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.