frame, of great powers of endurance, we are told that he earned by night what enabled him to live in study by day. His determination was so strong that he even made use of potsherds and bones as his note-tablets. Such a man would impress his earnestness on the system he espoused. His disciple, Chrysippus, does not seem to have possessed his earnestness of purpose to find out the truth, so much as to establish the system and wage war in its favour against all adversaries. We have remarked that some inconsistencies of doctrine were alleged against him. These appear to have been owing to his desire to reconcile irreconcilable things; as, divine sovereignty with human freedom in any respect:—universal goodness in the ordering of nature with the presence of moral evil in the world. Such subjects must always remain mysteries. He who will explain them will be inconsistent either with himself or with truth. I shall proceed, in another chapter, to place the system of Zeno, Cleanthes, and Chrysippus (that is, Stoicism as it came, in its perfected condition, into contact with divine truth) side by side with the doctrines and precepts taught us in the religion of Christ. We shall see much to admire, much to lament in the sect that wished to raise the individual almost to the level of the deity, and yet showed, by the suicides of the first two of its founders, and by other proofs of human error, the fallacy on which the system was built, that man himself is part of the divinity, and so has only to act on his own influence to rise to perfection. Footnote 12: Diog. Laert. enumerates and quotes many of his writings. Footnote 13: “Le caractère commun de Stoïcisme et de l’Epicuréisme est de réduire presque entièrement la philosophie à la morale.”—V. COUSIN. Footnote 14: Cleanthes said that it was τύπωσις ἐν ψυχῇ, an impression made on the soul, similar to that of a stamp on molten wax, τοῦ κηροῦ τύπωσιν: while Chrysippus said it was a ἑτερείωσις, or modification of the soul itself. Footnote 15: By Diog. Laert. Lib. VII. c. VII. § V. Footnote 16: