Justinian, his laws respecting slavery, ii. 65

Justin Martyr, his recognition of the excellence of many parts of the pagan writings, i. 344.

On the "seminal logos," 344.

On the Sibylline books, 376.

Cause of his conversion to Christianity, 415.

His martyrdom, 441

Juvenal, on the natural virtue of man, i. 197

Kames, Lord, on our moral judgments, i. 77.

Notices the a.n.a.logies between our moral and aesthetical judgments, 77

King"s evil, ceremony of touching for the, i. 363, _note_

Labienus, his works destroyed, i. 448, _note_

Lactantius, character of his treatise, i. 463

Laetorius, story of, i. 259

Laughing condemned by the monks of the desert, ii. 115, _note_

Law, Roman, its relation to Stoicism, i. 294, 295.

Its golden age not Christian, but pagan, ii. 42

Lawyers, their position in literature, i. 131, _note_

Legacies forbidden to the clergy, ii. 151.

Power of making bequests to the clergy enlarged by Constantine, 215

Leibnitz, on the natural or innate powers of man, i. 121, _note_

Leo the Isaurian, Pope, his compact with Pepin, ii. 266

Leonardo da Vinci, his kindness to animals, ii. 172, _note_

Licentiousness, French, Hume"s comments on, i. 50, _note_.

Locke, John, his view of moral good and moral evil, i. 8, _note_.

His theological utilitarianism, 16, _note_.

His view of the sanctions of morality, 19.

His invention of the phrase "a.s.sociation of ideas," 23.

His definition of conscience, 29, _note_.

Cousin"s objections against him, 75, _note_.

His refutation of the doctrine of a natural moral sense, 123, 124.

Rise of the sensual school out of his philosophy, 123, _note_.

Famous formulary of his school, 124

Lombard, Peter, character of his "Sentences," ii. 226.

His visions of heaven and h.e.l.l, 228

Longinus, his suicide, i. 219

Love terms Greek, in vogue with the Romans, i. 231, _note_

Lucan, failure of his courage under torture, i. 194.

His sycophancy, 194.

His cosmopolitanism, 240

Lucius, the bishop, martyrdom of, i. 454

Lucretius, his scepticism, i. 162.

His disbelief in the immortality of the soul, i. 182, _note_.

His praise of Epicurus, 197.

His suicide, 215.

On a bereaved cow, ii. 165

Lunatic asylums, the first, ii. 89

Luther"s wife, her remark on the sensuous creed she had left, i. 52

Lyons, persecution of the Christians at, i. 441

Macarius, St., miracle attributed to, ii. 40, _note_.

His penances, 108, 109.

Legend of his visit to an enchanted garden, 158.

Other legends of him, 158, 159, 170, 220

Macedonia, effect of the conquest of, on the decadence of Rome, i. 169

Mackintosh, Sir James, theory of morals advocated by, i. 4.

Fascination of Hartley"s doctrine of a.s.sociation over his mind, 29

Macria.n.u.s, persuades the Emperor Valerian to persecute the Christians, i.

455

Macrina Caelia, her benevolence to children, ii. 77

Magdalen asylums, adversaries of, ii. 98, and _note_

Mallonia, virtue of, ii. 309

Malthus, on charity, ii. 92, _note_

Mandeville, his "Enquiry into the Origin of Moral Virtue." His thesis that "private vices are public benefits," i. 7.

His opposition to charity schools, ii. 98

Manicheans, their tenets, ii. 102.

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