Daughters, education of, 287; marriage of, ib. n.

Death, twofold, 223; its nature, 122, 222; cure for fear of, 211; not privation, ib.; condition of living, 217.

Decay, a condition of material being, 216. See Ruin.

Deceit, never admissible, 446. See Falsehood, Perfidy.

Defects of person, 291, n.; disqualify for servitude, 306.

Deficiency, one of the genera of evil, 99, 108, 143, 170.

Deluge, natural epochs, 42.

Deposit and detrition, geological, 43, n. See Addenda.

Desire, (see Power, appetent.) Placed in the liver, 201; insatiable, 239; distinguished from want, 448; defect of, 172; provoked by interdiction, 422.

Despondence, 173, 452.

Devotion, a species of equity, 84; wherein consisting, 141, 142.

Dialectics, 171. See Logic.

Dice-playing, stigmatized, 255.

Diet — of children, 279, — of men, 224; analogy of bodily and mental, 159, 174.

Dignity of husbands, why and how to be maintained, 265.

Dínārs, by whom first struck, 270, n.

Diplomacy, some rules of, 410, 411. See Emissaries.

Disagreement, a general form of evil, 191, 386, 436, 441.

Discipline, see Culture.

Disease, its three descriptions, 170; mostly from excess, 224; mental, may proceed from bodily, 173; chronic, ib. See Cure.

Dishonesty, inexpedient, 256.

Disobedience to parents, 303.

Disposition, determined by temperament, 36; mutability of, argued, 38, et seq., 85, 277; differs as respects irascibility, 182.

Disputes, how avoided or conducted, 290.

Diversities, inevitable in men and fortunes, 320; how determined, 322. (See Heavens.) Must be controlled, 322.

Divination, 171, 291.

Divinity, its traits may descend on human nature, 232. See Theology.

Division of the subject, 10.

Divorce, 267, 273, n.

Dress, to be despised, 278, 281, — of princes, sacred, 423, 445, — in-door, of the East, 134.

Duality, 330.

Dulness of intellect, 171, — of desire, 172.

Earth, liable to universal epochs, 44. (See Detrition.) Its sur­face, see Soil.

Easiness, a species of temperance, 73, 158.

Eating, proper end of, 279; dangers of its abuse, 224; originally a sacred act, 295, n.; proprieties of, 294, — with three fingers, 296.

Eblis, 402, 19, n.

Education, see Culture; — of sons, 276, et seq., — of daughters, 287.

Eed-days, festival of, 130, 131, 341.

Eggs, may be artificially hatched, 147.

Elements, (see Air, Earth’s Surface, Fire, Water.) Natural repugnance between, 216, 335; how overcome, ib., 233. (See Equipoise and Heavens.) How minister to man, 315; affinity of, or otherwise, for certain states, 330.

Elevation of purpose, a species of courage, 70; desirable in kings, 382.

Eloquence, how determined, 122.

Eminence, differs from perfection, 21, — of a science, what, 30.

Emissaries, a rule for choosing, 306.

Emolument, vicious, to be avoided, 163, 253, 256, 286; virtuous, difficult to be obtained, 92.

End — of all things (proper), 12, 140, — of men, 13, 449, — of faculties and members, 140.

Endurance, a species of courage, 71.

Enemies (private), their use, 167; different kinds of, 440; treat­ment of, 445. (Public,) rules for the treatment of, 410, 411. (See War.) Vanquished, become subjects, 415.

Energy, social, the want of it in Asia, 136, n.

Engrossing, old prejudice against, 255.

Enmity, most formidable after previous friendship, 433, 436; presupposes intimacy, ib.

Envious, the, how to be treated, 446.

Envy, 171; definition of — danger — cure, 241, — difficult, ib., 446.

Equals, of three sorts, 439; intercourse with, ib.

Equator, political — what, 127.

Equinox, procession of, 42.

Equipage of kings, not to be imitated, 423.

Equipoise, determines virtue, 56, 57, 101, n., 154, 164; physical excellence, 118, 228, and life, 122; real and virtual, 107; of species and individual, 105. Political — between individuals, 390, et seq., 396, — between classes, 385, et seq. (See Classes.) How to be maintained, 405.

Equity, why used for justice throughout, 55, n. (See Equipoise.) How derived, 55, 57; defined, 66; determined, 124; described, 98, 141, 345; its species, 78, — counterfeits, 97, — modes, 373; its three branches, 124; other threefold division, 137, 138; its three preservatives, 127; of kings, the most important, 141, 399; simple or compound, argued, 58, et seq., 98, 154; the universal virtue, 57, 60, 110, et seq., — why, 141, n.; its application, 374; presupposes a mean, 126; superseded by affection, 144, 329.

Essence, real, 367.

Events — dependent on things — produced by spheres — appointed by God, 361.

Evil (moral), its origin argued, 40, et seq. See Excess and Defect.

Exactitude, a species of equity, 78.

Excess, one element of evil, 99, 108, 143, 170.

Excesses, how to be controlled, 164.

Executive, 324. (See Prince.) Its capricious severity, 400, n.

Exercise, its use, 280; mental, 159, 268.

Expenses, rules for — sorts of, 257.

Experience, one of the roads to wisdom, 24.

Fables and fabulists, condemned, 155, 327.

Facility of acquirement, a species of wisdom, 69.

Faint-heartedness — defined — described — cured, 95, 172, 205.

Falsehood, unnatural and inexcusable, 243, 281, 291, 411, 441.

Family, (see Pride.) Privileges of, 92, 404; desirable in a king, 383; questionable in a wife, 264; children not to exult in, 281.

Fancy, characteristic of a low order of mind, 369.

Farming, as an occupation, 252. See Agriculture.

Fatalism, see Predestination.

Father, obligations to, 299; how to be treated, 302. (See Parents.) Three sorts of, 351; spiritual, 350.

Faults, measured by power to avoid them, 178, 370; none exempt, 434; not perceived by those harbouring them, 168; how to be discovered, 166; to be concealed, 265, 440; trivial, not to be permitted, and why, 165, — of children, 278, — of friends, 437, — of kings, 421, — of enemies, 441.

Fear, definition and cure of, 209.

Feast, master of, 296, et seq.

Felicity, supreme — what, 60, 337.

Fettering, a mode of punishment, 394.

Fidelity, a species of equity, 78; must be excited, 345.

Figures, in Scripture, necessity of, 370.

Fingers, only three to be used, 296; sucking of, ib.

Fire, its functions, 388.

Firmness, a species of courage, 71.

Flightiness, a generic vice of reason, 108.

Food, difference of men and animals in respect to, 245.

Foolery, 158, 447.

Forbearance, a species of temperance, 73.

Force, when justifiable, 127. (See Punishment.) Characterizes wrong government, 379.

Forgetfulness, 160.

Forts — when to be prepared — how far to be relied on, 413, 414.

Friday, how estimated, 75, 341.

Friends, value of, 167, 427, 429, 436, — to kings, 430; their two sorts, 439. (See Friendship.) Like condiments, 428; other selves, 345; necessary in all circumstances, 428; differences with, how to be adjusted, 434; rules for selecting, 430.

Friendship, only with a few, 334, 428; why, 432, 433; difficult to gain, 429; how unstable, 339; may turn to enmity, 436; honor of obtaining it, 345, 434; its causes, (see Affection.) Of the wise and good, 335, — of the young, ib., — of the old and commercial, ib.; its value, 430. See Friends.

Generals, rules for selecting, 413. See Universal.

Generation, their opinions on, 192.

Geometry, its value in correcting the judgment, 32, 180.

Gesticulation, rules for, 290.

Gifts, to princes and officers, 257.

Globes, artificial, how esteemed, 197.

Gluttony, ill consequences and cure of, 224, 279.

Gnostics, alluded to, 26, n., 46, n.

God, the only being, 18, 415; source of all others, 358. (See Love and Mercy.) His contrary attributes and designations, 1, 18, 116; above our comprehensions, 112; a jealous God, 72; does nothing but bestow, 301, 448; only entitled, 192; considered in relation with man, 357; how influences, 402; writings begin with an address to, 1, n.; engagements referred to, 51, 83; his grace the cause of excellence, 2, 448.

Good, absolute, the affection it engenders, 333; its origin, 448; persons defined, 447; faith, a species of equity, 81; fellowship, ditto, ib., 158; humour, a species of temperance, 73.

Government, necessary to society, 127, 128, 322, 352; its divine origin, ib., 129, 377; its three instruments, ib., 322; identified with despotism, ib., 378, n.; its degenerate state, 378, n.; equity indispensable to, 386; its two divisions, 378; what lasting, 380, 408; art of, comprises all other arts, 328.

Grace of God, necessary to human excellence, 2, 448, 449.

Gratitude, general obligation of, 299. (See Ingratitude.) To God, 141, 152; proper, rare, ib.; independent of requital, 431.

Greediness, 172.

Greeks, how and when followed, 9, n., 169, n.; abandoned, 139; masters, how estimated, 369; partly inspired, 324, n.; uncon­sciously indebted to Scripture, 140; reason of their figurative phraseology, 372.