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'Come with me, young man, said he, laying his hand kindly enough on Philammon's shoulder.... 'The rest of this matter you and I can settle; and Philammon followed him, not daring to look back at Hypatia, while the whole room swam before his eyes. 'So, so I hear you have been saying rude things to my daughter. Well, she has forgiven you 'Has she? asked the young monk, with an eager start.
All this was uttered rapidly, and in a wheedling undertone, with a continual snaky writhing of her whole body, except her eye, which seemed, in the intense fixity of its glare, to act as a fulcrum for all her limbs; and from that eye, as long as it kept its mysterious hold, there was no escaping. 'What do you mean? What have I to do with this ring? asked Hypatia, half frightened.
In spite of the bicycle, however, the drama, which was to be entitled "Hypatia," was now in a fair way to be written, for the poet had met and fallen in love with Gertrude Lindsay, whose almost Grecian features, and some knowledge of the different calculua which she had acquired at Alton, helped him to believe that she was a fit model for his heroine.
The keen school-life of Alexandria still ran on, and there might have been a return to the saner early doctrines, but at last Alexandrian culture was extinguished in the blood of the aged Hypatia, and the night fell.
In the middle of the fifth century, when monophysitism was at its zenith, Proclus was fashioning an intellectual machinery to express the Plotinian system. The story of Hypatia evidences the dominant position of Neo-Platonism in Alexandrian culture. The violence of Cyril's measures against her shows what a menace to the Church that philosophy was.
'What was that? asked Hypatia, who became more and more interested every moment. 'That philosophers were men. 'Are you mocking me? Plato defines the philosopher as the man who seeks after the objects of knowledge, while others seek after those of opinion. 'And most truly.
'Not so ugly, surely? 'They are very beautiful, I cannot deny, said poor Hypatia. 'Ah, sweetest Empress! you forget sometimes that I, too, world-worm as I am, am a Greek, with as intense a love of the beautiful as even you yourself have. Do not fancy that every violation of correct taste does not torture me as keenly as it does you.
Professor Robertson commenced by a brief and well-timed reference to the accomplished Hypatia, familiar to ladies from Kingsley's novel in the days when ladies used to read novels and also the Royal ladies whom Descartes and Leibnitz found apter disciples than the savants.
III. JAMES CLEMENT, a Catholic, assassinated Henry III. For this act the clergy placed his portrait on the altar in the churches between two great lighted candle-sticks. Because he had killed a heretic prince, the Catholics presented the assassin's mother with a purse. If it was unbelief that inspired the murder of McKinley, what inspired the assassins of Hypatia and Henry III?
Here and there, individual women gained the training necessary for leadership, as in the cases of Sappho, Aspasia or Hypatia; but the great mass of women was sternly repressed. Eve leads a long line of women martyrs who, across the ages, have paid a great price for their desire to eat of the tree of knowledge.
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