of, pervades the universe, 220, 221;
recognized by Pythagoras, 301;
Cosmological proof of the existence of God, 489, 490.

P.

Parmenides, his theory of knowledge, 307-308;
a spiritualistic Pantheist, 308, 309.

Paul, St., at Athens, 14;
his emotion when he saw the city full of idols, 100;
the subject of his discourse, 101;
brought into contact with all the phases of philosophic thought,
268, 269;
his arrival at Athens an epoch in the moral history of the world,
472;
he recognized the preparatory office of Greek philosophy, 473.

Philosophers of Athens, 101;
believed in one supreme, uncreated, eternal God, 151-157;
their views of the mythological deities, 158, 159;
their apologies for images and image-worship, 159, 160.

Philosophic Schools, classification of, 271-273;
Pre-Socratic 280-314;
Socratic, 314-421;
Post-Socratic, 422-456.

Philosophy, the world-enduring monument of the glory of Athens,
265, 260;
defined, 270, 271;
an inquiry after first causes and principles, 271, 457;
not in any proper sense a theological inquiry, 273-277, 279;
the love of wisdom, 384, 385.

Philosophy in its relation to Christianity, 268-270;
sympathy of Platonism, 268;
antagonism of Epicureanism and Stoicism, 269;
the Propaedeutic office of philosophy, 457-524--recognized by St.
Paul, 473--and many of the early Fathers, 473-475;
philosophy undermined Polytheism, and purified the Theistic idea,
481-487;
developed the Theistic argument in a logical form, 487-494;
it awakened Conscience and purified the Ethical idea, 495-506;
demonstrated the insufficiency of reason to elaborate a perfect
ideal of moral excellence, 506-509;
awakened in man the sense of distance from God, and the need of
a Mediator, 509-513;
deepened the consciousness of sin, and the desire for a Redeemer,
513-522;
the history of philosophy a confirmation of the truth of
Christianity, 522-524.

Philosophy of Religion, 53;
based on the correlation between Divine and human reason,
458-462.

Plato, condemns the poets for their unworthy representations of
the gods, 130-132;
his views of the gods of Grecian mythology, 154-157:
the