Ethics note-book for nurses.

The president was generally a clergyman of the denomination; he taught the ethics course, and all students were required to take it.

The one hope of the age, the Stoic philosophy, was concerned with those who had attained to reason, i.e. to those who had reached their fourteenth year; in the Stoic view the child was indeed potentially reasonable, and thus a subject of interest, but in the Stoic ethics education does not take a very prominent place.

This may also serve to explain why it is that in the ancient scheme of ethics virtues and vices are mentioned which find no place in ours.