Repugnance of the theological to the patriotic spirit, 145

Paul, St., his definition of conscience, i. 83

Paul, the hermit, his flight to the desert, ii. 102.

Legend of the visit of St. Antony to him, 158

Paul, St. Vincent de, his foundling hospitals, ii. 34

Paula, story of her asceticism and inhumanity, ii. 133, 134

Paulina, her devotion to her husband, ii. 310

Pelagia, St., her suicide, ii. 46.

Her flight to the desert, 121, and _note_

Pelagius, ii. 223

Pelican, legend of the, ii. 161

Penances of the saints of the desert, ii. 107, _et seq._

Penitential system, the, of the early church, ii. 6, 7

Pepin, his compact with Pope Leo, ii. 267

Peregrinus the Cynic, his suicide, i. 220

Pericles, his humanity, i. 228

Perpetua, St., her martyrdom, i. 391, 444; ii. 317

Persecutions, Catholic doctrines justifying, i. 98.

Why Christianity was not crushed by them, 395.

Many causes of persecution, 395-397.

Reasons why the Christians were more persecuted than the Jews, 403, 406, 407.

Causes of the persecutions, 406, _et seq._ History of the persecutions, 429.

Nero, 429.

Domitian, 431.

Trajan, 437.

Marcus Aurelius, 439, 440.

From M. Aurelius to Decius, 442, _et seq._ Gallus, 454.

Valerian, 454.

Diocletian and Galerius, 458-463.

End of the persecutions, 463.

General considerations on their history, 463-468

Petronian law, in favour of slaves, i. 307

Petronius, his scepticism, i. 162.

His suicide, 215.

His condemnation of the show of the arena, 286

Philip the Arab, his favour to Christianity, i. 445

Philosophers, efforts of some, to restore the moral influence of religion among the Romans, i. 169.

The true moral teachers, 171

Philosophical truth, characteristics of, i. 139, 140.

Its growth r.e.t.a.r.ded by the opposition of theologians, 140

Philosophy, causes of the practical character of most ancient, i. 202.

Its fusion with religion, 352.

Opinions of the early Church concerning the pagan writings, 332.

Difference between the moral teaching of a philosophy and that of a religion, ii. 1.

Its impotency to restrain vice, 4

Phocas, att.i.tude of the Church towards him, ii. 263

Phocion, his gentleness, i. 228

Physical science affects the belief in miracles, i. 354, 355

Piety, utilitarian view of the causes of the pleasures and pains of, i. 9, and _note_.

A matter of prudence, according to theological Utilitarianism, 16

Pilate, Pontius, story of his desire to enrol Christ among the Roman G.o.ds, i. 429

Pilgrimages, evils of, ii. 152

Pior, St., story of, ii. 129

Pirates, destruction of, by Pompey, i. 234

Pity, a form of self-love, according to some Utilitarians, i. 9, 10, _note_.

Adam Smith's theory, 10, _note_.

Seneca's distinction between it and clemency, 189.

Altar to Pity at Athens, 228.

History of Marcus Aurelius' altar to Beneficentia at Rome, 228, _note_

Plato, his admission of the practice of abortion, i. 92.

Basis of his moral system, 105.

Cause of the banishment of the poets from his republic, 161, 162.

His theory that vice is to virtue what disease is to health, 179, and _note_.

Reason for his advocacy of community of wives, 200.

His condemnation of suicide, 212, and _note_.

His remarks on universal brotherhood, 241.

His inculcation of the practice of self-examination, 248

Platonic school, its ideal, i. 322