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INDEX 



Kant, Immanuel, and Kantianism, 



34, 146, 149-150, 172, 189 

 Keats, John, 1 78 



Kierkegaard, Soren, 32; quoted, 131 

 Knowledge, 213; Taine's theory of, 

 ii6-iig, 147-1^2, 184, 230; see also 

 Taine, Treatise on Knowledge 

 Krutch, Joseph Wood, 4 



Lacombe, Paul, 34, 106, 112 



Lalo, Charles, 171, 176, 182, 184-185, 



190 

 Lamartine, Alphonse de, 57 

 Land, 62, 75; and Nation, 90-93, 



1 10; and Race, 90-92 

 Landscape, 166; French, 93; see also 



Nature, Taine's feeling for 

 Language, 177, 179, 183, 205; aryan, 



93j 99j primitive, 238; see also 



Words 

 Laromiguiere, Pierre, 48, 251 

 Law and Laws, 10, 16, 21, 23-24, 28, 



35. 41. 54-55. 60, 153, 178, 187; 

 Dalton's atomic, 234; of history, 

 66-67; of thought, 210; universal, 



83. 150-151. 217 

 Lehmann, Henri, 257 

 Leibnitz, Gottfried, Wilhelm, 26, 48, 



149, 155 



Leonardo da Vinci, 81-82, 162-163 



Lessing, G. E., 64 



Levin, Harry, 200, 205, 245-246 



Life, and art (including literature), 

 96, 106, 166, 168, 170, 173, 181, 

 200, 204, 23y-2jg; criticism of, 131; 

 ideal in, 174 



Limits and Limitation, 171, 174, 187, 

 234; by artist, 178; of Taine, 188, 

 '96^1 99\ see also Science, ideal 

 limits of 



Literary, apergus, 55, 134; back- 

 grounds, ix; history, 94, 125, 186 



Literature, and philosophy, 139; and 

 society, 94; see also Science, 

 Sociology 



Livy, see Taine, Essay on Livy 



Locke, John, 52, 58 ' 



Logic, viii, xi, 18, 42-43, 58, 

 i97j 217, 218; Aristotle, 

 Descartes, 2 1 3-2 1 4; Hegel, 

 220-224; J. S. Mill, 52-53, 

 mathematical, 232; of art, 178;" of 

 nature, 76; versus metaphysics, 

 211, 223 



168, 

 214; 

 146, 



254; 



Louis-Napoleon (Napoleon III), 7, 



25-26, 33 

 Love, 168, 171, 175, 239 

 Lucas, Prosper, 98 

 Luther, Martin, 67 



Macaulay, Thomas B., 68-6g, 129, 



251-253, 255 

 MacNiece, Louis, 183 

 Macrocosm and microcosm, 235 

 Magnetism, 14 

 Man, as subject of art, 166-167, ^7^> 



237-240 (Appendix E); universal, 



168, 238 

 Mannheim, Karl, 131 

 Marcelin, see Planat, Emile 

 Marxism, 129, 140, 141, 157 

 Master Faculty, 10, 17, 45, 55, 88, 



92, 98, 114-116, 1 19-122, 130, 135- 



138, 179, 182, 187, 201, 239, 250 

 Masterpiece, 164-166, 168, 185, 238, 



241 

 Materialism, vii, 9, 26, 77, 210, 227, 



229; and idealism, 156; of lost 



generation, 196 

 Mathematics, 14, 17, 20, 41, 77, 96, 



119. 149. 159", 171. 177. 214, 234 



Matrixes, see Contexts 



Maturity, 168, 240; see also Growth 



Maxwell, J. Clerk, 104 



Meaning, and communication, 183; 

 levels of, ix 



Measurement, 66 



Mechanics and Mechanism, 16-17, 

 21, 66, 71, 77, 130, 140, 149, 166, 

 1 68, 171,175, 259; Taine's tendency 

 towards, 198-199, 205 



Medici, Lorenzo de, 82 



Medium, of art, 177; of Newton, 104; 

 social, 106-107, 112, 127; see also 

 Environment 



Memory, 213 



Metaphor, 48, 57, 72, 116, 126; 

 biological, 88, 107, 168; of relations, 

 130, 146 



Metaphysics, xi, 5, 7, 17-18, 20-21, 

 24-25, 41-42, 44-45, 57, 77, 81, 

 146, 148-i^y, 161, 189, 210, 221- 

 222; and psychology, 33, 114, 118, 

 219; empirical, 54, 203; issue for 

 judgment, 135-138, 181-183 



Method, definition of, 213; formation 

 of Taine's, 13-35, 55-57, 213-220, 



