Volume 2

History of European morals from Augustus to Charlemagne / William Edward Hartpole Lecky.

  • Lecky, William Edward Hartpole, 1838-1903.
Date:
1920
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Credit: History of European morals from Augustus to Charlemagne / William Edward Hartpole Lecky. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    VIT tary dr tuts differing in different ages, nations, and classes, 154, 155. Four distinct motives leading men to virtue, 178-180. Plato’s fundamental proposition that vice is to virtue what disease is to health, 179. Stoicism the best example of the perfect sever¬ ance of virtue and self-interest, 181. Teachings of the Stoics that virtue should conceal itself from the world, 186. And that the obligation should be distin¬ guished from the attraction of virtue, 186. The eminent cha¬ racteristics of pagan goodness, 190. All virtues are the same, according to the Stoics, 192. Horace’s description of a just man, 197. Interested and dis¬ interested motives of Christianity to virtue, ii. 3. Decline of the civic virtues caused by asceticism, 139. Influence of this change on moral philosophy, 146. The im¬ portance of the civic virtues ex¬ aggerated by historians, 147. Intellectual virtues, 188. Rela¬ tion of monachism to these vir¬ tues, 189, ct seq. Vitalius, St., legend oi; and the courtesan, ii. 320 Vivisection, ii. 176. Approved by Bacon, 176, note Volcanoes, how regarded by the early monks, ii. 221 Vultures, why made an emblem of nature by the Egyptians, i. 108, note 17AR, its moral grandeur, i. 95. V The school of the heroic vir¬ tues, 173. Difference between foreign and civil wars, 232. An¬ tipathy of the early Christians to a military life, ii. 248. Belief in battle being the special sphere of WOM Providential interposition, 249. Effects of the military triumphs of the Mohammedans, 251. In¬ fluences of Christianity upon war considered, 254. Improved con¬ dition of captives taken in war, 256 Warburton, on morals, i. 15, note, 17, note Waterland, on the motives to virtue and cause of our love of God, quoted, i. 9, note, 15, note Wealth, origin of the desire to pos¬ sess, i. 23. Associations leading to the desire for, for its own sake, 25 Western Empire, general sketch of the moral condition of the, ii. 14 Widows, care of the early Church for, ii. 366 Will, freedom of the human, sus¬ tained and deepened by the asce¬ tic life, ii. 123 Wine, forbidden to women, i. 93, 94, note Witchcraft, belief in the reality of, i. 363. Suicide common among witches, ii. 54 Wollaston, his analysis of moral judgments, i, 76 Women, law of the Romans forbid¬ ding women to taste wine, i. 93, 94, note. Standards of female morality of the Jews, Greeks, and Romans, 103, 104. Virtues and vices growing out of the relations of the sexes, 143. Female virtue, 143. Effects of climate on this virtue, 144. Of large towns, 146. And of early marriages, 145. Reason for Plato’s advocacy of community of wives, 200. Plu¬ tarch’s high sense of female excel¬ lence, 244. Female gladiators at Rome, 281, and note. Relations of female devotees with the anchor¬ ites, ii. 120, 128, 150. Their condi¬ tion in savage life, 276. Cessa-