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On customs of the people of Congo and Siam, 102, _note_.
Compared with Aulus Gellius, 313
Herbert, of Cherbury, Lord, his profession of the doctrine of innate ideas, i. 123
Hercules, meaning of, according to the Stoics, i. 163
Hereford, Nicholas of, his opposition to indiscriminate alms, ii. 96
Heresy, punishment of death for, i. 98; ii. 40
Hermits. _See_ Asceticism; Monasticism
Heroism, the Utilitarian theory unfavourable to, i. 66.
War, the school of heroism, 173
Hilarius, St., legend of him and St. Epiphanius, ii. 159
Hildebrand, his destruction of priestly marriage, ii. 322
Hippopotamus, legend of the, ii. 161
Historical literature, scantiness of, after the fall of the Roman empire, ii. 235
Hobbes, 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 goodness which we apprehend in G.o.d, quoted, 9, _note_.
And on reverence, 9, _note_.
On charity, 9, 10, _note_.
On pity, 10, _note_.
Review of the system of morals of his school, 11.
Gives the first great impulse to moral philosophy in England, 19, _note_.
His denial of the reality of pure benevolence, 20, 21.
His definition of conscience, 29, _note_.
His theory of compa.s.sion, 72, _note_
Holidays, importance of, to the servile cla.s.ses, ii. 244
Homer, his views of human nature and man's will, i. 196
Horace, his ridicule of idols, i. 166.
His description of the just man, 197
Hospitality enjoined by the Romans, ii. 79
Hospitals, foundation of the first, ii. 80, 81
Human life, its sanct.i.ty recognised by Christianity, ii. 18.
Gradual acquirement of this sense, 18
Human nature, false estimate of, by the Stoics, i. 192
Hume, David, his theory of virtue, i. 4.
Misrepresented by many writers, 4.
His recognition of the reality of benevolence in our nature, 20, and _note_.
His comment on French licentiousness in the eighteenth century, 50, _note_.
His a.n.a.lysis of the moral judgments, 76.
Lays the foundation for a union of the schools of Clarke and Shaftesbury, 77
Humility, new value placed upon it by monachism, ii. 185, 187
Hutcheson, Francis, his doctrine of a "moral sense," i. 4.
Establishes the reality of the existence of benevolence in our nature, 20.
His a.n.a.lysis of moral judgments, 76
Hypatia, murder of, ii. 196
Iamblichus, his philosophy, i. 330
Ideas, confused a.s.sociation of. Question whether our, are derived exclusively from sensation or whether they spring in part from the mind itself, 122.
The latter theory represented by the Platonic doctrine of pre-existence, 122.
Doctrine of innate ideas, 122
Idols and idolatry, views of the Roman philosophers of, i. 166.
Discussion between Apollonius of Tyana and an Egyptian priest respecting, 166, _note_.
Idols forbidden by Numa, 166, _note_.
Plutarch on the vanity of, 166, _note_
Ignatius, St., his martyrdom, i. 438
Ignis fatuus, legend of the, ii. 224, _note_
Imagination, sins of, i. 44.
Relation of the benevolent feelings to it, 132, 133.
Deficiency of imagination the cause of the great majority of uncharitable judgments, 134-136.
Feebleness of the imagination a source of legends and myths, 347.
Beneficial effects of Christianity in supplying pure images to the imagination, 299
Imperial system of the Romans, its effect on their morals, i. 257.
Apotheosis of the emperors, 257
India, ancient, admiration for the schools of, i. 229
Inductive, ambiguity of the term, as applied to morals, i. 73
Industrial truth, characteristics of, i. 137.
Influence of the promotion of industrial life upon morals, 139-140
Infanticide, history of the practice of, ii. 24.
Efforts of the Church to suppress it, 29.
