"A BOOK WHICH 18 AS READABLE AS A NOVEL: 



HISTORY OF EUROPEAN MORALS, 



FROM AUGUSTUS TO CHARLEMAGNE. 



By W. E. H. LECKY, M. A. 

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The Utilitarian School Objections to the School Consequence of acting on 

 Utilitarian Principles Utilitarian Sanctions Intuitive School Alleged Diversi- 

 ties of Moral Judgment Each of the Two Schools of Morals related to the Gen- 

 eral Condition of Society The Order in which Moral Feelings are developed. 



THE PAGAN EMPIRE. 



Stoicism Growth of a Gentler and more Cosmopolitan Spirit in Rome Rise 

 of Eclectic Moralists The People still very Corrupt Causes of the Corruption 

 Effects of Stoicism on the Corruption of Society Passion for Oriental Reli- 

 gions Neoplatonism. 



THE CONVERSION OF ROME. 



Examination of the Theory which ascribes part of the Teaching of the Hated 

 Pagan Moralists to Christian Influence Theory which attributes the Conversion 

 of the Empire to the Evidence of Miracles The Persecution the Church under- 

 went not of a Nature to crush it History of the Persecutions. 



FROM CONSTANTINE TO CHARLEMAGNE 



First Consequence of Christianity, a New Sense of the Sanctity of Human 

 Life The Second Consequence of Christianity, to teach Universal Brotherhood 

 Two Qualifications of our Admiration of the Charity of the Church The Growth 

 of Asceticism The Saints of the Desert Decline of the Civic Virtues General 

 Moral Condition of the Byzantine Empire Distinctive Excellences of the Ascetic 

 Period Monachism Relation of Monachism to the Intellectual Virtues The 

 Monasteries the Receptacles of Learning Moral Condition of "Western Europe 

 Growth of a Military and Aristocratic Spirit Consecration of Secular Rank. 



THE POSITION OF WOMEN. 



The Courtesans Roman Public Opinion much purer Christian Influence 

 Relation of Christianity to the Female Virtues. 



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