Jesus, 11-13, 35, 81, 97-98, 107, 109, 111-12
Jews, 13, 35-36, 72
Job, 35
Johnson, Samuel, 76
Jonson, Ben, 52
Julius II, Pope, 73
Kant, Immanuel, 23, 26-28, 30, 76, 107
Keats, John, 4, 54-56, 58-59, 78, 81, 87, 107
Kellogg, J. H., 82
King Lear (Shakespeare), 53, 85
Koran, 16
Korea, 44-45
Lao-tzu, 69, 107
La Rochefoucauld, François de, 74-75, 85
Lassalle, Ferdinand, 30
Last Supper (Leonardo), 22
Lear, Edward, 78
Leaves of Grass (Whitman), 60, 88
Legende Socratique, La (Dupreel), 15
Leibnitz, Gottfried, 23, 30, 75
Leonardo da Vinci, 11, 22, 65, 73, 81, 107
Leo X, Pope, 73
Lincoln, Abraham, 11, 88, 107
Li-po, 44-48, 107
Liszt, Franz, 77, 107
Little, John, 1-4
Liu Ling, 46-47
Locke, John, 24, 75
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 31
Lorrain, Claude, 75, 114-15
Louis XIV, King of France, 74, 106
Louis XVI, King of France, 26, 117
Lucretius, 11, 18, 42-44, 71, 83
Ludwig, Emil, 78, 87
Luther, Martin, 11, 73-74, 107
Luxor, 107
Macbeth (Shakespeare), 53, 85
Mach, Ernst, 28
Machiavelli, Niccolò, 73, 84
Madame Bovary (Flaubert), 79, 87 32
Mahabharata, 32
Maimonides, 25, 72
Maine, Henry, 56
Malory, Thomas, 78-79
Mammon, 57
Marcus Aurelius, Emperor of Rome, 18, 30, 71, 83, 107, 111
Marlowe, Christopher, 52
marriage, morality in, 98-99
Mars, 43
Marx, Karl, 1, 6, 10, 30
Mary, Queen of Scots, 74
Mass in B Minor (Bach), 75
Mazarin, Jules, 74
mechanics, laws of, 23-24
Medici, Catherine de, 74
Medici Palace, 73
Mencius, 13, 69
Mendelssohn, Felix, 77
Menelaus, 40
Meredith, George, 95
Metaphysics (Aristotle), 17
Michelangelo, 57, 73, 107, 115
Middle Ages, 16, 48, 71-73, 90
Millet, Jean François, 107
Milo, 92
Milton, John, 54, 57, 75, 85, 107, 114
Ming Huang, Emperor of China, 44-45, 47
Miserables, Les (Hugo), 79, 87
modernity, Copernicus as origin of, 21
Modern Regime,The (Taine), 78
Mohammed, 13, 71, 112, 117
Molière, 75, 85
Mona Lisa (Leonardo), 22
Montaigne, Michel de, 52, 65, 74, 85, 114
Mont St. Michel and Chartres (Adams), 72, 84
Moore, George, 68, 72, 84
morality, 96-99
Morte d’Arthur (Malory), 78-79
Moses, 106
motion, laws of, 24
Moussorgsky, Modest, 77
Mozart,Wolfgang Amadeus, 75, 107
Murillo, Bartolomé Estéban, 114
Murray, Gilbert, 69, 83
Musset, Alfred de, 78
Napoleon I, Emperor of France, 5, 11, 76, 78, 111, 114, 118
natural selection, 29, 98
Neo-Platonists, 16
Netherlands, 75, 114
Newcomen, Thomas, 115
Newton, Isaac, 23-24, 30, 75, 89, 107
Niauching, 46
Nibelungenlied, 32
Nietzsche, Friedrich, 10, 19, 26, 28, 30, 50, 73, 78, 88, 89
Occam,William of, 18
Odyssey (Homer), 32, 83
Oedipus, 15
Olympus, 41
Omar Khayyam, 16, 48, 54, 68, 72, 84
On the Revolutions of the Celestial Orbs (Copernicus), 20, 116
Organon (Aristotle), 17
Othello (Shakespeare), 53, 85
Othello (Tate), 51
Outline of History,The (Wells), 66, 82, 83, 84, 86, 87, 88
Outline of Science,The (Thomson), 66, 82
Ovid, 54
Paderewski, Ignace Jan, 107
Paganini, Niccolò, 107
Palestrina, Giovanni Perluigi da, 73, 107
Paolo (Malatesta), 50
Paradise, 21, 50
Paris, 48, 104
Parthenon, 36, 70, 110
Pascal, Blaise, 75
Passion According to St. Matthew (Bach), 75
Pax Romana, 111
Pearson, Karl, 28
Peer Gynt (Ibsen), 79, 87
Peloponnesian War, 37, 110
Penelope, 70
Penguin Island (France), 79, 87
Pericles, 11, 70, 75, 106, 110
Perseus (Cellini), 73
Persia, 48
Peter I (the Great), Czar of Russia, 106
Petrarch, 54, 57
Pheidias, 70, 107, 110
Philemon, 41
Philip II, King of Spain, 74
Pickwick Papers,The (Dickens), 79, 87
Pico della Mirandola, Giovanni, 5, 16, 73
Plato, 13-16, 21, 25, 30, 65, 70, 73, 81, 83, 91, 101, 107, 110
Pliny the Elder, 111
Plutarch, 52, 68, 70-71, 83
Poe, Edgar Allan, 54, 68, 80, 88, 107
poets, ten “greatest,” 31-63
Poincaré, Jules Henri, 28
Pompadour, Madame de, 2
Pope, Alexander, 51
Porta, Giacomo della, 115
Portinari, Beatrice, 48-51
Portraits of the 18th Century (Sainte Beuve), 76, 86
Poseidon, 37
Poussin, Nicolas, 75, 114
Praxiteles, 70, 107
Principia (Newton), 24
Principles of Psychology (James), 67-68, 82
printing press, development of, 104, 113-14
“progress,” definition of, 90-92
Prometheus, 57, 70, 99
Psalms, 34-36
psychology, 15, 24, 101
“pure reason,” Kant’s critique of, 27-28
Purgatory, 50
Puritans, 52, 74
Pushkin, Aleksandr, 107
Pyramids, 107
Quarterly Review, 56
Quartet in D Major (Mozart), 75
Rabelais, François, 68, 72, 74, 81, 85, 114
Ramayana, 32
Ramus, Petrus, 18, 25
Raphael, 57, 73, 107
rationalism, 28
reason, human, 8-9
Reformation, 73-74, 114-15
Rembrandt, 75, 107, 114
Renaissance, 16-17, 21, 73-75, 114-15
Renaissance in Italy,The (Burckhardt), 73
Republic (Plato), 14-16, 83
Reynolds, Joshua, 76, 107
Richelieu, Cardinal, 74
Rights of Man,The (Paine), 60
Robinson, James Harvey, 6, 72, 76, 80, 82, 83, 84, 85, 87, 88, 106
Rodin,Auguste, 76
Rolland, Romain, 80, 88
Rome, ancient, 17-18, 42, 60, 69-71, 73, 110-11
Romney, George, 76
Romulus, 15
Rossini, Gioacchino, 77
Rousseau, Jean Jacques, 26, 57, 86, 117
Royal Society of Great Britain, 22
Rubaiyat (Omar Khayyam), 48, 84
Rubens, Peter Paul, 75, 107, 114
Russia, 31, 77, 79, 116
Sainte-Beuve, Charles Augustin, 76, 86
Salambo (Flaubert), 79, 87
Sand, George, 77
Santayana, George, 25
Sappho, 54
Saul, King of Israel, 34
Savery, Thomas, 115
Schopenhauer,Arthur, 28, 30, 78, 87, 107
Schubert, Franz, 77
Schumann, Robert, 77
science, progress in, 100-101
Scotland, 97
secularism, origin of, 21
Seneca, 18
Sesshiu, 107
Severn, Joseph, 56
Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of, 51
Shakespeare,William, 11, 14, 25, 41, 51-54, 55, 57, 60, 81, 85, 107, 114-15
Shelley, Mary, 58-59
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 56-59, 78, 87, 91, 107
Shotwell, James Thomson, 42
skepticism, Kantian philosophy as alternative to, 28
Sketch of a Tableau of the Progress of the Human Spirit (Condorcet), 89
Smith, Adam, 76, 86
Smith, P., 85
socialism, 15, 30, 116
social organization, progress in, 95-96
Socrates, 12, 15, 37, 70, 91, 107, 110, 111