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CHAPTER III.
THE EPICUREAN BROTHFRHOOD. 		48
Epicurean mode of life, 48 ; view of human
nature, 50 ; disciples of Epicurus, 50 ; Leontion, 53 ;
position of women in Greece, 54 ; scandals, 56 ;
friendship and humanity of the Epicureans, 58 ; letter
of Epicurus to a little girl, 60 ; fast-days, 60 ; dogma-
tic orthodoxy of the sect, 61 ; contributions for mutual
support, 62 ; letters of the brethren, 63 ; testament of
Epicurus, 65 ; his successors, 68 ; Epicurean holidays,
69 ; enthusiasm of his followers, 69.
CHAPTER IV.
DOCUMENTARY SOURCES 		72
Lucretius, 73 ; Diogenes Laertius, 73 ; Plutarch,
76 ; Cicero, 77 ; style of Epicurus, 78 ; his works,
79 ; the manuscripts of Herculaneum, 80 ; Philodemus,
82.
CHAPTER V.
GENERAL ASPECT OF THE SYSTEM 		85
Popular estimates of Epicureanism, 85 ; its antago-
nism to politics, letters, and religion, 86 ; practical
aim, 88 ; subdivision into canonic and physiology, 89 ;
principles of evidence, 93.
CHAPTER VI.
THE NATURAL WORLD 		95
Mechanical explanation of the universe, 95 ; atoms,
97 ; their movements and aggregations, 98 ; pheno- mena of sensibility

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Publication Information: Book Title: Epicureanism. Contributors: William Wallace - author. Publisher: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. Place of Publication: London. Publication Year: 1880. Page Number: vi.
    
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