Volume II Part 17 (1/2)

Fabiola, founded the first public hospital, ii. 80

Fabius, his self-sacrifice, i. 185

Fabius Pictor, his works written in Greek, i. 230

Faculty, moral, the term, i. 75

Fairies, belief in, i. 348, 349

Fatalism, aeschylus the poet of, i. 196

Felicitas, St., her martyrdom, i. 444.

In prison, ii. 9

Fenelon, on the unselfish love we should bear to G.o.d, i. 18, _note_

Fetis.h.i.+sm, latent, the root of a great part of our opinions, i. 350

Fidenae, accident at the amphitheatre at, i. 275

Fights, sham, in Italy in the middle ages, ii. 37, 38

Fire, regarded by the ancients as an emblem of virginity, i. 108, _note_

Fish, symbol of the early Christians, i. 376

Flamens of Jupiter, ii. 298

Flora, games of, i. 276

Forethought, brought into a new position by industrial habits, i. 140

Foundlings, hospitals for, ii. 23, _note_, 32.

In ancient times, 28, 29.

Adversaries of, 98, and _note_

France, condition of, under the Merovingian kings, ii. 236, _note_

Francis of a.s.sisi, St., story of his death from asceticism, ii. 49.

His kindness to animals, 172

Franks, cause of their conversion, i. 410

Fredegonde, Queen, her crimes, ii. 236, 237

Freedmen, influence of, at Rome, i. 233.

Condition of the freedmen of the Romans, 236

Frenchmen, the chief national virtues and causes of their influence in Europe, i. 152.

Compared with Anglo-Saxon nations, 153

Friends.h.i.+p, Utilitarian view of, i. 10

Galerius, his persecution of the Christians, i. 458, 461.