II.—INDEX OF PRINCIPAL SUBJECTS.
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Augustine, of Hippo, Saint and Dods, Marcus
Jupiter so named, 275.
Peleg, ii. 122, 123.
Peripatetic sect, the, i. 323.
Peripatetics, and Stoics, the opinion of, about mental emotions,—an illustrative story, i. 355-358.
"Perish," ii. 296.
Periurgists, i. 404.
Persecution, all Christians must suffer, ii. 284;
the benefits derived from, 285;
the "ten persecutions," 286-288;
the time of the final, hidden, 288-290.
Persius, quoted, i. 55, 56.
Perturbations, the three, of the souls of the wise, as admitted by the Stoics, ii. 12;
in the souls of the righteous, 15, etc.;
were our first parents before the fall free from? 20.
Peter, ridiculously feigned by the heathen to have brought about by enchantment the worship of Christ, ii. 289;
heals the cripple at the temple gate, 291.
Petronia, a woman of rank, miraculously cured, ii. 496.
Philosopher, origin of the name, i. 307.
Philosophers, the secret of the weakness of the moral precepts of, i. 55;
the Italic and Ionic schools of, 306, etc.;
of some who think the separation of soul and body not penal, 536;
the discord of the opinions of, contrasted with the concord of the canonical Scriptures, ii. 267-270.
Philosophy, Varro's enumeration of the multitudinous sects of, ii. 293-297.
Phoroneus, ii. 221.
Picus, king of Argos, ii. 233.
"Piety," i. 384.
Pirate, the apt reply of a, to Alexander the Great, i. 140.
Plato, would exclude the poets from his ideal republic, i. 63, etc.;
his threefold division of philosophy, 310, etc.;
how he was able to approach so near Christian knowledge, 321, etc.;
his definition of the gods, 324;
the opinion of, as to the transmigration of souls, 427;
the opinion of, that almost all animals were created by inferior gods, 519;
declared that the gods made by the Supreme have immortal bodies, 536, ii. 531;
the apparently conflicting views of, and of Porphyry, if united, might have led to the truth, 532, 533.
Platonists, the opinions of, preferable to those of other philosophers, i. 312, etc.;
their views of physical philosophy, 314, etc.;
how far they excel other philosophers in logic, or rational philosophy, 316;
hold the first rank in moral philosophy, 317;
their philosophy has come nearest the Christian faith, 318;