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INDEX 



Occam's Razor, 156 



Oedipus the King and Oedipus com- 

 plex, 177, 179-180, 189 



Ontological, argument, 18, 2 1 1 ; status 

 of work of art, 126, 138 



Ontology, 154 



Optimism, 24, 154, 161, 196; see also 

 Pessimism 



Oratory and Oratorical genius, 47- 

 48, 50, 56, 68, 147; of French, 95, 

 254; of Livy, 62, 115, 250 



Organic, 139, 150, 166, 168; prin- 

 ciple and organicism, 155, 161, 164, 

 167-170, 181, 185, 189-190, 203, 

 235-237. 244-245; types, 218; 

 unity, 24, 30, 55, 66, 130-131, 244 



Organization, and matter, 188, 240; 

 of art, 178, 187 



Origins, 1 50-151, 158, 167, 244; 

 fallacy of, 125, 190; of poetry, 201, 



245 

 Owen, Richard, 71 

 Oxford University, 52, 259 



'Painter', 56, 62 



Painting, 76, 165-166, 239; and geo- 

 graphy, 92; Italian, 81-82; modern, 



243 

 Palaeontology, 66-67, 150 

 Pantheism, 17, 48, 119; essay on 



Spinoza's, 209 

 Paris and Parisians, 15, 30, 39, 49, 



82, 114, 203, 228; Latin Quarter, 



56; University of, 258; siege of, 



113; see also Notes on Paris 

 Parrington, Vernon L., ix, 195 

 Particular and Particularity, 29, 50- 



51, 58, 131, 147; see also Universal 

 Pascal, Blaise, 104 

 Pepper, Stephen C, 137, 182, 188, 



246 

 Perception and Conception, 18-20, 



190, 213, 215 

 Perceptions, 29, 118; see also Taine, 



Notebooks . . . , 'Sensations, The' 

 Period, log-iio, 171, 238; see also 



Epoch, Time 

 Permanence, scales of, 238-239; see 



also Change 

 Perspectivism, 126, 137, 187 

 Pessimism, 14, 25, 196, 203 

 Peyre, Henri, 139 

 Phenomenology, 190 



Philistines, 51 



Philosophy, and criticism, 31, 65 ; and 



history, 69, 219; suppression of, 25- 



26^ 33, 221, 248; Taine's love of, 



16, 18; Taine's studies in, 209 ff. 

 Phrenology, 44 

 Physics and physical methods, 21, 



104, 109, III, 119, 147, 151, 217; 



and reality, 226 

 Physiology, 41, 46, 52, 61, 92, 94, 117, 



171 

 Picasso, Pablo, 77; 'Guernica', 180, 



242 

 Planat, Jfimile (Marcelin), 31 

 Plato and Platonism, 5, 15, 20, 26, 43, 



126, 148, 183, 200, 2 16-217 y 238, 



249. 251 

 Plot and development, 181; see also 



Action 

 Pluralism, 27, 45, 129-131, 139, 156, 



201; and eclecticism, 187 

 Poetry, 76, 180, 188, 201, 204, 245; 



and psychology, 60; and science, 



140; great, 185 

 Poitiers, 30, 33, 221, 258 

 Polarity, 43, 129, 154, 178, 185-186, 



199 

 Politics, as environment, 104-105; 



in France, 25-26, 105, 203, 221- 



222, 250, 259 

 Pope, Alexander, 134, 185 

 Positivism, 7, 9, 18, 28, 32, 54, 57, 



77, 108, 111-112; English, 58, 254; 



of Taine, 200, 228-230 (Appendix 



B), 245; myth of, 135 

 Possibility, 20, 22, 118, 149, 157, 187; 



and reality, 150, 167; pure, 215; 



limits of, 234; versus existence, 216, 



219 

 Postulates, 18, 32, 45, 155 

 Potentiality, 231, 234; Aristotelian, 



215, 244; of an art, 244; see also 



Possibility 

 Power and Powers, 20, 75, 157, 165; 



see also Force 

 Pradon, Nicolas, 201-202 

 Pragmatic and Pragmatism, 155-156, 



172, 232 

 Prediction, 56, 60, 66, 71, 152, 179 

 Prevost-Paradol, Lucien A., 17, 25, 



31. 5ij 55. 210, 221-222, 228, 255 

 Primitive, 167-168, 240 

 Probability, 149, 152, 158 

 Problems versus solutions, 1 1 1 , 121 



