Volume II Part 9 (1/2)
Emphasis with which he dwelt upon the utility of virtue, 124.
His patriotism, 200.
His condemnation of suicide, 212.
His opinions as to the duties of Greeks to barbarians, 229
Arius, death of, ii. 196
Arn.o.bius, on the miracles of Christ, i. 375
Arrian, his humanity to animals, ii. 164
a.r.s.enius, St., his penances, ii. 107, 114, _note_.
His anxiety to avoid distractions, 125, _note_
Ascetics, their estimate of the dreadful nature of sin, i. 113.
Decline of asceticism and evanescence of the moral notions of which it was the expression, 113.
Condition of society to which it belongs, 130.
Decline of the ascetic and saintly qualities with civilisation, 130.
Causes of the ascetic movement, ii. 102.
Its rapid extension, 103-105.
Penances attributed to the saints of the desert, 107-109.
Miseries and joys of the hermit life, 113 _et seq._ Dislike of the monks to knowledge, 115.
Their hallucinations, 116.
Relations of female devotees with the anchorites, 120.
Ways in which the ascetic life affected both the ideal type and realised condition of morals, 122, _et seq._ Extreme animosity of the ascetics to everything pagan, 136, 137.
Decline of the civic virtues caused by asceticism, 139.
Moral effects of asceticism on self-sacrifice, 154, 155.
Moral beauty of some of the legends of the ascetics, 156.
Legends of the connection between the saints and the animal world, 161.
Practical form of asceticism in the West, 177.
Influence of asceticism on chast.i.ty, 319, 320.
On marriage, 320.
On the estimate of women, 337
Asella, story of her asceticism, ii. 133
Asia Minor, destruction of the churches of, ii. 14
Aspasia, the Athenian courtesan, ii. 293
a.s.ses, feast of, ii. 173
a.s.sociation, Hartley's doctrine of, i. 22.
Partly antic.i.p.ated by Hutcheson and Gay, 23.
Ill.u.s.trations of the system of a.s.sociation, 26-30.
The theory, how far selfish, 30.
The essential and characteristic feature of conscience wholly unaccounted for by the a.s.sociation of ideas, 66
Astrology, belief in, rapidly gaining ground in the time of the elder Pliny, i. 171, and _note_
Atticus, his suicide, i. 215, and _note_
Augustine, St., on original sin, i. 209.