Oaths, only to be used for public purposes, 281.

Obedience, to husbands, 272, — to parents, 302, — to public authority, 129, 417, — to divine, ib., — to kings, 417, 423; excep­tions to, 133, 136, 417, 423.

Observative, see Power and School.

Occupation, its importance, 165. See Profession.

Offences, see Crimes and Transgressions.

Officers of state, rules for the selection of, 404, 392.

Opinion, the initiative of government, 384, — of men, when to be disregarded, 406.

Oppression, designates both extremes of justice, 110. (See Iniquity.) How to be prevented, 396, 407.

Oppressor, his good deeds transferred to the account of the oppressed, 110.

Orbs, (celestial,) animated and intelligent, 15, 17; their music, 121; their proportions, ib.; influence, ib., 197. (See Heavens.) Their motion, 233; servants to man, 315.

Ordonnance, the right of the priesthood, 135.

Ostentation, to be avoided, 256.

Outlay, should be less than income, 256.

Pæderasty, condemned, 172.

Pain, an intimation of injury, 335; presupposes strength, 213; often produced by pleasure, 335; life never exempt from, ib.; none in death, 213.

Papacy, 350, 407. See Pontificate.

Paradise, scriptural descriptions of, mostly figural, 102, 157.

Parasites, attached to royal households, 383, 402.

Pardon, of kings, 398, 415. (See Mercy.) Of parties, does not bar legal proceedings, 397.

Parents, rights of, 299, 430, 301; differ, 302; mother most loving, 354; causes of their affection, 346; love more than are loved, 300.

Parity, 144. (See Equipoise.) In offences, 166.

Particulars, distinguished from universals, 17, 54, 150; all have their stations and functions, 12, 187.

Passions, (see Vice, Anger, Lust, &c.) Proneness to, 157.

Patience, a species of temperance, 73; its importance, ib., 383, 440.

Patrons, feel more regard than the patronized, 354; their rights, 430.

Pedagogue, see Preceptor.

Penance, its use and object, 174.

Penetration, a species of wisdom, 68.

Perception, an abstruse point, 26; different degrees of, 368. See Idealism.

Perfection, how meant and measured, 20, 107; depends on equi­poise, 118; mental — none formed to, 152; difficulty of attaining, (see Proneness.) Method of pursuing, 151, 328, 329, 340, 448; physical — different orders and means of, 312.

Perfidy, inexcusable, 194, 352.

Perplexity, causes and cure of, 171, 175.

Pests, a term for incongruous classes in a state, 375.

Philosophers, Greek, (see Greeks.) Muslim, their inferiority, 26.

Philosophy, a derivative of religion, 23, 139, 324; of first prin­ciples, 62.

Phlegm, a cause of disease, 208.

Physics, order of study, 32.

Piety, a species of temperance, 75.

Pilgrimage, its obligation and object, 341.

Plants, see Vegetables.

Pleasure, soon terminates, 333, 451; why, 335.

Plurality, opposite of unity, 191; causes weakness, ib., 330, 342; must be countervailed, 248, 342.

Poets, why they prefer their own writings, 355, 373, 388.

Poison, carried about the person, 97, n.; as a remedy, 174; apprehension of, 295, 440, 456; poison-girls, 457.

Polygamy, condemned, 267.

Pontificate, 324, 379; its situation and rights, 136, 324, 379.

Population, law of, 219.

Possessions, see Valuables, Property, Wealth.

Powers, of the mind, the three stated, 52, et seq., 55, et seq., 170, 368; each of them liable to excess, deficiency, and perversion, 170, et seq.; statement and cure of these in the discerning power, 171, 175, — in the vindictive power, 172, 181, — in the appetent, 172, 223; order of production and culture, 148, et seq.; of the state, how lodged and divided, 136. See Authority.

Practice, essential to wisdom, 22; to mental health, 155, 159, 174.

Prayer, a moral preservative, 174; children to be taught, 277; objects of general, 340; Friday’s, ib., 75; neglect of, how considered, 394.

Preceptor, rules for choice of, 281; reverence to, 292, 303; rights of, extravagant, 350, et seq.

Predestination, explained, 359, n., 401.

Prevention, see Punishment and Interdiction.

Pride, ridiculous, its cure, 187, 188, 281.

Priesthood, their rights and influence, 135, 136.

Prince, essential to society, 127, 324, 418; shadow of God, 377, 418; world’s physician, 326, 383; subject to the law, 130, 135, 325, 395, 417, 455; has a discretion, 325, 397; his claim to gifts, 257, 417; influence of his example, 381, 385; occasionally childish, 197; of two sorts, 381; his proper qualities, 382, 454, — conduct, 348, 405; dependent upon others, 428, 430; his responsibility, 407; should not com­mand his armies in person, 412; his dues, 417. See Obedience, Rebels, Court, Transgression.

Principle, vital, 186.

Prisoners, in battle, not to be put to death, 414.

Procrastination, condemned, 405.

Procreation, how provided for, 150; how limited, 218. See Generation.

Prodigality, excess of liberality, 143.

Production, original, account of, 358, et seq.; three stages in, 362; spontaneous, possible, 43; animal, how conducted, 146, et seq.

Professions, division of, 252; choice of, 284; only one to be pursued, 374.

Profits, the sources of, 253. See Emolument.

Proneness, see Vice.

Property, foundation of, 124; a deposit from God, 240; insecu­rity of, 199; to be differently invested, 256.

Prophecy, its nature, 359.

Prophets, the prime of men, 119; their end, 342.

Propinquity, material and moral, 81. See Affinity.

Propositions, universal, 24; must be true or false, 175.

Propriety of discernment, a species of wisdom, 69, — of manners, 288, 292, — of intercourse with all classes, 440. See Com­mendable.

Providence, general, 220, 330, 361, 448; special, 215, 402. See Grace, Law, Government, Philosophy.

Ptolemaic system, 42, n., 53, n. See Spheres.

Punishment, for prevention, 127, 128, 394; its measure, (see Taliation.) Privation of liberty — limb — senses — life, ib. (See Addenda.) Capital, 271, 395, 455; of children, 282.

Purgatory, 407.

Quality, definition of, 38; bad, what, 30; how influences state, 105.

Quickness of intellect, a species of wisdom, 68.

Quoting improper passages, condemned, 156.

Railing, see Abuse.

Rank, importance of maintaining, 124, 374, 384, 390, 396; hereditary, 187; improper reliance on, condemned, ib.

Rarities, danger of a love for — in princes, 196, — in private per­sons, 200.

Rashness, a generic vice in excess of courage, 109.

Reason, its proper functions, 201. See Power, percipient.

Rebels, to be extirpated, 129, 375.

Recluses, condemned, 90.

Recollection, a species of wisdom, 69.

Refuge, rights of, to be respected, 444.

Regularity, a species of temperance, 75.

Relation of Creator and creature, 301, 349, 455. (See God.) Of parent and child, 247, 276, 299, 350; see in loc., — of husband and wife, 229, 247, 265, et seq., — of institutor and followers, 351, — of king and subject, (see Prince,) 352, 407, 420, 428, 430, — of preceptor and pupil, see in loc., — of high and low, 344, — of patron and patronized, see in loc., — of lover and mistress, 229, 343, — of master and servant, 241, 304, et seq., — of friends, 352, 439, see in loc., — of inanimate objects, see Proportion.

Religion, identified with morality, 186; twin of government, 128, 457.

Repugnance, 158, — of opposites, 330. See Affection, Elements, Disagreement.

Reputation, sacrifices to be made for its preservation, 261.

Resentment, proper functions of, 163, 201. See Power, vindic­tive, Anger.

Resignation, a species of equity, 82, 83; wisdom of, 215.

Resistance of nature to things hurtful, 330.

Resolution, necessary to success in any thing, 382.

Retention, a species of wisdom, 69.

Reunion of the soul with God, 223, 337, 356, 367; depends on qualities acquired in this life, 102, 105, 187.

Rhetoric, how determined, 122.

Ridicule, condemned, 193.

Righteousness, a species of temperance, 73.

Rights, private, 124; public, 396, — of criminals, 183, 397; pre­carious, 200, 424. See Relation.

Rings, worn by men, 281.

Ritual, object of, 105, 340, 342.

Ruin, why inevitable, (see Decay.) How effected, 197. See Spheres.