Senega's Morals.

"What is all the writing, reading, discoursing, consulting, disputing, meditating, confounding, and dividing from the first 'quickening breath of the Almighty into reasonable nature, to this very moment? What is all this, I say, but the lighting of one candle at another? One thought kindles another from generation to another."

Sir Roger L'estrange's edition of Seneca is an excellent book. The Roman sage is the Pagan Paul. A perusal of this work might, perhaps, benefit our needy, seedy, greedy politicians.

Worship is now, as in Seneca's time, rather a matter of custom than of conscience. Philosophers now, as then, do what Augustine taxed Seneca with—worship what they reprove, act what they dislike, and adore what they condemn.