EUROPEAN MORALS

VOL. II.

LONDON: PRINTED BY

SPOTTISWOODE AND CO., NEW-STREET SQUARE AND PARLIAMENT STREET

CONTENTS

OF

THE SECOND VOLUME.

CHAPTER IV.

FROM CONSTANTINE TO CHARLEMAGNE.

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Difference between the moral teaching of a philosophy and
that of a religion

Moral efficacy of the Christian sense of sin

Dark views of human nature not common in the early Church.

The penitential system

Great purity of the early Christians

The promise of the Church for many centuries falsified

General sketch of the moral condition of the Byzantine and

Western Empires

The question to be examined in this chapter is, the cause of

this comparative failure

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First Consequence of Christianity, a new Sense of the Sanctity of

Care of exposed children.-History of foundling hospitals

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