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THE STANDING-GROUND OF PHILOSOPHYCOIlove f knowledg S h makes Helvid us Prian P the majority, inasmuch he didP S philosophy as a cover r a f flazy inactivity, but to find it a d pirit f rh dang f t dutie i Th Id ofTacitus, in short, is not a world for Greek thinkbut fi Roman workers. Trajan fulfils his ideal ofP d the t dier wh d y gp h easelei la governm h r 1 sby and with his senate, is as a light which shbef T h beginning of that most blessedThe principate, b by him, almost redeemedb y maint ^^f o berty while it cl socie hdlong servitude" of Rome under Tiberius, themad f C pidity of Claud us. thefiddling, the debauchery, and the cruelty of Nthe ispic: y f D Tl m isthe titud f h s friend h y p w hbui temp' as well as inaugurated sch Dr hispoc ghb S a ni dddbeliever than either in the gods according to thepop belief Th same tone and temp ir may bebserved in J L b h h Idb dded thathim some of the noblest precep d principles ofSt are d togeth h belief hgod Th h own town of Aquinum h dedjd an offering > Ceres ii fulfilment of : vow. Itf the gods co tively th he expresses his beliefP d ence wering i .n's prayers b bter thant ppliant himself would know how to answer1 I b d th he record f clsical Greek literature do not produce a sentiment sofavourable to the heathen gods as that contained in1 Tacitus, Agricola, 4; Hist. iv. 5 ; Agricola, 3.VOL. III.MLIBRARYCOLLEGE