Chapter 44
Att.i.tude of Christianity to the barbarians, 178.
How it achieved their conversion, 179-181.
Tendency of the barbarians to adulterate it, 181.
Legends of the conflict between the old G.o.ds and the new faith, 181.
Fierce hatred of rival sects, and total destruction of religious liberty, 194, 200.
Polytheistic and idolatrous form of Christianity in mediaeval times, 229.
The doctrine of purgatory, 232.
Benefits conferred by the monasteries, 243-245.
The observance of Sunday, 245.
Influence of Christianity upon war, 254, 259.
Upon the consecration of secular rank, 260, _et seq._ Upon the condition of women, 316, _et seq._ Strong a.s.sertion of the equality of obligation in marriage, 345, 346.
Relation of Christianity to the female virtues, 358, _et seq._
Chrysippus on the immortality of the soul, i. 183
Chrysostom, St., his labours for monachism, ii. 107.
His treatment of his mother, 132
Cicero on the evidence of a Divine element within us, i. 56, _note_.
His definition of conscience, 83.
His conception of the Deity, 164.
His opinion of the popular beliefs, 165.
Instance of his love of truth, 176, _note_.
His desire for posthumous reputation, 185, _note_.
His declaration as to virtue concealing itself from the world, 185.
His belief in the immortality of the soul, 204.
His view of death, 205, 206.
His complacency on the approach of death, 207.
His conception of suicide, 213.
His maintenance of the doctrine of universal brotherhood, 240.
How he regarded the games of the arena, 285.
His friends.h.i.+p with his freedman Tiro, 323.
His remarks on charity, ii. 79.
His rules respecting almsgiving, 92
Circ.u.mcelliones, atrocities of the, ii.
Their custom of provoking martyrdom, 49
Civic virtues, predominance accorded to, in ancient ethics, i. 200
Civilisation, refining influence of, on taste, i. 79.
Pleasures of a civilised and semi-civilised society compared, 86.
Views of Mill and Buckle on the comparative influence of intellectual and moral agencies in, 102, _note_.
Effect of education in diminis.h.i.+ng cruelty, and producing charity, 134.
Moral enthusiasm appropriate to different stages of civilisation, 136.
Increase of veracity with civilisation, 137.
Each stage of civilisation specially appropriate to some virtue, 147
Clarke, on moral judgments, i. 77
Cla.s.sical literature, preservation of, ii. 199.
Manner in which it was regarded by the Church, 200-204
Claudius, his delight in gladiatorial shows, i. 280.
His decree as to slaves, 307
Claver, Father, his remark on some persons who had delivered a criminal into the hands of justice, i. 41, _note_
Cleanthes, his suicide, i. 212
Clemency, Seneca's distinction between it and pity, i. 189
Clement of Alexandria, on the two sources of all the wisdom of antiquity, i. 344.
On the Sibylline books, 376.
On wigs, ii. 149
Clemens, Flavius, put to death, i. 433
Cleombrotus, his suicide, i. 212, _note_
Clergy, corruption of the, from the fourth century, ii. 150, 237.
Submission of the Eastern, but independence of the Western, clergy to the civil power, 264-268.
History of their celibacy, 328
Climate, effects of, in stimulating or allaying the pa.s.sions, i. 144
Clotaire, his treatment of Queen Brunehaut, ii. 237
Clotilda, her conversion of her husband, i. 410; ii. 180
Clovis, his conversion, i. 410; ii. 180.
Gregory of Tours' account of his acts, 240, 241
c.o.c.k-fighting among the ancients and moderns, ii. 164, and _note_, 175, _note_
c.o.c.k-throwing, ii. 164, _note_, 175, _note_
Coemgenus, St., legend of, ii. 111, _note_
Coleridge, S. T., his remarks on the practice of virtue as a pleasure, i.
28, _note_.
His admiration for Hartley, 28, _note_.
On the binding ground of the belief of G.o.d and a hereafter, i. 55, _note_
Colman, St., his animal companions, ii. 170.
His girdle, 319, _note_
Colonies, Roman, the cosmopolitan spirit forwarded by the aggrandis.e.m.e.nt of the, i. 233
Colosseum, the, i. 275.