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Lucretius, 99, 165, 186.

Mach, Ernst, 216.

Marcus Aurelius, 212.

Maupassant, 168, 294, 295.

mechanism, Spinoza on, 40, 45, 46, 53-55, 67, 69-78, 310, 311; ideal of, 82-84; consistent with purpose and freedom, 53-55, 84-92.

Melville, Herman, on Typees, 251-253.

mind, and body, 45, 46; group, 288-292, 301.

miracles, Hume’s treatment in “Enquiry,” 107-110.

Mocenigo, his denunciation of Bruno, 3-8.

modernism, and pragmatism, 241-244.

Montaigne, v, 253-256.

morality, Kant’s law of, 151-153; proposed as absolute good, 263-268; questioned as absolute good, 268-272; reformed, 274, 275; discarded, 275, 276.

nature, man in state of, 251-258, 269-271; conquest of, 279-281.

Newman, 242.

New Testament, Kant and, 146.

Nicolaus, of Cusa, 291.

Nietzsche, iv; key-note of, 185; historic comparisons with, 185-188; and Schopenhauer, 188-193; and Darwin, 193-195; on superman as goal, 195; on transvaluation, 195-199; on genealogy of morals, 199-204; on anarchy, 204-205; on will to power, 205-207; on eternal returning, 208-211; vanishing goal, 211, 212; on courage, 212; on scientific spirit, 231-233; 276, 313, 314.

ought, see imperative.

Old Testament, world of, 139, 146.

parallelism, 45, 46.

Pascal, 27, 149, 242.

Pascendi, Encyclical, 241.

philosophers, Nietzsche’s estimate of, 199.

pietism, influence on Kant, 146.

pity, a vice, 187-189.

Plato, 89, 288, 293, 294.

pragmatism, v; relation to realism and idealism, 215-219; James’s first presentation of, 219, 220; reaction of realists against, 220-230; Nietzsche and, 231-234; “Will to Believe,” 234-239; and modernism, 240-244, and ‘human’ religion, 244-245; physical science and ideals of, 245, 246, 315.

progress, v; skeptics of, 251-261; conditional and absolute, 261-262; toward moral good held absolute, 263-268; morality proves conditional good, 268-273; as viewed by reformed morality and by amorality, 273-276; and conflicting ideals of peace and war, 277; final definition of, 277-281.

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