Greek Civilization, a preparation for Christianity, 465-468.
Greek Language, a providentially prepared vehicle for the perfect
revelation of Christianity, 468-470.
Greek Philosophy, first a philosophy of Nature, 271, 281, 282;
next a philosophy of Mind, 271, 316-318;
lastly a philosophy of Life, 271, 422;
prepared the way for Christianity, 457-522.
Greeks, the masses of the people believed in one Supreme God, 147,
148.
Guilt, consciousness of, a universal fact, 122, 123;
recognized in Grecian mythology, 123, 124;
awakened and deepened by philosophy, 513-518.
H.
Hamilton, Sir W., teaches that philosophic knowledge is the
knowledge of effects as dependent on causes, 224, 225;
and of qualities as inherent in substances, 225, 226;
and yet asserts all human knowledge is necessarily confined to
phenomena, 227;
his doctrine of the relativity of all knowledge, 227, 229-236;
his philosophy of the conditioned, 228;
conditional limitation the law of all thought, 236-242;
the Infinite a mere negation of thought, 242-246;
asserts we must believe in the infinity of God, 246;
takes refuge in faith, 247;
faith grounded on the law of the conditioned, 243, 249--that is,
on contradiction, 249, 250.
Hegel, his philosophy of religion, 65-70.
Heraclitus, his first principle _ether_, 288;
change, the universal law of all existence, 288;
a Materialistic Pantheist, 289.
Hesiod, on the generation of the gods, 142.
Homer, his conception of Zeus, 144, 145.
Homeric doctrine of sin, 513,514.
Homeric theology, 143-145, 509, 510.
Humanity, fundamental ideas and laws of, 18;
developed and modified by exterior conditions, 19;
the most favorable conditions existed in Athens.
I.
Idealism, furnishes no adequate explanation of the common belief
in an external world, 193,199--and of a personal self, 200-202;
Cosmothetic Idealism, 305;
absolute Idealism, 305.
Ideas, Platonic doctrine of, 334-337;
Platonic scheme of, 364-367.
Images of the gods, how regarded by Cicero, 129--by Plutarch, 129;
the heathens apologized for the use of images, 159.
Immortality of the soul, taught by Socrates, 324--and by Plato,
375, 376; denied by Epicur
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