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But what we must preserve of it were certain rules of life and moral diet, not exactly expressed in the document, but which, as it were, on its being duly received into Septimius's mind, were precipitated from the rich solution, and crystallized into diamonds, and which he found to be the moral dietetics, so to speak, by observing which he was to achieve the end of earthly immortality, whose physical nostrum was given in the recipe which, with the help of Doctor Portsoaken and his Aunt Keziah, he had already pretty satisfactorily made out.
Abandon the Mare Nostrum, the best of all the ships on which he had ever sailed!... He accused himself of cowardice, believing that it was he who had impelled the captain to reach this decision.
Another party's nostrum is more churches, more schools, more clergymen excellent things in their way better even than cheap bread, or free trade, provided only that they are excellent that the churches, schools, clergymen, are good ones. But the party of whom I am speaking seem to us workmen to consider the quality quite a secondary consideration, compared with the quantity.
Democracy, as it is called, is to-day the great panacea, the political nostrum; as such it is confidently advocated by statesmen and professors and even by the presidents of our institutions of the advanced education. "Trust the People" is the shibboleth! "Let the People rule!" "The cure for too much Liberty is more Liberty!"
"Non nostrum inter vos tantas componere lites." VIRGIL, Eclog. "'Tis not for us to end such great disputes." This famous Newton, this destroyer of the Cartesian system, died in March, anno 1727. His countrymen honoured him in his lifetime, and interred him as though he had been a king who had made his people happy.
Indeed, the gold coach and liveried trumpeters of the nostrum vendor of bygone days, like their less enlivening equivalents in many more modern professions, are of the nature of trade tools, although the things they fashion are only the foolish minds of possible customers. And this function of expressing and impressing brings us to the other great category of utility.
"which, in the civility of our Poets, is the character of a Fanfaron or Hector. "So, in their Love Scenes, of which EUGENIUS spoke last, the Ancients were more hearty; we, the more talkative. They writ love, as it was then the mode to make it. "And I will grant thus much to EUGENIUS, that, perhaps, one of their Poets, had he lived in our Age, "Si foret hoc nostrum fato delupsus in aevum,
Do not be deluded by extravagantly worded advertisements into the belief that any nostrum has been or ever will be invented that can possibly effect an immediate cure. You must entirely abandon the habits that induced it. You must masticate your food thoroughly allowing the saliva to mix with it, not bolt it, and then wash it down with copious draughts of tea, coffee or water.
The men from the North who needed the burning log and alcoholic drink in order to defend their life from the clutches of the cold, were always thinking of these Mediterranean shores. All their warlike or pacific movements were with intent to descend from the coasts of the glacial seas to the beaches of the warm mare nostrum.
"Ac primum illud tempus familiaritatis et consuetudinis, quae mihi cum illo, quae fratri meo, quae Caio Varroni, consobrino nostro, ab omnium nostrum adolescentia fuit, praetermitto." Cicero, De Provinciis Consularibus, 17.
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