Habit, what, 39; importance of, 105, 173, n., 156; to be con­trolled, and how, 164.

Harmony, see Equipoise, Proportion, Music.

Haughtiness, towards whom to be practised, 409, 447. See Pride.

Health, its importance to happiness, 162; (mental,) maintenance of, 155, et seq.; restoration of, see Cure.

Hearing, occasioned by undulations in the air, 389.

Heaven, see Paradise.

Heavens, see Orbs and Spheres.

Hell, scriptural, 102; a type of extremes, 104, 157; eternal misery of, 380, 486.

Histories, their popular influence, 155.

Home, necessity for, 245, et seq.; its constituents, 248; free sense given to, 249.

Honor, 261; how to be determined and maintained, 396. See Rank.

Horoscope, reference to, 284.

Hospitality, observance of, 444, 445, n.

Houses, their maximum of elevation, 250.

Humours, the four in old pathology, 36; compounded, 38.

Hypocrisy, its consequences, 194, 375.

Idealism, 200, n., 360, n.

Ideas, how derived, 17, 53, 54, — received, 368, — reflected, ib., — retained, ib.; some innate, 2, 3, n., 148, n.; general and partial, 54; procession of, 118, 364; different orders in the formation of, 367, et seq.

Identity, personal, affirmed, 36.

Idleness, destructive to human powers, 268. See Exercise.

Ignorance, 173, et seq.; simple, 176; compound, 179; cure of, ib. See Knowledge.

Ill-nature, 158.

Imām and Imāmat, see Pontificate.

Impostors, what, 376.

Imprisonment, its object as a punishment, 394.

Impulse, 53. See Power.

Income, its sources, 252. (See Emolument and Profit.) Should exceed outlay, 256.

Indelicacy, its influence on the character, 186; in conversation, to be avoided, 289.

Indifference, a generic vice, 109, 143. See Desire.

Individual, production of, how and when provided for, 150; nutri­tion of, ditto, 148; defence of, ditto, 149; perfection of, ib.; each has his peculiar excellence, 187, 105. See Differences.

Indolence, 205. See Idleness.

Infant, its state at birth, 148.

Inferiors, treatment of, 439, 447.

Ingenuous persons, how esteemed, 446.

Ingratitude, the worst of vices, 194, n., 431.

Iniquity, opposite of equity, 99; the only vice, 110, 136. (See Equity.) To be avoided, 253, 256. See Oppression, Force.

Initiative, in public war, to be avoided, 412, — in private, ditto, 445.

Inscription, in the fire-temples of Fārs, 74; on Syrian pillars, 457.

Inspiration, the source of unwonted excellence, 152; law, a modi­fication of, 126, 322.

Instinct, held, 148.

Institute, what, 3, n.; divinely derived, 323; (see Law,) 408. Its particulars not to be argued, 84, 141; some of them argued, 340; adapted to all, 370; to be rigidly followed, 395.

Institutor, obligations to, 351; reminded of, 342. See Lawgiver.

Insult, legally cognizable, 397.

Intellect, its two sorts, 53; predominates in all things, 358; celestial, its three forms, ib.; its four orders, 367, et seq.

Interchange, indispensable to society, 126; leads to use of money, 127.

Intercourse, divided and determined, 439.

Interdiction, provokes desire, 422, 278.

Interest, enters into one sort of affection, 333; not into love, 334; of clients, 421, — of money, 394.

Intermediacy, negatives both extremes, 17; characteristic of virtue, 100, 104, 111; varies in application, 143. See Mean, virtual.

Joseph, women not to read his history, 271.

Judicial functions, united with ecclesiastical, 132.

Juggling, condemned, 171.

Kaaba, its supposed building, 283.

Keeping, see Stores.

Kiblah, what, 293.

Kings, unforgiving, 209, 418. See Prince, Court.

Kneeling, only proper to spiritual superiors, 292.

Knowledge, importance of, 92, 176, 179, 373, 388. (See Learn­ing.) Without practice, mischievous, 23; supposition of, bars acquirement, 180; no reserve of, admissible, 436.

Kurān, its power and beauty, 139; its pre-existence, 277, 360, 408.

Labour, division of, 319.

Lasciviousness, a generic vice, 109, 143. See Venery.

Law, originates with God, 126, 322; expressed by revelation, 397; the primary arbitrator, 127; government subject to it, ib.; when first apprehended, 150; maintains maintainers, 408.

Lawgiver, commissioned by God, 322.

Learning, its privileges, 133, 373, 392; its boldness, 133, 406; patronized by God, 352.

Levity, 173, 224.

Liberality, a species of temperance, 75, 455; mean between, what, 143.

Life, an arbitrary state, 2, n.; depends on proportion, 118, 122; how derived, 216, 455; intellectual, 236; vanity of earthly, 161, 237; misery of, too prolonged, 221; none but God has a right to destroy, 455.

Light, proceeds from fire, 388; Muhammedan, 359.

Lineage, important to a prince, 383. See Family.

Logic, its good and evil, 31.

Love, its two species, 227, 334; divine, 123, n., 336; how tested, 236; partiality of, 167; interest enters not into, 334; magically excited, 229.

Lover and loved, 229, — and mistress, 343.

Lust, how, when, and why arises, 150, 172. See Lasciviousness.

Luxury, condemned, 280.

Magic, its nature, 117; how considered, 140, n., 255, 440.

Magnanimity, a species of courage, 69.

Magnet, alluded to in an ancient inscription, 332.

Maiden, preferable for marriage, 263.

Malice, a cause of anger, not to be indulged, 195.

Man, creation of, see Adam. His proper end, 13, 358, 415, 449; his origin unassignable in profane philosophy, 42; his contrary qualities, 15; resemblance to God, 15, 415; his excellence, in what it consists, 178, 415, 448; compared with angels, 19, et seq., — with brutes, 176, 178, 367; his physical vileness, 192; his physical eminence, 315, 317.

Manners, see Proprieties.

Marriage, nature of, and rules for, 262, — of sons, 286, — daugh­ters, 287.

Martexts, stigmatized, 375.

Masters of arts, 372.

Mathematics, their use, 32, 180.

Matter, its subservient properties, 360. (See Body.) Material beings cannot meet, 336.

Meals, rare and sparing, 279.

Mean, difficult to find a, 101, 126; true and involved, 105; all the virtues are means, 100; necessary to determine relations, 127.

Measures, study of, correct the judgment, 180.

Meat, to be used sparingly, 279.

Medicine, its analogy to morals, 30, 107, 153; its division and offices, 170—174.

Meditation, to what lengths carried, 190.

Melancholy, 159.

Men, their diversities, (see Diversities.) How estimated, 179; citizens by nature, 321, 340; to co-operate, 317; why, 318; of the tongue, 373, — of the pen, 388, — of the sword, ib.

Merchants, to be protected, 455.

Mercy, a species of courage, 69; desirable in kings, 404, 406, 415; divine, the source of creation, 416, — and revelation, 444.

Metals, why chosen as the material of money, 251.

Metre, on what it depends, 117.

Mimicry, condemned, 291.

Mind, a simple essence, 335, — of children, a clear tablet, 277; may meet, 336. (See Soul and Intellect.) Affects body — is affected by it, 157, 173, 207, 338.

Minerals, lowest in the chain of being, and why, 118.

Ministers, rules for the conduct of, 419, 420.

Ministration, natural, its various sorts, 313.

Miracles, orthodox belief in, 34.

Mirrors, Persian, improved by the Greeks, 38, n.

Misdemeanours, distinguished from crimes, 397, 398.

Modern, writers — what, 8, n.

Monachism, condemned, 327.

Money, why necessary, 127, 251; the surd equator, ib.; metals, why chosen for, 251; subject to prince, 128; mischief of the love of, 282.

Monogamy, recommended, 266.

Morals, first of studies, 31, 63; analogy of to medicine, (see Medicine.) Its two objects, 153, 154.

Moth and taper, 113.

Mother, her claims, 300; how to be requited, 302; loves more than father, 354. (See Parents.) Of Scripture, 360.

Music, depends on proportion, 119, 458, — of the spheres, 121, — of the state, 390; how and why forbidden to men, 156, 255, 431, — to women, 271, 287.

Mysticism, 80, 81; its subject, 367. See Reunion.

Nakedness, 293.

Name, importance of selecting, 275; when given, ib., — of things, taught by God to Adam, 2, — of God, 14.

Nature, circulation the first law of, 363; its motion, 146; its process, 118, 148; when complete, 151. (See Affection, Love.) Superior to art, 147, 329; human, an arbitrary state, 2, n.; corrupt, 13, n.; depends on soul, 408; particular, follows for­mation, 306. See Character, Disposition.

<Greek>, its three kinds, 128.

Nonconformity, 34, 375, 376.

Nurse, rules for choice of, 275.