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Updated: June 2, 2025
There is no sarcastic person whose life, if you scrutinise it closely, will not be found full of vices and improprieties. And now, after this warning, philosophise as much as you have a mind. Berg. You may be quite at your ease on that score, Scipio.
Could Raphael paint Madonnas the week of his betrothal? Did Thackeray write a chapter the day his daughter was born? Did Plato philosophise freely when he was in love? Were there interruptions in the world's great revolutions, histories, dramas, reforms, poems, and marbles when their creators fell for a brief moment under the spell of the little blind tyrant who makes slaves of us all?
The duty he is called upon to perform is to bear; for no man I ever yet saw on a sick-bed can get quit of the thought however much he may try to philosophise about physical causes, or to conceal his sense of a divine influence that he is placed there by a superior Hand for the very purpose of suffering, with a view to some end that is veiled from his eye.
But perhaps the Nonconformists worship so unimpressively because they philosophise so keenly; and one part of religion, the part of public national worship, they have subordinated to the other part, the part of individual thought and knowledge? This, however, their organisation in congregations forbids us to admit.
"It is that, more or less, I believe," said Father Payne. "I don't mean that friends need be aware of that you need not philosophise about your friendships but if you ask me, as an analyst, what it all consists in, I believe that those are the essential elements of it and I believe that it holds good of the dog-and-man friendship as well!"
To brood about danger, to apprehend or anticipate or philosophise may imperil 'nerve. Rather the majority of men carry on, callously, almost gaily, with mental and spiritual faculties if possible inactive.
So doth noble Cato philosophise when, in Addison's stately tragedy, he gazes on his sword and plans to admit the Grim Visitor whom the most of us wish to keep without our threshold until the last fatal moment. How those lines used to thrill the classic hearts of our ancestors; how Barton Booth, who "shook the stage, and made the people stare,"
However, I have always known that if one wants to enjoy pleasure one must not philosophise about it, or one runs a risk of losing half the enjoyment. If Irene had struck me in dancing the 'forlana', why should not I have pleased her in spite of my superiority in age? It was not impossible, and that should be enough for me, as I did not intend to make her my wife.
"'Mas'r, returns he, ''tis just the snuggest place ye ever did see; why! tain't da length on ye, seem how mas'r can double himself up anyhow, just as Gineral Pierce do. The darkey laughed and drew back with a bow, as I began to philosophise that, being now so well up in the world, it was the best policy to coil up and invoke Morpheus, which I did, bidding good-night to all below, and promising myself a pleasant interview with General Pierce on the following morning.
"Oh, let's string 'im up!" urged Trinidad. "Yes, come on, you . . .!" was Handsome's ejaculation, contriving, at last, to get his hands on the faro dealer. But again the Sheriff would have none of it. "Hold on, hold on " he began and paused to philosophise: "After all, gents, what's death? A kick and you're off;" and then went on: "I've thought of a worse punishment. Give him his coat."
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