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We of the upper class are patronizing . But lie earns nothing by philosophising . Protagoras and G-orgias , they if any , jtnow by the teaching-trado to make a penny , And many a penny too . Oprgias insisting * Existence none and substance Hone ' s existing ; It sounds like lying , if by plain names we call things : The other says 'Man is the measure ofall things ; This has more likelihood , I know not whether ' Tis true of all things ; but when I cut leather Marked by my thumb , disputer ' s doubts I toss over ; Appeal to fact must silence a philosopher . But , true or false , no matter ; all is ended About a doctrine , if the pay is splendid : Of dialectic proof or phrasefsyntactical Talk not to me : I am for something practical . What reasonings , an argument to help , aid Better than showing that the teacher ' s well paid ? But Socrates , his bost friends cannot deny it , * Knows nothing , ' that he owns , and nothing by it Gains he . That care for making wealth should quit he , Sets up a bad example through the city . It youth misleads . Soon awful mischief , spring up , If youth we cease in virtuous ways to bring up . And what ' s a virtuous way for youthful training If we stop up all ways of money-gaining ? Let things go on thus ; it will be the plan soon For some mere carpenter ' s or working-man ' s aon To go about , and to the poor be telling Mischief . A teacher who has not a dwelling Fixed , and stored with wealth in bags and boxes , Worse fed than ravens , and worst lodged than foxes , Is dangerous . The social ordinances That help the state ' s and private men ' s finances Will such men change ? In vain have ancient sages Laboured to fix for all succeeding ages What ' s good , and right , and orderly ; if , turning Upside down the -world , -what cost in learning Much thought to wise antiquity to make out , Theyj as a bag of jumbled rubbish , shake out . For all these considerations Anutos thinks it his duty to calL Socrates to account , and takes a solemn oath , which the author couches in lyric verses . Mrs . Anutos approves of her husband ' s sublime resolution , and this she does for her son ' s sake . "Oh , that it may be but a mother ' s fancies ! But much are my misgivings lest our darling Has caught that fellow ' s spirit ; not the snarling , Too sweet his temper is for that ; but questions Just like the silly and profane suggestions Of Socrates , our boy begins to ask me When he comes in from school . I feel it task me To silence him , and let him , not know 'tis wicked To talk so . I could think not how ho picked Up the strange words he uses , till I watched him , And , just as he had hid himself , I snatched him From a sly corner , where his funny vanity Was hearkening to Socrates' profanity . * Ah ! now , ' said I , ' I see , my pretty roamer , Whence come the jests at what you learn from Homer . ' ' Twould be certain death , fond love , I tell it thoo , Should that dear child grow up to idfidelity . " The gushing tears wiped Anutos . " The dikasts Shall hear , " he said ? ' how this vile Bcoffer thick oasts JTreethinking e ' en in children ' s ears . Our familioa Are all alike endangered till some trammel is For suoh audacity devised . The pleading Shall show how he can answer suoh proceedings . " Praise from the lips ho loved protested , " Nevor In any undertaking ' s one so clever As you , dear ! In my cap 'twill be a feather , Checking ill-natured folk who whisper , ' Leather , ' At my appearance made in good society , That you support the gods against impiety ; ~ Envy itself muBt own ' tis not concealed hove-That you ' re respectable , ' as I < gcnteoi , ' dear . " Forthwith learned oounsol aro retained , and Sooratos appears in the King Arohon ' s poroli to answer the charge . The arraignment proceeds in . duo foi'in . " Modern instanoos" are then introduced in illustration ; ovon Erski . no and Eldon take rank with lAxkon and Meletos , With tho fate of tho son of Mr . and Mrs , Anutos history has mado us sufficiently acquainted . Instances , suoh as this , Mr . Hambloton thinks mado philosophy cautious , and introduced in times tho nocessity for ICsotorio and Exoteric toaohing ; the phiiosophor , thus armed with oquivooation , as with a wizard spoil , may escape the hemlock-juioe ! what olao beside , tho poet neglects to sny . It in evident ho profors plain f > poakiiig . Honoo oxolaims he—Oh ! take thino high-appointed plaoo , . TTVoo-thought | J 3 o guidor of oar raoo ; But show to each exalted soul Propiu'od for him tho homloolc-bowl Who dares , from soot and party fvoo , To live , and own no guide but thoo . Not all of the hook , howovor , is conooived iu the spirit of soornful sport : there is sometimes pathos in tho satire , tmd earnestness in tho wit . Tho poofs purpose throughout is serioua . Ho regards it us an " additional stigma to affix on mental , political , and national subjugation ., that Athenian piety ooulq . not survivo Athenian freedom .. " Ho troato this
argument in prose and verse . Occasionally he links together the past and the present ; and for Athens we might read London or Paris . This picture of " Political Degradation" is elaborately painted , full of character . Kascality in place , respectability in money power , and genius and virtue existing but as splendid indiscretions in an artificial and selfish state of society , compose the moving diorama . It is thus , in fine , he depicts the management of Time ' s theatre , and exemplifies his parsimony : — " The world ' s a stage , " whereon by ways Of craft Time oft has passed The old for modern use ; Old scenes , old speeches , and old plays , Among new actors cast , As new to reproduce . Time , thrifty manager , sustains His drama ' s fame from age to age . By reproducing on his stage Old plays , he reputation gains , With smallest cost of author ' s pains , For novelty ; and dares engage New actors whose new names presage The public favour won ; while reigns Fashion , capricious arbitress , Whose words with Ignorance avail What new to call , and stamp success Duo to inventive worth on tale Decked with new scenery , new dress . To hide a repetition stale . Subsequently Paul preaching at Athens presents him with a striking scene , and the poet rises with the . occasion . The progress of the Platonic philosophy is also celebrated . And then , by a leap , the dreamer comes to modern Greece , with " Otho and order" as the products of red-tapeism , and the bits of Momnsl witticisms . The following lyric is in a higher strain : — " Two bright islet-studded seas Gleaming through a haze of glory ! Waft ye not on every breeze Names the deathless Muse decrees To live in old heroic story ? His who scaped the Minotaur ? See his sail from Nexos scudding ! Argo bears her freight afar , Heroes panoplied for war Where Phasis realms of wealth in flooding . Fixed for fair-haired Leto ' s throw , Delos twin-born Gods is bettering ; Scarce the babes their mother know , Clangs the fatal silver bow , And Putho in his gore is weltering . . SeaB . ! to me murmur songs Heard in all your bursting surges : Charmed sense the sound prolongs , Kindling life in shadowy throngs Which Fancy , child of Memory , urges . " We cannot , however , understand in what the Coleridgeans have displeased our clerical satirist . We suspect that our poet s education has been chiefly classical , and that he knows little , perhaps next to nothing , of the Teutonic Muse , whether in poetry or philosophy . That would certainly explain a certain amount of prejudice and error . Let the indignant bard take comfort . Amid all manner ot seeming reproductions , tho world has nevertheless progressed .
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/ " ^ EOLOGICAL savans aro the most industrious race . ami IjT have more opportunity for apply ing their diligence than others . The earth is everywhere , and subject to investigation—but no where is more fruitful in information than in Woymouth and its neighbourhood . Numberless inquiries have questioned its soil , and outumtu answer . Mr . Damon , a practical geologist , has compiled a suiiinin v of these ; and also others relating to tho Island ot Portland and the neighbourhood . This book i » amply illustrated with map * unu plates , and has all tho appearance of being useful to the learner . The entire bay ofWeymouth . it is supposed , hurt been onned v tho action of tho sea on the yielding strata which may once have micu that area . As tho land rose slowly out of the sea it became exposed to tho violent agitation of tho waves and current * of the oeuui , which in places may have removed each stratum as it rono 10 uio surface ; while in others temporary lakes were fonncil , the waio » of which would eventually find for thonwelvos an outlet . J ho nu rowed surfaco of tho chalk in tho north-oast oi Woymouth ufficij with this supposition * while on tho west , the extensive valley * oj Burton , Hridport , Chidcock , avnd Channouth , all tonnniato in Tho Ialoof Portland Mr . Damon points to as the most intercutin «; geological feature on this part of tho count . Thoro w u « " > £ . "'" uniformity in the olovation of tho Portland bods in soino "wtnciH , ns if tho agoncy which raisod the IhIo of Portland , acted wit 11 h similar force over a larger area . Tho strata aro seldom horizontal ; but at Portland , and in some counties , dip slightly to tho hou « i . A summary like this cannot need an apology ; its utility in w » briof a form will not bo doubted . Tho publisher ' s aim , indooci , uiw boon utility—an aim and an end also which wo rccogniso in nw
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928 The Saturday Analyst and Leader . [ Nov . 10 , I 860
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Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 10, 1860, page 928, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2373/page/8/
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