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esty with oneself, 330; is social morality par excellence, 325; an assertion of the interests of the mass against superior classes, 344; here the secret of Nietzsche's antagonism to, 344, 509.

Christianity, how it became "an historical power," 60; now passing into a gentle moralism, 105; like socialism in ignoring individual differences, 139; necessary to most in Europe now, 186; böse to the old world, 227; its attitude to pain, 236; spiritualizing of cruelty, 239; supplanting of the old master-morality by a slave-morality, 258-260, 436436; sense in which it is a redemptive religion, 284; what its spiritual men have done for Europe, 304; its use of the idea of selection, 307; makes it impossible to sacrifice men, 309; a typical way of thinking for a suffering species of men, 348; its God a very wise being excogitated without moral prejudice, 504; Nietzsche has had nothing unpleasant from, 484; wishes to give it a bad conscience so far as it teaches anti-natural ideas, 275, 282; his object not to annihilate the Christan ideal, but to put an end to its tyranny, 453; valuable to the flock, but harmful to higher men, 453; how Conte has outchristianed it, 508.

Cicero, 387.

Commercialism, 2, 74-5, 132, 465.

Common, Thomas, vi, 18, 28, 171, 3415, 510.

Comte, 195, 340, 431, 508.

Consciousness, not the core of our being, 108, 196, 200, 345, 352, 488, 498.

Conservatism, Nietzsche's essential, 32, 118, 402-3.

Copernicus, 183.

Courtney, W. L., 480.

Crauford, Oswald, 514.

Creative power, man's, 129-130, 153, 218, 336, 341, 371-2.

Crime, 117-8, 245, 376, 393, 439, 516.

Crispi, 468.

Cruelty, psychology of, 238-240; legitimacy of on occasion, 240-1; cruelty in conscience, 240, 277-8; "cruelty of nature," 356, (437).

Culture (in the general sense), 32, 65, 72, 388, 468; a new, 30, 58, 83, 88, 125, 292, 397.

Curtius, 256.

Dante, 105, 173, 237.

Darwinism, mixed attitude to, 2, 310, 401-2, 510; the struggle for existence, 37, 479; progress in the past through greater advantages accruing to variations, 64; no progress but by variation and selection, but we must do the selecting, 389; Darwinian over-valuation of outer conditions, 198, 355, and neglect of the fact that the weak may by combination become masters of the strong, 437 (cf. 514); a testing of Darwin's ideas by experiments extending over centuries, 404; the utility of an organ does not explain its rise, 499; early suggestion of the possibility of an ethics on Darwinian lines, 513.

Death, free, 118, 301, 312, 429.

Decadence (or degeneration), 16, 198, 308-9, 374, 377, 390, 408, 417, 423, 433, 444, 508, 521.

Democracy, 64, 135-8, 369, 417-8, 434, 441, 472, 507, 518, 521.

Democritus, 481.

Demosthenes, 60.

Demuth, P. M., 477.