natural law(s), 255 , 269 , 270 , 623 -629, 688 , 727 ; and Greeks, 11 , 27 ,
66 , 114 , 254
natural man, 693
natural religion, 690 , 693
natural rights, 36 , 269 , 270 , 627 -628
nature, 204 -205, 231 , 291 , 404 , 407 , 711 , 834 ; law of, 623 , 626 ; state
of, 626 , 630 , 640
Nausiphanes ("The Mollusc''), teacher of Epicurus, 241 , 243
Nazis, 98 , 364 , 378 , 634 , 770 , 789 , 790
Near East, 101 , 308
Nehuchadrezzar or Nebuchadnezzar, Chaldean king of Babylon (reigned
605-562 B.C.), 25 , 310 , 322
nebula, 47 , 207
nebular hypothesis, 705
necessity, 11 , 27 , 63 , 66 , 114 , 227 , 746 , 708 , 827 ; and Aristotle, 205 ;
and Empedocles, 55 , 56 , 58 ; and Plato, 145 , 148
Necessity of Atheism, The ( Shelley), 642
negation, 708
Negro spiritual, quoted, 21
Nehemiah, Jewish leader (fl. 5th cent. B.C.), 310 , 312 , 313 , 317 , 321
Neoplatonism, 218 , 251 , 277 , 301 , 368 , 476 -477, 509 ; and Ammonius
Saccas, 287 , 327 ; and Arabs, 423 , 424 , 426 , 427 ; and Aristode, 426 ,
453 , 500 ; and Christianity, 296 -297, 308 , 358 , 400 , 404 , 406 , 418 ,
477 ; and Plato, 143 , 303 , 486 , 500 ; founded by Plotinus, 284 -297
Neo-Pythagoreanism, 259 , 322
Nero ( Nero Claudius Caesar Drnsus Germanicus), Roman Emperor ( 37-
68), 260 , 266 , 571
nervous tissue, 655 , 669
Nestorianism, 374 , 420 , 423 -424, 438
Nestorius, Patriarch of Constantinople (?-451), 367 -369
Neuchatel, 690
Neva, 723
New Astronomy ( Kepler), 544
New England, 226 , 819