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ARNOLD, Matthew: his "Culture and Anarchy" re- viewed, 100 seq. See Man.
CHRIST, Dr. Hanna's Life of, 167; success of the two earlier volumes, 168; Dr. Young's "Christ of History," ib.; the problem as to the religious sig- nificance of the life of Christ, one of historical philosophy, 169; the idea of rewriting the life of Jesus a modern conception, ib.; Socrates and Christ, 170; psychological and critical study of the Gospels, 171; early efforts-Jeremy Taylor, ib.; Hess, Herder, Paulus, 172; Schleiermacher, Hase, ib.; Strauss's "Life of Jesus," 170, 178; his treatment of the supernatural, ib.; the mythi- cal theory, 174; the works of Neander, 175, and Renan, 175, 176; the latter replied to by Edmond de Pressensé, 176, 177; Ellicott's Bampton Lec- tures, 177; Dr. Kitto's Illustrations,-work of Rev. Isaac Williams,-and Ecce Homo, 177, 178; prerequisites to an adequate biography, 178; char- acteristics of Dr. Hanna's work, 178, 179; the influence of Nature on Christ, 179; Dean Stanley, ib.; break and sequences in the Evangelical nar- ratives, 179, 180; the soundings of moral evidence in Dr. Hanna's work, 180; indirect signs of the supernatural in Christ's life, 181; its consistent harmony shown, contrary to Renan, De Wette, Paulus, 181, 182; instances of Christ's unparalleled assumptions, if only human, 182, 183; the Great Commission, 184; problems underlying the nar- rative, 184, 185; the nature of our Lord's resur- rection body, 185; the fundamental feature which distinguishes this life from those by Strauss and Renan, 186; the question of the miraculous, 187; the natural and supernatural, ib.; the es- sential nature of a miracle, 188; the Ideal real- ized in One Human Life, 189.
DANISH Literature; see Holberg.
EARLY History of Man: His antiquity-Ancient Egypt, 272, 274; China, 274; the "mother- tribe" of the Indo-Europeans, ib.; archæology, 276, 277; Primitive state, 277; definition of ci- vilisation, 278; the grouping of men in societies, 278, 281; Sir George Grey's hypothesis, 281; progress in arts and sciences, 282; language- its origin, 282, 283; systems of religion, 283, 284; method of studing early history, 286; inequali- ties of development, 286, 288; symbols of law and ceremony, 288, 289; summary, 290. English language, revolutions in its history, 34; the great creative period of English literature that of the Reformation, 35; contrast between it and the productive epoch of our literature, ib.; spirit of nationality expressed, 36; reign of Henry VIII., ib.; influence of the Reformation on our language, 37;-through translations of works by Continental Reformers, ib. ; and by the controver- sies it provoked--Sir Thomas More and William
Tyndale, Bishop Bale, and others, 37, 38; our early printers chiefly occupied with works in the vernacular, 38; translations from the classics, 39, and their influence on the language, 40; Shakespeare's dramatic works, ib., 44, 45; changes affecting the language during the period of the Revolution,-English literature after the Restoration, 40; fashionable Gallicisms, 41, 42; literature of Queen Anne's reign, 42; alleged re- finement of the language, 43; Dryden, and his criticism of the Elizabethan dramatists, 43,45; Addison and bis writings, 45; his criticism of Milton's language, 46,47; and protest against ne- ologisms, 47; Alexander Pope, 48; Johnson, and his criticism of Shakespeare, 48, 49; Dryden's version of "Troilus and Cressida," 49, 50; influ- ence of the events in the latter half of the eigh- teenth century on the literature of the nineteenth, 50,--exuberance, of original poetic genius, ib.; contrast between the close of the sixteenth and that of the eighteenth century, 50, 51; expansion of social and political interests, and its intellectu- al effect, 51; the work of reflective expansion in our native vocabulary, 52.
European Morals,-History of, by W. E. H. Lecky, 202; object of the work, ib.; apparent inconsis- tencies in it, 202, 203; moral condition of the Roman Empire, 204; mortifying result of the teachings of Pagan philosophy, ib.; contentions between the Stoics and the Epicureans, 205; in- fluence of the conquests of Alexander, ib.; the dogma of universal brotherhood, 206; Christian- ity in the Empire, ib.; position of women under its influence, ib.; success and ultimate triumph of Christianity, how accounted for, 207; two of the most important human causes-(1.) Doctrine of future life, 207, 208; (2.) Formation of a strong character, 208, 209; Constantine the Great, 209; the progress of moral ideas and practice in the first ages of Christianity, 210; excesses and per- versions of its real force, ib.; misapprehension in- volved in the charge brought against Christianity as to its discouragement of patriotism, 210, 211; the toleration of the Roman government, 212, as exemplified while conquering and triumphant, 212, and under reverses, 213; persecution of the Chris- tians, ib.; the full effect of Christian principle on domestic life under the Empire, unrecorded, 214; the history of European morals leaves no impeach- ment on the claim of Christianity to be divine, 215.
GEOLOGICAL Time, 215; trade-unionism in science, 216; Hooker on Lyell, ib.; use of mathematics, 217; the anonymous writer in the Pall Mall Ga- zette, ib.; the grand question in geology, 218; the Uniformitarian school, ib.; Dr. Hooker's Ad- dress, 219; place assigned to mathematics in this controversy, ib.; resistance to planets' motions, 220; resistance offered by the tides to the earth's rotation, ib.; tidal reaction on the moon, 221; how
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