INDEX.
- About’s (Edmond), La Question Romaine, 250
- Anarchism, rapid spread of, 194;
- causes of, 195-7
- Andersen, Hans, 58
- Andersen’s Ugly Duckling, 74
- Angelo, Michael, 224
- Anstey, F., 141
- Anti-semitism in Germany and elsewhere, 185 ff.
- Armies, English, French, and German, no degeneracy is proved by recent events, 134
- Art, 56 ff.;
- does not necessarily reflect the ethics of a nation, 292
- Artists and symbolism, 73 ff.
- Arts, the, and science, future harmony of, 228, 229
- Association of Men for the Suppression of Immorality, 246 ff.
- Atheism, effect of, upon morals, 85, 90 ff.;
- upon religion, 86 ff.
- Auricular confession, 162-4
- Austria, causes of anti-semitism in, 187 ff.
- Avinain, French assassin, 164
- Baudelaire, Charles, 231, 237
- Beethoven, Ludwig, 106
- Bismarck, Prince, 137
- Björnsen, Björnstjerne, 170, 177
- Borgia, Pope (Alexander VI), 265
- Bornmüller, Franz, 116;
- his estimate of Tolstoi, 116
- Brahe, Tycho, 66
- Bremer, Frederika, 142
- Bronté’s Jane Eyre, 146
- Cavour, di, Count Camillo Benso, 137
- Cervantes, Miguel, 152
- Chitral, British expedition to, 134
- Church and religion, the, distinction between, 77 ff.
- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 219
- Columbus, Christopher, 66
- Communism, absurdity and impracticability of, 190
- Confession of wrong-doing, the yearning for, 162-5
- Consciousness of man, 204
- Correggio, Allegri, 127
- Cotta, Johann Friedrich, 277
- Dante’s Divina Commedia, 224
- Darwinian theory of evolution, 159
- Degeneration, the causes of, 255 ff.
- Dishonesty as a means of acquiring wealth, 267-9
- Drummond, Henry, 8, 12
- Drunkenness in England, 136, 137
- Egoism, 260 ff.
- Egomania, 230
- England, degeneracy in, 136, 137;
- estimation of women in, 142, 217-9;
- æsthetic revolt in, 237;
- high moral responsibility of, 305, 306
- English army, no degeneracy in, 134
- Ethical Culture, Berlin Society for, 247, 248
- Eroticism, 205 ff.
- Faraday, Michael, 54
- France, marriage in, 90, 91;
- æsthetic revolt in, 234 ff.
- Free Labour Association, the, 31
- French army, no degeneracy in, 134
- French hatred of Germany, 24, 25
- French symbolists, the, 76 ff., 94
- Galileo, 66
- Gautier, Théophile, 231
- Germans, submission of, to discipline, 15 ff.;
- their treatment of women, 18-19;
- ideas concerning marriage, 19;
- hatred of France, 24, 25
- Germany, marriage in, 18, 19;
- army system in, 138;
- position of women in, 142 ff.;
- influence of, upon Norway, 173 ff.;
- causes of anti-semitism in, 187 ff.;
- the development of the empire, 298;
- burdens upon the working people in, 298, 299;
- despotic rule of the Emperor, 299;
- bad effect of present system of government, 300-2;
- the coming catastrophe, 301-3
- Gladstone, William Ewart, 137
- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang, 56, 152, 224
- Goethe’s Werther’s Leiden, 104;
- Faust, 157, 216
- Gounod, Charles François, 226
- Hanseatic League, the, 173
- Heller, Ferdinand, 222, 223
- Heredity, 159, 160
- Hugo’s Notre Dame de Paris, 59
- Human instincts, 270-2
- Humanity, the religion of, 232
- Hunt, Holman, 64, 68
- Huxley, Professor Thomas Henry, 54
- Huysman, Joris Karl, 236
- Huysman’s A Rebours, 273
- Ibsen, Henrik, 132 ff., 140 ff., 177, 258;
- influence of, upon women, 142
- Ibsen’s Ghosts, 154, 155, 158;
- Pillars of Society, 155, 156;
- The Lady from the Sea, 157;
- The Doll’s House, 74, 179-81
- Immorality, Association of Men for the Suppression of, 146 ff.
- Immoral literature, impossibility of prohibiting the circulation of, 249-51
- Instinct in human beings, 270-2
- Italian army, no degeneracy in, 134
- Jew, the free-thinking, characteristics of, 20, 21
- Jews, the, Wagner’s dislike of, 184;
- hatred of, in Russia, 185;
- in Germany and Austria, 187 ff.;
- inherent good qualities of, 191, 192
- Jones, Burne, 68, 127, 130, 258
- Kant, Immanuel, 3
- Kidd, Benjamin, 8, 12
- Kock, de, Charles Paul, 277
- Legrain, 46, 47
- Lemerre, Alphonse, 277
- Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim, 105
- Lessing’s Amelia Galotti, 105
- Liberty (periodical), 32
- Liebknecht, Herr, 16, 139
- Lie, Jonas, 170, 177
- Literature does not necessarily reflect the ethics of a nation, 292
- Lombroso, Dr. Cesare, 21;
- Nordau’s dedication to, in Degeneration, 132
- Love, the purity of, 213, 214
- Loyola, Ignatius, 265
- Lutheran Church and confession, the, 163
- Marriage laws, how inaugurated, 150
- Marriage relations in Germany, 18-19;
- in France, 90, 91
- Mallarmé, Stephane, 104 ff.
- Martineau, Dr. James, 54
- Maudsley, Dr. Henry, 251
- Millais, John E., 63, 64
- Molière’s Malade Imaginaire, 12
- Moltke, Count Helmuth Karl Bernard, 7
- Morel, Dr. B. A., 48
- Morice, Charles, author of La Littérature de tout à l’heure, 106
- Music, the influence of, 60, 61, 220 ff.
- Mysticism, 44 ff.;
- definition of, 47
- Napoleon III, 138
- Neo-Catholicism and the Church of Rome, 76
- Nicholas II, Emperor of Russia, 138
- Nietzsche, Friedrich, 201, 223, 243
- Nietzsche’s Der Fall Wagner, 223
- Nihilists, Russian, 197
- Nordau, Max, influence of his book Degeneration, 9;
- importance of closely investigating his theories before accepting them, 10;
- intemperance of his methods, 11;
- a typical German, 12;
- his German bias, 17;
- an enemy to France, 24;
- his attitude toward art, 56 ff.;
- his animosity against the symbolists, 77 ff.;
- views upon the poetry of Paul Verlaine, 99 ff.;
- denunciation of Tolstoi, 108 ff.;
- estimate of Ibsen, 132-82;
- attack upon Wagner, 183;
- judgment of Zola, 274 ff.
- Norway, position of women in, 145 ff.
- Norwegians, national characteristics of, 171 ff.
- Ohnet’s (George) novels, 28
- Poets and symbolism, 73 ff.
- Pre-Raphaelitism, 55 ff.
- Raphael, Sanzio, 75, 127
- Religion, influence of, upon civilization and progress, 49, 50;
- and the Church, distinction between, 77 ff.;
- relation of, to science, 232 ff.
- Rollinat, Maurice, 231
- Roman Church and neo-Catholicism, 76
- Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 127, 130, 135, 258
- Rossetti’s masterpiece, “Dante’s Dream,” 69, 70, 75
- Rubinstein, Anton, 223
- Ruskin, John, 58, 59
- Russia, causes of anti-semitism in, 185-7
- Russian, characteristics, 109;
- government, 110;
- serfs, 110, 111;
- nihilists, 197
- Scandinavia, position of women in, 145 ff.
- Science, the unsolved problems of, 22, 23;
- the bankruptcy of, 73 ff.;
- and the arts, future harmony of, 228, 228 [sic];
- relation of, to religion, 232 ff.
- Scientific atheism, 90 ff.
- Scientists, dogmatic attitude of, 65 ff.;
- influence of, upon religion, 86 ff.
- Schopenhauer, Arthur, 225, 226
- Schumann, Robert, 222, 223
- Self, the religion of, 230-40
- Serfs, emancipation of, in Russia, 110, 111
- Shakespeare, William, 56, 152
- Society for Ethical Culture (Berlin), 247, 248
- Sound mind, the test of, 133
- Stage, the, purity of, 211
- Stöcker, Dr., anti-semitic agitator, reception of, in London, 193, 194, 265
- Swinburne, Algernon C., 135
- Symbolists, the French, 76 ff.
- Tintoretto, Giacomo, 127
- Tjerulf, Norwegian composer, 177
- Tolstoi, Count Leo, 108 ff.
- Tolstoi’s Kreutzer Sonata, 115, 116;
- My Confession, 117;
- My Faith, 117;
- A Short Exposition of the Gospel, 117, 126;
- About my Life, 117;
- From the Diary of Nechljudow, 125
- Trades unions, 31
- United States, the, treatment of women in, 142
- Verlaine, Paul, 97 ff.;
- his poem addressed to Louis II of Bavaria, 101;
- his “Chevaux du Bois” and “Chanson d’Automne,” 103, 104
- Victoria, Dowager Empress of Germany, 146
- Voltaire, Arouet, 1, 9, 223, 254
- Wagner, Richard, 28, 29, 151, 184 ff., 194, 198 ff.
- Wagner’s Art Work of the Future, 209, 224
- Wealth, dishonesty in the acquisition of, 267-9
- William II, Emperor of Germany, 138, 299
- Wolseley, Lord, 7
- Women, position of, in the United States, England, and other countries contrasted, 142 ff.
- Zola, Émile, 29, 130, 274 ff.
- Zola’s La Joie de Vivre, 281
Transcriber's notes:
- This book was published anonymously and is now attributed to Alfred Egmont Hake.
- One "[sic]" has been placed in the index, and a presumed missing comma in the original is indicated with "[,]".
- The book contains a single footnote, which is placed below the relevant paragraph.