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by Will Durant


  atheism of, 183

  death of, 893

  French Revolution and, 940

  at Mme. Geoffrin’s salon, 120

  Gibbon and, 799

  on Index Expurgatorius, 316

  opposition to monarchy, 897

  Rousseau and, 18, 27–28, 153, 209

  Holberg, Ludvig von (1684–1754), 645–46, 649–51

  Holland, 143, 645–49

  agriculture in, 646

  aid to Turkey, 363

  art in, 647

  decline in naval supremacy, 57

  description of, 645–46

  economy of, 646

  education in, 647

  England and, 277, 648, 699, 714

  France and, 648–49

  French Revolution and, 364, 648–49

  India and, 715

  Jews in, 635, 646–47

  in League of Armed Neutrality (1780), 648

  literature in, 647

  oligarchy in, 142

  Patriot party in, 648–49

  political unrest in, 648

  prisons in, 738

  Protestantism in, 142

  in Quadruple Alliance (1718), 278

  religious tolerance in, 646–47

  Revolutionary War and, 648

  in War of the Austrian Succession (1743), 648

  Holland, Caroline, Lady, nee Lennox, 693

  Holland, Henry Fox, 1st Baron (1705–74), 364, 693

  Holstein-Augustenburg, Duke of, see Friedrich Christian, Duke

  Holstein-Gottorp, Karl Friedrich, Duke of, see Karl Friedrich

  Holstein-Gottorp, Karl Friedrich Ulrich, Duke of, see Peter III, Czar of Russia

  Holstein-Gottorp, Prince of (fl. 1770), 568

  “Holy Fair” (Burns), 773

  Holy Roman Empire: structure and scope of, 341, 502; see also Austria

  “Holy Willie’s Prayer” (Burns), 773–74

  Homage à Haydn (Debussy), 381

  Homberg, Herz (fl. 1778), 639

  Home, Henry, see Kames, Henry Home, Lord

  Home, John (1722–1808), Scottish playwright, 699, 764

  home furnishings, see furniture

  Homer (9th cent, B.C.), 253, 485, 519, 528, 599, 750, 837

  Homme aux quarante écus, L ’ (Voltaire), 75–76, 136, 143

  Homme machine, L ’ (La Mettrie), 246–47

  Homme personnel, L ’ (Barthe), 874

  homosexuality, 731

  Hontheim, Johann Nikolaus von (Justinus Febronius; 1701–90), 351, 504–5, 560

  Horace (65 B.C.–8 B.C.), 528

  Horen, Die (periodical), 597

  Horn, Count Arvid Bernhard (1664–1742), 654

  Horn, Count Karl (d. 1823), 664–65

  hospitals, 353, 453

  Hôtel-Dieu, 353

  Hôtel des Invalides, 962

  Hôtel Salm, 910

  Houasse, Michel-Ange (d. 1730), 298

  Houasse, René-Antoine (1645–1710), 298

  Houdetot, Comte d’, 156

  Houdetot, Élisabeth-Sophie de Bellegarde, Comtesse d’ (1730–1813), 118, 152, 156–58, 162, 164, 167, 869

  as model for Julie, 157

  salon of, 907

  Houdon, Jean-Antoine (1741–1828), 466, 911–12, 939

  House of Commons, 683, 699

  appointive places in administration, 686

  corruption in, 685–86

  enactment of legislation in, 686–87

  parties in, see Tories and Whigs;

  press freedom and, 707

  privileges of, 685

  representation in, 685

  House of Lords, 703

  enactment of legislation by, 685–86

  Houses of Parliament, architecture of, 748

  see also Parliament, English

  Howard, Castle, 235

  Howard, John (1726?–90), 737–38

  Howe, Sir William, 8th Viscount Howe (1729–1814), 869

  Huber, Ludwig Ferdinand (1764–1804), 572–73

  Hubertusburg, armistice of (1763), 62

  Hudson, Thomas (1701–79), 751

  Hugo, Victor (1802–85), 104, 889

  Huguenots, 88

  Hulegaard, Arense (fl. 1759), 651

  Humbert I, Count of Savoy, see Umberto I

  Humboldt, Alexander von (1769–1859), 273

  Humboldt, Wilhelm von (1767–1835), 641

  Hume, David (1711–76), 120, 125, 183, 280, 531–32, 537, 594, 762, 764, 766, 773, 794–95, 797

  d’Alembert and, 127, 892

  ethics of, 739

  Gibbon and, 799–800

  as an historian, 766

  influence of, 536, 543, 768–69, 889

  Samuel Johnson’s attitude toward, 834

  in Lespinasse salon, 126

  on physiocrats, 75

  Reid and, 764–65

  Rousseau and, 207, 209, 211–14

  supports American colonies, 711

  tranquillity in face of death, 838

  on Tristram Shandy, 788

  on Voltaire, 149

  Hummel, Johann Nepomuk (1778–1837), 380, 525

  Hungary, 354

  agriculture in, 341

  Austria and, 341

  disorder in, 461

  gold mines in, 344

  Jews in, 631

  Joseph II’s reforms in, 358

  population of, 341

  revolt against Joseph II, 360–61, 363–64

  revolt of nobles in, 357

  social classes in, 341

  taxation in, 341

  Turkey and, 62, 415

  Hunter, John (1728–93), 764

  Hunter, William (1718–83), 764

  Husein, Shah of Persia (r. 1694–1722), 418

  Huss, John (Jan Hus; 1369?–1415), 342

  Hutcheson, Francis (1694–1746), 320, 733, 764

  Hutchinson, Thomas (1711–80), 710

  Hutton, James (1726–97), 764

  Hyde Park, 744

  “Hymn to the Sun” (Naruszewicz), 485

  Ibrahim Pasha, Turkish Vizier (d. 1730), 415

  Idea of a Patriot King (Bolingbroke), 687

  Ideas of Beauty and Virtue (Hutcheson), 320

  Ideen zu einer allemeinen Geschichte (Kant), 548

  Ideen zur Philosophie der Geschichte der Menschheit (Herder), 578–80

  Iffland, August Wilhelm (1759–1814), 571

  Iglesia Metropolitana della Nuestra Señora del Pilar, 300

  Ignorant P.hilosopher, The (Voltaire), 138

  Île de St.-Pierre, Rousseau at, 206

  Iliad (Homer), 528; Pope’s translation of, 837

  Illuminati, Order of, 507

  Imhof, Baron (fl. 1768), 717

  Imhof, Marion, Baroness, 717

  Imitation of Christ, The (Thomas a Kempis), 886

  Imperial Diet, Holy Roman Empire, 502

  Impey, Sir Elijah (1732–1809), 717

  Important Examination of Milord Bolingbroke (Voltaire), 138

  Inchbald, Elizabeth, nee Simpson (1753–1821), 787

  Independents (Puritans), 735, 760

  Index Expurgatorius (Index Librorum Prohibitorum), 247, 285, 316, 358

  India, 698

  England and, 39, 57–59, 669, 689, 693, 717–18

  France and, 38–39, 57–59, 62, 68, 715

  Holland and, 715

  Mysore revolt in, 717–18

  Persian invasion of, 419

  Seven Years’ War and, 57–59

  India Reform Bill (1783), 718

  Indians, American, see American Indians

  Industrial Revolution, 669–79, 842, 964

  IN ENGLAND: causes of, 669–71

  consequences, 680–82

  factory system, 676–80, 682, 732

  machine-wrecking by workers, 679

  pauperism and, 677, 679

  science and, 669, 671, 681

  social effects, 670–71, 676–80

  technological elements, 671–76

  transportation and, 672

  wages and, 677


  IN FRANCE, 932

  IN SCOTLAND, 763

  Industrious Bee, The (periodical), 464–65

  industry and French Revolution, 931–34

  Informe sobre un proyecto de ley agraria (Jovellanos), 287

  Ingénu, L ’ (Voltaire), 31, 138

  Ingermanland, 653

  Innocent XIII (Michelangelo dei Conti), Pope (r. 1721–24), 245–46, 278

  Innocenza giustificata, L’ (Gluck and Durazzo), 368

  Innsbruck, University of, 358, 360

  inoculation, see smallpox inoculation

  Inquiry into the Human Mind on the Principles of Common Sense (Reid), 764

  Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (Smith), see Wealth of Nations

  Inquisition, 253

  in Austria, 343

  Casanova and, 323

  in Italy, 225, 229, 252, 316

  Jews and, 630–31, 633

  Johnson’s support for, 834

  in Portugal, 260, 267–70

  in Spain, 275–76, 279–80, 292, 294–95, 302, 306

  Institutes (Calvin), 177

  Instructions (Catherine the Great), 450–51

  internationalism of papacy, 316

  Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation, An (Bentham), 739

  inventions: in France, 932

  Industrial Revolution and, 671–76

  Iphigenia in Tauris (Guillard), 372

  Iphigénie (Racine), 370

  Iphigénie auf Tauris (Goethe), 584, 587–88, 601, 627

  Iphigénie en Aulide (Gluck), 101, 335, 370–71

  Iphigénie en Tauride (Gluck), 372

  Iphigénie en Tauride (Piccini), 373

  Iran, see Persia

  Ireland, 759–62

  agriculture in, 759–60

  Burke’s support for, 693

  Catholic Church in, 283, 760–62

  commerce and industry in, 759, 761

  culture in, 759–60

  England and, 671, 704, 726, 759–62

  marriage in, 759

  population of, 759–60

  poverty and crime in, 759

  Protestants in, 759–62

  rebellion of “Whiteboys” in, 760

  Irene (Johnson), 819, 830

  Irène (Voltaire), 136, 874

  Iriarte y Oropesa, Don Tomás de (1750–91), 291

  iron industry in England, 671–72

  iron law of wages, 79

  Irving, Sir Henry (1838–1905), 740

  Irving, Washington (1783–1859), 815

  Isabella of Parma (d. 1763), 1st wife of Emperor Joseph II, 347

  Isfahan, 419

  Isham, Col. Ralph Heyward, 779*

  Isla, José Francisco de (1703–81), 294–95

  Islam, 411–21

  adultery in, 413

  art in, 414

  childrearing in, 416

  crafts in, 416, 421

  education in, 412

  geographic area of, 411

  Gibbon’s treatment of, 808

  morality in, 416

  music in, 416–17

  poetry in, 412–13, 421

  prostitution in, 416

  public baths in, 413

  in Russia, 452

  science in, 412

  sects in, 411–12

  slavery in, 413–14, 420

  see also Afghanistan;

  Egypt;

  Mohammedanism;

  Persia;

  Turkey

  Ismailovsky Regiment, 439

  Israel ben Eliezer, see Baal Shem-Tob

  Istoria civile del regno di Napoli (Giannone), 250

  Istria, 229

  Italian nationalism and Alfieri, 340

  Italy, 19, 310–40

  academies and universities in, 218–19

  agriculture in, 217

  architecture in, 247

  aristocracy in, 230

  art in, 227, 235–39, 247–48, 331–32

  Austria and, 38, 341

  capitalism in, 230

  censorship in, 220, 225

  comedy in, 239–44

  commerce and industry in, 218

  crime in, 319

  description of, 217–18

  Enlightenment in, 220, 230

  Freemasonry in, 220

  French Revolution and, 311

  happiness of, 217

  heresies in, 220

  in Holy Roman Empire, 341

  Inquisition in, 229, 316

  intellectual life in, 218–20

  Jesuits and education in, 219

  Jews in, 250

  legal reform in, 320–21

  libraries in, 219

  literature in, 220, 239–44, 335–36

  marriage and family life in, 218–19, 230

  moral laxity of, 225

  music in, 220–24, 226–27, 332–35, 373, 367

  Napoleon and, 311

  neoclassical style and, 325–31

  opera houses in, 223

  opera in, 222–24, 254–57, 333–35, 527–38

  periodicals in, 220

  population of, 217

  poverty in, 217

  prostitution in, 218, 225, 230

  religion in, 224–26

  singing in, 220, 222–24, 333

  social classes in, 218, 230

  Spanish ambitions in, 277–78

  theater in, 220, 336–40

  wars of succession in, 217

  see also papacy

  Iuvara, Filippo (1676?–1736), 226, 297

  Ivan V Alexeevich, Czar of Russia (r. 1682–99), 429

  Ivan VI, Czar of Russia (r. 1740–41), 430

  murder of, 443, 447

  Ivy House Works, 749

  Ivy Lane Club, 822, 840

  Izmail, battle of (1790), 461

  Jacobi, Friedrich Heinrich (1743–1819), 516, 562, 565, 578, 613, 895, 899

  Goethe and, 563–64

  philosophy of, 519

  Rousseau’s influence on, 890

  Jacobins, 939

  Jafar, Mir, see Mir Jafar

  Jahn, Otto (1813–69), 407

  Jamaica, 669

  James, William (1842–1910), 739

  James I, King of England (r. 1603–25), King of Scotland as James VI (r. 1567–1625), 779

  James II, King of England, Scotland, and Ireland (r. 1685–88), 705, 711, 735

  James II, King of Scotland (r. 1437–60), 779

  “James III,” of England, see Stuart, James Francis Edward

  James VI, King of Scotland, see James I, King of England

  Janissaries, 414

  Jansen, Cornells (1585–1638), 646

  Jansenists: in Austria, 359

  in France, 85, 90–91, 193, 246

  in Holland, 646

  in Italy, 225

  Jesuits and, 246

  Jassy, Treaty of (1792), 461, 488

  Jaucourt, Chevalier (later Marquis) Louis de (1704–79), 102, 875

  Jaurès, Jean-Léon (1859–1914), 929

  Jay, John (1745–1829), 871

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Citoyen de Genève, à Christophe de Beaumont, Archevêque de Paris (Rousseau), 195, 197

  Jefferson, Thomas (1743–1826): on American Indians, 891

  French Enlightenment and, 76, 867, 891, 899

  Jeffries, John (1744–1819), 933

  Jehan, Shah, see Shah Jehan

  Jena: battle of (1808), 530, 606, 627

  Museum of Mineralogy at, 615

  University of, 545, 618

  Jeppe of the Hill (Holberg), 650

  Jerome of Prague (1360?–1416), 342

  Jerusalem, Karl Wilhelm (d. 1772), 561–63

  Jerusalem (Mendelssohn), 640

  Jesuits, 241, 310, 914

  abolition of order by Clement XIV (1773), 318, 351

  accounts of Indians by, 31

  attacks against Rousseau, 185

  in Austria, 351–52

  in Brazil, 263

  in China, 225, 318

  com
munistic practices in Paraguay, 80, 83, 262

  competition with other orders, 285

  conflict with kings, 226

  in France, 89, 185

  Frederick II and, 319

  Freemasons and, 939

  in Italy, 219, 224–26, 230, 310

  Jansenists and, 246

  origin and purposes of, 283

  in Paraguay, 80, 83, 262, 281, 283

  popularity of, 284–85

  in Portugal, 260, 262–68, 271–72

  in Prussia, 499

  reproved by Benedict XIV, 225

  restoration by Pius VII, 319

  in Russia, 452

  in Spain, 281, 283–85, 293–94

  structure of, 507

  Voltaire on, 137

  EXPULSIONS OF: from France, 88, 92, 266

  from Naples, 284, 315

  papacy and, 316–18

  from Parma, 284, 317

  from Philippines, 284

  from Portugal, 266–67, 317

  from Spain, 266, 281, 283–85, 293, 317

  from Spanish America, 284

  Jesus Christ, loyalty to Judaism, 629

  Jews, 252, 629–42

  art and literature of, 636–37, 641

  in Austria, 343, 352, 357, 631–32, 641–42

  in banking and finance, 630

  in Bohemia, 631–32, 641

  castes among, 630

  in Denmark, 635

  in England, 635, 684

  in France, 91, 630, 642

  French Revolution and, 642

  in Galicia, 632, 641

  in Germany, 499, 507, 517, 632, 634, 639, 642

  Gibbon’s discussion of, 802

  Goethe’s interest in, 556, 562

  Hasidism among, 636

  Haskalah movement among, 641–42

  in Holland, 635, 637, 642, 646–47

  in Hungary, 631

  influence of religion on, 629

  Inquisition and, 630–631, 633

  intellectual liberation of, 637–42

  in Islam, 632

  in Italy, 250, 631, 642

  Lessing’s views on, 514–15

  massacres by Cossacks, 633–34

  messianism among, 635–37

  in Moravia, 632

  mystical movements among, 635–37

  Napoleon and, 631

  papacy and, 631, 633

  in Poland, 472, 475, 482, 632–34, 636, 641

  in Portugal, 260, 631

  in Prussia, 499

  ritual-murder trials against, 633

  Rousseau on, 629–30

  in Russia, 452, 632–33, 641

  Seven Years’ War and, 53

  in Silesia, 632

  in Spain, 275–76, 285, 287, 630–31

  in Sweden, 635, 657

  in Switzerland, 639

  in Turkey, 632

  in United States, 642

  Voltaire’s attitude toward, 629–30

  Johanna Elisabeth of Holstein-Gottorp (1720–60), Princess of Anhalt-Zerbst, 121, 433

  John, King of England (r. 1199–1216), 683

  John III (Jan) Sobieski, King of Poland (r. 1674–96), 256, 411

  John V, King of Portugal (r. 1706–50), 257, 260–61, 269

  appoints Pombal to ministry, 262

 

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