In what sense it follows a prior Nature-worship 409 The principle of Brute-worship 410 Its traces in the Olympian religion 411 Chief vestige: oxen of the Sun 412 Xanthus the horse of Achilles 414 SECT. VIII. _The Morals of the Homeric Age._ The general type of Greek character in the heroic age 417 The moral sense in the heroic age 418 Use of the words ἀγαθός and κακός 421 Of the word δίκαιος 423 Religion and morals were not dissociated 425 Moral elements in the practice of sacrifice 427 Three main motives to virtue. 1. Regard to the gods 427 2. The power of conscience 428 3. Regard for the sentiments of mankind 430 The force and forms of αἰδὼς 431 Other cognate terms 435 Homicide in the heroic age 436 Eight instances in the poems 437 Why viewed with little disfavour 440 Piracy in the heroic age 442 Its nature as then practised 443 Mixed view of it in the poems 444 Family feuds in the heroic age 446 Temperance in the heroic age 447 Self-control in the heroic age 448 Absence of the vice of cruelty 450 Savage ideas occasionally expressed 451 These not unfamiliar to later Greece 453 Wrath in Ulysses 454 Wrath in Achilles 455 Domestic affections in the heroic age 456 Relationships close, not wide 459 Purity in the heroic age 460 Lay of the Net of Vulcan 461 Direct evidence of comparative purity 465 Treatment of the human form 466 Treatment of various characters 467 Outline of Greek life in the heroic age 468 Its morality, and that of later Greece 471 Points of its superiority 472 Inferior as to crimes of violence 475 Some effects of slavery 476 Signs of degeneracy before Homer’s death 477 SECT. IX. _Woman in the heroic age._