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Right.
Adopt this beautiful motto—
Write it in letters of gold;
’Tis a saying uttered in wisdom,
Applies to the young and the old.
’Twill help us along in life’s jonruey;
Nothing like starting aright;
Such action is pleasing to otlr To
And fills us with inward delight. ‘
Who can compute all the trouble, ’
Tlie errors, disaoters, and woe.
That occur from neglect of tlii duty ?
Their number but few of us know.
Think and reflect before acting,
W'eigb well the project in view;
Be sure of righteous decision
On whate’er you wish to pursue.
Those who’ve adopted this motto
Seldom have cause to regret,
It saves us a deal of misfortune.
Relieves us from worry and fret.
We jog along, easy and happy,
On a wide and a definite plan,
Assured of success in our labor
By doing the best that we can.
rom Pomeroy’s Democrat.
How the Ancient Philosophers
Lived.
It is very instruolive to read of the
self-denial and exemplary lives of the
ancient philosophers. The vouth of
every age can study them with profit.
Antisthenes was a fair model of that self-
denying class, and a short sketch of the
leading events in his life will throw great
light upon how the ancient philosophers
in general lived.
After the death of their master the
scholars of Socrates separated into three
different sects, distinguished by the
names of Cynic, Academic, and Cyre-
naie.
Antisthenes wa.? the founder of the
first of these sects. Different reasons
have been assigned why these philoso
phers were styled Cynic; some say it
was because they live.l like dogs; and
others, because the place where Antis-
thenes taught was near one of the har
bors of Athens, called Cynosargos.
He was son of an Anthenian of the
same name; his mother was a slave
When he was reproached with being the
son of a Phrygian, “What of that?” said
he; “did not the same country give birth
to Oybele, the mother of the gods ?” He
was at first a scholar of the orator Geor
gias, but he afterwards formed a school
for himself, to which his distingniihed
eloquence attracted pupils from all quar
ters. The great reputation of Socrates
induced Antisthenes to go and hear him.
He was so charmed with him that he
brought all his scholars to him, and,
resolved to be no longer a teacher him
self, entreated them to become his com
panions in the school of Socrates. He
lived at the Piraeus, and every day walk
ed forty stadia to see and hear Socrates,
la this manner of living Antisthenes was
rigid and austere. He prayed to God
to send him madness rather than a pro
pensity to sensual indulgence. He was
the first who limited his wardrobe to a
large cloak, and his other necessities to
a bag and staff. Such were the articles
which afterward constituted the mova
bles of the Cynics, and the only riches
which they thought necessary to dispute
happiness with Jupiter himself. Antis--
thenes never shaved, and was always
very negligent in dress. Morality was
the study to which te exclusively ap
plied : all the other sciences, he said
were entirely useless. The supreme
good, according to him, consists in follow
ing virtue and in contemning pride.
His followers lived very abstemiously
Their ordinary food consisted of fruits
and pulse, water was their only drink,
the ground was their only bed. It is the
peculiar property of the gods, they said,
to be in need of nothing, and therefore
those who have the fewest wants ap
proach nearest the Divinity. They
boasted of their contempt of nobility, of
riches, and of all the other advantages
of fortune. Ani-isthencs was a man of
quick parts, and so engaging in company
that he could turn every one as he
pleased
His courage in the battle of Tanagra
gained him great reputation as a soldier.
This afforded Socrates no small satisfac
tion ; ai.d when, some time after he was
told by one, as a matter of reproach, that
the mother of Antisthenes was a Phyrn
gian, he replied: “How I did you sup
pose so great a man couhl proceed from
a marriage in which both parties were
Athenians?” Socrates, however,
could not refrain from reproaching
him afterward for his pride. He one
day observed him turn his cloak that
every one might see a hole that was in
it. “0 Antisthenes !” exclaimed So
crates, “I discover your vanity through
the holes of your oloax.” When Antis
thenes heard the Athenians boasting that
they originally sprang from the soil of
the country in which they then lived,
“thi.s happiness,” said he to them, in
raillery, “/on possess in common with
tortoises and periwinkles, which always
drag oat their lives where they began
them." He used to say that the most
useful science was to unlearn evil. He
was on one occasion asked what
was the most desirable tb ng in the
world. “A happy death,” be replied.
He was greatly displeased with the
envious, who are perpetually preyed
upon by their ill nature, as irtm is cor
roded by the rust which itself produces.
Were one obliged to choose, it would be
more desirable, he thought, to become a
raven than an envious person ; for ravens
mangle the dead only, but the envious
the living.
War, it was once observed to him, car
ries off many wretched persons ; “True,”
he replied, “but it makes many more
than it carries off,”
When requested to give some idea of
the Divinity, he said “there is no being
that resembles God, and therefore to
attempt any sensible representation of
him must be folly.”
It was a maxim with him that we
should respect our enemies, because they
first perceive and publish our faults;
and, by thus furnishing us with a hint to
correct them, are in reality mors serv-
icable to us than our friends.
A discreet friend, he said, should be
valued higher than a relation, since the
ties of virtue are stronger than those of
blood. He observed that it was much
better to form one of a few wise men
against a multitude of fools, than to be
leagued with a multitude of fools against
a few wise men. Learning that he had
been praised by certain bad men, "Gods!”
exclaimed he, “what crime have I com
mitted?”
The wise man, he considered, was
obliged to conform to the laws, not of
State, but of virtue ; and that nothing
ought ever to be unexpected or disa
greeable to him, as he should foresee
things long before they can happen, and
be prepared for any event. Nobility
and wisdom, he said, are the same ; and,
consequently none but the wise are
to him.
philoso-
replied,
myself,
noble.
Prudence he compared to a fortress
which can neither be stormed nor sur-
piised ; the surest wi.y to be immortal
ized, he said was to live piously and be
content in the world.
He told the Athenians on one sccasion
that they ought to yoke to the plough
horses and asses indiscriminately. “That
will not do,” said one, “for the a.»s is in
no respect adapted to the husbandman.
“What of that?’ replied Antisthenes ;
■‘when you elect magistrates, do you ever
pay attention to their capacity or inca
pacity to govern ? No; all you think of
is to elect them.”
Antisthenes was very patient; and he
exhorted his scholars to suffer without
emotion every possible injury.
“What advantages,” said one
“have jreu derived from your
phy ?” “The advantage,” he
“of being able to converse with
and of doing voluntarily what others do
by oocstraint."
Antistheues fell ill of a consumption.
He preferred, it appears, a languishing
life to a speedy death, for his scholar
Diogenes, entering his apartment one
day with a poinard under his cloak,
Antisthenes said to him, “Ah ! what will
deliver me from the pains with which I
racked ?” “This,” said Diogenes,
presenting him with the dagger. “I am
desirous,” returned Antisthenes, “to get
rid of pain, not of life.”
Nickel-Plated Corpse.
Cremation is to be suspended, and in
stead of destroying a corpse by fire, as
the ancients did, or making gas of the
same, as suggested, a French inventor
proposes a method to preserve them for
ever. “At the dooease of an individual
the body is plunged into a liquid invent
ed by him, and in five years the body is
turned to stone The secret is known
only to the discoverer. But he goes fur
ther. He says that in a thousand years,
if people will preserve their relatives and
friends, they can build a house of them,
and thus be surrounded by their ancest
ors.” Another process has been suggest
ed, namely, to have the petrified corpse
iiickel plated, or electro plated with
bronze, and if a statue of an individual
is desired, to place the corpse on a proper
nedestal, so as to fulfill the functions of
being the statue of the party deceased.
The English Patent Jownal describes
a combination of a foot-warming appar
atus with a boot. The heel of tbe boot
is of metal and hollow, and contains a
supply of artificial fuel. The heat from
this is made to pass through channels
in the inner sole, a part of which is
placed upon a spring, so that the action
of the foot in walking acts like a bellows,
drawing in the cold air by an aperture
in the heel, and driving the heated air
into the boot. A modification of tbe ap
paratus can, it is thought, be applied to
horse shoes.
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