Index.
Abortion, diversities of moral judgment respecting, i. 92.
History of the practice of, ii.
20,
24
Abraham the Hermit, St., ii.
110
Acacius, his ransom of Persian slaves, ii.
72
Adultery, laws concerning, ii.
313
Æschylus, his views of human nature, i. 196.
His violation of dramatic probabilities, 229
Affections, the, all forms of self-love, according to some
Utilitarians, i. 9.
Subjugation of the, to the reason, taught by the Stoics, &c.,
177, 187.
Considered by the Stoics as a disease, 188.
Evil consequences of their suppression, 191
Africa, sacrifices of children to Saturn in, ii.
31.
Effect of the conquest of Genseric of,
82
Agapæ, or love feasts, of the Christians, how regarded by the
pagans, i. 415; ii.
79.
Excesses of the, and their suppression,
150
Agnes, St., legend of, ii.
319
Agricultural pursuits, history of the decline of, in Italy, i.
266.
Efforts to relieve the agriculturists, 267
Albigenses, their slow suicides, ii.
49
Alexander the Great: effect of his career on Greek
cosmopolitanism, i. 229
Alexandria, foundation of, i. 230.
Effect of the increasing importance of, on Roman thought, 319.
The Decian persecution at, 451.
Excesses of the Christian sects of, ii.
196,
197,
note
Alexis, St., his legend, ii.
322
Alimentus, Cincius, his work written in Greek, i. 230
Almsgiving, effects of indiscriminate, ii.
90,
91
Amafanius, wrote the first Latin work on philosophy, i. 175,
note.
Ambrose, St., his miraculous dream, i. 379.
His dissection of the pagan theory of the decline of the Roman
empire, 409.
His ransom of Italians from the Goths, ii.
72.
His commendation of disobedience to parents,
132
American Indians, suicide of the, ii.
54
Ammon, St., his refusal to wash himself, ii.
110.
Amour, William de St., his denunciation of the mendicant orders,
ii.
96
Amphitheatres, history and remains of Roman, i. 273
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Anaxagoras, on the death of his son, i. 191.
On his true country, 201
Angelo, Michael, in what he failed, ii.
363
Anglo-Saxon nations, their virtues and vices, i. 153
Animals, lower, Egyptian worship of, i. 166, note.
Humanity to animals probably first advocated by Plutarch, 244.
Animals employed in the arena at Rome, 280.
Instances of kindness to, 288, 307.
Legends of the connection of the saints and the animal world, ii.
161.
Pagan legends of the intelligence of animals,
161,
162.
Legislative protection of them,
162.
Views as to the souls of animals,
162.
Moral duty of kindness to animals taught by pagans,
166.
Legends in the lives of the saints in connection with animals,
168.
Progress in modern times of humanity to animals,
172
Antigonus of Socho, his doctrine of virtue, i. 183, note
Antioch, charities of, ii.
80.
Its extreme vice and asceticism,
153
Antisthenes, his scepticism, i. 162
Antoninus, the philosopher, his prediction, i. 427
Antoninus the Pious, his death, i. 207.
His leniency towards the Christians, 438, 439.
Forged letter of, 439, note.
His charity, ii. 77
Antony, St., his flight into the desert, ii.
103.
His dislike to knowledge,
115.
Legend of his visit to Paul the hermit,
157,
158
Aphrodite, the celestial and earthly, i. 106
Apollonius of Tyana, his conversation with an Egyptian priest
respecting the Greek and Egyptian modes of worshipping the deity,
i. 166, note.
Miracles attributed to him, 372.
His humanity to animals, ii.
165
Apollonius, the merchant, his dispensary for monks, ii.
81
Apuleius, his condemnation of suicide, i. 213.
His disquisition on the doctrine of dæmons, 323.
Practical form of his philosophy, 329.
Miracles attributed to him, 372.
His defence of tooth-powder, ii.
148
Archytas of Tarentum, his speech on the evils of sensuality, i.
200, note
Argos, story of the sons of the priestess of Juno at, i. 206
Arians, their charges against the Catholics, i. 418, note
Aristides, his gentleness, i. 228
Aristotle, his admission of the practice of abortion, i. 92.
Emphasis with which he dwelt upon the utility of virtue, 124.
His patriotism, 200.
His condemnation of suicide, 212.
His opinions as to the duties of Greeks to barbarians, 229
Arnobius, on the miracles of Christ, i. 375
Arrian, his humanity to animals, ii.
164
Arsenius, St., his penances, ii.
107,
114,
note.
His anxiety to avoid distractions, 125, note
Ascetics, their estimate of the dreadful nature of sin, i. 113.
Decline of asceticism and evanescence of the moral notions of
which it was the expression, 113.
Condition of society to which it belongs, 130.
Decline of the ascetic and saintly qualities with civilisation,
130.
Causes of the ascetic movement, ii.
102.
Penances attributed to the saints of
[pg 375] the desert,
107-109.
Miseries and joys of the hermit life,
113 et seq.
Dislike of the monks to knowledge,
115.
Their hallucinations,
116.
Relations of female devotees with the anchorites,
120.
Ways in which the ascetic life affected both the ideal type and
realised condition of morals,
122,
et seq.
Extreme animosity of the ascetics to everything pagan,
136,
137.
Decline of the civic virtues caused by asceticism,
139.
Moral effects of asceticism on self-sacrifice,
154,
155.
Moral beauty of some of the legends of the ascetics,
156.
Legends of the connection between the saints and the animal
world,
161.
Practical form of asceticism in the West,
177.
Influence of asceticism on chastity,
319,
320.
On the estimate of women,
337
Asella, story of her asceticism, ii.
133
Asia Minor, destruction of the churches of, ii.
14
Aspasia, the Athenian courtesan, ii.
293
Association, Hartley's doctrine of, i. 22.
Partly anticipated by Hutcheson and Gay, 23.
Illustrations of the system of association, 26-30.
The theory, how far selfish, 30.
The essential and characteristic feature of conscience wholly
unaccounted for by the association of ideas, 66
Astrology, belief in, rapidly gaining ground in the time of the
elder Pliny, i. 171, and note
Atticus, his suicide, i. 215, and note
Augustine, St., on original sin, i. 209.
His belief in contemporary miracles, 378.
On the decline of the Roman empire, 410.
His condemnation of virgin suicides, ii.
47
Augustus, his solemn degradation of the statue of Neptune, i.
169.
His mode of discouraging celibacy, 232.
Miraculous stories related of him, 258.
His superstition, 376.
Advice of Mæcenas to him, 399.
His consideration for the religious customs of the Jews, 406
Aulus Gellius, his account of the rhetoricians, i. 313.
Compared with Helvétius, 313
Aurelius, Marcus, on a future state, i. 184.
On posthumous fame, 186.
Denied that all vices are the same, 192, note.
On the sacred spirit dwelling in man, 198.
His submissive gratitude, 199.
His practical application of the precepts of the Stoics, 202.
His wavering views as to suicide, 213.
His charity to the human race, 241.
Mild and more religious spirit of his stoicism, 245.
His constant practice of self-examination, 249.
His life and character, 249-255.
Compared and contrasted with Plutarch, 253.
His discouragement of the games of the arena, 286.
His humanity, 308.
His disbelief of exorcism, 384.
His law against religious terrorism, 422.
His persecution of the Christians, 439, 440.
Austin, Mr., his view of the foundation of the moral law, i. 17,
note.
His advocacy of the unselfish view of the love we ought to bear
to God, 18, note.
Character of his “Lectures on Jurisprudence,” 22,
note
Avarice, association of ideas to the passion of, i. 25
Avitus, St., legend of, ii.
159
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Babylas, St., miracles performed by his bones, i. 382, and
note.
Bacchus, suppression of the rites of, at Rome, i. 401
Bacon, Lord, great movement of modern thought caused by, i. 125.
His objection to the Stoics' view of death, 202
Bacon, Roger, his life and works, ii.
210
Bain, Mr., on pleasure, i. 12, note.
His definition of conscience, 29, note.
Balbus, Cornelius, his elevation to the consulate, i. 232
Baltus on the exorcists, i. 381, note.
Baptism, Augustinian doctrine of, i. 96
Barbarians, causes of the conversion of the, i. 410
Basil, St., his hospital, ii.
80.
His labours for monachism,
106
Bassus, Ventidius, his elevation to the consulate, i. 232
Bathilda, Queen, her charity, ii.
245
Bear-gardens in England, ii.
175,
note.
Beauty, analogies between virtue and, i. 77.
Their difference, 79.
Diversities existing in our judgments of virtue and beauty, 79.
Causes of these diversities, 79.
Virtues to which we can, and to which we cannot, apply the term
beautiful, 82, 83.
Pleasure derived from beauty compared with that from the
grotesque, or eccentric, 85.
The prevailing cast of female beauty in the north, contrasted
with the southern type, 144, 145, 152.
Admiration of the Greeks for beauty, ii.
292
Bees, regarded by the ancients as emblems or models of chastity,
i. 108, note.
Beggars, causes of vast numbers of, ii.
94.
Old English laws for the suppression of mendicancy,
96.
Enactments against them in various parts of Europe,
98
Benedict, St., his system, 183
Benefices, military use of, ii.
270