Index

The index retains the original English order and the original printed page references.

Addison, as a public speaker - 57.

Amiel, a doubter - 98.

Angell, George T., on sleep - 155.

Anger, Epicurus on - 28.

Annoyances, maxim for - 140, 163.

Argumentative tendency in doubting folly - 94 et seq.

Appetite, Epicurus on gratification of - 27; obsession regarding - 194.

Attention, the important factor in memory - 263.

Avebury, Lord, see Lubbock, Sir John.

Bacon, Sir Francis, as a botanist - 223.

Bathing - 111, 174, 255.

Beadon, on dismissing unpleasant thoughts - 162.

Benson, Arthur, on over-solicitude of parents - 182; on the disagreeable - 187.

Borrowing trouble, maxim for - 253.

Burton, on moods - 205.

Call, Annie Payson, on rest - 257.

Carlyle, obsessions of - 63; hypochondria of - 120.

Cavendish, shyness of - 58.

Clothing - 111, 175.

Concentration - 153.

Corneille, inability to express self in public - 59.

Courtney, on fads - 222-236; work and worry - 132.

Cowper, on affronts - 139.

Criticism, attitude toward - 247.

Dana, "Partial Passing of Neurasthenia" - 130.

Descartes, unable to express self in public - 59.

Deviation vs. Degeneration - 100.

Digestion, maxim for undue solicitude regarding - 112.

Doubting folly - 16, 82 et seq.; maxim for - 250.

Dryden, unable to express self in public - 59.

Epictetus - 39, 193, 242.

Epicurus - 22 et seq., 36.

Erasmus, obsessions of - 64.

Exercise - 110, 239, 255, 256, 259.

Fads - 179, 222 et seq.

Flaubert, victim of doubting folly - 98.

Folie du doute, see doubting folly.

Froude, on Carlyle's hypochondria - 126.

Genius, and obsession - 66; doubting folly in - 98.

Gladstone, on dismissing unpleasant thoughts - 162.

Goethe, suggestion for mental training - 242.

Goldsmith, on trifles - 190.

Golf - 110, 239.

"Golf Arm" - 169.

Gould, eyestrain of Carlyle - 120.

Habit, and obsession - 69.

Haeckel, on egotism and altruism - 80.

Horace - 38.

Huxley - 119.

Hypochondria - 14, 49, 101 et seq., 201; maxim for - 50.

Ibsen, on doubt - 82.

Impatience with subordinates, maxim for - 141.

Insistent thought - 42 et seq.

Insomnia, see sleeplessness.

Irving, Washington, as a public speaker - 57.

Johnson, obsessions of - 62.

Knapp, doubting habit - 137.

La Fontaine, unable to express self in public - 59.

Lombroso - 58, 98.

Lubbock, Sir John - 223, 252, 259.

Manzoni - 59, 98.

Marcus Aurelius - 13, 22, 30 et seq., 139, 166.

Maxims, suggestive - 50, 112, 140, 141, 158, 163, 201, 209, 250, 253.

Melancholy, Thoreau on - 208; Burton on - 205.

Mercier, on ability to forget - 78.

Molière, on hypochondria - 101.

Montaigne - 53.

Moods - 205; maxim for - 209.

Neurasthenia - 15, 129 et seq.

Newton, unable to express self in public - 59.

Obsession - 54, 59 et seq.

Occupation neurosis - 166 et seq.

Old age no bar to changing habit - 67.

Parental solicitude - 182, 264.

Paul - 137.

Pedantry, in the obsessive - 75.

Peterson - 131, 143.

Phobia - 105 et seq., 199; maxim for - 201.

Poison, excessive fear of - 70.

Pope, on taking offense - 139.

Reade, Charles, on parent of Erasmus - 65.

Responsibilities, delegating - 150.

Rossini, phobia of - 107.

Saleeby - 178.

Seclusion, Epicurus on - 27; Marcus Aurelius on - 32.

Self-consciousness - 50, 53 et seq.

Sensations, undue attention paid to - 112.

Sleeplessness - 26, 135, 147 et seq.; maxim for - 158.

Soukanhoff, on the obsessive - 76.

Spinoza, on control of the emotions - 141.

Spitzka, definition of insanity - 199.

Taylor, on psycho-therapy - 243.

Tennyson, as public speaker - 56.

Thoreau, on melancholy - 208.

Tiffany, Francis, on fear of future - 78.

Tolstoi - 98.

Vacation - 152, 237.

Virgil - 59.

Walking - 179, 256, 259.

Weather-worry - 46 et seq., 110.

Whiting, Lilian, on enjoyment of the moment - 184.

Whittier - 146.

Williams, Harold, treatment - 142.

Writer's cramp - 166, 167.