Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. The doctrines of the Stoics were gathered from the various schools of Philosophy which had preceded them, and embraced a system constituted of the best and purest, soundest and most beautiful portions of the precepts emanating from the schools of Thales, Solon, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, and Antisthenes forming a code of moral instruction the fairest, the least exceptionable, and the best of any springing from the foun tains of heathen antiquity. Hence the work now presented to the publlc, In a garb entirely new, is unquestionably the best moral production of the ancient schools.