Here F. W. Farrar offers an account of the lives and thinking Seneca, Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius, whom Farrar deems "the most clear-sighted moralists among ancient philosophers and with the single exception of Socrates, the best and holiest characters presented to us in the records of antiquity." British theologian Frederic William Farrar was chaplain to Queen Victoria from 1871 to 1876. Among his many works are The Life and Works of St Paul and The Early Days of Christianity.