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Regeneration

Chapter 16: INDEX.
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A sustained reply to Max Nordau's Degeneration that challenges its diagnosis of modern culture as pathological. The author disputes Nordau's reliance on physical measurements and narrow psychiatric categories, criticizes the reduction of artistic movements to signs of decay, and defends late nineteenth-century music, drama, literature, and visual art — including Wagner, Ibsen, Zola, the Pre-Raphaelites, symbolists, and Parnassians — as complex expressions of changing sensibilities. The work warns against scientism, argues for a balanced mediation between scientific and humanistic perspectives, and urges calmer, more nuanced appraisal of contemporary creativity.

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.