Note 570 — Chapter XI · ROMAN MORALS: AN IDEAL OF CIVIC DUTY
Reading edition
History of European Morals, 3d ed., vol. i, p. 129. Lecky instances (vol. i, p. 292) three ways in which Stoicism worked for good in the Empire: (1) it raised up good emperors; (2) it led men to engage in the public service; and (3) it rendered the law more catholic and humane.