I the violent tenor of life ........................................... 9
Ii pessimism and the ideal of the sublime life ................ 31
Iii the hierarchic conception of society ......................... 56
Iv the idea of chivalry ................................................. 67
V the dream of heroism and of love ........................... 77
Vi orders of chivalry and vows .................................... 85
Vii the political and military value of chivalrous
ideas ........................................................................ 93
Viii love formalized .................................................... 107
Ix the conventions of love ......................................... 119
X the idyllic vision of life ....................................... 128
Xi the vision of death ............................................... 138
Xii religious thought crystallizing into images ........... 151
Xiii types of religious life ......................................... 177
Xiv religious sensibility and religious
imagination ......................................................... 190
Xv symbolism in its decline ...................................... 200
Xvi the effects of realism .......................................... 214
Xvii religious thought beyond the limits of
imagination ......................................................... 220
Xviii the forms of thought and practical life ............. 225

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