Volume II Part 30 (1/2)
Smith, Adam, his theory of pity, quoted, i. 10, _note_.
His recognition of the reality of benevolence in our nature, 20.
His a.n.a.lysis of moral judgment, 76
Smyrna, persecution of the Christians at, i. 441
Socrates, his view of death, i. 205.
His closing hours, 207.
His advice to a courtesan, ii. 296
Soul, the immortality of the, resolutely excluded from the teaching of the Stoics, i. 181.
Character of their first notions on the subject, 182.
The belief in the reabsorption of the soul in the parent Spirit, 183.
Belief of Cicero and Plutarch in the immortality of the, 204.
But never adopted as a motive by the Stoics, 204.
Increasing belief in the, 331.
Vague belief of the Romans in the, 168
Sospitra, story of, i. 373
Spain, persecution of the Christians in, i. 461.
Almost complete absence of infanticide in, ii. 25, _note_.
The first lunatic asylums in Europe established in, 89, 90
Spaniards, among the most prominent of Latin writers, i. 235.
Their suicides, ii. 54
Spartans, their intense patriotism, i. 178.
Their legislature continually extolled as a model, 201.
Condition of their women, ii. 290
Spinoza, his remark on death, i. 203 Anecdote of him, 289
Stael, Madame de, on suicide, ii. 59
Statius, on the first night of marriage, i. 107, _note_
Stewart, Dugald, on the pleasures of virtue, i. 32, _note_
Stilpo, his scepticism and banishment, i. 162.
His remark on his ruin, 191.
Stoics, their definition of conscience, i. 83.
Their view of the animation of the human ftus, 92.
Their system of ethics favourable to the heroic qualities, 128.
Historical fact in favour of the system, 128.
Their belief in an all-pervading soul of nature, 162.
Their pantheistic conception of the Deity, 163.
Their conception and explanation of the prevailing legends of the G.o.ds, 163.
Their opinion as to the final destruction of the universe by fire, and the resuscitation of souls, 164.
Their refusal to consult the oracles, 165.
Stoicism the expression of a type of character different from Epicureanism, 172.
Rome pre-eminently the home of Stoicism, 172.
Account of the philosophy of the Stoics, 177.
Its two essentials-the unselfish ideal and the subjugation of the affections to the reason, 177.
The best example of the perfect severance of virtue and interest, 181.