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Coleridge, Mary, 314.

Copernicus, 20, 21.

Croce, 288, 290.

Cusanus, Nicolaus, 288, 291.

Dante, his world, 22.

Darwin, influence on Nietzsche, 193-195.

Decalogue, 137.

Descartes, and Spinoza, 41-45; 104, 267.

determinism, Spinoza’s, 40, 45, 46, 53-55, 67, 69-78, 310, 311; of mechanical ideal, 82-84.

disciple, Bourget’s “Le Disciple,” 68; problem and plot in relation to Spinoza, 69-78; discussion of problem, mechanism, purpose, and freedom, 81-92; outcome, 92-95.

empiricism, 104-107, 311, 312.

Epictetus, 280.

Epicurus, “Garden of,” 22; 99, 112.

Ethica, ordine geometrico demonstrata, 39, 310.

evolution, Nietzsche and doctrine of organic, 193-195.

Fichte, 67, 149, 154, 159.

Flaubert, 168, 294, 295.

France, Anatole, contrasts ancient and modern worlds, 22, 23, 168; on realism in history, 223-226; 266, 294, 295.

freedom, consistent with mechanism, 53-55, 84-92; Kant on, 140.

Fourlians, morality of, 120-123.

geometry, ethics after manner of, 39; 42, 43, 45, 310.

Gierke, 291.

God, ontological proof of, 43, 44; Kant, 131, 142-146, 148-149; “is dead,” 185-187.

Goethe, 315.

good, the, see imperative; 261-273.

Gottrunkener, Spinoza ein, 52.

Gourmont, Remy de, 275.

group, mind of, 288-292, 301.

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