Chapter 62
Influences conspiring towards suicide, 217.
Seneca on self-destruction, 217, 218, 220.
Laws respecting it, 218, _note_.
Eminent instances of self-destruction, 219, 221.
The conception of, as an euthanasia, 221.
Neoplatonist doctrine concerning, 331.
Effect of the Christian condemnation of the practice of, ii. 43-61.
Theological doctrine on, 45, _note_.
The only form of, permitted in the early Church, 47.
Slow suicides, 48.
The Circ.u.mcelliones, 49.
The Albigenses, 49.
Suicides of the Jews, 50.
Treatment of corpses of suicides, 50.
Authorities for the history of suicides, 50, _note_.
Reaction against the mediaeval laws on the subject, 51.
Later phases of its history, 54.
Self-destruction of witches, 54.
Epidemics of insane suicide, 55.
Cases of legitimate suicide, 55.
Suicide in England and France, 58
Sunday, importance of the sanct.i.ty of the, ii. 244.
Laws respecting it, 245
Superst.i.tion, possibility of adding to the happiness of man by the diffusion of, i. 50-53.
Natural causes which impel savages to superst.i.tion, i. 55.
Signification of the Greek word for, 205
Swan, the, consecrated to Apollo, i. 206
Sweden, cause of the great number of illegitimate births in, i. 144
Swinburne, Mr., on annihilation, i. 182, _note_
Symmachus, his Saxon prisoners, i. 287
Synesius, legend of him and Evagrius, ii. 214.
Refuses to give up his
Syracuse, gladiatorial shows at, i. 275
Tacitus, his doubts about the existence of Providence, i. 171, _note_
Telemachus, the monk, his death in the arena, ii. 37
Telesphorus, martyrdom of, i. 446, _note_
Tertia aemilia, story of, ii. 313
Tertullian, his belief in daemons, i. 382.
And challenge to the Pagans, 383
Testament, Old, supposed to have been the source of pagan writings, i. 344
Thalasius, his hospital for blind beggars, ii. 81
Theatre, scepticism of the Romans extended by the, i. 170.
Effects of the gladiatorial shows upon the, 277
Theft, reasons why some savages do not regard it as criminal, i. 102.
Spartan law legalising it, 102
Theodebert, his polygamy, ii. 343
Theodoric, his court at Ravenna, ii. 201, 202, _note_
Theodorus, his denial of the existence of the G.o.ds, i. 162
Theodorus, St., his inhumanity to his mother, ii. 128
Theodosius the Emperor, his edict forbidding gladiatorial shows, ii. 36.
Denounced by the Ascetics, 139.
His law respecting Sunday, 245
Theological utilitarianism, theories of, i. 14-17
Theology, sphere of inductive reasoning in, 357
Theon, St., legend of, and the wild beasts, ii. 168
Theurgy rejected by Plotinus, i. 330.
All moral discipline resolved into, by Iamblichus, 330
Thrace, celibacy of societies of men in, i. 106
Thrasea, mildness of his Stoicism, i. 245
Thrasea and Aria, history of, ii. 311
Thriftiness created by the industrial spirit, i. 140
Tiberius the Emperor, his images invested with a sacred character, i. 260.
His superst.i.tions, 367, and _note_
Timagenes, exiled from the palace by Tiberius, i. 448, _note_
t.i.tus, the Emperor, his tranquil end, i. 207.
Instance of his amiability, 287