But the last symptoms in the literature show us that the Stoicism is not sufficient for our generation, not satisfied with Marcus Aurelius's gospel, which was not sufficient even to that brilliant Sienkiewicz's Roman arbiter elegantiarum, the over-refined patrician Petronius.

He expressed his regret that His Britannic Majesty's Government should still consider any part of the opinion of the arbiter obligatory on either party.

Magni Deus arbiter orbis!