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The world just then was undergoing profound changes. The great "Philosopher-king" had descended to the tomb , and with him the absolute liberty of thought which had reigned for forty-six years.
In May 1740 comes a message Frederick must come to Potsdam quickly if he is to see his father again. The son comes. "Am not I happy to have such a son to leave behind me?" says the dying king. On May 31 he dies. No baresark of them, nor Odin's self, was a bit of truer stuff. III. The Silesian Wars Shall we, then, have the philosopher-king, as Europe dimly seems to half expect?
Joseph, also his intimacy with Charles's friend Bulkeley, who attended his death-bed, all seem rather to point to the author of 'L'Esprit des Lois. The philosophes, for a moment, seem to have expected to find in Prince Charlie the 'philosopher-king' of Plato's dream! The Prince's distinguished friends unluckily did not succeed in inspiring him with common sense.
I believe Giorgione is simply giving us a poetical rendering of "The Golden Age," where, like Plato's philosopher-king, the seer all-wise and all-powerful holds sway, before whom the arts and sciences do homage; in this earthly paradise even strange animals live in happy harmony, and all is peace.
Son of a country pastor, he worked his way into the household of General d’Itzenplitz; after wheedling the mother, he ended by marrying the daughter. Frederick, who was anything but indulgent to mis-alliances, had him clapped into prison in Berlin. The hatred of Wœllner for the Philosopher-King dated from that day. At that time he was a rationalist and a disciple of Wolf; he became a Freemason.
The more my old age is tranquil, and come to renounce everything, and make my retreat here a home and country, the more am I devoted to that Philosopher-King. "KIRSCHLEBEN, NEAR ERFURT, 17th SEPTEMBER, 1757. My dearest Sister, I find no other consolation but in your precious Letters. May Heaven reward so much virtue and such heroic sentiments!
Bolingbroke himself has admitted that such a monarch would be a "sort of standing miracle," and perhaps no other comment upon his system is required. A smile in Plato at the sight of his philosopher-King in such strange company might well be pardoned.
But this blind and deaf Don Quixote was entering a cavern where the swift and glittering blade was in the hands of the adversary. But if the President was not the philosopher-king, what was he? After all he was a man who had spent much of his life at a University. He was by no means a business man or an ordinary party politician, but a man of force, personality, and importance.
A couple of philosophers, without being courtiers, may dine in the Palace of a Philosopher-King: I should even take the liberty of sending one of his Majesty's Carriages for you,-at two precise. And King Friedrich has relented, too; grants me the Marquisat; can refuse me nothing!
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