Volume II Part 22 (2/2)

Maximus of Tyre, account of him and his discourses, i. 312.

His defence of the ancient creeds, 323.

Practical form of his philosophy, 329

Medicine, possible progress of, i. 158, 159

Melania, St., her bereavement, ii. 10.

Her pilgrimage through the Syrian and Egyptian hermitages, 120

Milesians, wine forbidden by the, to women, i. 94, _note_

Military honour pre-eminent among the Romans, i. 172, 173.

History of the decadence of Roman military virtue, 268

Mill, J., on a.s.sociation, 25, _note_, _et seq._

Mill, J. S., quoted, i. 29, 47, 90, 102

Minerva, meaning of, according to the Stoics, i. 163

Miracles, general incredulity on the subject of, at the present time, i.

346, 348.

Miracles not impossible, 347.

Established by much evidence, 347.

The histories of them always decline with education, 348.

Ill.u.s.tration of this in the belief in fairies, 348.

Conceptions of savages, 349.

Legends, formation and decay of, 350-352.

Common errors in reasoning about miracles, 356.

Predisposition to the miraculous in some states of society, 362.

Belief of the Romans in miracles, 363-367.

Incapacity of the Christians of the third century for judging historic miracles, 375.

Contemporary miracles believed in by the early Christians, 378.

Exorcism, 378.

Neither past nor contemporary Christian miracles had much weight upon the pagans, 378

Missionary labours, ii. 246

Mithra, wors.h.i.+p of, in Rome, i. 386

Mohammedans, their condemnation of suicide, ii. 53.

Their lunatic asylums, 89.

Their religion, 251.

Effects of their military triumphs on Christianity, 252

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