Bach, Johann Sebastian, 75, 91, 107
Bacon, Francis, 18, 21-23, 25, 30, 57, 65, 75, 85, 101, 107, 114
Bacon, Roger, 18, 112-13
Bagdad, 71, 112
Balzac, Honoré de, 79, 87
Beard, Charles A., 88, 106
Beatrice Portinari, 48-51
Beethoven, Ludwig van, 75, 77, 107
Bell, Clive, 75-76
Beowulf, 32
Bergson, Henri, 80, 88
Berkeley, George, 27
Bible, 35, 69, 82, 114
Bismarck, Otto von, 107
Blake,William, 54
Boccaccio, Giovanni, 57
Bonaventure, Saint, 19
books, one hundred “best” for an education, 64-88
Borgia, Cesare, 73
Boswell, James, 76, 86
Botticelli, Sandro, 73
Boyle, Robert, 75
Brahms, Johannes, 77, 107
Brandes, Georg, 26, 78, 87, 111
Brawne, Fanny, 55-56
Breasted, James Henry, 69, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88
Brown, Brian, 69, 82
Brunelleschi, Filippo, 73
Bruno, Giordano, 22-23, 25, 29, 73
Brutus, Marcus Junius, 111
Buckle, Henry Thomas, 78, 87, 100
Buddha, 11, 13, 107, 109, 117
Burckhardt, Jacob, 73
Burke, Edmund, 76
Burns, Robert, 54
Bury, John Bagnell, 69, 82
Byron, George Gordon, Lord, 51, 54, 58, 78, 87, 107
Caesar, Julius, 5, 11, 24, 43, 106, 111
Calderon de la Barca, Pedro, 57, 114
Calvin, John, 109
Cambridge Platonists, 16
“Captain, My Captain” (Whitman), 60
Carlyle, Thomas, 5, 10, 76, 86
Cassandra, 37
Catholic Renaissance, 19
Catullus, 54
Cavour, Camillo Benso, Count, 107
Cellini, Benvenuto, 73, 84
Cervantes, Miguel de, 74, 85, 114
Cezanne, Paul, 107
Chanson de Roland, 32
Chapman, George, 52
Charlemagne, 11, 71
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, 106
Chartres, Cathedral of, 107
Chaucer, Geoffrey, 54, 57, 72, 84
Cheops, 108
China, 12, 45, 48, 109-10, 112-13, 115, 117
Chopin, Frédéric, 77, 107
Christianity, 12, 18, 73-74, 112
Christian theology, 16
Cicero, Marcus Tullius, 44
Clendening, Logan, 67, 82
Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt, 109
Clodius, 92
Columbus, Christopher, 114-15
Condorcet, Marie Jean, Marquis de, 89
Confucius, 11-13, 17, 30, 69, 81, 107, 109-10
Constantine I, Emperor of Rome, 71
Constantinople, 17, 112
Conversations with Goethe (Eckermann), 78, 87
Copernicus, 20-21, 29, 30, 73, 107, 116-17
Cordova, 71, 112
Correggio, 107
Cromwell, Oliver, 11, 24
Curie, Marie, 107
Dante Alighieri, 11, 17, 19, 48-51, 57, 60, 72, 84, 107
Darius I, King of Persia, 106
Darwin, Charles, 1, 4, 29, 30, 87, 107
Davenant,William, 52
David, King of Israel, 34-35
David (“Psalmist”), 34-36, 107
David Copperfield (Dickens), 79
Declaration of Independence, 60
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire,The (Gibbon), 71, 84
Democritus, 28-29, 44
De Rerum Natura (Lucretius), 42, 83
Descartes, René, 23, 25, 75
despotism, 26
Dialogues (Plato), 14, 16, 83
Dickens, Charles, 79, 87
Diogenes, 30
Diogenes Laertius, 70, 83
Disraeli, Benjamin, 107
Divine Comedy,The (Dante), 50-51, 84
Donatello, 91
Donati, Gemma dei, 49
Dostoievski, Feodor, 41, 79, 87
Dupreel, M., 15
Eckermann, Johann Peter, 78, 87
Edison, Thomas A., 1
education:
development of, 101-3
Platonic theory of, 15
reading and, 64-69
Egypt, 69, 108-9
Einstein, Albert, 93
Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 74, 106-7
Ellis, Havelock, 80, 88
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 15-16, 61-62, 79-80, 88
Encyclopedie, 22, 76
England, 16, 56, 60, 74, 79, 96-97, 114-15
Enlightenment, 23-24, 26-27, 117
Epictetus, 18, 111
Epicureans, 18, 70
Epicurus, 18, 30, 44, 70
Essex, Robert Devereux, Earl of, 74
eugenics, 15, 97-98
Euripides, 11, 36-42, 54, 70, 83, 107, 110
Europe, 1, 17, 26, 48, 71, 74, 77, 90, 96, 110, 112-13, 115, 117
evolution, 29, 98
Faguet, E., 85, 86, 87
Faure, Elie, 69-70, 72, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 88
Faust (Goethe), 79, 87
feminism, 15, 30
Fielding, Henry, 76, 86
fire, use of, 93-94
Fitton, Mary, 52
Flanders, 75
Flaubert, Gustave, 79, 87
Florence, 48-51, 73
Folkways (Sumner), 68, 82
Forum (Roman), 92, 111
Fragonard, Jean-Honoré, 76
France, 6-7, 22, 24, 26, 48, 74-75, 97, 104, 114-15, 117
France, Anatole, 26, 79, 87, 93
Francesca da Rimini, 50
Francis of Assisi, Saint, 107
Franklin, Benjamin, 117
Frazer, James, 68, 82
Frederick II (the Great), King of Prussia, 26, 106
French Revolution, 21, 114, 116-18
Froissart, Jean, 52
Gainsborough, Thomas, 76, 107
Galileo Galilei, 29-30, 75
Gandhi, Mohandas K., 107
Garrick, David, 76
geometry, 23
Germany, 54, 74, 115
Gibbon, Edward, 6, 71-72, 76, 84
Gilbert,William, 73
Giotto, 51, 107
Gladstone,William Ewart, 107
Gluck, Christoph Willibald, 75
God, 6-7, 20, 29, 32, 49, 57, 96
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 11, 41-42, 54, 78, 81, 87, 107
Golden Age, Rousseau on, 57
Golden Bough, The (Frazer), 68, 82
Golden Rule, 12
Goldsmith, Oliver, 76
gravitation, discovery of, 24
Gray, Cecil, 72-73, 84, 85, 86, 88
Greco, El, 75, 107
Greece, ancient, 14, 18, 32-33, 36-42, 60, 69-70
Gregorian chant, 72
Gutenberg, Johannes, 113-14
Hadrian, Emperor of Rome, 111
Hals, Franz, 75
Hamilton, Alexander, 107
Hamlet (Shakespeare), 53, 85
Hammurabi, King of Bablyon, 106
Handel, George Frideric, 75, 107
Harvey,William, 22, 75
Hatshepsut, Queen of Egypt, 107
Haydn, Franz Joseph, 75
Heaven, 21
Heine, Heinrich, 54, 78, 87
Helen, 33, 40, 70
Heloise, 72
Henry VIII, King of England, 74, 106
Herodotus, 69-70, 82
Hero of Alexandria, 115
Hippocrates, 70
Hiroshige, Ando, 107
history, twelve vital dates in, 105-18
History of English Literature (Taine), 72, 84, 85, 86, 87
History of Science (Dampier-Whetham), 69
History of Science (Williams), 69, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87
History of the American People (Bear and Bagley), 105-6
Hobbema, Meindert, 114
Hobbes, Thomas, 75, 85, 114
Ho Chi-chang, 44-45
Hoffding, H., 84, 85, 86, 87
Holinshed, Raphael, 52
Holland, 75, 114
Homer, 31-34, 60, 70, 83, 107
Horace, 54, 107, 111
Hugo,Victor, 54, 87, 107
Human Adventure,The (Breasted and Robinson), 69, 72, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88
Hume, David, 76, 86
Hunt, Leigh, 58
Ibsen, Henrik, 79, 87
Idylls of the King (Tennyson), 78
Ignatius of Loyola, Saint, 107
Iknaton, King of Egypt, 107, 108-9
Iliad (Homer), 32-33, 83
India, 13, 72, 109, 112, 115
Industrial Revolution, 76, 115-16
In Memoriam (Tennyson), 78
Introduction to the History of Civilization in England (Buckle), 78, 87
Isaiah, 13, 54, 107
Italy, 56, 60, 73, 115
Ivan IV (the Terrible), Czar of Russia, 74
James,William, 10, 67-68, 82
Jean Christophe (Rolland), 80, 88
Jefferson, Thomas, 107, 117