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"He was very much enraged, and withdrew his advertisements, declined to give our society reporters the usual accounts of the functions his wives chaperoned, and, worst of all, has withdrawn himself and induced others to withdraw from the symposium I was preparing for my special Summer Girls' issue, which is to appear in August, on 'How Men Propose. He and Brigham Young and Solomon and Bonaparte had agreed to dictate graphic accounts of how they had done it on various occasions, and Queen Elizabeth, who probably had more proposals to the square minute that any other woman on record, was to write the introduction.
I have a record of one such symposium, that illuminates the infinite variety of human nature. "Franklin says that he and Staveacre could see in the far forefront of the battle Sergeant Marvin engage four Turks simultaneously with his bayonet till shot dead. But X. boggled at going over the parapet.
For there, too, philosophy might be described as 'dying for love; and there are not wanting many touches of humour and fancy, which remind us of the Symposium. At first immortality means only the succession of existences; even knowledge comes and goes.
"Look here! What's the reason we couldn't get one of the strikers to write it up for us?" "Might have a symposium of strikers and presidents," March suggested. "No; I'm in earnest. They say some of those fellows-especially the foreigners are educated men. I know one fellow a Bohemian that used to edit a Bohemian newspaper here.
One night at dinner we held a symposium on the subject, and endeavoured to evolve an outline of the kind of gentleman who was likely to suit us. The following is a précis of the result. I leave the intelligent reader to trace each item to its author; also the various parenthetical comments on the same: He must be all right about peas, asparagus, and liqueurs. And finger-bowls, dearest.
We have even one sonnet in which he distinctly states the Greek opinion that the love of women is unworthy of a soul bent upon high thoughts and virile actions. It reads like a verse transcript from the main argument of the Symposium:
The Symposium is connected with the Phaedrus both in style and subject; they are the only Dialogues of Plato in which the theme of love is discussed at length.
In the Phaedrus and Symposium love is not merely the feeling usually so called, but the mystical contemplation of the beautiful and the good. The same passion which may wallow in the mire is capable of rising to the loftiest heights of penetrating the inmost secret of philosophy. The highest love is the love not of a person, but of the highest and purest abstraction.
"Not in the least," replied the leech; and the young man, perceiving what bad taste it would be and how much out of place to give expression to his jealous annoyance, said, with a smile: "If only it had been granted to a third person to join in this symposium!" "We found each other all-sufficient company," answered Philippus.
Paralus remained until a late hour, alternately talking with the venerable philosopher, and playing upon his flute, while Philothea sung the songs they had learned together. In the course of conversation, Anaxagoras informed his child that Pericles particularly urged her attendance at Aspasia's next symposium.
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