2.

Dialectic of Plato, 353-369.

Dogmatic Theologians, assert that all our knowledge of God is
derived from the teaching of the Scriptures, 86,167; cast doubt
upon the principle of causality, 253-255--upon the principle of
the unconditioned, 255-257--upon the principle of unity,
258-261--and upon the immutable principles of morality, 261-263.

Dynamical or Vital school of ancient philosophers, 282-289.

E.

Eclecticism of Anaxagoras, 311.

Emotions, the religious, 117-122;
sentiment of the Divine exists in all minds, 119-121;
also instinctive yearning after the Invisible, 121, 122.

Empedocles, a believer in one Supreme God, 153.

Epicurus, his theory of the origin of religion, 56, 57;
his Ethics, 427-432;
his Physics, 433-438;
taught that pleasure is the chief end of life, 428--that
ignorance of nature is the sole cause of unhappiness, 432--that
Physics and Psychology are the only studies conducive to
happiness, 432--that the universe is eternal and infinite,
433--that concrete bodies are combinations of atoms, 434--that
atoms have spontaneity, 436, and some degree of freedom, 436,
437; the parts of the world self-formed, 437, 438; plants,
animals, and man are spontaneously generated, 438; a state of
savagism the primitive condition of man, 439; his Atheism, 441;
his Psychology, 442-444; the soul material and mortal, 445, 446.

Eternity, Platonic notion of, 349 (_note_), 372, 373.

Eternity of Matter, how taught by Plato, 371-373;
distinctly affirmed by Epicurus, 433.

Eternity of the Soul, Plato's doctrine of, 373-375.

Ethical ideas and principles, gradual development of, 495, 496;
(1) the age of popular and unconscious morals, 497, 498;
(2) the transitional or sophistical age, 498-500;
(3) the philosophic or conscious age, 500-506.

Ethics of Plato, 383-387, 502-505;
of Aristotle, 417-42l;
of Epicurus, 427-432;
of the Stoics, 454, 456.

Expiation for sin, the need of, 124;
universally acknowledged, 124--especially in Grecian mythology,
125--and in the language of Greece and Rome, 125.

F.

Facts of the universe, classification of, 175-177.

Fathers, the early, recognized the propaedeutic office of Greek
philosophy, 473-475.