Christendom anno Domini MDCCCCI ..A presentation of Christian conditions and activities in every country of the world at the beginning of the twentieth century, by more than sixty competent contributors . ^^ i«? ^^ ft -^ii •• r - ^i tj iLU!!ilin wJoi. UNITED CHARITIES BUiLDIXG. NEW YORK. PHILANTHROPY. 73 of pre-Cliristian thinkers. The humane character of the tenets ofBuddhism has caused that religion, more frequently perhaps thanany other, to be compared with Christianity. Cicero, in De ofJiciiSfexpatiates on the virtue of benevolence. Seneca and some others ofthe later Stoics likewise reckon
Christendom anno Domini MDCCCCI ..A presentation of Christian conditions and activities in every country of the world at the beginning of the twentieth century, by more than sixty competent contributors . ^^ i«? ^^ ft -^ii •• r - ^i tj iLU!!ilin wJoi. UNITED CHARITIES BUiLDIXG. NEW YORK. PHILANTHROPY. 73 of pre-Cliristian thinkers. The humane character of the tenets ofBuddhism has caused that religion, more frequently perhaps thanany other, to be compared with Christianity. Cicero, in De ofJiciiSfexpatiates on the virtue of benevolence. Seneca and some others ofthe later Stoics likewise reckon the rendering of services to others asamong the virtues to be cultivated by the good man. Not only so,but classic civilization was not entirely devoid of a practical applica-tion of such tenets. The enactment of the frumentarice leges andthe alimcntarii of the latter republic and the early emperors, whichdecreed the periodical distribution of corn and oil, either gratis or atprices below the market rate, to needy citizens, not only of Romebut of some of the leading provincial cities also, may indeed be at-tributed chiefly to considerations of political expediency, but isolatedacts of liberality among the Greeks, as well as among the Romans,ar
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