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The Stoic Philosophy
wise? God is the omnipresent Law; God is all Nature; no one can help being in harmony with Him. The answer is that God is in all except in the doings of bad men. For man is free. . . . How do we know that? Why, by a katalpêtikê phantasia, a comprehensive sense-impression which it is impossible to resist. Why it should be so we cannot tell. “God might have preferred chained slaves for his fellow-workers; but, as a matter of fact, he preferred free men.” Man's soul, being actually a portion of the divine fire, has the same freedom that God himself has. He can act either with God or against him, though, of course, when he acts against him he will ultimately be overwhelmed. Thus Stoicism grapples with a diffi-
