Beccaria, iii. 413.
Being, as the most general conception, ii. 236;
in the professorial philosophy, ii. 288;
relation of thought to. See Thing in itself;
limitation of individual being the cause of philosophy, i. 135;
contrast of seeing and being, iii. 392.
Bell, Sir Ch., i. 133, iii. 6.
Benedict, iii. 450.
Berkeley, on rareness of thought, i. 50;
his idealism, ii. 15, 29, 41, 163, 165, 175, iii. 59, 261.
Bhagavad-gita, i. 366, iii. 75, 262.
Bible, one metaphysical truth in Old Testament, iii. 423;
ascetic spirit of New Testament, iii. 437, 458 seq.;
opposition of Old and New Testaments, i. 420, iii. 281, 441, 445;
its historical material unsuited for paintings, i. 300.
Bichat, “Sur la vie et la mort,” ii. 470, 488;
on circulation of blood, ii. 478;
on organic and animal life, ii. 489;
only animal life can be educated, ii. 491;
Flourens' attack on, ii. 494 seq.;
nervous and muscular systems in children, iii. 161;
effect of emotions on organism, iii. 296.
Bio, on relation of science and philosophy, ii. 319.
Biography, superiority to history, i. 319 seq.;
difficulty of dissimulating in autobiographies, i. 320.
Biot, on colour rings, ii. 338.
Blood, the primitive fluid of organism, ii. 478-481.
Body, the, an object among objects, i. 5, 14, 23, 25, 129, ii. 167;
its identity with will, i. 129 seq.; 137-142, ii. 428, 468, 471-493;
relation of physiological and metaphysical explanations of, i. 139 seq., ii. 492, 493;
its design, i. 140 seq.;
knowledge of, key to nature of things, i. 136, 141 seq.;
criticism of antithesis of body and soul as two substances, ii. 101-104, 378, iii. 11.
Böhm, Jakob, everything half dead, i. 191;
“De signatura rerum,” i. 284 n., iii. 432.
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Bolingbroke, iii. 397.
Books, not so instructive as reality, ii. 244, 245;
why they cannot take the place of experience, ii. 248, 249.
Boswell, his Life of Johnson, ii. 446.
Boureguon, Antoinette, iii. 435.
Brahmanism, recognises no beginning of world, ii. 94, 95, 108, 109;
teaches metempsychosis, iii. 303.
Brain, metaphysically considered, ii. 468, 485, 486;
physiologically considered, its origin and function, ii. 411, 462, 463, 470, iii. 9;
its share in perception, ii. 185;
its relation to the ganglia, ii. 483;
the seat of motives, ii. 473;
develops with organism, ii. 416, iii. 13, 14;
as necessary for thought as stomach for digestion, ii. 237;
the regulator of the will, ii. 470;
the condition of self-consciousness, iii. 12 seq.;
influence of its development upon intellect at different periods of life, ii. 425, 454 seq.;
necessity of sleep for, ii. 464;
effect of over-work on, ii. 255, 256;
its variation in man the cause of individual character, i. 171;
its activity in dreams, ii. 464;
the brain of genius, iii. 159, 160;
influence on agility of limbs, iii. 21;
influence of noise on, ii. 196, 197.
Brandis, Ch. A., ii. 264.
Brandis, J. D., ii. 488.
Bridgewater Treatise Men, iii. 91.
Brougham, Lord, iii. 91.
Brown, Thomas, “On Cause and Effect,” ii. 207, iii. 92.
Bruno, Giordano, started from real in his philosophy, i. 33;
his view of life, i. 366;
lonely position in his age, ii. 13 n.;
on finiteness of world, ii. 110;
infinitely large body immovable, ii. 203;
matter incorporeal, ii. 208, iii. 51, 54;
no space beyond the world, ii. 265;
his death, iii. 106;
his motto, iii. 144.
Buddhism, its pre-eminence over all religions, ii. 371;
superiority to Brahmanism, i. 460, iii. 430;
compared with Christianity, iii. 445 seq.;
its pessimism, i. 372, iii. 397;
its mysticism, iii. 435;
teaches that nature expects salvation from man, i. 492;
its doctrine of metempsychosis, iii. 302;
doctrine of Nirvana, iii. 308, 427.
Buffon, on intelligence of animals, i. 29;
on style, ii. 247.
Bunyan, John, iii. 435.
Bundahish, iii. 391.
Burdach, sleep the original state, ii. 463;
formation of muscles from blood, ii. 478;
heart independent of nervous system and sensibility, ii. 479;
reciprocal support of vegetable and insect world, iii. 90;
on bees, iii. 100;
on the burrying beetle, iii. 102;
on cercaria ephemera, iii. 269;
on maternal affection of animals, iii. 317.
Bürger, his place in German poetry, iii. 327;
his parents, iii. 327;
on love, iii. 336.
Burke, on the beautiful, ii. 153;
on the apprehension of words, ii. 239.
Byron, an instance of connection of genius and madness, i. 247;
brain weighed 6 lbs., iii. 160;
quoted, i. 234, 324, 258, 342, 432, 458, iii. 379, 398, 400.
Cabanis, on arterial and venous systems, ii. 257;
his materialism, ii. 378;
on passions of children, ii. 424;
“Des rapports du physique au moral,” iii. 6.
Cæsar, Jul., on Druids, iii. 304.
Calderon, life a dream, i. 22;
steadfast prince, i. 327;
a crime to be born, i. 328, 458, iii. 420;
his Semiramis, iii. 343;
“Zenobia the Great,” iii. 364.
Camerarius, J., collection of emblems, i. 309.
Cannibalism, most palpable example of wrong, i. 431;
hereditary, iii. 322.
Canisius, iii. 440.
Canova, iii. 195.
Caravaggio, iii. 197.
Caricature, character of species annulled by that of individual, i. 291.
Carové, iii. 440.
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Carracci, Hannibal, his allegorical paintings, i. 306, 308.
Casper, on length of human life, iii. 301.
Castration, its significance, iii. 310;
its use as a punishment, iii. 331.
Categories, criticism of the Kantian, ii. 48-51.
Catholicism, compared with Protestantism in an ethical regard, iii. 448, 449.
Catullus, iii. 318.
Caucasian, an original race, iii. 58.
Cause, Causality, law of, ii. 214;
a priori nature of law of, i. 154 seq., ii. 206 seq.;
corollary from it the permanence of substance, ii. 79;
difference of cause and force, i. 144, 145;
mysteriousness of connection between cause and effect, i. 174;
temporal relation between cause and effect, ii. 209, 210;
three kinds of causes, i. 149, 150;
truth of doctrine of occasional causes, i. 178 seq.;
falseness of proposition “the effect cannot contain more than the cause,” ii. 213;
a “first cause” inconceivable, ii. 214;
to determine the cause of an effect, ii. 154.
Celibacy, from Christian and ethical point of view, iii. 425, 437, 438, 449, 450, 451.
Cellini, Benvenuto, his conversion, i. 510.
Celsus, on generation, iii. 310.
Certainty, distinguished from scientific completeness of knowledge, i. 83;
superiority of immediate to indirect, i. 89, 90.
Cervantes, i. 311; ii. 246.
Chamfort, iii., 157, 158, 365.
Champollion, i. 313.
Change, nature of, i. 11;
always conditioned by a cause, i. 170, ii. 211 seq.
Character, as a force of nature, i. 370;
difference between that of man and brutes, i. 170, 386, 387;
that of man individual, i. 290;
empirical, ii. 407;
constant, i. 378, ii. 441, 491;
inherited from father, iii. 320 seq.;
relation of intelligible to empirical, i. 203, 207, 373 seq.;
a false inference from unalterableness of, i. 389;
the acquired, i. 391-397;
explanation of inharmonious nature of, iii. 330;
abolition of, i. 520 seq.
Chatham, Lord, iii. 324.
Chateaubriand, iii. 435.
Chemistry, what it teaches, iii. 38;
antinomy of, i. 37 seq.
Chevreul, experiments on light, iii. 62.
Childhood, character of, iii. 161 seq.
Chiliasts, ii. 243.
Chinese, philosophy, i. 187, 188, 343;
garden, iii. 157.
Chladni, i. 344.
Choice, man larger sphere of, than brutes, i. 388;
not freedom of individual volition, loc. cit.
Christianity, different constituent parts of, i. 500, 501, iii. 422;
its connection with Brahmanism and Buddhism, iii. 391, 421, 459;
pessimistic spirit of, ii. 372, iii. 397, 436;
kernel of, i. 424, 523-524, ii. 149, iii. 421, 452;
symbol of, iii. 462.
Chrysippus, i. 116, 118, 389, ii. 72, 349.
Cicero, i. 116 n., 117, 247, 389, ii. 72, 137, 138, 140, 141, 270, 272, 348, 356, 358, 444, iii. 147, 253 n., 452.