dvantage; because it is against our nature as humans to do so, because without the basis of this human characteristics, the whole human society would fall apart. The qualities we value most in our fellow human beings are the most natural to us because they were endowed to us from the gods so that the race of human beings and the human society could go on existing. We can know this from his words; "People who argue like this subvert the whole basis of humans community itself - and when that is gone, kind actions, generosity, goodness, and justice are annihilated. And their annihilation is a sin against the immortal gods. For it was they who established the society which such men are undermining." Cicero's belief in the natural goodness of the human race was stead-fast because he believed that it was endowed to us from the gods. In Virgil's "Pollio", which christians believed to have prophesied the birth of Christ, we can see what he thought of the conditions of the human race of his time and also of what he thought the coming of god will do for the good of his people. Virgil percieved the humans race as being in the "Iron Age" (In Ovid's "Metamorphoses", we see the concept of humans becoming more and more dirtied as they moved though time from the "Golden, Silver Ages", to the " Bronze, Iron Ages"), the age of corruption which the coming of "Pollio" will disinfect for us. He writes, "Time has concieved and the great sequences of the Ages starts afresh. ...... With him, the Iron Age shall end and the golden Man inherit all the world. ..... And it is in your consulship, yours, Pollio, that this glorious Age will dawn and the Procession of the of the great months begin. Under your leadership all traces that remain in our iniquity will be effaced and, as they vanish, free the world from its long night of horror." Through this, we can know that Virgil believed in the power of "Pollio" to restore and to guide the human race to its rightious ...
