95

Albigensian revolt, i. 315

Alexander (the Great), his wise policy,
i. 23s

* Alexander, ' one of the dramatis per-
sona in Vanini's 'Dialogues,' i. 380

Alexandria, literary glories of, i. 235

Al-Farabi, i. 302

Algazzali, i. 304

AH, his enthusiasm for study, i. 291

Al-Kendi, i. 302

Altdor^ ii. 209

Ammonius Saccas, i. 240



ARA

* Amphitheatre,' one of Vanini's works,

i. 376, et seq.
Analysis (higher), what it effected, ii.
321
Anaxagoras, life and opinions of, i. 1 54,

et seq,

— pantheistic views of, i. 158

— Voltaire's opinion of, ii. 121
Anaximander, life and opinions of, i.
145
Anaximenes, opinions of, i. 146

— Plutarch's interpretation of his phi-
losophy, i. 146

— Cicero's, ib.
— Mr. MUl's, ib.
Anebon. See Abammon

Animals, tenderness of Leibnitz to-
wards, ii. 215

— of Schopenhauer, ii. 249

— Descartes believes them to be only
machines, ii. 215

— Leibnitz believes in their immorta-
lity, ib,

— the essential difference between man
and, ii. 272

Animal body (the), vital phenomena of,
entirely to be traced to the sun, ii.
296

— Professor Tyndall's description of,
the difference between vegetable and,
ii. 277

Anthropomorphism, absence of, in the
Neo-Platonic doctrines, i. 241

— a general feature of most religions,

ii. 303

— disproof of, ii. 304 et seq,

— Herbert Spencer's views as to, ii, 313
Antichthone, i. 177

Antisthenes, in the opinion of some
authorities, the founder of the Cynical
school, i. 227

Arabs, their conquest of Spain, i. 295



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INDEX.
ARA

Arabs, their cultivation of learning, id.
et seq.
— the most cultivated people of the
tenth century, i. 298

— their study of Greek Philosophy, i.
