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Seja.n.u.s, treatment of his daughter by the senate, i. 107, _note_
Self-denial, the Utilitarian theory unfavourable to, i. 66
Self-examination, history of the practice of, i. 247-249
Self-sacrifice, asceticism the great school of, ii. 155
Seneca, his conception of the Deity, i. 163, _note_, 164.
His distinction between the affections and diseases, 189, _note_.
And between clemency and pity, 189.
His virtues and vices, i. 194.
On the natural virtue of man and power of his will, 197.
On the Sacred Spirit dwelling in man, 198.
On death, 205.
His tranquil end, 207.
Advocates suicide, 213, 220.
His description of the self-destruction of a friend, 222.
His remarks on universal brotherhood, 241.
His stoical hardness tempered by new doctrines, 244.
His practice of self-examination, 248.
His philosophy and works compared with those of Plutarch, 243, 244.
How he regarded the games of the arena, 286.
His exhortations on the treatment of slaves, 306.
Never mentions Christianity, 336.
Regarded in the middle ages as a Christian, 340.
On religious beliefs, 405
Sensuality, why the Mohammedans people Paradise with images of, i. 108.
Why some pagans deified it, 108.
Fallacy of judging the sensuality of a nation by the statistics of its illegitimate births, 144.
Influence of climate upon public morals, 144.
Of large towns, 145.
And of early marriages, 146.
Absence of moral scandals among the Irish priesthood, 146, 147.
Speech of Archytas of Tarentum on the evils of, 200, _note_.
Increase of sensuality in Rome, 263.
Abated by Christianity, ii. 153.
The doctrine of the Fathers respecting concupiscence, 281.
Serapion, the anthropomorphite, i. 52.
Number of his monks, ii. 105.
His interview with the courtesan, 320
Sertorius, his forgery of auspicious omens, i. 166.
Severus, Alexander, refuses the language of adulation, i. 259.
His efforts to restore agricultural pursuits, 267.
Murder of, 444.
His leniency towards Christianity, 444.
His benevolence, ii. 77
Severus, Ca.s.sius, exile of, i. 448, _note_
Severus, Septimus, his treatment of the Christians, i. 443
s.e.xtius, his practice of self-examination, i. 248
Shaftesbury, maintains the reality of the existence of benevolence in our nature, i. 20.
On virtue, 76, 77
Sibylline books, forged by the early Christians, i. 376, 377
Silius Italicus, his lines commemorating the pa.s.sion of the Spanish Celts for suicide, i. 207, _note_.
His self-destruction, 221
Silvia, her filthiness, ii. 110
Simeon, Bishop of Jerusalem, his martyrdom, i. 438
Simeon Stylites, St., his penance, ii. 111.
His inhumanity to his parents, ii. 130
Sin, the theological doctrine on the subject, i. 111, 112.
Conception of sin by the ancients, 195.
Original, taught by the Catholic Church, 209, 210.
Examination of the Utilitarian doctrine of the remote consequences of secret sins, 43, 44
Sisoes, the abbot, stories of, ii. 126, 127
Sixtus, Bishop of Rome, his martyrdom, i. 455
Sixtus V., Pope, his efforts to suppress mendicancy, ii. 97
Slavery, circ.u.mstances under which it has been justified, i. 101.
Origin of the word servus, 102, _note_.
Crusade of England against, 153.
Character of that of the Romans, 235.
Moral consequence of slavery, 262.
Three stages of slavery at Rome, 300.
Review of the condition of slaves, 300-306.
Opinion of philosophers as to slavery, 306.
Laws enacted in favour of slaves, 306.
Effects of Christianity upon the inst.i.tution of slavery, ii. 61.
Consecration of the servile virtue, 68.
Impulse given to manumission, 70.
Serfdom in Europe, 70, 71, _note_.
Extinction of slavery in Europe, 71.
Ransom of captives, 72
