Aurelius, Marcus, on a future state, i. 184. On posthumous fame, 186. Denied that all vices are the same, 192, _note_. On the sacred spirit dwelling in man, 198. His submissive gratitude, 199. His practical application of the precepts of the Stoics, 202. His wavering views as to suicide, 213. His charity to the human race, 241. Mild and more religious spirit of his stoicism, 245. His constant practice of self-examination, 249. His life and character, 249-255. Compared and contrasted with Plutarch, 253. His discouragement of the games of the arena, 286. His humanity, 308. His disbelief of exorcism, 384. His law against religious terrorism, 422. His persecution of the Christians, 439, 440. His benevolence, ii. 77. His view of war, 258 Austin, Mr., his view of the foundation of the moral law, i. 17, _note_. His advocacy of the unselfish view of the love we ought to bear to God, 18, _note_. Character of his “Lectures on Jurisprudence,” 22, _note_ Avarice, association of ideas to the passion of, i. 25 Avitus, St., legend of, ii. 159 Babylas, St., miracles performed by his bones, i. 382, and _note_. His death, ii. 9 Bacchus, suppression of the rites of, at Rome, i. 401 Bacon, Lord, great movement of modern thought caused by, i. 125. His objection to the Stoics’ view of death, 202 Bacon, Roger, his life and works, ii. 210 Bain, Mr., on pleasure, i. 12, _note_. His definition of conscience, 29, _note_. Balbus, Cornelius, his elevation to the consulate, i. 232 Baltus on the exorcists, i. 381, _note_. Baptism, Augustinian doctrine of, i. 96 Barbarians, causes of the conversion of the, i. 410 Basil, St., his hospital, ii. 80. His labours for monachism, 106 Bassus, Ventidius, his elevation to the consulate, i. 232 Bathilda, Queen, her charity, ii. 245 Bear-gardens in England, ii. 175, _note_. Beauty, analogies between virtue and, i. 77. Their difference, 79. Diversities existing in our judgments of virtue and beauty, 79. Causes of these diversities, 79. Virtues to which we can, and to which we cannot, apply the term beautiful, 82, 83. Pleasure derived from beauty compared with that from the grotesque, or eccentric, 85. The prevailing cast of female beauty in the north, contrasted with the southern type, 144, 145, 152. Admiration of the Greeks for beauty, ii. 292 Bees, regarded by the ancients as emblems or models of chastity, i. 108, _note_. Beggars, causes of vast numbers of, ii. 94. Old English laws for the suppression of mendicancy, 96. Enactments against them in various parts of Europe, 98 Benedict, St., his system, 183 Benefices, military use of, ii. 270