Volume II Part 15 (1/2)

Daemons, Apuleius' disquisition on the doctrine of, i. 323.

The doctrine supersedes the Stoical naturalism, i. 331.

The daemons of the Greeks and Romans, 380.

And of the Christians, 382

Dale, Van, his denial of the supernatural character of the oracles, i. 374

Dead, Roman wors.h.i.+p of the, i. 168

Death, calmness with which some men of dull and animal natures can meet, i. 89.

Frame of mind in which a man should approach death, according to Epictetus, 195.

Preparation for death one of the chief ends of the philosophy of the ancients, 202.

Bacon's objection to the Stoics' view of, 202.

The Irish legend of the islands of life and death, 203.

The literature of ”Consolations,” 204.

Death not regarded by the philosophers as penal, 205.

Popular terrors of death, 205, 206.

Instances of tranquil pagan deaths, 207.

Distinctions between the pagan and Christian conceptions of death, 208

Decius, persecution of the Christians under, i. 449, 450

Defoe, Daniel, his tract against beggars, ii. 98, and _note_

Delphi, oracle of, its description of the best religion, i. 167

Deogratias, his ransom of prisoners, ii. 72

Despotism, Helvetius' remarks on the moral effects of, i. 129, _note_

Diagoras, his denial of the existence of the G.o.ds, i. 162

Diodorus, the philosopher, his suicide, i. 215

Dion Chrysostom, his denunciation of images of the Deity, i. 166, 167, _note_.

His life and works, 312

Dionysius of Halicarna.s.sus, on the creed of the Romans, i. 167

Disinterestedness, Bentham's remarks on, quoted, i. 32, _note_

Disposition, what const.i.tutes, according to the theory of a.s.sociation, i.

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Divination, a favourite subject of Roman ridicule, i. 166.

Belief of the ancients in, 363

Divorce, unbounded liberty of, among the Romans, ii. 306-308.

Condemned by the Church, 350, 351