Of this instructive compilation.
INDEX OF PSYCHOLOGY.
(In all work of a biographic character it is important to make copious reference to as many as possible of the generally-recognised virtues, vices, good points, foibles, peculiarities, tricks, characteristics, little weaknesses, traits, imperfections, fads, idiosyncrasies, singularities, morbid symptoms, oddities, faults, and regrettable propensities set forth in the following table. The form of an alphabetic index, with references to the examples given in the preceding pages, has been chosen, so that the beginner who may be desirous, when trying his hand at work of this sort, of seeing how any given one of these subjects may best be treated, is enabled at once to turn to one or more model passages.)
- Abominable deceit ([Wren]).
- Agitation, reluctance to explain ([Beit]).
- Allah, Prophet of, refusal to admit identity with ([Mahomet]).
- Appearances, disregard of, by man of position ([Mallory]).
- Artistic temperament, the: its acute sensitiveness ([Van Eyck]);
- love of violent action ([Liszt]);
- deliberate eccentricity ([Fife]);
- naïf self-appreciation ([Cimabue]);
- irresistibly attracted by the sublime ([Grieg]);
- high value set upon it by Frenchmen ([Tiziano]).
- Bankruptcy, moral ([Wren]).
- Blindness to obvious tendency of public opinion ([Belloc]).
- Cobdenism, qualified adherence to, hesitation to avow ([Acland-Hood]).
- Conduct, disingenuous ([Wren]).
- Contentions and disagreements, love of ([Erasmus], [Besant and Rice], [Clifford], [Raleigh]).
- Diet, morbid delicacy in matter of ([Davy], [Besant], [Marconi], but cf. [Bunyan]).
- Domestic servants, encouragement of dishonesty among ([Wren]).
- Efficiency ([Dewar], [Cimabue], [Hirst], [Liszt]).
- Escutcheon, blot on, action involving ([Wren]).
- Excisable commodity, unsympathetic attitude towards ([Clifford]).
- Fact, cynical perversion of ([Wren]).
- Frigidity of style, sometimes attributable to præ-natal influences ([Hume]).
- Funereal thoughts, predisposition to ([Harley]).
- Generalisations, sweeping, dangerous fondness for ([Pizarro]).
- Guile ([Wren]).
- Habits, repugnant personal, often found in association with fine spiritual gifts ([Bunyan]).
- Horizon, restricted mental ([Pizarro]).
- Hour of trial, fortitude in ([Acland-Hood]).
- Hubbub, interminable, power to raise ([Marconi]).
- Hypocrisy, calculated ([Wren]).