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as a soldier we have seen that Marcus was both capable and successful as an administrator. He was prudent and conscientious. Although steeped in the teachings of philosophy. He did not attempt to remodel the world on any preconceived plan. He trod the path beaten by his predecessors, seeking only to do his duty as well as he could and to keep out corruption. He did some unwise things. It is true to create a compere in empire, as he did with various was a dangerous innovation which could only succeed if one of the two have faced himself and under Diocletian, this very precedent caused the roman empire to split into halves. He aired in his civil administration by too much centralizing, but the strong point of his reign was the administration of justice. Marcus sought by laws to protect the weak to make the lot of the slaves less hard to stand in place of father to the fatherless charitable foundations were endowed for rearing and educating poor Children. The provinces were protected against oppression and public help was given to cities or districts which might be visited by calamity. The great blot on his name, and one hard indeed to explain is his treatment of the christians in his reign. Justin at Rome became a martyr to his faith and polic ARP at Smyrna, and we know of many outbreaks of fanaticism in the provinces which caused the death of the faithful. It is no excuse to plead that he knew nothing about the atrocities done in his name. It was his duty to know, and if he did not, he would have been the first to confess that he had failed in his duty, but from his own tone and speaking of the christians, it is clear he knew them only from calumny, and we hear of no measures taken even to secure that they should have a fair hearing in this respect. Trajan was better than he. To a thoughtful mind. Such a religion as that of Rome would give small satisfaction. Its legends were often childish or impossible. It's teaching had little to do with morality. The roman religion was in fact of the nature of a bargain. Men paid certain sacrifices and rights and the gods granted their favor irrespective of right or wrong. In this case, all devout souls were thrown back upon philosophy as they had been, though to a lesser extent in Greece. There were under the early empire to rival schools, which practically divided the field between them, stoicism and epicurean is um, the ideal set before each was nominally much the same. The stoics aspired to the repression of all emotion and the epicurean is to freedom from all disturbance. Yet in the upshot the one has become a synonym of stubborn endurance, The other for unbridled license