CONTENTS. Looking to the Past: Its Rustic Virtue; The Georgics Rome's Fortitude: Obeying Divine Destiny The Æneid: Power and Sadness of Obedience Religious and Moral Betterment; The Carmen Sæculare The High Hope Looking to the Emperor; The Imperial Apo- From Homer to Virgil: Homeric and Virgilian Pathos Virgil's Tenderness towards All of Life Horace; The Pathos of Epicureanism Stoical Aphorism and Benevolence: Seneca Stoical Religiousness: Epictetus Satisfaction of the Rational Soul, the Dissatisfaction of the Man. Three Acts Are the Drama! The Stoical Failure From Reason to Ecstasy and Oracle Porphyry; Iamblicus; The Philosophy of Superstition The Stories of the Patriarchs; Writing The Exodus and Resulting Thought of God; Moses Leadership, Divine and Human; Samuel and a King The Righteousness of David Solomon; The Justice and Mercy of the Time |