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Practical nature of his philosophy, 329.

Never mentions Christianity, 336.

His remarks on the domestic system of the ancients, 419.

On kindness to animals, ii. 165, 166.

His picture of Greek married life, 289

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

Po, miracle of the subsidence of the waters of the, i. 382, _note_

Pmen, St., story of, and of his mother, ii. 129.

Legend of him and the lion, 169

Political economy, what it has accomplished respecting almsgiving, ii. 90

Political judgments, moral standard of most men in, lower than in private judgments, i. 151

Political truth, or habit of ”fair play,” the characteristic of free communities, i. 139.

Highly civilised form of society to which it belongs, 139.

Its growth r.e.t.a.r.ded by the opposition of theologians, 140

Polybius, his praise of the devotion and purity of creed of the Romans, i.

167

Polycarp, St., martyrdom of, i. 441

Polygamy, long continuance of, among the kings of Gaul, ii. 343

Pompeii, gladiatorial shows at, i. 276, _note_

Pompey, his destruction of the pirates, i. 234.

His multiplication of gladiatorial shows, 273

Poor-law system, elaboration of the, ii. 96.

Its pernicious results, 97, 99, 105

Poppaea, Empress, a Jewish proselyte, i. 386

Porcia, heroism of, ii. 309

Porphyry, his condemnation of suicides, i. 214.

His description of philosophy, i. 326.

His adoption of Neoplatonism, i. 330

Possevin, his exposure of the Sibylline books, i. 377

Pothinus, martyrdom of, i. 442

Power, origin of the desire of, i. 23, 26

Praise, a.s.sociation of ideas leading to the desire for even posthumous, i.

26

Prayer, reflex influence upon the minds of the wors.h.i.+ppers, i. 36

Preachers, Stoic, among the Romans, i. 308, 309

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