It is a religion because the repellent and rigorous teaching of the older Stoicism is, as it is in Epictetus, suffused with a glow of emotion.
But, as Stoicism became less scientific, it inclined to return more and more to the spirit and method of the older Cynicism.
It might seem that the true disciple of Stoicism could not take a part in public life save under some ideal polity, such as Plato or Chrysippus dreamed of.
It is one great object of this book to show how the later Stoicism and the new Platonism, working in eclectic harmony, strove to supply a rule of conduct and a higher vision of the Divine world.
The older Stoicism permitted the hope of a limited immortality until the next great cataclysm, in which, after many ages, all things will be swallowed up.
But they had not so long and powerful a reign over the Roman mind as Stoicism, and, although the earlier Stoicism extended a philosophic patronage to popular religion, it may be doubted whether it stimulated faith.
Indeed Stoicism was always rather a creed for the cultivated upper class than for the crowd.
The fruitful part of Stoicism as a religion was the doctrine that the human reason is a part of the soul of the world, a spark of the Divine mind.
These mingled influences also account for the profound alterations which Stoicism had undergone in the mind of Seneca.
It is thus that the later Stoicism melts into the revived Platonism.
Panaetius, the chief representative of Roman Stoicism in the second century B.
But in the first century, Stoicism came to be much more a religion than a philosophy, or even a theology.
Making allowance for certain inconsistencies of mood, hope for and faith in the future, and weary scepticism, there is a fine stoicism about the philosophy of Jefferies.
De Quincey at the close of his long and varied life showed the same tranquil stoicism that had carried him through his many difficulties.
They were educated on the severest principles, but neither acquired the high quality of stoicism which he had looked for.
Had the peril been his own, one might have guessed that he would meet it with the gentle stoicism old Kimbro showed.
His stoicism fell from him as he half spoke, half chanted the harangue.
Then, when the demands of Indian stoicism had been satisfied, Snoqualmie turned his face, a handsome but treacherous and cruel face, upon the messenger.
The wrath and disdain passed from his features, and stoicism settled over them like a mask of stone.
Stoicism can often keep off the club of the hour, but not the gnat-sting of the second.
Concerning Lofty Men, and Evidence that the Passions belong to the Next Life, and Stoicism to this.
By such dangerous fancies I really upset all my stoicism and become, even before I am yet thirty, eighteen years old.
The Indian's dignifiedstoicism has been as much exaggerated, as his courage and fortitude.
It is to be doubted, whether some part of this vaunted stoicism be not the result of a more than ordinary degree of physical insensibility.
It transformed the character from icy stoicism or epicurean selfishness to a boundless and uncalculating self-abnegation and devotion.
Even the high philosophy of Greece and the noble stoicism of the Roman mind afford no consolation to the soul brought face to face with the solemn mystery of death.
Fully aware that he is going to his death, he nevertheless scorns to desert his companions-in-arms, and awaits the fate in store for him with a stoicism that would do honor to a Spartan.
In these particulars he had caught the stoicism of the Indians, well knowing that there was no more certain mode of securing their respect than by imitating their self-command.
Then falling back on his acquired stoicism of manner, which so many mistake for constitutional indifference, he drew up in reserve, and prepared to part from his friend with dignity.
Christianity was not a dualistic philosophy; but neither was Stoicismnor Neo-Platonism.
Stoicism was ascetic in tendency; Neo-Platonism ascetic in principle, holding that the soul should be purged from contamination with things of sense.
Likewise such ethical earnestness as had come down through Stoicism was drawn within the master Christian energy.
Stoicism was interested in them as affording a foundation for ethics.
Platonism was an idealistic cosmos; Stoicism a cosmos of subjective ethics and teleological conceptions of the physical world.
Stoicism on the other hand represented a rule of life, the sanction of which was inner peace.
Idealism might tend toward dualistic ethics, and issue in asceticism, as was the tendency in Stoicism and the open result with Plotinus and his disciples.
Yet in nothing was Stoicism more faulty than in its exalted sense of virtue.
They are true to their allies, prizing highly their freedom, hospitable to strangers, sober yet gay, maintaining a grave stoicism in presence of strangers, and a Spartan indifference under severe suffering or misfortune.
The characteristic stoicism of the red race is not manifested by these tribes.
Notwithstanding the mildness of their disposition and the inferiority of their weapons, the Central Californians do not lack courage in battle, and when captured will meet their fate with all the stoicism of a true Indian.
In the Flathead torture of the Blackfeet are practiced all the fiendish acts of cruelty that native cunning can devise, all of which are borne with the traditional stoicism and taunts of the North American Indian.
How often already have we paused, uncertain whether the basis of this so enigmatic nature were really Stoicism and Despair, or Love and Hope only seared into the figure of these!
Cato was devoted to his brother Caepio, and when Caepio died, forgot all his Stoicism in the passionate indulgence of his grief, and all his frugality in lavishing gold and perfumes on the funeral.
Renan to the Christians who refuse to recognise the martyrs of Stoicism under the Roman Empire.
Stoic philosopher, and the founder of Stoicism as a systematic philosophy.
There were under the early empire two rival schools which practically divided the field between them, Stoicism and Epicureanism.
But that was mere feeling; the stoicism of his thought could not be disturbed by this or any other failure.
Explain why Stoicism made such an appeal to the better-educated classes at Rome.
But neither Epicureanism nor Stoicism could satisfy the natural longing of the soul for that which is above the earth and beyond the grave.
But the fundamental principles of both Epicureanism and Stoicism were destructive of those spiritual elements which furnish complete and permanent nourishment to the soul.
Stoicism was pervaded throughout by a melancholy and desolating fatalism.
Stoicism originated with Zeno, a native of Cittium in Cyprus, born about the year 340 B.
Stoicism was pantheism, and Epicureanism was materialism.
Stoicism and Epicureanism were the dominant spiritual and intellectual forces of the Roman empire at the time of Christ.
By what course of events came about the dramatic reversal, in which an ethically conquered Stoicism became the conqueror, epistemologically, of Christianity?
Stoicism did not, any more than Christianity, maintain that the concrete Stoic was free from sins, both of omission and commission.
There is nothing in Stoicism to make him so, and as a matter of fact he was not so.
I had read in newspapers, labored eloquence that described the stoicism of some hardened criminal as a trait of character to be admired.
There is a cruelty in life," she added, compassionately, "which we must accept with stoicism as the inevitable.
So his conception of struggle was many-sided, and he did not prize stoicism and strength of character only in duels and bear-fights.
I swear that she was surprised at my stoicism in that last hour.
The memory of the Helper, of his sorrow, his brave and victorious endurance, came when stoicism failed.
Stoicism has its value, but Ralph had come to a place where stoicism was of no account.
