note; at variance with his philo-
sophy, ii. 129; Locke's argument
meets the objection, ii. 131.
Hegel, his philosophy defined, i. 30.

HIDDEN PLEASURE. Chap. 13, ii. 109.
HIDDEN SOUL, THE. Chap. 7, i. 199.
its existence shown, i.
199; activity and influence, i. 200;
comprehensive character, (ibid.) ;
suggested by Leibnitz, i. 202; and
allowed by Hamilton, Mill, and
Spencer, i. 203; views of it, i. 203,
204; its wealth, i. 211; its ele-
ments, i. 209; ever-recurring evi-
dence of a, i. 240, 250; relation to
mysticism, i. 247.
Historical criticism-nature of, i. 21;
on study of art, i. 22.
Hogarth and his work, ii. 171.
Home Life-growing importance of,

ii. 252; female influence on, ii. 298.
Hume, as revived by Mill, ii. 24 note.

I.

Ideal, influence of our, i. 152.
Imagery-as treated in modern critic-
ism, i. 27; nature of, i. 264, 265;
involves comparison, i. 266.
IMAGINATION, ON.

Chap. 6, i. 179.
the parent of art, i.
167; Bacon on, i. 168 note; what
it is, i. 170; relation to pleasure,
i. 171; various phases of, i. 179;
has it a special character? i. 180;
omnipresent and omnipotent, i. 181
neglected alike by teachers and
students (ibid.); by some identi-
fied with memory, i. 182; by
others with passion, i. 185; by
many with reason, i. 186; Aris-
totle and Wolf on, i. 183; general
indecision of philosophers, i. 184;
is it a distinct power? i. 188, 189;
Richter's definition, i. 191; Cole-
ridge on, i. 192; a new analysis
demanded, i. 193; and attempted,
i. 193-196; must be free, i. 258;
origin of the term, i. 261; free play
of thought an inadequate definition
of, i. 262; but a useful one, i. 262,
263; thoroughness of, i. 269; de-
mands wholes, i. 291; of three
kinds-intensive, i. 292; proten-

sive, i. 299; extensive, i. 302-
element of necessity supplied by,
i. 299; truth of, i. 303.
Imitation, a false theory of art, i.
26; not the principle of art, i. 81.
Impulse, as the rule of life, ii. 196.
Instinct -- Cuvier's definition of, i.
240; variety of, i. 241; of the
hand, i. 243.
INTRODUCTION, i. 3.
Intuitions, i. 245.

Italian school of criticism, i. 111;
its representatives (ibid.); its spe-
ciality, i. 112; how to be regarded,
i. 114; whither it leads (ibid.) ;
how far true, i. 115; carried into
absurdities by some, i. 116.

J.

Johnson and biographical criticism,
i. 19; his proposed system of criti-
cism, i. 27; defence of poetry, ii.
214.

Joy-singularity of, ii. 87; intermed-
dling with, ii. 88.
Juan de Baena, i. 121.

K.

Kant-his Critique of Reason, i. 10;

exposition of pleasure, ii. 35-38.
Keats, on the joy of activity, ii. 50.
Knowledge, hidden activity of, i. 217.

L.

Language, its place in criticism, i. 26.
Leibnitz-theory of the world, i. 24;

on latent thought, i. 72; theory of
unconscious thought, i. 202.
Lewes, G. H., "History of Philoso-
phy," i. 55.

Life of sensation, ii. 302; of specu-
lation, ii. 303; of action, ii. 303,
304.

Likeness-disposition of the mind
towards, i. 272; takes three forms,

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