A History of the Preparation of the World for Christ ..
A History of the Preparation of the World for Christ ..
David Riddle Breed
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It contained no sympathy, no generosity, no humble resignation, no abiding peace. It proclaimed as the correct maxim of life, "Kill thyself and die erect in the consciousness of thy own strength." Pliny, as we have already noticed, counseled it. Says Seneca: " Seest thou yon steep height, that is the descent to free- dom. Seest thou yon sea, yon river, yon well; freedom sits there in the depths. Seest thou yon low withered tree; there (16) Zeller. § 72. Digitized by LjOOQIC EPICUREAN AND STOIC.... 30I freedom hangs. Seest thou thy neck, thy throat, thy heart; rtiey are the ways of escape from bondage." And Seneca took his own medicine — a double dose of it, in fact; for he not only opened his veins, but took poison in addition. Surely heathenism has gone bankrupt and declared itself absolutely insolvent in the advice and example of its greatest Stoic. Despairing of every kind of happi- ness it has no further consolation for the evils of life than self-destruction. It knows no way in which to achieve victory over the world, but by escaping from the world.
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