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 Marseilles, 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_. Passion 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 Massilians, 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 Maximilianus, 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 association, 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. Illustration 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