Gnostics, accusations against the, by the early Fathers, i. 417.
Their tenets, ii. 102
G.o.d, the Utilitarian view of the goodness of, i. 9, and _note_.
Question of the disinterestedness of the love we should bear to, 18.
Our knowledge of Him derived from our own moral nature, 55.
Early traces of an all-pervading soul of nature in Greece, 161, 162, 170.
Philosophic definitions of the Deity, 162, _note_.
Pantheistic conception of, by the Stoics and Platonists, 163.
Recognition of Providence by the Roman moralists, 196.
Two aspects under which the Stoics worshipped the Divinity-providence and moral goodness, 198
G.o.ds, the, of the ancients, i. 161, _et seq._ Euhemerus" theory of the explanation of the prevailing legends of the G.o.ds, 163.
Views of Cicero of the popular beliefs, 165.
Opinions of the Stoics, of Ovid, and of Horace, 166.
Nature of the G.o.ds of the Romans, 167.
Decline of Roman reverence for the G.o.ds, 168, 169
Good, pleasure equivalent to, according to the Utilitarians, i. 8, _note_, 9
Gracchi, colonial policy of the, i. 233
Grazers, sect of, ii. 109
Greeks, ancient, their callous murder of children, i. 45, 46.
Low state of female morality among them.
Their enforcement of monogamy, 104.
Celibacy of some of their priests and priestesses, 105.
Early traces of a religion of nature, 161.
Universal providence attributed to Zeus, 161.
Scepticism of the philosophers, 161, 162.
Importance of biography in the moral teaching of the, i. 74.
Difference between the teaching of the Roman moralists and the Greek poets, 195.
On death, and future punishment, 205, 206.
Greek suicides, 212.
Gentleness and humanity of the Greek character, 227.
Influence on Roman character, 227, 228.
The Greek spirit at first as far removed from cosmopolitanism as that of Rome, 228.
Causes of Greek cosmopolitanism, 229.
Extent of Greek influence at Rome, 230.
Gladiatorial shows among them, 276.
Spirit of their religion contrasted with that of the Egyptians, 324.
Their intolerance of foreign religions, 406.
Condition and fall of their empire of the East, ii. 12-14.
Their practice of infanticide, 25-27.
Their treatment of animals, 164.
Their treatment of prisoners taken in war, 257, 258.
Their marriage customs, 277.
Women in the poetic age, 278.
Peculiarity of Greek feelings on the position of women, 280, 281.
Unnatural forms a.s.sumed by vice amongst them, 294
Gregory the Great, his contempt for Pagan literature, ii. 201, _note_.
His att.i.tude towards Phocas, 264
Gregory of Nyssa, St., his eulogy of virginity, ii. 322
Gregory of Tours, manner in which he regarded events, ii. 240-242, 261, 277
Grotesque, or eccentric, pleasure derived from the, compared with that from beauty, i. 85
Gundebald, his murders approved of by his bishop, ii. 237
Gunpowder, importance of the invention of, i. 126
Guy, Brother, his society for protection and education of children, ii.
33, and _note_
Hadrian, the Emperor, his view of suicide, i. 219.
Gives Euphrates permission to destroy himself, 218, _note_.
His laws respecting slaves, 307.
His leniency towards Christianity, 438.
His benevolence, ii. 77
Hair, false, opinions of the Fathers on, ii. 149
Hall, Robert, on theological Utilitarianism, i. 15 _note_
"Happiness, the greatest, for the greatest number," theory of the, i. 3.
The sole end of human actions, according to the Utilitarians, 8, _note_.
The best man seldom the happiest, 69.
Mental compared with physical happiness, 87.
Influence of health and temperament on happiness, 88, and _note_
Hartley, his doctrine of a.s.sociation, i. 22.
Coleridge"s admiration for him, 28, _note_.
On animal food, 48, _note_.
His attempt to evade the conclusion to which his view leads, quoted, 67, _note_.
His definition of conscience, 82
Hegesias, the orator of death, i. 215
Heliogabalus, his blasphemous orgies, i. 260
h.e.l.l, monkish visions of, ii. 221 and _note_.
Glimpses of the infernal regions furnished by the "Dialogues" of St.
Gregory, 221.
Modern publications on this subject, 223, _note_
Helvetius, on the origin of human actions, i. 8, _note_.