Chapter 52
Justinian, his laws respecting slavery, ii. 65
Justin Martyr, his recognition of the excellence of many parts of the pagan writings, i. 344.
On the "seminal logos," 344.
On the Sibylline books, 376.
Cause of his conversion to Christianity, 415.
His martyrdom, 441
Juvenal, on the natural virtue of man, i. 197
Kames, Lord, on our moral judgments, i. 77.
Notices the a.n.a.logies between our moral and aesthetical judgments, 77
King's evil, ceremony of touching for the, i. 363, _note_
Labienus, his works destroyed, i. 448, _note_
Lactantius, character of his treatise, i. 463
Laetorius, story of, i. 259
Laughing condemned by the monks of the desert, ii. 115, _note_
Law, Roman, its relation to Stoicism, i. 294, 295.
Its golden age not Christian, but pagan, ii. 42
Lawyers, their position in literature, i. 131, _note_
Legacies forbidden to the clergy, ii. 151.
Power of making bequests to the clergy enlarged by Constantine, 215
Leibnitz, on the natural or innate powers of man, i. 121, _note_
Leo the Isaurian, Pope, his compact with Pepin, ii. 266
Leonardo da Vinci, his kindness to animals, ii. 172, _note_
Licentiousness, French, Hume's comments on, i. 50, _note_.
Locke, John, his view of moral good and
His theological utilitarianism, 16, _note_.
His view of the sanctions of morality, 19.
His invention of the phrase "a.s.sociation of ideas," 23.
His definition of conscience, 29, _note_.
Cousin's objections against him, 75, _note_.
His refutation of the doctrine of a natural moral sense, 123, 124.
Rise of the sensual school out of his philosophy, 123, _note_.
Famous formulary of his school, 124
Lombard, Peter, character of his "Sentences," ii. 226.
His visions of heaven and h.e.l.l, 228
Longinus, his suicide, i. 219
Love terms Greek, in vogue with the Romans, i. 231, _note_
Lucan, failure of his courage under torture, i. 194.
His sycophancy, 194.
His cosmopolitanism, 240
Lucius, the bishop, martyrdom of, i. 454
Lucretius, his scepticism, i. 162.
His disbelief in the immortality of the soul, i. 182, _note_.
His praise of Epicurus, 197.
His suicide, 215.
On a bereaved cow, ii. 165
Lunatic asylums, the first, ii. 89
Luther's wife, her remark on the sensuous creed she had left, i. 52
Lyons, persecution of the Christians at, i. 441
Macarius, St., miracle attributed to, ii. 40, _note_.
His penances, 108, 109.
Legend of his visit to an enchanted garden, 158.
Other legends of him, 158, 159, 170, 220
Macedonia, effect of the conquest of, on the decadence of Rome, i. 169
Mackintosh, Sir James, theory of morals advocated by, i. 4.
Fascination of Hartley's doctrine of a.s.sociation over his mind, 29
Macria.n.u.s, persuades the Emperor Valerian to persecute the Christians, i.
455
Macrina Caelia, her benevolence to children, ii. 77
Magdalen asylums, adversaries of, ii. 98, and _note_
Mallonia, virtue of, ii. 309
Malthus, on charity, ii. 92, _note_
Mandeville, his "Enquiry into the Origin of Moral Virtue." His thesis that "private vices are public benefits," i. 7.
His opposition to charity schools, ii. 98
Manicheans, their tenets, ii. 102.