ABSTRACT
The world is full of sin. Sin is ignorance, it is that which appears to be knowledge, but is not knowledge. From another point of view all sin is due to a lack of moral force, a want of tone in the moral sinews, an unhealthy condition of the soul. Philosophy builds upon the foundations of common opinion, and its task is the easier. Anger is an evil that has many varieties, and the cisians exercise their ingenuity in distinguishing the bitter-humoured, the fiery, the fierce, the man who is hard to get on with. Grief takes many forms, as Fretfulness, Disappointment, Restlessness, Pity, and Mourning. Seneca draws for us the same picture of sentimental neglect of duty. ' Of our luxurious rich', he says', no one sits by the side of his dying friend, no one watches the death of his own father, or joins in the last act of respect of any member of his family'.
