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Horace, in a well-known passage, had congratulated himself upon this disease as upon a trophy of philosophical emancipation: Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri, Quo me cunque rapit tempestas, deferor hospes: which words Pope translates, and applies to himself in his English adaptation of this epistle
"There weren't no such luck For John A. Roebuck, And he thought he would teach the whole nation That the Tories were fools, And the Whigs only tools, But Roebuck was England's salvation." And he, according to this programme, set himself to reform the Constitution and protect the Colonies. "Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri,"
I am content myself to wait for further information on these and other points, as the result of prolonged and careful research. Dr. I may not always think on various points exactly as he does, but I am not more forward than he is to say with Horace, "Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri."
He leans heavily on Epicurus, and gives all praise to Socrates and to Plato; but he is comparatively free: "Nullius adductus jurare in verba magistri," as Horace afterward said, probably ridiculing Cicero. "I live for the day. Whatever strikes my mind as probable, that I say. In this way I alone am free." Let us take his dogmas and go through them one by one, comparing each with his own life.
The presiding spirit of the paper had the gift, at any rate, of knowing what the people for whom he catered would like to read, and how to get his subjects handled so that the reading should be pleasant. The 'Evening Pulpit' was much given to politics, but held strictly to the motto which it had assumed; Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri
But even in the presence of Matthew Arnold I desire to preserve the attitude of "nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri," and I cannot but believe that his estimate of America, while including much that is subtle, clear-sighted, and tonic, is in certain respects inadequate and misleading.
When any person boasts that he is "Nullias addictus jurare in verba magistri," the reason of that boast may easily be perceived; it is because he thinks, like Jupiter, that it would be disparaging his own all-wiseness to swear by anything but himself. But wisdom will as little enter into a proud or a conceited mind as into a malicious one.
Horace, in a well-known passage, had congratulated himself upon this disease as upon a trophy of philosophic emancipation: 'Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri, Quo me cunque rapit tempestas, deferor liospes: which words Pope thus translates, and applies to himself in his English adaptation of this epistle:
Sometimes they make covenants by taking a stone in their hands, and saying, "If I make this covenant seriously and faithfully, then let the great Jupiter bless me; if not so, let me be cast away from the face of the gods, as I cast away this stone." This was called jurare per Jovem lapidem.
I should then be compelled to make restitution, having no alternative other than my own destruction: thus I cannot escape from contributing towards the evil. Another comparison: Jupiter promises Semele, the Sun Phaeton, Cupid Psyche to grant whatever favour the other shall ask. They swear by the Styx, Di cujus jurare timent et fallere Numen.
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