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Platonists, their more or less pantheistic conception of the Deity, i.
163.
Practical nature of their philosophy, 329.
The Platonic ethics ascendant in Rome, 331
Pleasure the only good, according to the Utilitarians, i. 7.
Ill.u.s.trations of the distinction between the higher and lower parts of our nature in our pleasures, 83-85.
Pleasures of a civilised compared with those of a semi-civilised society, 86.
Comparison of mental and physical pleasures, 87, 88.
Distinction in kind of pleasure, and its importance in morals, 89-91.
Neglected or denied by Utilitarian writers, 89, _note_
Pliny, the elder, on the probable happiness of the lower animals, i. 87, _note_.
On the Deity, 164.
On astrology, 171, and _note_, 164, _note_.
His disbelief in the immortality of the soul, 182.
His advocacy of suicide, 215.
Never mentions Christianity, 336.
His opinion of earthquakes, 369.
And of comets, 369.
His facility of belief, 370.
His denunciation of finger rings, ii. 148
Pliny, the younger, his desire for posthumous reputation, i. 185, _note_.
His picture of the ideal of Stoicism, 186.
His letter to Trajan respecting the Christians, 437.
His benevolence, 242; ii. 77
Plotinus, his condemnation of suicide, i. 214.
His philosophy, 330
Plutarch, his defence of the bad poetry of the oracles, 165, _note_.
His mode of moral teaching, 175.
Basis of his belief in the immortality of the soul, 204.
On superst.i.tious fear of death, 206.
His letter on the death of his little daughter, 242.
May justly be regarded as the leader of the eclectic school, 243.
His philosophy and works compared with those of Seneca, 243.
His treatise on "The Signs of Moral Progress," 249.
Compared and contrasted with Marcus Aurelius, 253.
How he regarded the games of the arena, 286.
His defence of the ancient creeds, 322.
Practical nature of his philosophy, 329.
Never mentions Christianity, 336.
His remarks on the domestic system of the ancients, 419.
On kindness to animals, ii. 165, 166.
His picture of Greek married life, 289
Pluto, meaning of, according to the Stoics, i. 163
Po, miracle of the subsidence of the waters of the, i. 382, _note_
Pmen, St., story of, and of his mother, ii. 129.
Legend of him and the lion, 169
Political economy, what it has accomplished respecting almsgiving, ii. 90
Political judgments, moral standard of most men in, lower than in private judgments, i. 151
Political truth, or habit of "fair play," the characteristic of free communities, i. 139.
Highly civilised form of society to which it belongs, 139.
Its growth r.e.t.a.r.ded by the opposition of theologians, 140
Polybius, his praise of the devotion and purity of creed of the Romans, i.
167
Polycarp, St., martyrdom of, i. 441
Polygamy, long continuance of, among the kings of Gaul, ii. 343
Pompeii, gladiatorial shows at, i. 276, _note_
Pompey, his destruction of the pirates, i. 234.
His multiplication of gladiatorial shows, 273
Poor-law system, elaboration of the, ii. 96.
Its pernicious results, 97, 99, 105
Poppaea, Empress, a Jewish proselyte, i. 386
Porcia, heroism of, ii. 309
Porphyry, his condemnation of suicides, i. 214.
His description of philosophy, i. 326.
His adoption of Neoplatonism, i. 330
Possevin, his exposure of the Sibylline books, i. 377
Pothinus, martyrdom of, i. 442
Power, origin of the desire of, i. 23, 26
Praise, a.s.sociation of ideas leading to the desire for even posthumous, i.
26
Prayer, reflex influence upon the minds of the wors.h.i.+ppers, i. 36
Preachers, Stoic, among the Romans, i. 308, 309
