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ALFONSO DI LIGUORI, his bilo-
cation, 112.
Angels, their office, 66.
Antinomianism, 115.

Apostles' Creed, legend of ori-
gin, 7.

Aristotle, 167, 180.

Arnold, Dr, on pagan idea of
God, 206.

Arnold, Matthew, quoted, 134.
Artists, favourable circumstances
of their life, 174.
Augustine, on the apprehension
of God, 32; excessive scruples,
84; seeks to satisfy his reason
in religion, 89; passes through
dark night, 136; his self-
abasement, 140; prayer for his
parents, 185; on communion
with God, 193; truthfulness,
264; on nature of God, 295.
Autobiographies as touchstones
of dogma, 21.

BAD TEMPER, 127.
Baxter, Richard, on moderate
men, 56; on certainty in re-
ligion, 92.

Belief, its three stages, 15.
Bernard, his sermons on The

Song of Songs, quoted, 54,
258; on the need of a director,
267; as a politician, 270.
Bilocation, III.
Biographies of religious persons, 3.
Blake, called mad by dyspeptics,

12; his philosophy, 35; as

prophet, 38; his poverty, ib.;
simplicity, 40; mysticism, 41;
shut himself from nature, 42;
his manuscripts destroyed by
an angel (Irvingite), 44; per-
sonifies powers of mind, 47;
prophetic books, 48; on
ghosts, 149; visions, ib.; on
fourfold vision, 151; fails in
self-criticism, 156; does not
test his visions, 163; at
Felpham, 216; his symbol-
ism, 218.

Bosanquet, on objective system
of thought, 290.
Bradley, F. H., on Communion
of Souls, 67, 203; on working
power of identity, 69; on dis-
honest theologians, 70.
Bunyan, excessive scruples, 82;
cynicism, 84; caricatures scep-
tical method, 91; tempted to
blaspheme, 114; exhausted
by enthusiasm, 122; harassed
by doubts, 123; feels ennui,
126; his dark night, 137;
makes light of bereavement,
145; on the Holy Kiss, 187.
Burton, 143.

CALVIN, government of Geneva,
242, 247; compared with

Aquinas, 288.
Camisards, 107.
Carlyle, as man of genius, 27;
compared with Newton, 150;
his method of work, 211.

Casuistry, 279; defined, 280; | Emotion, attaching to sentiment,

forbidden in pulpit, 281.
Catharine of Siena, 159.
Catholic faith demands spiritual
disinterestedness, 10.
Cellini, visited by angels, 161;

not a typical artist, 174.
Christianity, a positive religion,
95.

Chrysostom, on pastoral office,
266, 284.

Church, R. W., on Cromwell,

239; on St Bernard, 270.
Comparative Method, 18.
Comte, on purpose of scientific
training, 262.

Confession, public, 272; private,
283.

Conversion, Evangelical theory
of, 19; c. iv.; by hypnotic
suggestion, 117; not an abso-
lute beginning, 252.
Cowper, writes sensuous hymns,
113.
Cromwell, as prophet, 238; as
herald of middle-class, 244,
269.

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Disease, as a heaven-sent trial,
128.

Donne, breaks his word, 85.
Dream of Gerontius, 134.

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Ennui, in religious life, 126.
Enthusiasm, 254.

Erasmus, and the reformers, 55;
and English customs, 188.
Evangelical theory of salvation,
mechanical, 73; its defects,
253.

Evidence, subjective, when ade-
quate, 9.

Evil, its nature, 296.

FAMILY LIFE, 184.
Feeling, imperfectly interpreted
by psychologists, 25.
Fox, George, on shaking of
buildings, 8; on the souls of
women, 85; denounces poetry
and music, ib.; his mission,
87; his countenance changed,
99.

Francis of Assisi, 65.
Francis Borgia, compared with
Bunyan, 145.

Friendship, a hindrance, 130;
its limits, 183.

GENIUS, and the oversoul, 71.
Gibbon, on Athanasius, 3.
God, defined by Augustine, 70;
how known, 120; knowledge
of, brings pain, 121; com-
munion with, 190 ff; as
beautiful, 206; His nature,
295.
Goethe, quoted, 3.
Gordon, General, 120.
Gregory, on desire for God,

202.

Guyon, Madame, 273.

HATCH, Hibbert Lectures, 289.
Health, influence of, on religion,

100.

history, 3; Heine, on the Holy Spirit, 35.
Heraclitus, on depths of the
soul, 26.

Herrmann, on religious thought,
21; on Christ as content of
idea of God, 22; on assur-
ance, 124; on scientific ap-
prehension of God, 195; on
work of Jesus, 197.
Hooker, inspired, 54; his un-
lucky marriage, 187.
Humanism, and theology, 54.
Humility, 138, 268.
Huysmans, his view of symbols,
41; pathological mysticism,

112.

Hypnotism, effect of, 74; and

religious revivals, 76.
Hypocrisy, 2, 283.

IDEALIST, a bad observer, 2.
Ignatius Loyola, method, 240.
Imagination, fallible, 221.
Individual, notion of, 15.
Inspiration of judgment, 62; of
feeling, 64; its highest form,
226.
Introspection leads to excessive
scruples, 81.

Isaiah, his visions, 164.

JAMES, WILLIAM, on the emo-
tions, 25; on idea of God,
191; on ideal companion,
198; on spiritualist mediums,
227; recommends discipline,
259.

"Jerks," as a religious exercise,
106.

Jessopp, on monastic life, 257.
Jesuit, training leads to medi-
ocrity, 73; moralists preach
toleration, 146; systematic
propaganda, 240; patronage
of culture, 253; obedience,
268; confessors, 283.
Jesus, finds outcasts congenial,
76; on conversion, 118; is
visited by evil spirit, 153; as
poet, 166; His prayer, 205;
use of symbols, 213; as an

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LEVITATION, I10.

Locke,as advocate of liberty, 240.
Locutions, divine, Teresa on, 147.
Lombroso, his method, 71, 143.
Luther, 86, 95.

Lying, sometimes practised by
good men, 276.

MACLEOD, FIONA, 29, 153.
Maeterlinck, on demands of soul,
24; on new birth, 29.
Manning, Cardinal, 80.
Martineau, Dr, his ethical
system, 43.

Michel Angelo, his fury, 200.
Mill on Carlyle, 27.
Milton, claims inspiration, 63.
Miraculous events not incredible,
8; in N.T., 109.
Molinos, 273.

Monasticism, its imperfections,
257.
Monica shuns her heretical son,
145.

Montaigne, on reading character,
87.
More, Thomas, 187; his self-
discipline, 259.

Morison, Cotter, on St Ber-
nard, 3.

Morley, John, on casuistry, 279.
Mysticism defined, 41; distin-
guished from symbolism, ib.,
and from vision, 42; and
from discursive reasoning, ib.,
in conduct, 292.

Mystics, neglected by psycholo-
gists, 23; company of Irish,
150.

Psychology, its method, I; de-
scriptive, 24; W. James on,
26; romantic, 47.
Purple Island, 218.
Pusey on Inspiration, 54.

REINCARNATION, 97.
Renan, on historian of religion,
16; disillusioned, 124.
Revelation, principle of, 10.
Revivals in U.S.A., 106.
Ribot, on study of emotion, II.

NATIONS, ascertainment of their Ritschl, on systematic theology,

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OBSESSION, 116.
Opportunism, 269.

Origen, his universality, 289.
Original sin, meaning of, 96.
Oversoul, 14; how to be under-
stood, 46; c. iii.; its impli-
cations, 204.
Oxford Movement, its effect on
handicrafts, 209.

PARSIMONY, principle of, 10, 46.
Paul, his conversion, 72; on
prophecy, 230; his Christ-
ology, 288.
Physiognomy, 99.
Plato, 177, 246.

Poetry, Blake's definition of,
223.

Polycarp, his martyrdom, 159.
Prayer, 197.

Protestantism and national genius,
242, 245.

17; on Holy Spirit, 61; on
mystical union, 70; on assur-
ance, 81; on mystical method,
248.

Roberto da Lecce, 160.
Roman Spirit, 53; in Protestant
theology, 247.

Romanism and absolutism, 245.
Ruffino, 126.

Ruskin, compared with Blake,
36; and architectural design,
208.

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Social factor in religion, 102.
Socrates, inspired, 54.

Solitude, effect of, 101; Fiona
Macleod on, 153.

Song of Songs, 176, 178, 190,
248.

Soul, unity of, 33; as artist, 49.
Spinoza, 51, 261.

Spira, his melancholy, 125.
Spiritual things, include sense-
factor, 43.
Spiritualism, 227 ff.

Stevenson, R. L., on monastic
life, 144; on Trappist regimen,
152.

Stout, G. F., quoted, 51.
Strauss, his method, 10.
Swedenborg, his psychology,
47; on microcosm, 219;
system of, 222.
Symbolism, relation to feeling,
41; underlying assumption,
177; its two fields, 210.
Symonds, J. A., 159, 160, 162.
Symons, Arthur, 224.

TEETOTALISM, 257.
Teresa, on spiritual advance, 77;
her cynicism, 84; on prose-
lytising, 87; learns without
words, 88; finds her soul
divided, 89; countenance
changed, 99; on influence of
bodily health, 100; her levi-
tation, IIO; her trivial
Occupations, 119; on locu-
tions, 148; on intellectual
vision, ib.; her style coloured
by liturgy, 157; on communion
with God, 193; on prayer,
199; on confessors, 284; on
mystical theology, 290;
idea of Christ's presence, 293.
Tertullian, on religious psycho-
logy, 5; on visions, 158; on

on

symbolism, 214; on human
character, 238; on presence of
God, 293.
Theosophy, 30.

Things, their nature, 296.
Thomas Aquinas, on tradition,

287; the Summa, 288, 295.
Trinity, doctrine of, as a formula
for religious life, 14; West-
cott on, 59; presupposed in
worship of Christ, 294; how
realised, 297.

Tylor, E. B., on the effects of a
good meal, 12, 152.

UNIVERSE, in logic, defined, 6.

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