Their prohibition of animal food, 167

Manilius, his conception of the Deity, i. 163

Manufactures, influence upon morals, i. 139

Marcellinus, Tullius, his self-destruction, i. 222

Marcia, mistress of Commodus, her influence in behalf of toleration to the Christians, i. 443

Marcian, St., legend of the visit of St. Avitus to him, ii. 159

Marcus, St., story of, and his mother, ii. 128

Marriage, how regarded by the Jews, Greeks, Romans, and Catholics, i. 103, 104.

Statius' picture of the first night of marriage, 107, _note_.

Reason why the ancient Jews attached a certain stigma to virginity, 109.

Conflict of views of the Catholic priest and the political economist on the subject of early marriages, 114.

Results in some countries of the difficulties with which legislators surround marriage, 144.

Early marriages the most conspicuous proofs of Irish improvidence, 144.

Influence of asceticism on, ii. 320.

Notions of its impurity, 324.

Second marriages, 324

Ma.r.s.eilles, law of, respecting suicide, i. 218, _note_.

Epidemic of suicide among the women of, ii. 55

Martial, sycophancy of his epigrams, i. 194

Martin of Tours, St., establishes monachism in Gaul, ii. 106

Martyrdom, glories of, i. 390.

Festivals of the Martyrs, 390, _note_.

Pa.s.sion for, 391.

Dissipation of the people at the festivals, ii. 150

Mary, St., of Egypt, ii. 110

Mary, the Virgin, veneration of, ii. 367, 368, 390

Ma.s.silians, wine forbidden to women by the, i. 96, _note_

Maternal affection, strength of, ii. 25, _note_

Maurice, on the social penalties of conscience, i. 60, _note_

Mauricus, Junius, his refusal to allow gladiatorial shows at Vienna, i.

286

Maxentius, instance of his tyranny, ii. 46

Maximilia.n.u.s, his martyrdom, ii. 248

Maximinus, Emperor, his persecution of the Christians, i. 446

Maximus of Tyre, account of him and his discourses, i. 312.

His defence of the ancient creeds, 323.

Practical form of his philosophy, 329

Medicine, possible progress of, i. 158, 159

Melania, St., her bereavement, ii. 10.

Her pilgrimage through the Syrian and Egyptian hermitages, 120

Milesians, wine forbidden by the, to women, i. 94, _note_

Military honour pre-eminent among the Romans, i. 172, 173.

History of the decadence of Roman military virtue, 268

Mill, J., on a.s.sociation, 25, _note_, _et seq._

Mill, J. S., quoted, i. 29, 47, 90, 102

Minerva, meaning of, according to the Stoics, i. 163

Miracles, general incredulity on the subject of, at the present time, i.

346, 348.

Miracles not impossible, 347.

Established by much evidence, 347.

The histories of them always decline with education, 348.

Ill.u.s.tration of this in the belief in fairies, 348.

Conceptions of savages, 349.

Legends, formation and decay of, 350-352.

Common errors in reasoning about miracles, 356.

Predisposition to the miraculous in some states of society, 362.

Belief of the Romans in miracles, 363-367.

Incapacity of the Christians of the third century for judging historic miracles, 375.

Contemporary miracles believed in by the early Christians, 378.

Exorcism, 378.

Neither past nor contemporary Christian miracles had much weight upon the pagans, 378

Missionary labours, ii. 246

Mithra, worship of, in Rome, i. 386

Mohammedans, their condemnation of suicide, ii. 53.

Their lunatic asylums, 89.

Their religion, 251.

Effects of their military triumphs on Christianity, 252