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Bacon, Lord, great movement of modern thought caused by, i. 125.
His objection to the Stoics' view of death, 202
Bacon, Roger, his life and works, ii. 210
Bain, Mr., on pleasure, i. 12, _note_.
His definition of conscience, 29, _note_.
Balbus, Cornelius, his elevation to the consulate, i. 232
Baltus on the exorcists, i. 381, _note_.
Baptism, Augustinian doctrine of, i. 96
Barbarians, causes of the conversion of the, i. 410
Basil, St., his hospital, ii. 80.
His labours for monachism, 106
Ba.s.sus, Ventidius, his elevation to the consulate, i. 232
Bathilda, Queen, her charity, ii. 245
Bear-gardens in England, ii. 175, _note_.
Beauty, a.n.a.logies between virtue and, i. 77.
Their difference, 79.
Diversities existing in our judgments of virtue and beauty, 79.
Causes of these diversities, 79.
Virtues to which we can, and to which we cannot, apply the term beautiful, 82, 83.
Pleasure derived from beauty compared with that from the grotesque, or eccentric, 85.
The prevailing cast of female beauty in the north, contrasted with the southern type, 144, 145, 152.
Admiration of the Greeks for beauty, ii. 292
Bees, regarded by the ancients as emblems or models of chast.i.ty, i. 108, _note_.
Beggars, causes of vast numbers of, ii. 94.
Old English laws for the suppression of mendicancy, 96.
Enactments against them in various parts of Europe, 98
Benedict, St., his system, 183
Benefices, military use of, ii. 270
Benevolence; Hutcheson's theory that all virtue is resolved into benevolence, i. 4.
Discussions in England, in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, as to the existence of, 20.
Various views of the source from which it springs, 22.
a.s.sociation of ideas producing the feeling of, 26.
Hartley on benevolence quoted, 27, _note_.
Impossibility of benevolence becoming a pleasure if practised only with a view to that end, 37.
Application to benevolence of the theory, that the moral unity of different ages is a unity not of standard but of tendency, 100.
Influenced by our imaginations, 132, 133.
Imperfectly recognised by the Stoics, 188, 192
Bentham, Jeremy, on the motives of human actions, i. 8, _note_.
On the pleasures and pains of piety quoted, 9, _note_.
On charity, 10, _note_.
On vice, 13, _note_.
On the sanctions of morality, 19, and _note_, 21.
Throws benevolence as much as possible into the background, 21.
Makes no use of the doctrine of a.s.sociation, 25, _note_.
His definition of conscience, 29, _note_.
On interest and disinterestedness, 32, _note_.
On the value and purity of a pleasure, 90, _note_.
Besarion, St., his penances, ii. 108
Biography, relative importance of, among Christians and Pagans, i. 174
Blandina, martyrdom of, i. 442
Blesilla, story of her slow suicide, ii. 48
Blondel, his denunciation of the forgeries of the Sibylline books, i. 377
Boadicea, her suicide, ii. 53, _note_
Bolingbroke's "Reflections on Exile," i. 201, _note_
Bona Dea, story and wors.h.i.+p of, i. 94, _note_.
Popularity of her wors.h.i.+p among the Romans, 106, 386
Boniface, St., his missionary labours, ii. 247
Bonnet, his philosophy, i. 71
Bossuet, on the nature of the love we should bear to G.o.d, i. 18, _note_
Brephotrophia, in the early church, ii. 32
Brotherhood, effect of Christianity in promoting, ii. 61
Brown, on the motive for the practice of virtue, i. 8, _note_.
On theological Utilitarianism, 16, _note_
Brunehaut, Queen, her crimes, approved of by the Pope, ii. 236, 237.
Her end, 237
Brutus, his extortionate usury, i. 193, 194
