6

Order, 164

Paley, 215

Pantheism, ethics of, 218

Parents, duties of, 121

Passion, 82

Patience, 152

Pauperism, 144

Peripatetics, the, 193

Piety toward God, 113

Pity, 25

Place, duties appertaining to, 168

Plato, as a teacher of ethics, 193

Politeness, 178

Positive duties, 117

Price, Richard, 214

Promises, 126

Prudence, 98

Punctuality, 167

Resentment, 27

Revenge, 28

Reverence, 23

Revolution, when justifiable, 185

Right, the, 35
absolute and relative, 37

Rights, defined, 61
how limited, 62
personal, 64
of property, 72
of reputation, 76

Sabbath, the, 16

Sceptical school of philosophy, 204

Schoolmen, ethics of the, 207

Self-control, 106

Self-culture, moral, 109

Self-preservation, 99

Seneca, writings and character of, 203

Shaftesbury, 210

Slavery, 70

Smith, Adam, 211

Socrates, as a teacher of ethics, 195

Speculation in business, when legitimate, 138
when dishonest, 140

Spinoza, 209

Stoics, philosophy of the, 201
eminent Roman, 203

Submission, 155

Sympathy, 25

Taxation, 75

Temperance, 173

Time, duties appertaining to, 165

Usury, 142

Veracity, 122

Virtue, defined, 88
connection of, with piety, 91

Virtues, the, 94
cardinal, 96

Worship, public, 115

Zeno, character of, 202

FOOTNOTES

_ 1 Compassion_ ought from its derivation to have the same meaning with
_sympathy_; but in common usage it is synonymous with pity.

2 "Ignorantia legis neminem excusat."

3 The theory that Seneca was acquainted with St. Paul, or had any
_direct_ intercourse with Christians in Rome or elsewhere, has no
historical evidence, and rests on assumptions that are contradicted
by known facts.

_ 4 Virtutes leniores_, as Cicero calls them.

5 The duty of society to inflict capital punishment on the murderer
has been maintained on the ground of the Divine command to that
effect, said to have been given to Noah, and thus to be binding on
all his posterity. (Genesis ix. 5.) My own belief--founded on a
careful examination of the Hebrew text--is, that the _human_ murderer
is not referred to in this precept, but that it simply requires the
slaying of the beast that should cause the death of a man,--a
precaution which was liable to be neglected in a rude state of
society, and was among the special enactments