Word: aurelius
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Copeland expressly disclaimed any attempt to expound either Emerson or Carlyle with authority. He acknowledged a debt to several books and to the illuminating conversation of Professor J. B. Thayer, who, upon Arnold's comparison of Marcus Aurelius and Emerson as moralists, made the important comment that, although Marcus Aurelius gives the world morality, Emerson gives it morality kindled...
Passing on to the Stoics, the professor spoke of the doctrines of Caesar, who held the view that there was no eternal life, and of Cato and Cicero, both of whom agreed with the views of Caesar. Marcus Aurelius was a more cautious stoic, never directly offering any view upon immortality. The influence which these men held upon Roman thought was very great. The conflicting tendencies of the religion of the second century were mentioned. The hopeless cynicism of Pliny was contrasted with the faith of Vergil, who had a deep consciousness of the ethical demand for retribution...
...Does the reign of M. Aurelius justify the desire of Plato that philosophers should be kings...