auer, 252-257;
a manifestation of the Genius of Species, 253;
its nature is will for the purpose of creation, 253;
used by Nature as a means to an end, 254-255;
Nature's veil of illusion, 255;
the manifestation of an instinct, 255;
its purpose, the materialization of a particular being, 256;
wrongly diagnosed by Schopenhauer, 259-260;
its advance in evolution, 260;
modern, 260-261

LOVERS, Socrates's ideal, 171

LUCRETIA, 82

LUCREZIA BORGIA, 204

LUCULLUS, 84

LUTHER, the true founder of modern society, 201

LYCURGUS, his laws on marriage, 44

MACAULAY, 222, 223

MACON, second council of, on woman, 127

MACROBIUS, his description of Roman Saturnalia, 75-76

MACAENAS, lackey of Augustus, 102

MAHABHARATA, the, The Vedic history of love, 7, 8

MAN, early, his attitude toward Nature, 2, 3;
pleasure not known to him, 2

MANU, laws of, on marriage, 8

MARGOT, wife of Henry IV of France, 218-219

MARGUERITE of France, 208;
208-210;
the Heptameron of, 209-210

MARIUS, 120

MARRIAGE, laws of Manu on, 8;
position of women in Greece in, 42;
in Sparta, 44;
in Rome, 79-80;
under the Caesars, 103;
Lex Pappea Poppoea, 103;
as viewed by the Early Christian Church, 114;
St. Sebastian on, 114;
St. Augustine on, 114;
made incumbent by Hebrew law, 116;
St. Paul on the dignity of, 119-120;
under the feudal system, 146-147;
how restricted by the later Church, 147-148;
in days of chivalry, 157

MARY MAGDALEN, 115

MATRIMONY, as interpreted by later Platonism, 205

MEDLIAEVALISM, the prelude to the Renaissance, 198

MEDICI, CATHERINE DE, 217

MENANDER, 57

MENELAUS, and Helen of Troy, 36-37

MICHAEL ANGELO, 202;
his love for Vittoria Colonna, 211-212

MIGNET, 213

MILETUS, convents of, 58

MINSTRELS, the, 164

MITHRA, 104

MODESTY, in the eighteenth century, 246

MOLIERE, his ridicule of the _Precieuses_, 227

MOLINOS, 135;
his Quietism, 237

MOLOCH, 10, 11

MONASTERIES, 128-129

MONTESPAN, Marquise de, 234-235

MONTESQUIEU, his definition of gallantry, 213

MOORS, in Spain, 163-167;
their learning and poetry, 166;
originated chivalry, 167-168;
their power in Europe, 168;
their treatment of women, 169-170

MORBIHAN, the paintings in, 196

MOSES, his view of woman, 10, 11