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Updated: May 27, 2025
Some men share more, some less in the Active Intellect; and it is in everyone's power, within limits, to increase and purify his participation in the influence of the Active Intellect by study and rigorous ethical discipline. The prophet differs from the ordinary man and the philosopher in degree only, not in kind.
Far removed from the strife that occasionally rages amidst the feathered tribes of the forest, or the more formidable struggles of its four-footed inhabitants, whose howls occasionally startle the silence of night, and quite indifferent as to whether a fox or a wolf is seated on the sylvan throne, the woodcock, like a true philosopher, in the depths of the thicket, leads a calm and sedentary life, requiring no other elements of happiness than moonlight, rest, and a few worms.
The tinker loved a laugh and would often search his memory for some phrase of bard or philosopher apt enough to provoke it. Of his great store of knowledge he made no vainer use. Trove had been overworking; and about the middle of June they went for a week in the woods together.
"Yes, but Monsieur le cure will tell you that a fortnight ago I was chained to my arm-chair, swearing under my breath like a pagan, and cursing the follies of my youth! Forgive me, my father; I mean that I had the gout, and I forgot that I am not the only sufferer, and that it racks the old age of the philosopher quite as much as that of the courtier."
"Who cooks his dinner for him?" inquired the child. "He has no dinner," answered the old housemaid. "I don't want to see him, then," said the little winking, blinking philosopher; "he might ask me for some of mine." But that was a height of prudence that he could not reach often, and he several times annoyed his mother and alarmed his aunt by asking questions about this ghost.
The Leipsigers indeed boasted that they had given an asylum to poetry and art. The warrior-hero was now changed for a few happy months into the philosopher, the poet, and the scholar. Frederick's brow, contracted by anxiety and care, was now smooth; his eye took again its wonted fire a smile was on his lip, and the hand which had so long brandished the sword, gladly resumed the pen.
And to this vile man a philosopher would say "Go away, sir, and come back to me two or three centuries hence, when you have learned to be a reasonable creature, and to make that physico-intellectual thing out of dinner which it was meant to be, and is capable of becoming." In Henry VII.'s time the court dined at eleven in the forenoon.
Well, Alice, it shall be as you wish. Are you comfortable where you are, in your new lodgings?" "No." "Why, they do not insult you?" "No; but they make a noise, and I like to be quiet to think of you." The young philosopher was reconciled again to his scheme.
What sort of a fellow is this who is cold and hungry, and who stays outside?" The boy climbed up the three steps with difficulty, carrying the baby, and hesitated for a moment at the door. On the ceiling was written in large letters: URSUS, PHILOSOPHER It was the house of Ursus the child had come to. Homo had been growling, Ursus speaking.
Hence the philosopher has left moral precepts behind him in favour of benevolence, and the legislator has endeavoured to prevent barbarous practices by the introduction of laws.
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