n THE MASONIC JOURNAL r;! . i 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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