Chapter 54
Molinos, his opinion on the love we should bear to G.o.d, condemned, i. 18, _note_
Monastic system, results of the Catholic monastic system, i. 107.
Suicide of monks, ii. 52.
Exertions of the monks in the cause of charity, 84.
Causes of the monastic movement, 102.
History of the rapid propagation of it in the West, 183.
New value placed by it on obedience and humility, 185, 269.
Relation of it to the intellectual virtues, 188.
The monasteries regarded as the receptacles of learning, 199.
Fallacy of attributing to the monasteries the genius that was displayed in theology, 208.
Other fallacies concerning the services of the monks, 208-212.
Value attached by monks to pecuniary compensations for crime, 213.
Causes of their corruption, 217.
Benefits conferred by the monasteries, 243
Monica, St., i. 94, _note_
Monogamy, establishment of, ii. 372
Monophysites, the cause, to some extent, of the Mohammedan conquest of Egypt, ii. 143
Montanists, their tenets, ii. 102
Moral distinctions, rival claims of intuition and utility to be regarded as the supreme regulators of, i. 1
Moral judgments, alleged diversities of, i. 91.
Are frequently due to intellectual causes, 92.
Instances of this in usury and abortion, 92.
Distinction between natural duties and others resting on positive law, 93.
Ancient customs canonised by time, 93.
Anomalies explained by a confused a.s.sociation of ideas, 94, 95.
Moral perceptions overridden by positive religions, 95.
Instances of this in transubstantiation and the Augustinian and Calvinistic doctrines of d.a.m.nation, 96, 97.
General moral principles alone revealed by intuition, 99.
The moral unity of different ages a unity not of standard but of tendency, 100.
Application of this theory to the history of benevolence, 100.
Reasons why acts regarded in one age as criminal are innocent in another, 101.
Views of Mill and Buckle on the
Intuitive morals not unprogressive, 102, 103.
Answers to miscellaneous objections against the theory of natural moral perceptions, 109.
Effect of the condition of society on the standard, but not the essence, of virtue, 110.
Occasional duty of sacrificing higher duties to lower ones, 110, _et seq._ Summary of the relations of virtue and public and private interest, 117.
Two senses of the word natural, 119
Moral law, foundation of the, according to Ockham and his adherents, i.
17, _note_.
Various views of the sanctions of morality, 19.
Utilitarian theological sanctions, 53.
The reality of the moral nature the one great question of natural theology, 56.
Utilitarian secular sanctions, 57.
The Utilitarian theory subversive of morality, 66.
Plausibility and danger of theories of unification in morals, 72.
Our knowledge of the laws of moral progress nothing more than approximate or general, 136
"Moral sense," Hutcheson's doctrine of a, i. 4
Moral system, what it should be, to govern society, i. 194
Morals, each of the two schools of, related to the general condition of society, i. 122.
Their relations to metaphysical schools, 123, 124.
And to the Baconian philosophy, 125.
Contrast between ancient and modern civilisations, 125-127.
Causes that lead societies to elevate their moral standard, and determine their preference of some particular kind of virtues, 130.
The order in which moral feelings are developed, 130.
Danger in proposing too absolutely a single character as a model to which all men must conform, 155.
Remarks on moral types, 156.
Results to be expected from the study of the relations between our physical and moral nature, 158.
Little influence of Pagan religions on morals, 161
More, Henry, on the motive of virtue, i. 76
Musonius, his suicide, i. 220
Mutius, history of him and his son, ii. 125
Mysticism of the Romans, causes producing, i. 318
Myths, formation of, i. 351
Naples, mania for suicide at, ii. 55
Napoleon, the Emperor, his order of the day respecting suicide, i. 219, _note_
Nations, causes of the difficulties of effecting cordial international friends.h.i.+ps, i. 156
Natural moral perceptions, objections to the theory of, i. 116.
Two senses of the word natural, 118.
Reid, Sedgwick, and Leibnitz on the natural or innate powers of man, 121, _note_.
Locke's refutation of the doctrine of a natural moral sense, 124
Neoplatonism, account of, i. 325.
Its destruction of the active duties and critical spirit, 329
Neptune, views of the Stoics of the meaning of the legends of, i. 163.
His statue solemnly degraded by Augustus, 169
Nero, his singing and acting, i. 259.
His law about slaves, 307.
His persecution of the Christians, 429