Volume II Part 27 (1/2)

Pride, contrasted with vanity, i. 195.

The leading moral agent of Stoicism, i. 195

Prometheus, cause of the admiration bestowed upon, i. 35

Prophecies, incapacity of the Christians of the third century for judging prophecies, i. 376

Prophecy, gift of, attributed to the vestal virgins of Rome, i. 107.

And in India to virgins, 107, _note_

Prosperity, some crimes conducive to national, i. 58

Prost.i.tution, ii. 282-286.

How regarded by the Romans, 314

Protagoras, his scepticism, i. 162

Protasius, St., miraculous discovery of his remains, i. 379

Prudentius, on the vestal virgins at the gladiatorial shows, i. 291

Purgatory, doctrine of, ii. 232-235

Pythagoras, sayings of, i. 53.

Chast.i.ty the leading virtue of his school, 106.

On the fables of Hesiod and Homer, 161.

His belief in an all-pervading soul of nature, 162.

His condemnation of suicide, 212.

Tradition of his journey to India, 229, _note_.

His inculcation of the practice of self-examination, 248.

His opinion of earthquakes, 369.

His doctrine of kindness to animals, ii. 165

Quakers, compared with the early Christians, ii. 12, and _note_

Quintilian, his conception of the Deity, i. 164

Rank, secular, consecration of, ii. 260, _et seq_

Rape, punishment for, ii. 316

Redbreast, legend of the, ii. 224, _note_

Regulus, the story of, i. 212

Reid, basis of his ethics, i. 76.

His distinction between innate faculties evolved by experience and innate ideas independent of experience, 121, _note_

Religion, theological utilitarianism subverts natural, i. 54-56.

Answer of the oracle of Delphi as to the best, 167.

Difference between the moral teaching of a philosophy and that of a religion, ii. 1.

Relations between positive religion and moral enthusiasm, 141

Religions, pagan, their small influence on morals, i. 161.