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viiiCONTENTSPAGEThe work of Aristotle27The work of Zeno 28The common effect reached by these four . . . .29Contrast of St. Peter's work30The power of " Follow Me "32This work of Peter as represented in the catacombs andmonuments of Rome35Parallel between Judaism and Christianity37Moses, as striking the rock, and as the type of Peter . . 37The three powers of dogma, morality, and worship, ascontinued from Moses in Judaism .... 39United and exalted in Christ ...... 40Transfused from His Person to the Apostles, and especiallyto Peter41The catacombs, the sarcophagi, and St. Leo, bearing witnessof these to each other42These powers weakened and disjointed in Greek philosophy 44LECTUREXVINEOSTOICISM AND THE CHRISTIAN CHURCHI. Programme of the subject; gradual leavening of heathenphilosophy with Christian sentiments ...47The political and social sphere of the empire in whichPhilosophy was working ......49The great Latin writers, from Cicero to Tacitus, withoutany fixed belief in their own religion . . 51The Stoic philosophy alone in force in the reigns ofClaudius and Nero54Summary of its Kosmology, Theology, and Ethics . 55he four chief Stoics formed on these principles . . 57Seneca, his life and circumstancesHis view of the task and function of Philosophy .His conception of God? the world, cause and matter,corporeality of good60His conception of the human soul64Great advance on previous doctrine of his teaching onbeneficence, anger, revenge, placability ... 66How modified by his view of man's duty to himself . 68His doctrine on slaveryInconsistency between Seneca's life and writings . . 7157