History of Rome, and of the Roman people, from its origin to the invasion of the barbarians . endus de IAvail, des inscr., 1873, p. 63). 368 THE EMPIRE AND ROMAN SOCIETY. they make it much like the art of statuary, whose business it isto carve out a lifeless image in the most exact figure and proportions,and then to raise it upon its pedestal, where it is to continue for-ever. True philosophy is of rpiite a different nature : it is aspring and principle of motion wherever it comes; it makes men active and industrious ; itsets every wheel andfaculty going; it storesour minds with axiomsand rule
History of Rome, and of the Roman people, from its origin to the invasion of the barbarians . endus de IAvail, des inscr., 1873, p. 63). 368 THE EMPIRE AND ROMAN SOCIETY. they make it much like the art of statuary, whose business it isto carve out a lifeless image in the most exact figure and proportions,and then to raise it upon its pedestal, where it is to continue for-ever. True philosophy is of rpiite a different nature : it is aspring and principle of motion wherever it comes; it makes men active and industrious ; itsets every wheel andfaculty going; it storesour minds with axiomsand rules by which tomake a sound judgment;it determines the will tothe choice of what ishonorable and just; andit brings all our facultiesto the swiftest prosecu-tion of As Christ-ianity was already doing,he preaches immortality. Epicurus, he says, cloth but further cut offall hope of immortality, tocompass which (I canscarce refrain from saying)all men and women wouldbe well content to beworried by Cerberus andto carry water into theZ-[,e.^,S tub full of holes, so theymight but continue in. A being, and not be exter-minated. 3 From Chaeroneia went forth unceasingly counsels, con-solations, directions even for public life. The Egyptians, hesays, used to exhibit the sick person before his house, in orderthat the passers-by might point out to him how they had been cured. 1 In the treatise : Cum principibus philosophandum esse, 1. a Statue in the Vatican. * In the treatise : Non jmss,- suaviter, etc., sect. 27. LDEAS. 369 He thought it right that every one should likewise benefit othersby his own experience for the cure of the souls Thus, in a small town of Boeotia and in the capital of theworld, in the Emperors palace, under the gilded roof of a minister,and in the humble abode of a philosopher, the same thoughts exer-cised mens minds, here written in Latin, there in Greek, butequally traversing the world. As in every civilized society isfound nearly an equal amount
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