Chapter 14

_December_ 31.--"The heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll, and all their host shall fade away, as a leaf fadeth off the vine, and as a fading leaf from the fig-tree." So the world seemed made to Isaiah, and that light airy way of accepting it may linger in one's mind all the more persistently because of its contrast with the heavy solemnity of the Hebraic genius. So it is with all these men of creative genius, whatever nation they belong to. Wherever Man flowers into Genius, wherever, that is to say, he becomes most quintessentially Man, he can never take the world seriously. He vaguely realises that it is merely his own handiwork, his own creation out of chaos, and that he himself transcends it. So for the physicist of genius the universe is made up of holes, and for the poet of genius it is a dream, and even for the greatest of these solemn Hebraic prophets it is merely a leaf, a fading leaf from the fig-tree.

_Qualis artifex pereo!_ It may well be the last exclamation of the last Son of Man on the uninhabitable Earth.

INDEX

Addison Aesthetics Aigremont Albert Hall, the Albertus Magnus Andersen, Hendrik Angels and poets Animals and Man Anti-Militarism Apple, symbolism of the Architecture, Norman and Burgundian; Spanish; English Aristotle Arnold, Matthew Art Artists as writers Augustine, St. Australia

Bacon Bailey, P. H. Barcelona Barker, Granville Bathing Baudelaire Bayeux tapestry

Beauty, in women; and love; the strangeness of proportion in; in Nature and Man; and Nothingness; and imperfection; in style Beauvais Beethoven Bergerac, Cyrano de Bernard, St. Bianca Stella Bible, the Birnbaum Birth-rate, decline in Blake Boccaccio Body, significance of the Böhme Bovarism Brantôme Bretons Browning, R. Bryan, W.J. Buddha Burgundy Burton, Sir R. Busoni Byng, Admiral

Caen Canterbury, Archbishops of Carducci Carus, P. Castle Hedingham Catalans Catullus Chidley Chivalry Chopin Christianity Churches, English City, the World Civilisation Clarity in style Clergyman, the Anglican _Cliché_, the Cloister, the Coleridge Conductors, English musical, Cornwall, Counters, Coutance, Cowley, Crowd, psychology of the, Curzon, Lord,

Dancing, Dante, Darling, Justice, Daumier, Death, Delarue-Mardrus, Lucie, Denyn, J., Deslys, Gaby, Devil, fate of the, Dickinson, Dijon, Dives, Drake, Drama, Dukas,

Eccles, Solomon, Elgar, Elizabeth, Queen, Ellis, Henry, England, English, women, temperament, sailor, literature, excessiveness, type, churches, love of flowers, Eskimo, Eternity, Eucalyptus, Eugenics, Euripides, Evolution, Exfodiation,

Fécamp, Fechner, Feminism, Flagellation, Flaubert, Flowers, Fountains, Franck, César, Freedom, French spirit, Freud, Furniture,

Gardens, Gaultier, Jules de, Genius, Gibbon, God, Goethe, Goncourt, Gourmont, Remy de, Greek language,

Hahn, Hair, Hall, Stanley, Harnack, Heaven, Hell, Herrick, Robert, Hinton, James, Hobbes, Hostility, the vanity of, Humboldt, Wilhelm von, Hydrangea,

Imbecility, Immorality, Individuality, Irony, Isaiah, Italy,

Jacobean furniture, Janson, G., Jesus, Johnson,

Kapo, Kraepelin,

Lamb, C., Landor, Latin, Lenormand, Lévy-Bruhl, Life, Lind-Af-Hageby, Miss, Linnaeus, Logic in morals, London Lucretius Luther

Macaulay Maeterlinck Malaterra, Geoffrey Maldon Malines Man Marinetti Mass, the Mazzini Mediaevalism Mendelssohn Meredith, George Metaphor Michelangelo Midsummer Eve Milton Mimosa Mirrors Mob, the Molière Monks, as epicures Montserrat Mont St. Michel Morality Morocco Music

Nakedness Nantes Nature Newbolt, H. Nietzsche Nigeria, religious rites of Nikisch Norman, genius women character architecture Normandy Novels

Obscene, the Obscurity in style October Ogive, the Olives Ovid

Pachmann Pain Palencia Pantheon, the Paris Pascal Pater Paulhan Peace Propaganda Pear, symbolism of the Perfection Perpignan Perugino Peter, St. Pliny, the Elder Poets, as critics as angels Poincaré, II. Progress Protestantism

Rabelais Raleigh, Sir W. Raphael Régnier, H. de Religion Restraint Ripoll _Rire, Le_ Rocamadour Rodin Romanesque architecture Roses, wild Rossetti Rouen Rowlandson Rubens

Sabotage the Higher Sailor, the English Salamanca Schestoff Schopenhauer Sea, the Shakespeare Shelley Smoke problem Socrates Solitude Spain Stead, W. T. Steele Stevenson, R. L. Strassburg Cathedral Stratz Strindberg Style Suffolk Suffragette, the Sun, the Swinburne Symons, Arthur

Technique Temperance movement Temptation, value of Tennyson Theatre, the Thicknesse, Philip Thompson, Francis Thomson, Sir J. J. Thoreau Travelling Truslow Tulips

Unamuno, M. de United States

Vaihinger Vegetarianism Velasquez Verlaine Vich Vinci, Leonardo da Virgin Mother, the Vivisection Voltaire

Wallflowers War Warner, C. D. Whitman, Walt Women, and social service; in university towns; of Normandy; of Burgundy; of England; of France; psychology of; and beauty; as affected by civilisation; beauty of; and the pear Wood, Sir Henry Wordsworth Work, the Gospel of

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