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THE GREEK PHILOSOPHY.471the moral life as the relation between man asman,52 and conceived human society itself as oneuniversal kingdom of gods and men, it made areal progress and reached its highest pthis was the proper merit of the Stoics.53 Plutarcattributes " to Zeno, their founder, this precise idea,that we ousrht C J not to live in cities and towns, eachdivided by peculiar notions of justice, but esteemall men as tribesmen and citizens, who should makeup one flock feeding in a common pasture under acommon law. The grandest passages of Cicero arethose in which he clothes in his Roman diction thisstoic idea, as for instance :54 uThey judge the worldto be ruled by the power and will of the gods, andto be a sort of city and polity common to gods andmen, and that everyone of us is part of this world."The bond of this community is the common possessionof reason,55 " in which consists the primalsociety of man with God. But they who have reasonin common, have also right reason in common.And as this is law, we are as men to be consideredted with the gods by law also. Now thwho have community of law,mmnity of rights. This latter makes them also to be-52 Zeller, iii. 1, 12.53 Kat fj.7]V T] TroAv ftav/tafou&i) troXireia. rov TTJV *S,ru>iKcav atptcriv Kara/3aA-Ao/xez/ou TA]vwvos ds sv rovro avvrdvei Ke^aAatoz/, ft/a fi^ Kara ir6\sts ju?j8e KaraiSiois e'/cacrrot §ici>picr/j.4voi SiKuiots, a\\a Trdvras avdpcoirovs j]yc*>-a S?]MOTas Kal Tro\iras, efs 5e. Plutarch, Alex. M. Virt. i. 6, p. 329, quoted byZeller, iii. 1, p. 281.De Finibus, iii. sec. 19. 5S De Legifais, i. 7, 6.