INDEX

Accident, Stoic explanation of, 83-85. Adversity, test of Christian character, 276. Altruism, 10-15, 222. Ambition, 143-144, 182. Amputation of morbid reflections, 33. Apperception, 66-70. Aristotle— Limitations of, 212-213. Summary of, 213-214. On— Celibacy, 180-181. Chastity, 202-204. Courage, 204-206. Friendship, 209-212. Need of instruments, 191-194. Pleasure, 160-175. Prudence, 200. Social nature of man, 176-179. Temperance, 201. Test of character, 184. The end, 179-191. The mean, 194-198. The virtues, 199-208. Wealth, 192. Wisdom, 199. Completed in Christianity, 284-287. Arnold, Matthew, 100, 107. Avarice, 146-147. Bacteria, on the whole beneficent, 84-85. Beatitudes, 265. Blessedness of Love, 264-277. Boss, political, evolution of, 150-151. Carlyle, 160-161, 190. Celestial Surgeon, 19. Celibacy, 180-181. Chastity, 202-204, 229-232. Cheerfulness, 19. Christian— Church government, 240. Forgiveness, 259-260. Joy, 275. Modesty, 265. Peace, 270-272. Sacrifice, 254-256, 273-274. Use and misuse of creeds, 241-243. Worship, 240. Interpretation of— Art, 249-251. Business, 249-251. Divorce, 233-235. Marriage, 228. Murder, 225-228. Pleasure, 255. Politics, 249-251. Profanity, 235. Science, 249-251. Wealth, 248-252. Christianity— The completion of— Aristotle, 284-287. Epicureanism, 277-279. Plato, 282-284. Stoicism, 279-282. Missionary character of, 262-263. In need of intellectual honesty, 241-243. Supremacy of, 277-291. Christmas Sermon, Stevenson's, 19. Circumstances alter acts, 129. Cleanthes' hymn, 97-99. Clubs, women's, 188-189. Commandments, Aristotelian, 213. Cosmopolitanism, Stoic, 94-95. Courage, 204-206. Cowardice, 128. Creeds, 241-243. Cynicism, 82. Cynic's prayer, 96-97. Death, Christian triumph over, 281. Epicurean disposition of, 7, 8, 45. Stoic view of, 73, 77. Whitman on, 18. Degeneration, Plato's stages of, 143-153. Democracy, ancient and modern, 122. Plato on, 147-149. Depression, 32-33. Diet, 5, 21-22, 124-126. Difficulty, Stoic attitude toward, 75-76. Divorce, logical outcome of Epicureanism, 44. Christian attitude toward, 233-235. Education, Plato's scheme of, 131-138. Egoism, duty of adequate, 10-15. Electricity, beneficent, 84. Eliot, George, 46-51. Emerson, 165-167. End, not justification of means, 178-179. Epictetus, 71-77, 81, 84, 87, 88, 89, 96, 97. Epicurean— Day, 34-35. Definition of personality, 37, 51. Gods, 9, 95. Heaven, 45. Man, 40-41. Woman, 42-44. Epicureanism, defects of, 36-45, 110, 159, 169-172. Merits of, 23-25, 52-53. Parasitic character of, 40, 44-45, 52. Epicurus, 1-9. Equality, Plato on, 148. Evil, Stoic solution of, 87-90. Eye of good man upon us, 6. Fighting, a Christian duty, 270-272. Fitzgerald, 15-16. Forgiveness, 79, 259-260. Fortitude, 126-129. Friendship, 6, 166-167, 209-212. Gentleness before all morality, 19. Gilbert, W.S., To the Terrestrial Globe, 108. Gluttony, 125. Golden Rule, 223. Good, the, according to Plato, 130. Gravitation, beneficent, 83-84. Gyges' ring, 115-116. Handles, two to everything, 71. Happiness and Virtue, 264. Harmony, effect of, in education, 134. Health, 10-13, 69. Henley, To R. T. H. B., 100. Heretic, definition of, 53-54. Honesty, intellectual, 241-243. Horace, Ode on Philosophy of Life, 10. Humility, 265. Hurry, 29-30. Imaginary presence of good man, 6. Independence of outward goods, 4, 74. Indifference to external things, 71, 77-78, 81. Intellectual honesty, 241-243. Jesus' three ways of teaching, 215-218. Joy, 275. Judas meets himself, 79. Judging others, 260. Judgment, Epicurean, Stoic, Platonic, and Aristotelian, 183. Christian, 220-221. Kant, categorical imperative, 86. Good-will only real good, 85-86. Uncompromising modern Stoic, 85. Law, Jewish, transcended by Christianity, 219-238. Stoic reverence for, 82-86. Liberty, excess of, leads to slavery, 149. Lincoln's letter to Greeley, 198. Literature in education, 132-135. Love, Christian, 215-291. Lucretius, 8-9. Marcus Aurelius, 77, 96. Marriage, 228. Mean, Aristotle's doctrine of the, 194-198. Meekness, 268. Melancholy, 33-34. Mental healing, 30, 66, 70. Mercy, 269. Mill, Christian elements in his doctrine, 63. Definition of happiness, 54. Distinction in quality of happiness, 55-57. Incompleteness of doctrine, 277-278. Inconsistency of, 57-58, 63-65. On social nature of man, 60-62. Missionary character of Christianity, 262-263. Modesty, 265. Morrow, how meet most pleasantly, 7. Murder, Christian definition of, 225-228. Mysticism, 164. Narrow way, 256. Natural desires, 3. Neoplatonism, 161-164. "New Thought," 162. Oaths, 235. Obligation not to be relaxed, 167-168. Office, good for one, bad for another, 186-187. Omar Khayyam, 15-17, 38. Opinion in our power, 74-75, 87. Optimism, superficiality of modern, 82. Otherworldliness, 36. Pain, 2, 4. Parasitic character of Epicureanism, 40, 44-45. Patience, 128. Penitence, 267. Perfectionism, 92-93. Persecution, 272-276. Pessimism, 37-38. Philosophers, as kings, 138. Plato— Defects of, 120-122, 162-168. Merits of, 159-162, 278. On— Athletics, 136. Cardinal virtues, 123-131. Democracy, 147-149. Education, 131-138. Literature in education, 132-135. Philosophers as kings, 138. Riches and rich men, 145-147. Righteousness, 113-223, 138-142, 153-159. The good, 130, 137. Completed in Christianity, 282-284. Play, 26-28. Pleasure, 2-4, 20, 39, 30-65, 110-111, 169-175, 255. Politician, 117-119, 150-152. Poverty, 4. Power, things in our, 74. Prayer, 257-258, 268. Present, the time to live, 6, 36. Procrastination, 6-7. Prudence, 5-6, 20, 251. Purity, 270. Reading Gaol, 226. Religion of Stoics, 95-100. Reverence, 215. Rewards and penalties not essential to virtue, 112-115. Riches, 4-5, 67-69, 89, 145-147, 248-252. Righteousness, 113-123, 138-142, 153-159. Romola, 46-51. Sacrifice, 254-256, 273-274. Self-regard and excessive self-sacrifice, 10-15. Seneca's pilot, 77. Sexual morality, 202-204, 270. Sin, 93. Sleep, 22. Social nature of man, 60-62, 176-179. Socrates' prayer, 159. Sorrow, Stoic attitude toward, 76-77. Spencer, 10-15, 277-278. Spirit, one of three elements in our nature, 126-128. Stevenson, 18, 19, 201. Stoic— Acceptance of criticism, 103. Attitude toward sorrow, 76-77, 78, 80, 101-102. Cosmopolitanism, 94-95. Doctrine of no degrees in vice, 90-92. Equanimity, 103-105. Fortitude, 105-106. Indifference, 71-81. Paradoxes, 90-95. Perfection of the sage, 93-93. Religion, 95-103. Resignation, 97, 104-105. Reverence for law, 82-86. Solution of problem of evil, 87-90. Stoicism, coldness of, 107-109. Completed in Christianity, 279-282. Defects of, 106-109, 159. Permanent value of, 101-106, 279-282. Two principles of, 101. Temperance, 200-204. Theatre, 27. Tito Melema, 46-51. Tranquillity, 75. Travel, foreign, the paradise of Epicurean women, 42. Trial, Stoic endurance of, 75,89-90. Tyranny, Plato on, 149-153. Tyrant, most miserable of men, 153. Unrighteousness the greatest evil, 140-141, 154-157. Vexation, Stoic formula for, 78. Virtue, 87-88, 110-116, 199-208. Wealth, 4-5, 67-69, 145-148, 182, 248-252. Whitman, Walt, 17, 18. Wisdom, 129-131, 199. Work, excessive, 10-15, 23-25. Worry, folly of, 24, 29-30, 33, 252-253.

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