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416 INDEXGreek religion, 114. The society in which it arose possessedand modern infidel Philosophy on the one side, and the ChristianChurch on the other, summed up in this antagonism, note, 323-25.The doctrine of one God, distinct from all other beings, *^f I subsisting +*f *-» *-f *" »*K-JV 4 »"*^^in Himself, intelligent, free, -and the Creator of all things, thefoundation of human society and morality, 374 ; how re-establishedby the preaching of the Church, 375-78. An eternal humanpersonality, the corollary of a personal God, 379. Its denialrunning through Greek and Latin thought, 380-82. Denial ofcreatureship a result of pantheism, 385-88 ; the great wound ofheathen society, and how healed by the Church, 388-90. Denialof creatureship made the Greek and Roman morality entiallydifferent from the Christian, 390-94; the Church found a basisfor morality, which the whole pantheistic philosophy sought invain, 394-97 5 and by the same power wrought out the civillibt-rty of the individual over against the State, 397-405 ; andcast the outline of a law of nations, 406-9.Per-ius, his strong testimony to Cornutus, 197.Philo, his time and position, 123-26. His attempt to unite Greekscience with Hebrew revelation, 127-31 ; his conception of God,131-33. Man's need of grace, 134; subordination of humanscience to theology, 135. His pn^ible effect on subsequent Greekphilosophy, 137-40; his partiality for the imperial government, 3.Contradiction of his veiw to that of Tacitus, 4, note.Philosophy. Its work as conceived by Pythagoras, 25 ; by Plato, 26;by Aristotle, 27 ; by Zeno, 28 ; the common effect produced bythem, 29 .; v [ts radical ; > ot tin disjunction of the three forces,beli ". i: rmlity, ad ironhip, : : I - -,v i£ '{"-}' c 1)!':M mthese respects presented to it by the Church, 349-70. Its disregardof the ignorant, the poor, and the labouring classes, 22, 345.Its result as to formin a society from Claudius to Constantine,347. The ideal life which the Xeopythagorean philosophy soughtto substitute for the Christian life, 249-56, 309-11. The Neo-platonic system a heathen analogon of Christianity, 294 ; as shownin three oppositions, between the Primal Being and God, 296,320-23; between the confusion of God with the World and thedoctrine of creation, 296-308 ; and between the being, position,duties, and hopes of man in Neoplatonism and in Christianity,308-21. Philosophic and Christian immortality, 312, 318. Philosophicsubstitute for creation, ancient and modern, 304, and note,323-25. Three positions of Greek philosophy in reference to theprayer, sacrifice, orack>, and mysteries, 116. The proper ancientphilosophy ends not in purifying the primary truths recognised by