Reid, basis of his ethics, i. 76. His distinction between innate faculties evolved by experience and innate ideas independent of experience, 121, _note_ Religion, theological utilitarianism subverts natural, i. 54-56. Answer of the oracle of Delphi as to the best, 167. Difference between the moral teaching of a philosophy and that of a religion, ii. 1. Relations between positive religion and moral enthusiasm, 141 Religions, pagan, their small influence on morals, i. 161. Oriental, passion for, among the Romans, 318 Religious liberty totally destroyed by the Catholics, ii. 194-199 Repentance for past sin, no place for, in the writings of the ancients, i. 195 Reputation, how valued among the Romans, i. 185, 186 Resurrection of souls, belief of the Stoics in the, i. 164 Revenge, Utilitarian notions as to the feeling of, i. 41, and _note_. Circumstances under which private vengeance is not regarded as criminal, i. 101 Reverence, Utilitarian views of, i. 9, and _note_. Causes of the diminution of the spirit of, among mankind, 141, 142 Rhetoricians, Stoical, account of the, of Rome, i. 310 Ricci, his work on Mendicancy, ii. 98 Rochefoucauld La, on pity, quoted, i. 10, _note_. And on friendship, 10, 11, _note_ Rogantianus, his passive life, i. 330 Roman law, its golden age not Christian, but pagan, ii. 42 Romans, abortion how regarded by the, i. 92. Their law forbidding women to taste wine, 93, 94, _note_. Reasons why they did not regard the gladiatorial shows as criminal, 101. Their law of marriage and ideal of female morality, 104. Their religious reverence for domesticity, 106. Sanctity of, and gifts attributed to, their vestal virgins, 106. Character of their cruelty, 134. Compared with the modern Italian character in this respect, 134. Scepticism of their philosophers, 162-167. The religion of the Romans never a source of moral enthusiasm, 167. Its characteristics, 168. Causes of the disappearance of the religious reverence of the people, 169. Efforts of some philosophers and emperors to restore the moral influence of religion, 169. Consummation of Roman degradation, 170. Belief in astrological fatalism, 170, 171. The stoical type of military and patriotic enthusiasm pre-eminently Roman, 172-174, 178. Importance of biography in their moral teaching, 178. Epicureanism never became a school of virtue among them, 175. Unselfish love of country of the Romans, 178. Character of Stoicism in the worst period of the Roman Empire, 181. Main features of their philosophy, 185, _et seq._ Difference between the Roman moralists and the Greek poets, 195. The doctrine of suicide the culminating point of Roman Stoicism, 222. The type of excellence of the Roman people, 224, 225. Contrast between the activity of Stoicism and the luxury of Roman society, 225, 226.