r of humility, and especially in its failure to see,
still more to conform to, the great doctrine of Christ which makes the
salvation of a man to depend on the interest he takes in, as well as in
the fact of the salvation of, other men. The Stoic was a proud man, and
not a humble, and was content if he could only have his own soul for a
prey. He did not see--and no heathen ever did--that the salvation of one
man is impossible except in the salvation of other men, and that no man
can save another unless he descend into that other's case and stand, as
it were, in that other's stead. It is the glory of Christ that He was the
first to feel Himself, and to reveal to others, the eternal validity and
divinity of this truth. The Stoic morality is selfish; the morality of
Christ is brotherly.

STOKE-UPON-TRENT (24), chief seat of the "Potteries," in
Staffordshire, on the Trent and the Trent and Mersey Canal, 15 m. SE. of
Crewe; is of modern growth, with free library, infirmary, public baths,
statue to Wedgwood, &c., and is busily engaged in the manufacture of all
sorts of porcelain ware, earthenware, encaustic tiles, &c., besides which
there are flourishing iron-works, machine-shops, coal-mines, &c.

STOKES, SIR GEORGE GABRIEL, mathematician and physicist, born in
Skreen, co. Sligo; he is great in the department of mathematical physics,
and has been specially devoted to the study of hydro-dynamics and the
theory of light; has opened new fields of investigation, and supplied
future experimenters with valuable hints; he was one of the foremost
physicists of the day; _b_. 1819.

STOLBERG, CHRISTIAN, COUNT, German poet of the Goettingen school, to
which Buerger and Voss belonged, born in Hamburg; was with his brother a
friend of Goethe's, and held a civil appointment in Holstein (1748-1821).

STOLBERG, FRIEDRICH LEOPOLD, COUNT OF, German poet, born in
Holstein, brother of preceding; held State appointments in Denmark;
joined the Romish Church, and showed a religious and ascetic temper
(1750-1819).

STOLE, a long scarf worn by bishops and priests in the
administration of the sacraments of the Church, and sometimes when
preaching, as well as in symbol of authority.

STONE AGE, the name given to that period in the history of
civilisation when the weapons of war and the chase and the implements of
industry were made of stone, prior to employment for these purposes of
bronze, characteristic of the age succeeding.

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