The Stoics secured from quietism by their habits of public life, 199-201. Their view of humanity, 202. Their preparations for, and view of, death, 202. Their teaching as to suicide, 212, 213, _et seq._ Contrast between Stoicism and Roman luxury, 225, 226. The Stoical philosophy quite capable of representing the cosmopolitan spirit, 239, 240. Stoicism not capable of representing the softening movement of civilisation, 241. Influence of the eclectic spirit on it, 244. Stoicism becomes more essentially religious, 245. Increasingly introspective character of later Stoicism, 247. Marcus Aurelius the best example of later Stoicism, 249-255. Effects of Stoicism on the corruption of Roman Society, 291, 292. It raised up many good Emperors, 292. It produced a noble opposition under the worst Emperors, 293. It greatly extended Roman law, 294. The Stoics considered as the consolers of the suffering, advisers of the young, and as popular preachers, 308. Rapid decadence of Stoicism, 317, 318. Difference between the Stoical and Egyptian pantheism, 324. Stoical naturalism superseded by the theory of dæmons, 331. Theory that the writings of the Stoics were influenced by Christianity examined, 332. Domitian’s persecution of them, 432 Strozzi, Philip, his suicide, ii. 56 Suffering, a courageous endurance of, probably the first form of virtue in savage life, i. 130 Suicide, attitude adopted by Pagan philosophy and Catholicism towards, i. 211, _et seq._ Eminent suicides, 215. Epidemic of suicides at Alexandria, 216. And of girls at Miletus, 216, _note_. Grandeur of the Stoical ideal of suicide, 216. Influences conspiring towards suicide, 217. Seneca on self-destruction, 217, 218, 220. Laws respecting it, 218, _note_. Eminent instances of self-destruction, 219, 221. The conception of, as an euthanasia, 221. Neoplatonist doctrine concerning, 331. Effect of the Christian condemnation of the practice of, ii. 43-61. Theological doctrine on, 45, _note_. The only form of, permitted in the early Church, 47. Slow suicides, 48. The Circumcelliones, 49. The Albigenses, 49. Suicides of the Jews, 50. Treatment of corpses of suicides, 50. Authorities for the history of suicides, 50, _note_. Reaction against the mediæval laws on the subject, 51. Later phases of its history, 54. Self-destruction of witches, 54. Epidemics of insane suicide, 55. Cases of legitimate suicide, 55. Suicide in England and France, 58 Sunday, importance of the sanctity of the, ii. 244. Laws respecting it, 245 Superstition, possibility of adding to the happiness of man by the diffusion of, i. 50-53. Natural causes which impel savages to superstition, i. 55. Signification of the Greek word for, 205 Swan, the, consecrated to Apollo, i. 206