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12 STOICISM.senses. There was no ascetic rigour in his conductsuch as later moraUsts have often preached and practised;but in the simpHcity of his daily life, in hischeerful abstinence from self-indulgence, in the hardihoodwith which he bore hunger and thirst and heatand cold, while yet he could truly say that he wasthoroughly happy in his moderation, he lived up tohis own sense of human dignity, and left a model ofphilosophic independence which has influenced thewhole tone of later thought.There was no revolt in Socrates against the standardsof his age and country, but still it is of interestto note that there were features in him which werecertainly not of a Greek type. There was somethingeccentric in his outer man, an obvious want of harmonybetween his looks and character which wasalmost a matter of jest among his friends, and whichoffended the cultivated taste of Athens. The commoncurrent of his talk and the nature of his illustrationshardly were in keeping with the grace and artisticbeauty of his times. He took his examples from thecommonest subjects, without much regard to prejudiceand fashion, and explained the notion of thebeautiful as consisting in mere usefulness. He wasso sunk at times in meditation as to forget the outerworld a while, and the stiffness of his posture at suchtimes was paralleled by a certain want of delicate tactand intellectual sympathy for the feelings of hishearers. This may have weakened perhaps his influencewhile he lived, but it also may explain somesides of the Socratic thought in the later forms which
THE THOUGHT AND CHARACTER OF SOCRATES. 1 3itassumed, and which were still less in harmony withthe spirit of Greece.With these remarks, then, we may pass from themethod and sentiments of Socrates himself, but thepoints which have been thus lightly touched on willmeet us often at a later stage. The paramount importancethus ascribed to moral questions, the highestimate of human dignity, the estrangement from thebusiness of public life or the protest at its lower rulesof action, the ideal of the unruffled calm of selfcontrol,and thepartial disregard of the balance andharmony natural to Greece — these were all developedafterwards in various forms, and some of them werepushed to great extremes, but nowhere with suchextravagance as by the Cynics.
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