Seneca the Philosopher And His Modern Message

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Seneca the Philosopher And His Modern Message
Richard M Richard Mott Gummere
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Matthew Arnold calls him a stimulating writer; Sainte-Beuve declares, " La vraie baguette d'enchantment de Seneque, c'est d'abord son style . . . Le style, un sceptre d'or a qui reste, en definitive, I'em- pire de ce monde. " Emerson, ^^ especially in the recently published Journals, records of his workshop, shows again and again that he has read and pondered the ancient master with care. He records reading Montaigne to see how he approaches Seneca; he comes back often to the Stoic: "putting on...eself into har- [131] SENECA THE PHILOSOPHER mony with the constitution of things. " Speak- ing of Burton and the " vocabulary class " of writers, he says: " Now and then out of that affluence of their learning comes a fine sen- tence from Theophrastus, Seneca, or Boethius, but no high method, no inspiring efflux. " " Let us learn to live coarsely, dress plainly, and lie hard. " " Sad is this continual postponement of life. " Finally, the Journal of 1820-4 records Seneca as a regular part of the reading- course in ancient authors.

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