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Then one catches sight of this line by the sagacious Horace: 'Quid aeternis minorem consiliis animum fatigas? Looking at another piece of timber, one slowly spells out the words: 'O miseras hominum mentes! O pectora caeca! And so one follows the track of Montaigne's mind from rafter to rafter.
These hurricanes are let loose in order to speak to the people, to stir and rouse the dull ocean of humanity. The Marche de Rakoczy is less an Hungarian march than the music for a revolutionary fight; it sounds the charge; and Berlioz tells us it might bear Virgil's verses for a motto: " ... Furor iraque mentes Praecipitant, pulchrumque mori succurrit in armis."
His enim rebus imbutæ mentes haud sane abhorrebunt ab utili et a vera sententia. Cic. de Legibus, l. 2. Quicquid multis peccatur inultum. I do not choose to shock the feeling of the moral reader with any quotation of their vulgar, base, and profane language. Their connection with Turgot and almost all the people of the finance. All have been confiscated in their turn.
In the meanwhile it is not considered, that mentes humanae mirificae capiuntur et facinantur, ceremoniarum splendore et pompa. Videmus siquidem, saith Bucer, vulgus delectari actionibus scaenicis, et multis uti signis. Chemnitius marks of the cumulating of ceremonies in the ancient church, that it drew to this, ut tandem in theatricum ferme apparatum ceremoniae illae abierint.
"Tales sunt hominum mentes, quali pater ipse Juppiter auctificas lustravit lumine terras." Cicero, Frag. We fluctuate betwixt various inclinations; we will nothing freely, nothing absolutely, nothing constantly.
And Minerva answered, "I will tell you truly and particularly all about it. I am Mentes, son of Anchialus, and I am King of the Taphians. I have come here with my ship and crew, on a voyage to men of a foreign tongue being bound for Temesa with a cargo of iron, and I shall bring back copper.
But even as he spoke Mentes rose from his seat and, gliding like a shadow through the sunlit doorway, disappeared. Telemachus followed, in wonder and displeasure; but no trace of the strange visitor was to be seen.
"My name is Mentes," answered the stranger, "and I am a prince of the Taphians, a bold race of sailors. I am a friend of this house, well known to its master, Odysseus, and his father, Laertes. Be of good cheer, for he whom thou mournest is not dead, nor shall his coming be much longer delayed. But tell me now of a truth, art not thou the son of that man?
Therefore no more do I put faith in tidings, whencesoever they may come, neither have I regard unto any divination, whereof my mother may inquire at the lips of a diviner, when she hath bidden him to the hall. But as for that man, he is a friend of my house from Taphos, and he avows him to be Mentes, son of wise Anchialus, and he hath lordship among the Taphians, lovers of the oar.
Then from the heights of Olympus she came glancing down, and she stood in the land of Ithaca, at the entry of the gate of Odysseus, on the threshold of the courtyard, holding in her hand the spear of bronze, in the semblance of a stranger, Mentes the captain of the Taphians.
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