Category: History - European
Having in the last chapter given a brief, but I trust not altogether indistinct, account of the causes that ensured the triumph of Christianity in Rome, and of the character of the opposition it overcame, I proceed to examine the nature of the moral ideal the new religion intr...
Having in the last chapter given a brief, but I trust not altogether indistinct, account of the causes that ensured the triumph of Christianity in Rome, and of the character of...
2. CHAPTER V. THE POSITION OF WOMEN.In the long series of moral revolutions that have been described in the foregoing chapters, I have more than once had occasion to refer to the position that was assigned to woma...
10. Scene 5. See, too, Suet. _August._ lxv. According to Suetonius(_Calig._ v.), on the death of Germanicus, women exposed their new-born children in sign of grief. Ovid had dwelt with much feeling on the barbarity of these practices. It is a...
12. Act iv. scene 5.)652 “Verum si quis est qui etiam meretriciis amoribus interdictum juventuti putet, est ille quidem valde severus; negare non possum; sed abhorret non modo ab hujus sæculi licent...
8. i. 101Romans, 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. T...
5. i. 378Irish, characteristics of the, i. 138. Their early marriages and national improvidences, 146. Absence of moral scandals among the priesthood, 146. Their legend of the islands of...
9. ii. 123Women, law of the Romans forbidding women to taste wine, i. 93, 94, _note_. Standards of female morality of the Jews, Greeks, and Romans, 103, 104. Virtues and vices growing out...
3. i. 8-10Exorcism, among the early Christians, i. 378, 380. Origin of the notions of possession and exorcism, 380. Jews the principal exorcists, 380. Belief of the early Christians in, 3...
11. scene 4, which is copied from the Greek. The majority of the class584 Plutarch, _De Garrulitate_; Plin. _Hist. Nat._ xxxiv. 19. The feat of biting out their tongues rather than reveal secrets, or yield to passion, is ascribed to a suspiciously...
7. i. 429Pity, a form of self-love, according to some Utilitarians, i. 9, 10, _note_. Adam Smith’s theory, 10, _note_. Seneca’s distinction between it and clemency, 189. Altar to Pity at...
4. ii. 235Hobbes, Thomas, his opinions concerning the essence and origin of virtue, i. 7, 8, _note_. His view of the origin of human actions, quoted, 8, _note_. His remarks on the goodnes...
6. i. 101Pascal, his advocacy of piety as a matter of prudence, i. 17, _note_. His adherence to the opinion of Ockham as to the foundation of the moral law, 17, _note_. His thought on th...