Volume II Part 27 (2/2)

Oriental, pa.s.sion for, among the Romans, 318

Religious liberty totally destroyed by the Catholics, ii. 194-199

Repentance for past sin, no place for, in the writings of the ancients, i.

195

Reputation, how valued among the Romans, i. 185, 186

Resurrection of souls, belief of the Stoics in the, i. 164

Revenge, Utilitarian notions as to the feeling of, i. 41, and _note_.

Circ.u.mstances under which private vengeance is not regarded as criminal, i. 101

Reverence, Utilitarian views of, i. 9, and _note_.

Causes of the diminution of the spirit of, among mankind, 141, 142

Rhetoricians, Stoical, account of the, of Rome, i. 310

Ricci, his work on Mendicancy, ii. 98

Rochefoucauld La, on pity, quoted, i. 10, _note_.

And on friends.h.i.+p, 10, 11, _note_

Rogantia.n.u.s, his pa.s.sive life, i. 330

Roman law, its golden age not Christian, but pagan, ii. 42

Romans, abortion how regarded by the, i. 92.

Their law forbidding women to taste wine, 93, 94, _note_.

Reasons why they did not regard the gladiatorial shows as criminal, 101.

Their law of marriage and ideal of female morality, 104.

Their religious reverence for domesticity, 106.

Sanct.i.ty of, and gifts attributed to, their vestal virgins, 106.

Character of their cruelty, 134.

Compared with the modern Italian character in this respect, 134.

Scepticism of their philosophers, 162-167.

The religion of the Romans never a source of moral enthusiasm, 167.

Its characteristics, 168.

Causes of the disappearance of the religious reverence of the people, 169.

Efforts of some philosophers and emperors to restore the moral influence of religion, 169.

Consummation of Roman degradation, 170.

Belief in astrological fatalism, 170, 171.

The stoical type of military and patriotic enthusiasm pre-eminently Roman, 172-174, 178.

Importance of biography in their moral teaching, 178.

Epicureanism never became a school of virtue among them, 175.

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