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The Stoicism of George Washington
How the first U.S. President was influenced by the Stoics.
George Washington, known for his exemplary self-discipline and mental composure, is a figure in whom many see the influence of Stoicism. Unlike some of the other Founding Fathers, he lacked a classical education. Nevertheless, according to Eliot Morison’s The Young Man Washington (1932), Washington was indeed inspired by Stoic philosophy.
by Marc Hamer (Harvill Secker £14.99, 416pp)
For more than two decades, Marc Hamer has tended a garden that he doesn’t own. Now he has published what feels more or less like his private gardening journal, in sections with titles such as Pruning Roses, Swifts Arrive and Solstice.
But this is no how-to guide unless perhaps you classify it as a wholly original, semi-autobiographical book on how to live, how to be calm and content with only a little, in a quietly humming garden.
And Hamer knows a thing or two about living with little indeed, living with more or less nothing apart from the ragged clothes he stood up in.