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have no forward look or future
gleam. Even Epictetus and his pupil
Marcus Aurelius, bound hard and fast
in Stoicism, whose environment had
its outer walls in thickest plates of
chilled iron, found no life worth
the living but that which had an el-
-ement of anticipation in it, so that
whatever befel [befell] must be for the bet-
ter, and the good time must be always
coming. Such stoicism, in spite of
its hardness has the charm of hero-
-ism in it, and shows how possible
it is for Augustinianism to work
toward the regeneration of the world,