Excerpt: ...he does so to his hurt, so the moral patient may long refuse to follow a principle of life which his reason has accepted. 1978 And so the preacher, instead of apologising for repeating himself, will regard it as a duty and a necessity to do so. But Dion did not aim at the formation of any cloistered virtue, concentrated on personal salvation. He has a fine passage in which he shows that retreat, ( ) detachment of spirit, is quite possible without withdrawing from the noises of the world. 1979 And he felt himself ...
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Excerpt: ...he does so to his hurt, so the moral patient may long refuse to follow a principle of life which his reason has accepted. 1978 And so the preacher, instead of apologising for repeating himself, will regard it as a duty and a necessity to do so. But Dion did not aim at the formation of any cloistered virtue, concentrated on personal salvation. He has a fine passage in which he shows that retreat, ( ) detachment of spirit, is quite possible without withdrawing from the noises of the world. 1979 And he felt himself charged with a mission to bring the higher principles of conduct into the civic life of the time. We know from Pliny's correspondence with Trajan, that the great cities of Bithynia, and not least Dion's birthplace, 1980 were then suffering from unskilful administration and wasteful finance. Dion completes the picture by showing us their miserable bickerings and jealousies about the most trivial things. He denounces the unscrupulous flattery of the masses by men whose only object was the transient distinction of municipal office, the passion for place and power, without any sober wish to serve or elevate the community. He also exposes the caprice, the lazy selfishness, and the petulant ingratitude of the crowd. 1981 Dion, it is true, is an idealist, and his ideals of society are perhaps not much nearer realisation in some of our great cities than they were then. He often delivered his message to the most unpromising audiences. Some of his finest conceptions of social reorganisation were expounded before rude gatherings on the very verge of civilisation. 1982 Once, in his wanderings, he found himself under the walls of a half-ruined Greek town, which had been attacked, the day before, by a horde of Scythian barbarians. There, on the steps of the temple of Zeus, he pg 372 expounded to an eager throng of mean Greek traders, with all the worst vices, and only some faded traces of the culture of their race, the true...
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