Volume II Part 16 (1/2)
The Mohammedan conquest of, 143.
Triumphs of the Catholics in, 196
Egyptians, their reverence for the vulture, i. 108, _note_.
Their kindness to animals, 289.
Contrast of the spirit of their religion with that of the Greeks, 324.
Difference between the Stoical and Egyptian pantheism, 325
Elephants, legends of, ii. 161
Emperors, Roman, apotheosis of, i. 170, 257
Endura, the Albigensian practice of, ii. 49
England, national virtues and vices of, i. 153.
Ancient amus.e.m.e.nts of, ii. 174, 175, _note_
Ephrem, St., his charity, ii. 81
Epictetus, his disbelief in a future state, i. 183.
His life and works, 184, and _note_.
On the frame of mind in which a man should approach death, 195.
His views of the natural virtue of man, 198.
On suicide, 214, _note_, 220.
On universal brotherhood, 254.
His stoicism tempered by a milder and more religious spirit, 245, 246.
His remarks on national religious beliefs, 405
Epicureans, their faith preserved unchanged at Athens, i. 128, and _note_.
Their scepticism, 162.
Roman Epicureans, 162, 163.
Epicureanism the expression of a type of character different from Stoicism, 171, 172.
But never became a school of virtue in Rome, 175.
Destructive nature of its functions, 176.
Esteemed pleasure as the ultimate end of our actions, 186.
Encouraged physical science, 193.
Their doctrine as to suicide, 214, 215, _note_
Epicurus, the four canons of, i. 14.
Vast place occupied by his system in the moral history of man, 171.
His character, 175, 176, _note_.
Lucretius' praise of him, 197.
His view of death, 205.
Discovery of one of his treatises at Herculaneum, 205, _note_
Epidemics, theological notions respecting, i. 356