Volume II Part 11 (1/2)
Buckle, Thomas, his remarks on morals, i. 74, _note_.
On the difference between mental and physical pleasures, 90, _note_.
His views of the comparative influence of intellectual and moral agencies in civilisation, 103, _note_
Bull-baiting in England, ii. 175, _note_
Bulgarians, their conversion to Christianity, ii. 180
Butler, Bishop, maintains the reality of the existence of benevolence in our nature, i. 20, 21, _note_.
On the pleasure derived from virtue, 32, _note_.
His a.n.a.lysis of moral judgments, 76.
His definition of conscience, 83
Byzantine Empire, general sketch of the moral condition of the, ii. 13, 14.
Moral condition of the empire during the Christian period, 147
Caedmon, story of the origin of his ”Creation of the World,” ii. 204
Caesar, Julius, denies the immortality of the soul, i. 182.
His condemnation of suicide, 213.
His colonial policy, 233.
His multiplication of gladiatorial shows, 273
Caligula, his intoxication with his imperial dignity, i. 259.
His superst.i.tious fears, 367
Calvinists: tendency of the Supralapsarian to deny the existence of a moral sense, i. 17, _note_
Camma, conjugal fidelity of, ii. 341
Capital punishment, aversion to, ii. 39
Carlyle, Thomas, on self-sacrifice, i. 57, _note_.
The influence of conscience on the happiness of men, 62
Carneades, his expulsion from Rome proposed by Cato, i. 399
Carpocrates, licentiousness of the followers of, i. 417
Carthage, effect of the destruction of, on the decadence of Rome, i. 169.
The Decian persecution at, 452
Carthaginians, the, amongst the most prominent of Latin writers, i. 235
Ca.s.sius, the tyrannicide, his suicide, i. 215
Castellio, his exposure of the forgeries of the Sibylline books, i. 377
Catacombs, the, i. 453, 455
Catholicism, Roman, the system of education adopted by, contrasted with that of the English public schools, i. 114.
Conflict of the priests with political economists on the subject of early marriages, 114, 115.
The teaching of, on many points the extreme ant.i.thesis of that of the pagan philosophers, 208.
Its view of death, 208, 210.
Little done by it for humanity to animals, ii. 173, 177, 188.