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INDEX 



Artifact, 133 



Artist, general psychology of, 106; 



method of, 91, 164; personality of, 



77,80, 121, 177, 188 

 Auerbach, Erich, 261 

 Axiom, 52-53> 5^, 149-150. 210; of 



causality, 21, 139, 152; the eternal, 



21, 28, 45, 217-218 



Babbitt, Irving, 6, 195, 245 



Bacon, Sir Francis, 149, 198 



Bain, Alexander, 122 



Balzac, Honore de, 51, 104, 188, 245; 

 see also Taine, 'Balzac' 



Baroque, 172 



Barzun, Jacques, 11-12, 73, 92, 99 



Baudelaire, Charles, viii, 46 



Beauty, 51, 119, 161, 165, 175; con- 

 ditions of, 50, 75; definition of, 50; 

 essay on, 75 



Begriff, in Hegel, 223-224; see also 

 Concept 



Being, 19-20, 146; and reality, 216- 

 217; and relation, 221; and the 

 whole, 219; degrees of, 212; de- 

 velopment of, 214; in Hegel, 223; 

 made manifest, 29, 215; perfect, 

 21 1 



Benard, Charles, 220, 226; quoted, 

 209-210 



Benedict, Ruth, 98, 100, 140 



Bergson, Henri, 140, 772, 232 



Bernini, Giovanni, 77 



Berthelot, M. P. E., 112 



Beyle, Henri, see Stendhal 



Bezanson, Alexandre (Taine's uncle), 



Bezanson, Marie Virginie (Taine's 

 mother), 14-15, 25, 204, 250 



Bezanson, Nicolas (Taine's grand- 

 father), 14-15 



Bible, 239, 244; Ecclesiastes, 202; 

 Genesis, 133; Jonah, 202; Psalms, 

 167, 238 



Binet, Alfred, 116, 122 



Biology, 42-43, 71, 78, 87-gi, 93, 100, 

 104, 107, 131, 147-148, 154, 166, 

 231-234; and art criticism, 97; and 

 culture, III, 113, 132-133 



Biran, F. P. G. Maine de, 48 



Bismarck, Otto von, 1 1 3 



Blake, William, 128, 134 



Boas, Franz, 100 



Bosanquet, Bernard, 155-156; on 



'concrete universal', 235-236 

 Botany, 71, 119 

 Bourbon College, 15, 17, 32, 2og-2i2, 



216; see Appendix A 

 Bourget, Paul, 15, 196, 254 

 Boutroux, iSmile, 136, 139-140 

 Brandes, Georg, ix, 195 

 Braque, Georges, 242 

 Brett, George Sidney, 123, 139; 



quoted, 120, 130 

 Brooks, Cleanth, x, 138, 199, 204-205 

 Brunetiere, Ferdinand, x, 8, 108, 199, 



229 

 Burke, Kenneth, 139 



Carlyle, Thomas, 64, 6g, 107, 123, 



14O5 253-254, 258 

 Cassirer, Ernst, 28, 34, 59, 139, 133- 



155, 111, i88-i89n, 190, 205, 230 

 Castiglione, Baldassare, 81-82 

 Catholic, 25, 103; versus Protestant, 



92 



Causation, 10, 16, 18-19, 21, 28, 42, 

 52, 55-57, 68, 71, 81, 99, 136, 163; 

 and conditions, 70; axiom of, 21, 

 29; German idea of, 53; of 'high 

 art', see Conditions; problem of, 

 128-131 



Cause and Effect, 21,28, 54, 58, 60, 62, 

 79, 128, 130, 148, 217; in art, 167 



Causes, active, 211; efficient, 28, 152- 

 153, 178, 186; efficient and formal, 

 160; final, 221, 227; first, 212; for- 

 mal, 43; formal and final, 27-28; 

 of 'high art',, see Conditions; 

 potential, 126; real versus logical, 

 215; universal and permanent, 

 62, 65, 83, 92, no, 120, 140 

 (criticized, 136-137), 148, 157- 

 159, 217 



Cellini, Benvenuto, 67, 82 



Celts, 99-100 



Chance, 32-33, 136, 139-140 



Change and permanence, 150, 158; 

 see also Development 



Character, 119; and action, 62; de- 

 grees of beneficence and impor- 

 tance of, 3, 165, 167-169, 175; for- 

 mation of, 65, 75, 88-89; innate and 

 acquired, 92; national, 65, 83, 88, 

 92, no, 151; whole, 68; see also 

 Essential character 



