The Mutual Influence of Christianity and the Stoic School THE MUTUAL INFLUENCE OF CHRISTIANITY AND THE STOIC SCHOOL. BY JAMES HENRY BRYANT, B.D. ST JOHN’S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE, INCUMBENT OF ASTLEY, WARWICKSHIRE. μάντις εἴμ’ ἐσθλῶν ἀγώνων. SOPH. _Œd. Col. 1080._ London and Cambridge: MACMILLAN AND CO. 1866. Cambridge: PRINTED BY C. J. CLAY M.A. AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS. TO HIS GRACE, WILLIAM, DUKE OF DEVONSHIRE, K.G., LL.D. CHANCELLOR OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE, THE FOLLOWING ESSAY, BEING THE HULSEAN DISSERTATION IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE, FOR THE YEAR 1865, IS BY HIS GRACE’S KIND PERMISSION, RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED. CONTENTS. Introduction . . . 1 CHAPTER I. The Stoic School of Philosophy . . . 13 CHAPTER II. Stoicism in comparison with Christianity . . . 27 CHAPTER III. The Influence of Christianity on Stoicism . . . 48 CHAPTER IV. The Influence of Stoicism on the Christian Church . . . 74 Conclusion . . . 91 CLAUSES _directed by the_ FOUNDER _to be always prefixed to the_ HULSEAN DISSERTATION. CLAUSES from the WILL of the Rev. JOHN HULSE, late of Elworth, in the County of Chester, clerk, deceased: dated the twenty-first day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy-seven; expressed in the words of the Testator, as he, in order to prevent mistakes, thought proper to draw and write the same himself, and directed that such clauses should every year be printed, to the intent that the several persons, whom it might concern and be of service to, might know that there were such special donations or endowments left for the encouragement of Piety and Learning, in an age so unfortunately addicted to Infidelity and Luxury, and that others might be invited to the like charitable, and, as he humbly hoped, seasonable and useful Benefactions.