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They would talk of its "message" or its "ethical content"; but as to questions of technique or beauty, they gently put them one side as unworthy to engage the attention of earnest souls. At the symposium which I have mentioned in Emerson's library, was present a young philosopher who had had the advantage of reading perhaps in proof sheets a book about Shakespeare by Mr. Denton J. Snider.
Among these I included logic, psychology, ethics, and aesthetics, metaphysics, and the history of philosophy. Why, it was asked, should this group of disciplines be regarded as the field of the philosopher, when others are excluded?
Condorcet. “What do you think of what do you think of hiccup! Epicurus?” “What do I think of whom?” said the Devil, in astonishment; “you surely do not mean to find any fault with Epicurus! What do I think of Epicurus! Do you mean me, sir? I am Epicurus! I am the same philosopher who wrote each of the three hundred treatises commemorated by Diogenes Laertes.”
It may very well be that if these troubles had occurred in Chatham's vigorous days he might have been able to preserve the integrity of the empire. But now he was crippled by the gout and debarred from active life; and in the interesting "Dialogue between Franklin and the Gout" the philosopher might have retorted upon that exacting lady the mischief she had done his people by laming Pitt.
Always interested in the colored schools of Philadelphia, the philosopher was, while in London, connected with the English "gentlemen concerned with the pious design," serving as chairman of the organization for the year 1760. He was a firm supporter of Anthony Benezet, and was made president of the Abolition Society of Philadelphia which in 1774 founded a successful colored school.
Possessed of the spirit of a poet and philosopher, this great Frenchman had also the widest range of technical knowledge, covering the entire field of animate nature. The first half of his long life was devoted chiefly to botany, in which he attained high distinction. Then, just at the beginning of the nineteenth century, he turned to zoology, in particular to the lower forms of animal life.
It was because Froebel was himself, even in 1826, the Biologist Educator desiring to break with preconceived ideas and traditions that he wished one of his pupils had been able to "call your work by its proper name, and so make evident the real nature of the new spirit you have introduced." But Froebel was more than a biologist, he was a philosopher and an idealist.
This result every patriot and well-wisher of the South should ever long for; and yet, by every Southern statesman and philosopher, it is regarded as the one irremediable evil possible to their country. What miserable economy! what feeble foresight! What principle of political economy is better established than that a monopoly is a curse to both producer and consumer?
Someone has written about the 'passion of solitude' not meaning the passion for solitude, the passion of the saint and the philosopher and the anchorite to be alone and to commune with outer nature or one's inner thought no, no, but the passion of solitude the raging passion born of solitude which craves and cries out in agony for the remedy of companionship of some sweet and loved and trusted companionship like the fond and futile longing of the childless mother for a child.
When, therefore, he exerted his magic strength, the mountains bent and the seas receded; but when the philosopher attempted to lead forth the Princess of Zulichium in the youthful dance, youths and maidens turned their heads aside lest they should make too manifest the ludicrous ideas with which they were impressed.
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