Bees, regarded by the ancients as emblems or models of chastity, i. 108, note.

Beggars, causes of vast numbers of, ii. [94].

Old English laws for the suppression of mendicancy, [96].

Enactments against them in various parts of Europe, [98]

Benedict, St., his system, 183

Benefices, military use of, ii. [270]

Benevolence; Hutcheson's theory that all virtue is resolved into benevolence, i. 4.

Discussions in England, in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, as to the existence of, 20.

Various views of the source from which it springs, 22.

Association of ideas producing the feeling of, 26.