We give the chief ethical points.

It is the purpose of the lawgiver to bring about happiness, and to provide all good things divine and human.

The divine things are the cardinal virtues--Wisdom, Justice, Temperance, Courage; the human are the leading personal advantages--Health, Beauty, Strength, Activity, Wealth.

He requires the inculcation of self-command, and a training in endurance.

The moral and religious feelings are to be guided in early youth, by the influence of Poetry and the other Fine Arts, in which, as before, a stringent censorship is to be exercised; the songs and dances are all to be publicly authorized.