[103] Meditations of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, v., i.
[104] Aristotle, Politics, i., ii.
[105] Xenophon’s Memorabilia of Socrates, Bohn’s translation, by Rev. J. S. Watson, M.A., II., vii.
[106] Confucius and Mencius, Pauthier’s translation, p. 303.
[107] The word mercenary has always had an unfavorable meaning attached to it, a relic of ancient prejudice. In the proper sense, mercenary means remunerative, and should have no condemnatory signification. Yet already in antiquity the word mercenary had a higher sense than the word servile; for Cicero, wishing to say that one should treat one’s slaves well, said that they should be treated as mercenaries—that is to say, as men remunerated but free.
[108] Plato, Republic, i., ii.
[109] See his De Officiis, i., iv.
[110] It might be called sensibility, in the sense this word had in the XVIII. century. It is not enough to be human toward others, one owes some feeling to one’s self also.
[111] Nicomachean Ethics, VI., ii.
[112] Ibid., VI., xii.