History of Rome, and of the Roman people, from its origin to the invasion of the barbarians . ants! Did Richelieu prevent Descartes from writing the Discours tie laMelliodf. and did Frederick II. stop the daring critical philosophy of Kant? :;r,l THE EMPIRE AND ROMAN SOCIETY. seek, young and old, a definite object for your minds and a provisionagainst an unhappy old age. We have an account of the instruction given by Epictetus to ayoung man preparing himself for this apostleship. Before all,says the philosopher to his neophyte, must the future teacher of thehuman race undertake himself to exti
History of Rome, and of the Roman people, from its origin to the invasion of the barbarians . ants! Did Richelieu prevent Descartes from writing the Discours tie laMelliodf. and did Frederick II. stop the daring critical philosophy of Kant? :;r,l THE EMPIRE AND ROMAN SOCIETY. seek, young and old, a definite object for your minds and a provisionagainst an unhappy old age. We have an account of the instruction given by Epictetus to ayoung man preparing himself for this apostleship. Before all,says the philosopher to his neophyte, must the future teacher of thehuman race undertake himself to extinguish his own passions, andsay to himself: My own soul is the material at which I must work, as does the carpenterat wood and the shoe-maker at prepared, hemust further knowthat he is Jupitersambassador to must preach byexample, and to thedisinherited who la-ment their lot hemust be able to say : Look at me ; likeyou, I am withoutcountry, house, -nods,slaves. I lie downon the bare ground ;I have neither wifenor child, T have onlythe earth, heaven, anda Accord-. THE INFANT HERCULES STRANGLING ingly, for its type of divinity Stoicism had chosen, from among thelords of the old Olympus, Hercules, the destroyer of monsters, thegod of strength, but of strength used for a good cause. Changedinto a moral hero, the son of a mortal woman and of the father- ofthe gods willingly aids men in destroying the animal nature inus, — passion, selfishness, anger, cruelty. You carry within you,Epictetus was accustomed to say, the Erymanthean boar andthe Nemaean lion; subdue them. This imagery was familiar to 1 Sat. v. tii. 2 Capitoline Museum. 3 Martha, op. cit. p. 202. IDEAS. 365 the popular preachers; we meet it again in one of Dions Tims, Stoicism had in time become an active virtue; it wasanimated by the spirit of proselytisin, and in spreading amongthe multitude it had necessarily lost some of its false rigor. Thiscurrent of moral philoso
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