electricity might appear to them more potent than the
thunderbolts of Zeus and, at the sight of modern engines, possibly they
would recall the titans with whom once they warred and sink back to their
sacred seas outfaced.

In the same manner that we have exceeded them it is also permissible to
assume that posterity will exceed what we have done. From its parturitions
gods may really come, beings that is, who, could contemporaneous man
remain to behold them, would regard him as he regards the ape.

That advance, if effected, love will achieve. In its history, already
long, yet relatively brief, it has changed the face of the earth. It has
transformed laws and religions. It has reversed and reconstructed every
institution human and divine. As yet its evolution is incomplete. But when
the final term is reached, then, doubtless, the words of the Apocalypse
shall be realized, for all things will have been made anew.

FINIS HISTORIAE AMORIS

INDEX

ABAILARD and Heloise, story of, 136-137

ACADEME of Athens, 46;
of Mitylene, 46, 47;
its teaching to women, 58-59

ACTIUM, 93

ADAM and EVE, married before mated, 1;
their union a Persian conceit, 1

ADULTERY, as represented by the Restoration Dramatists, 223

ALARIC, 120

ALCHEMY, 193

ALCIBIADES, 43

AEMILIUS PAULUS, 83

AESCULAPIUS, created to heal the body, 65

AFFINITIES, Elective, 241

AGREDA, 238

ALEXANDER, his bad influence on Greek worship of beauty, 59;
his _decensus Averni_, 63-64;
the prototype of the Roman Caesars, 64

ALBIGENSES, the, 175

ANACREON, his treatment of love, 54;
compared with Sappho's singing, 54

ANAITIS, 5

ANDRE, Maitre, 152

ANDROMEDA, the Friend of Sappho, 47

ANNE, Queen, 237

ANTONINUS PIUS, 108

ANTONINUS, MARCUS, 108

ANTONY, 90;
his treatment of Cleopatra, 91;
his conquest by Cleopatra, 91-92;
his marriage with Cleopatra, 92;
his divorce of Octavia, 93;
war with Octavius, 93-94;
deserted by Cleopatra, 93;
his ruin by Cleopatra, 94-95

APELLES, 61

APHRODITE, worship of, in Greece, 31, 32;
De Musset on, 31;
Homer's idea of, different from Hesiod's, 31;
Hesiod's, 34;
death of, in Greece, 64;
inspired sculpture in her death, 64;
Urania, 28-40;
Pandemos, 55;
Pandemos, love inspired by, 67;
Urania, love inspired by, 67;
degraded by Rome, 104

AP