The Greek Philosophers, Vol. 2 (of 2)

by Alfred William Benn

[144] Cicero, De Fin., II., vii., 20; De Nat. Deor., I., xvii., 45, xxx., 85.

[145] Diog., X., 150-1.

[146] V., 1145-59.

[147] Cicero, De Fin., II., xvii., 57.

[148] Op. cit., p. 163.

[149] The lamented Prof. T. H. Green may be mentioned as another example of a high-minded thinker who was also an ardent and active politician. With regard to antiquity, see the splendid roll of public-spirited philosophers enumerated by Plutarch, Adv. Col., xxxii.

[150] Op. cit., p. 164.

[151] J. S. Mill observed, in a conversation with Mr. John Morley, reported by the latter, that ‘in his youth mere negation of religion was a firm bond of union, social and otherwise, between men who agreed in nothing else.’—Fortnightly Review, vol. XIII., p. 675.

[152] Cicero, De Nat. Deor., L., 18-24.

[153] Woltjer, Lucret. Ph., p. 74.