Volcanoes, how regarded by the early monks, ii. 221 Vultures, why made an emblem of nature by the Egyptians, i. 108, _note_ War, its moral grandeur, i. 95. The school of the heroic virtues, 173. Difference between foreign and civil wars, 232. Antipathy of the early Christians to a military life, ii. 248. Belief in battle being the special sphere of Providential interposition, 249. Effects of the military triumphs of the Mohammedans, 251. Influences of Christianity upon war considered, 254. Improved condition of captives taken in war, 256 Warburton, on morals, i. 15, _note_, 17, _note_ Waterland, on the motives to virtue and cause of our love of God, quoted, i. 9, _note_, 15, _note_ Wealth, origin of the desire to possess, i. 23. Associations leading to the desire for, for its own sake, 25 Western Empire, general sketch of the moral condition of the, ii. 14 Widows, care of the early Church for, ii. 366 Will, freedom of the human, sustained and deepened by the ascetic life, ii. 123 Wine, forbidden to women, i. 93, 94, _note_ Witchcraft, belief in the reality of, i. 363. Suicide common among witches, ii. 54 Wollaston, his analysis of moral judgments, i. 76 Women, law of the Romans forbidding women to taste wine, i. 93, 94, _note_. Standards of female morality of the Jews, Greeks, and Romans, 103, 104. Virtues and vices growing out of the relations of the sexes, 143. Female virtue, 143. Effects of climate on this virtue, 144. Of large towns, 146. And of early marriages, 145. Reason for Plato’s advocacy of community of wives, 200. Plutarch’s high sense of female excellence, 244. Female gladiators at Rome, 281, and _note_. Relations of female devotees with the anchorites, ii. 120, 128, 150. Their condition in savage life, 276. Cessation of the sale of wives, 276. Rise of the dowry, 277. Establishment of monogamy, 278. Doctrine of the Fathers as to concupiscence, 281. Nature of the problem of the relations of the sexes, 282. Prostitution, 282-284. Recognition in Greece of two distinct orders of womanhood—the wife and the hetæra, 287. Condition of Roman women, 297, _et seq._ Legal emancipation of women in Rome, 304. Unbounded liberty of divorce, 306. Amount of female virtue in Imperial Rome, 308-312. Legislative measures to repress sensuality, 312. To enforce the reciprocity of obligation in marriage, 312. And to censure prostitution, 315. Influence of Christianity on the position of women, 316, _et seq._ Marriages, 320. Second marriages, 324. Low opinion of women, produced by asceticism, 338. The canon law unfavourable to their proprietary rights, 338, 339. Barbarian heroines and laws, 341-344. Doctrine of equality of obligation in marriage, 346. The duty of man towards woman, 347. Condemnation of transitory connections, 350. Roman concubines, 351.