Newman, Dr., on venial sin, i. 111, and _note_ on pride, ii. 188

Nicodemus, apocryphal gospel of, ii. 221

Nilus, St., deserts his family, ii. 322

Nitria, number of anchorites in the desert of, ii. 105

Nolasco, Peter, his works of mercy, ii. 73.

His partic.i.p.ation in the Albigensian ma.s.sacres, 95

Novatians, their tenets, ii. 102

Numa, legend of his prohibition of idols, i. 166, _note_

Oath, sanct.i.ty of an, among the Romans, i. 168

Obedience, new value placed on it by monachism, ii. 185, 186, 269

Obligation, nature of, i. 64, 65

Ockham, his opinion of the foundation of the moral law, i. 17, and _note_

Odin, his suicide, ii. 53

O'Neale, Shane, his charity, ii. 96

Opinion, influence of character on, i. 171, 172

Oracles, refuted and ridiculed by Cicero, i. 165.

Plutarch's defence of their bad poetry, 165, _note_.

Refusal of Cato and the Stoics to consult them, 165.

Ridiculed by the Roman wits, 166.

Answer of the oracle of Delphi as to the best religion, 167.

Theory of the oracles in the 'De Divinatione' of Cicero, 368, and _note_.

Van Dale's denial of their supernatural character, 374.

Books of oracles burnt under the republic and empire, 447, and _note_

Origen, his desire for martyrdom, i. 391

Orphanotrophia, in the early Church, ii. 32

Otho, the Emperor, his suicide, i. 219.

Opinion of his contemporaries of his act, 219, _note_

Ovid, object of his "Metamorphoses," i. 166.

His condemnation of suicide, 213, and _note_.

His humanity to animals, ii. 165

Oxen, laws for the protection of, ii. 162

Oxyrinchus, ascetic life in the city of, ii. 105

Pachomius, St., number of his monks, ii. 105

Paetus and Arria, history of, ii. 310

Pagan religions, their feeble influence on morals, i. 161

Pagan virtues, the, compared with Christian, i. 190

Paiderastia, the, of the Greeks, ii. 294

Pain, equivalent to evil, according to the Utilitarians, i. 8, _note_

Palestine, foundation of monachism in, ii. 106.

Becomes a hot-bed of debauchery, 152

Paley, on the obligation of virtue, i. 14, _note_.

On the difference between an act of prudence and an act of duty, 16, _note_.

On the love we ought to bear to G.o.d, 18, _note_.

On the religious sanctions of morality, 19.

On the doctrine of a.s.sociation, 25, _note_.

On flesh diet, 49, _note_.

On the influence of health on happiness, 88, _note_.

On the difference in pleasures, 90, _note_

Pambos, St., story of, ii. 116, _note_

Pammachus, St., his hospital, ii. 80

Panaetius, the founder of the Roman Stoics, his disbelief in the immortality of the soul, i. 183

Pandars, punishment of, ii. 316

Parents, reason why some savages did not regard their murder as criminal, i. 101

Parthenon, the, at Athens, i. 105

Pascal, his advocacy of piety as a matter of prudence, i. 17, _note_.

His adherence to the opinion of Ockham as to the foundation of the moral law, 17, _note_.

His thought on the humiliation created by deriving pleasure from certain amus.e.m.e.nts, i. 86, _note_

Patriotism, period when it flourished, i. 136.

Peculiar characteristic of the virtue, 177, 178.

Causes of the predominance occasionally accorded to civic virtues, 200.

Neglect or discredit into which they have fallen among modern teachers, 201.

Cicero's remarks on the duty of every good man, 201.

Unfortunate relations of Christianity to patriotism, ii. 140.