The Stoic Philosophy
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that our two chief preachers of Stoicism are, the one a lame and penniless slave to whom worldly success is as nothing, the other an Emperor of Rome, keenly interested in good administration.
The founder of the Stoic school, Zeno, came from Cilicia to Athens about the year 320 b.c. His place of birth is, perhaps, significant. He was a Semite, and came from the East. The Semite was apt in his religion to be fierier and more uncompromising than the Greek. The time of his coming is certainly significant. It was a time when landmarks had collapsed, and human life was left, as it seemed, without a guide. The average man in Greece of the fifth century b.c. had two main guides and sanctions for his conduct of life: the wel-
