not arms and guards. When he knows that he has watched and laboured on behalf of mankind: that sleep hath found him pure, and left him purer still: that his thoughts have been the thought of a Friend of the Gods — of a servant, yet of one that hath a part in the government of the Supreme God: that the words are ever on his lips: —

Lead me, O God, and thou, O Destiny!

as well as these: —

If this be God’s will, so let it be!

why should he not speak boldly unto his own brethren, unto his children — in a word, unto all that are akin to him!

CXX

Does a Philosopher apply to people to come and hear him? does he not rather, of his own nature, attract those that will be benefited by him —