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The Grey Weathers — On the Dart, — Teign, &c, — Parallellitha as 
those at Kist Tor, Merrivale Bridge, Black Tor, Trowlsworthy Tor, 
Chalwich Town, &c. Kist-veans — at Merrivale Bridge, Yealm 
Head, Kist Tor, Hounter Tor, &c. Tumuli — on Three Barrow Tor, 
Rippon Tor, &c. Cromlechs — at Drewsteignton — Merrivale Bridge — 
Corydon Ball, &c. He also drew attention to the importance of 
an accurate survey of the antiquities of Dartmoor, as many of 
them were being rapidly destroyed for the purpose of making 
roads and building hedges. He exhibited beautiful specimens 
of flint celts, arrow-heads, and flakes that had been found beneath 
the peat on Dartmoor. 
THE LATER STOICS. 
ABSTRACT OF REV. C. B. STMEs's PAPER. 
(Read October 20th, 1870. 
The reasons for the choice of the subject may be found in the 
historic, scientific, and practical interest of Stoicism. 
In its origin. Stoicism was related closely to Cynicism, and 
manifested many of its peculiarities. 
There is very little of personal interest in the history of the 
system, and we may therefore pass on to note the leading features 
of its philosophy, in which we find three great divisions — Logic, 
Physics, and Ethics. 
In Logic its main peculiarity was the attempt to find a sub- 
jective criterion of the truth or falsity which it professed to dis- 
cover in the intensity of the conviction that the judgment was true. 
In Physics the Stoics were materialists, regarding substance and 
attributes as alike material, maintaining that reason, force, and 
soul were only subtler kinds of matter ; hence all causes, the great 
Cause Himself, was material. From Materialism they were led on 
to Pantheism, and thence to Fatalism. 
Their Ethics were the most important element in their system : 
they were chiefly comprised in the two ideas. Virtue and pleasure 
are wholly distinct and hostile : we must seek that virtue which 
consists in being in harmony with the soul of the universe. In 
pursuing that virtue we must indulge no emotions, and our hap- 
piness must be rather negative than positive. 
