Volume II Part 30 (2/2)

Their views concerning the immortality of the soul, 182-184.

Taught men to sacrifice reputation, and do good in secret, 186.

And distinguished the obligation from the attraction of virtue, 186.

Taught also that the affections must be subordinate to the reason, 187-191.

Their false estimate of human nature, 192.

Their love of paradox, 192.

Imperfect lives of many eminent Stoics, 193.

Their retrospective tendencies, 193.

Their system unfitted for the majority of mankind, 194.

Compared with the religious principle, 195.

The central composition of this philosophy, the dignity of man, 195.

High sense of the Stoics of the natural virtue of man, and of the power of his will, 195, 196.

Their recognition of Providence, 196.

The two aspects under which they wors.h.i.+pped G.o.d, 198.

The Stoics secured from quietism by their habits of public life, 199-201.

Their view of humanity, 202.

Their preparations for, and view of, death, 202.

Their teaching as to suicide, 212, 213, _et seq._ Contrast between Stoicism and Roman luxury, 225, 226.

The Stoical philosophy quite capable of representing the cosmopolitan spirit, 239, 240.

Stoicism not capable of representing the softening movement of civilisation, 241.

Influence of the eclectic spirit on it, 244.

Stoicism becomes more essentially religious, 245.

Increasingly introspective character of later Stoicism, 247.

Marcus Aurelius the best example of later Stoicism, 249-255.

Effects of Stoicism on the corruption of Roman Society, 291, 292.

It raised up many good Emperors, 292.

It produced a n.o.ble opposition under the worst Emperors, 293.

It greatly extended Roman law, 294.

The Stoics considered as the consolers of the suffering, advisers of the young, and as popular preachers, 308.

Rapid decadence of Stoicism, 317, 318.

Difference between the Stoical and Egyptian pantheism, 324.

Stoical naturalism superseded by the theory of daemons, 331.

Theory that the writings of the Stoics were influenced by Christianity examined, 332.

Domitian's persecution of them, 432

Strozzi, Philip, his suicide, ii. 56

Suffering, a courageous endurance of, probably the first form of virtue in savage life, i. 130

Suicide, att.i.tude adopted by Pagan philosophy and Catholicism towards, i.

211, _et seq._ Eminent suicides, 215.

Epidemic of suicides at Alexandria, 216.

And of girls at Miletus, 216, _note_.

Grandeur of the Stoical ideal of suicide, 216.

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