In this way the Practical Movement of Hellen- istic Ethics completes itself.

But now a new fact appears : Hellenistic Ethics though appar- ently completed in separate systems, begins to show itself again as a means for bringing back man to participation in the Divine, such as we saw the Ethical process to be in Plato and Aris- totle.

Once more the philosophic Norm asserts itself, and Ethics is seen to be at bottom the third stage of its movement, which is the return to Absolute Being in some form.

Particularly Aristotles ethical end as the vision of God be- gins to realize itself in every thinking individual.

Indeed, Roman Law, with its universal authority, as a phase of institutional Ethics, led in the same direction, moving back to the one supreme Au- thority of the Universe.