Chapter 58
Pride, contrasted with vanity, i. 195.
The leading moral agent of Stoicism, i. 195
Prometheus, cause of the admiration bestowed upon, i. 35
Prophecies, incapacity of the Christians of the third century for judging prophecies, i. 376
Prophecy, gift of, attributed to the vestal virgins of Rome, i. 107.
And in India to virgins, 107, _note_
Prosperity, some crimes conducive to national, i. 58
Prost.i.tution, ii. 282-286.
How regarded by the Romans, 314
Protagoras, his scepticism, i. 162
Protasius, St., miraculous discovery of his remains, i. 379
Prudentius, on the vestal virgins at the gladiatorial shows, i. 291
Purgatory, doctrine of, ii. 232-235
Pythagoras, sayings of, i. 53.
Chast.i.ty the leading virtue of his school, 106.
On the fables of Hesiod and Homer, 161.
His belief in an all-pervading soul of nature, 162.
His condemnation of suicide, 212.
Tradition of his journey to India, 229, _note_.
His inculcation of the practice of self-examination, 248.
His opinion of earthquakes, 369.
His doctrine of kindness to animals, ii. 165
Quakers, compared with the early Christians, ii. 12, and _note_
Quintilian, his conception of the Deity, i. 164
Rank, secular, consecration of, ii. 260, _et seq_
Rape, punishment for, ii. 316
Redbreast, legend of the, ii. 224, _note_
Regulus, the story of, i. 212
Reid, basis of his ethics, i. 76.
His distinction between innate faculties evolved by experience and innate ideas independent of experience, 121, _note_
Religion, theological
Answer of the oracle of Delphi as to the best, 167.
Difference between the moral teaching of a philosophy and that of a religion, ii. 1.
Relations between positive religion and moral enthusiasm, 141
Religions, pagan, their small influence on morals, i. 161.
Oriental, pa.s.sion for, among the Romans, 318
Religious liberty totally destroyed by the Catholics, ii. 194-199
Repentance for past sin, no place for, in the writings of the ancients, i.
195
Reputation, how valued among the Romans, i. 185, 186
Resurrection of souls, belief of the Stoics in the, i. 164
Revenge, Utilitarian notions as to the feeling of, i. 41, and _note_.
Circ.u.mstances under which private vengeance is not regarded as criminal, i. 101
Reverence, Utilitarian views of, i. 9, and _note_.
Causes of the diminution of the spirit of, among mankind, 141, 142
Rhetoricians, Stoical, account of the, of Rome, i. 310
Ricci, his work on Mendicancy, ii. 98
Rochefoucauld La, on pity, quoted, i. 10, _note_.
And on friends.h.i.+p, 10, 11, _note_
Rogantia.n.u.s, his pa.s.sive life, i. 330
Roman law, its golden age not Christian, but pagan, ii. 42
Romans, abortion how regarded by the, i. 92.
Their law forbidding women to taste wine, 93, 94, _note_.
Reasons why they did not regard the gladiatorial shows as criminal, 101.
Their law of marriage and ideal of female morality, 104.
Their religious reverence for domesticity, 106.
Sanct.i.ty of, and gifts attributed to, their vestal virgins, 106.
Character of their cruelty, 134.
Compared with the modern Italian character in this respect, 134.
Scepticism of their philosophers, 162-167.
The religion of the Romans never a source of moral enthusiasm, 167.
Its characteristics, 168.
Causes of the disappearance of the religious reverence of the people, 169.
Efforts of some philosophers and emperors to restore the moral influence of religion, 169.
Consummation of Roman degradation, 170.
Belief in astrological fatalism, 170, 171.
The stoical type of military and patriotic enthusiasm pre-eminently Roman, 172-174, 178.
Importance of biography in their moral teaching, 178.
Epicureanism never became a school of virtue among them, 175.