CICERO, IN DE OFFICIIS: His question of duty, 12; his di-
vision of it; his enwrapt gaze, and his eloquent
words upon the features of virtue, 13; refers duties to
principles of nature; his error in this regard.
CHRISTIANITY: How differs from religion of nature .
CONSTITUTION: The creation of a right one conceivable,
but not that of a wrong one; illustrated.

CONSCIENCE: A joint action of faculties; its office, 53; its
function and power illustrated, 54; as of the sensibil-
ity, it alone has authority, 56; why called conscientia,
58; its auxiliaries, 59; views of it as a product of force,
et cætera.

CREATOR: His authority self-evident.
DANIEL: His persistence in prayer .

20

35

26

59-50

DAVID: The King; his prayer, his thoughts
DECALOGUE: The authority in it, 98; its first three com-
mandments relate to the ground of right in the great
Lawgiver.

DECEIT: In buying and selling, 194; as to an enemy Virgil
quoted; its ethic principle; Kant's opinion

DECISION: Napoleon I. and Washington instanced; decision
of character conjoined with high moral elements
fruitful in good works

DESIRES: The different kinds

24

129

134

98

195

145-146

73

170

DIDO, QUEEN: Her word of welcome to the Trojan hero,

152; her purchase of the site of Carthage

DISCIPLINE: What we do, must be well done

DUTY: Our intuition of it is prior to knowledge, 24; in the
abstract is posited as an element in the moral nature;
the true ground of duty, 27; the idea of it arises from
a certain moral element, S1; involves feeling more
than intellect, 83; defined and illustrated; the element
in all moral relations

Duty of interest in civil affairs

DUTIES: To God, 128; first in time and in value, 131; to
man, 135; individual, 135; parental, 147; social, gen-
eral view, 149; national, 156; civil

ECONOMY: Defined, discussed

146

128

181

178

114

EDUCATION: Natural, 209; begins in the family, and is often
defective there; Scripture instance, Ichabod 242-243
Public: Its ends, diverse views as to morals, religion,
256; conscience-scruples, 257; stamp of catholicity,
258; sectarian dogma, church polity, creed, 259; two
lines of duty

EMPIRIC: The empiric and the metaphysic of the soul not
opposed

ETHICS: As a science is based in the moral nature; is the
application of principles; Scripture ethics are both
"the ought" and the contra, the authoritative "ought
not," 97; political, their special subjects, 154; as ap、
plied to international law

EXPERIENCE: As affected by à priori faculties; what it
means. [See Explanatory Notes, §§ 6, 7.]
FAITH: The faith monument, 88; defined, 131; origin
View of Dante as to its Divine origin

FRUGALITY: Defined, illustrated.

260

95

156

132
275

FRIENDSHIP: Defined; its quality; illustrations, 125; the

ethic of it

112

126

244

FAMILY: Which has superiority-the family or the state?
GEOMETRY: A science originating in intellect, not in nature 25
GOLDEN RULE: It has universality.

GOOD: "Good," the Divine cognition of quality in the crea-
tion, 26, 212; "the good," how known as a principle,
25; posited as an element in the moral-nature, 26; dis-
tinguished from "a good," 44; "the highest good,"

when attained to

GOOD-WILL: In unison with universal law; presupposes an

inner fount of love

GRAHAM: His lines on the Sabbath

GRAVITY: Its law; accords with that of the circle

HAVEN, DR: Grounds right in "the nature of things"

HABIT: The ethic character in it.

HEALTH: Hygienic maxims

49

45

27

212

25

84

208

211

HENRY VIII: His Pope title; his Parliament title
HOLY WRIT: Its law as to the day of rest
HOMOLOGIA: Analogous to the will and the moral nature in

agreement.

20

HONOR: A nice sense of right; illustrations

HOPE: Its visions, leadings, grounds, 132; its origin, the

126

133

151

II

98

269-270

HOSPITALITY: A virtue generally honored; examples
HUME, DAVID: His philosophy, his skeptical view
IDOLATRY: Prohibited in the second commandment
IMAGINATION: Productive, reproductive, fancy.
INDUSTRY: Defined; when a virtue; Scripture illustrations
INSTITUTIONS: Numerous; as to character-good, bad, 200;
as to the idea-Dr. Lieber's idea; Dr. Arnold's, 203;
as to kind, natural, logical, artificial

III

:

205
149

JUVENAL: His advice in the care of children.
KANT: His ground-principle, 22; his categorical-impera-
tive-universal law; his philosophy critical, and spe-
cially the practical gives an à priori character to
knowledge.

KNOWLEDGE: Conditioned on a sensuous content, 23; when
good, when evil
LABOR: Ethic and practical views, 136; of Walter Scott
and Carlyle, 138; its office, wages and value, 247; its
union, 249; when abnormal .

LAW: Of the moral nature; its certainty; moral law de-
fined, 45; its authority, 47; written moral defined, 46;
stringent, necessary, 99; obedience to it, 179; ex-
ception

LAND: The perfect title to it in the United States .
LIBERTY: The substance of it; guarantees; independence;

autonomy, 158; its very substance is in the character
of the man, 160; religious—needs protection, 162; its
law, 163; personal, the rule of it, 164; civil—arises
from: means what, 177; of speech-its fair side, 185;
the anarchist-idea of it, 186; the correct theory, 187;
J. S. Mill's limitations, 188; Leo XIII's limitations 189
LOCKE: His theoretical ground of knowledge.
LOVE: As moral consists in what; is pure feeling, but under

guidance of reason is called rational; develops in ac-
cord with its object; its constitutional law, 74; as to
God; as to man; as to one's country, 75; its ground-
principle in the love of the true and the right, 78;

II

self-love instinctive, sui generis; relates to preserva-
tion; is not selfish, 79; love to neighbor grounded in
moral love; scope of the second great commandment, So

MAN: His nature fourfold, 39; a spirit

MAGNA CHARTA: Its origin; value; articles

41

160

233

MARRIAGE: The authority for it, 226; its law, blessings, re-
quirements, 227; its prerequisites, 231; divorce

MERCY: As defined in Scripture, 105; in Shakspeare.
MIND: Dominates matter; the creative preceded laws of

106

24-25
92

METAPHYSIC: Its meaning and as applied to morals.
MORALITY: Relates to the rational, sentimental, spiritual;
its ground and its ultimate end distinguished, 27; dis-
tinct from religion yet inseparable; defined by Web-

MORAL: "The moral" distinct from "the religious," 30; its
origin constitutional

MORAL NATURE: Its function and auxiliary powers, 40; its

relation to the intellect and will

MORAL LAW: Its ethic utterance in the ten command-

ments

MOSES: His objections valid; subsequent alacrity, 33; meek

above all men

MOORE, HANNAH: On economy

NATURE: Her leadings, 16; her elements lie concealed
NOUMENAL: Is the realm in nature beyond our cognition
OBEDIENCE: The ground of duty

OBSERVATION: Of the frivolous, a waste of time
OATHS: The true ideal of Jesus

29

36

70

98

104

114

24

24

24

144

192

PATRIOTISM: Noted instances, 122; how inspired, 123; the

PARENTAL: duties-the law of authority-firm not harsh

PORTER: President, his view and theory of the conscience.

abuse of the sentiment .

patience; the Scripture precept

POLLOK: His lines on friendship

PHILANTHROPY: John Brown's lines

PURITAN AND PILGRIM

PRAYER: The duty of it; instances

PLATO: Sought philosophy in nature; held the chief-good to
be in things requisite; places happy life in virtue and in
whatever adds to it; his ideal republic, 14; his educa-
tional scheme, 15; its defect, 16; his Divine in the idea 15
PYTHIAN APOLLO: Enjoins us "to know ourselves"
PERIPATETIC: Follows nature; his happy life calls for con-
ditions consonant with nature; as distinguished from
the Stoic

PHENOMENAL: The world we perceive and know
PURE: The pure in heart; pure walk

PURITY: The hearthstone virtue

PRUDENCE: Webster's definition; Scripture illustrations,

115; the Scottish bard, 116; prudence for girls
REASON: Defined, its function .

RELIGION: defined by Webster, by Cicero; false ideas of it,
29; true religion as related to morality; is a natural
law in man; is a sentiment of love for the Supreme;
could have no existence without the moral element, 30;
false religion known by immoral doctrine and worship,
31; its object; its origin in nature; its cultivation, 49;
leavens morality; its focal points, 50; its ethic charac-
ter; question of duty

REPUTATION: Its value; mean motives injure
RIGHT: Primarily grounded in the Divine constitution, 83;

secondarily in man's nature; in authority

RIGHTS: conflict; example, 164; and duties reciprocal, 166;

right to property; its origin, 168; civil

SAUL: Responsible for his fault

19

21

24

231

118

117

40

142

199

86

41

38

271

98

SOUL: The seat of the affections; its states

SCIENCE: Of religion-objections to it, 32; excludes secta-

rianism

SCHLEGEL: His view of the soul in philosophy of life

SOVEREIGNTY: Of God none question

SELF-CONTROL: a virtue; its definition

SINCERITY: Defined; illustrated

SCOTT, WALTER: on patriotism

122