POLITICAL SELF-LOVE, its nature and quality, [264]. It would make its votaries desirous of being emperors if left without restraint, [264].
POLITICS is one of those sciences by which an entrance is made into things rational, which are the ground of rational wisdom, [163].
POLYGAMICAL love is the love of the external, or natural man, [345]. In this love there is neither chastity, purity, nor sanctify, [346].
POLYGAMIST, no, so long as he remain such, is capable of being made spiritual, [347]. Conjugial chastity, purity, and sanctity cannot exist with polygamists, [346].
POLYGAMY, of, [332-352]. Whence it originates, [349]. Polygamy is lasciviousness, [345]. Polygamy is not a sin with those who live in it from a religious principle, as did the Israelites, [348]. Why polygamy was permitted to the Israelitish nation, [340].
POPES.—Dreadful fate of two popes who had compelled emperors to resign their dominions, and had behaved ill to them, both in word and deed, at Rome, whither they came to supplicate and adore them, [265].
PORTICO of palm-trees and laurels, [56].
POSTERIOR, the, is derived from the prior, as the effect from its cause, [326]. That which is posterior exists from what is prior, as it exists from what is prior, [330]. Between prior and posterior there is no determinate proportion, [326].
POWER, active or living, and passive or dead, [480]. Whence proceeds the propagative, or plastic force, in seeds of the vegetable kingdom, [238].