History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne Volume II Part 31

Influences conspiring towards suicide, 217.

Seneca on self-destruction, 217, 218, 220.

Laws respecting it, 218, _note_.

Eminent instances of self-destruction, 219, 221.

The conception of, as an euthanasia, 221.

Neoplatonist doctrine concerning, 331.

Effect of the Christian condemnation of the practice of, ii. 43-61.

Theological doctrine on, 45, _note_.

The only form of, permitted in the early Church, 47.

Slow suicides, 48.

The Circ.u.mcelliones, 49.

The Albigenses, 49.

Suicides of the Jews, 50.

Treatment of corpses of suicides, 50.

Authorities for the history of suicides, 50, _note_.

Reaction against the mediaeval laws on the subject, 51.

Later phases of its history, 54.

Self-destruction of witches, 54.

Epidemics of insane suicide, 55.

Cases of legitimate suicide, 55.

Suicide in England and France, 58

Sunday, importance of the sanct.i.ty of the, ii. 244.

Laws respecting it, 245

Superst.i.tion, possibility of adding to the happiness of man by the diffusion of, i. 50-53.

Natural causes which impel savages to superst.i.tion, i. 55.

Signification of the Greek word for, 205

Swan, the, consecrated to Apollo, i. 206

Sweden, cause of the great number of illegitimate births in, i. 144

Swinburne, Mr., on annihilation, i. 182, _note_

Symmachus, his Saxon prisoners, i. 287

Synesius, legend of him and Evagrius, ii. 214.

Refuses to give up his wife, 332

Syracuse, gladiatorial shows at, i. 275

Tacitus, his doubts about the existence of Providence, i. 171, _note_

Telemachus, the monk, his death in the arena, ii. 37

Telesphorus, martyrdom of, i. 446, _note_

Tertia aemilia, story of, ii. 313

Tertullian, his belief in daemons, i. 382.

And challenge to the Pagans, 383

Testament, Old, supposed to have been the source of pagan writings, i. 344

Thalasius, his hospital for blind beggars, ii. 81

Theatre, scepticism of the Romans extended by the, i. 170.

Effects of the gladiatorial shows upon the, 277

Theft, reasons why some savages do not regard it as criminal, i. 102.

Spartan law legalising it, 102

Theodebert, his polygamy, ii. 343

Theodoric, his court at Ravenna, ii. 201, 202, _note_

Theodorus, his denial of the existence of the G.o.ds, i. 162

Theodorus, St., his inhumanity to his mother, ii. 128

Theodosius the Emperor, his edict forbidding gladiatorial shows, ii. 36.

Denounced by the Ascetics, 139.

His law respecting Sunday, 245

Theological utilitarianism, theories of, i. 14-17

Theology, sphere of inductive reasoning in, 357

Theon, St., legend of, and the wild beasts, ii. 168

Theurgy rejected by Plotinus, i. 330.

All moral discipline resolved into, by Iamblichus, 330

Thrace, celibacy of societies of men in, i. 106

Thrasea, mildness of his Stoicism, i. 245

Thrasea and Aria, history of, ii. 311

Thriftiness created by the industrial spirit, i. 140

Tiberius the Emperor, his images invested with a sacred character, i. 260.

His superst.i.tions, 367, and _note_

Timagenes, exiled from the palace by Tiberius, i. 448, _note_

t.i.tus, the Emperor, his tranquil end, i. 207.

Instance of his amiability, 287