West Pub. Co. (PWH); 7Jul69; R464309. BAUGHMAN, ROLAND The lives of the noble Grecians and Romans, compared together by that grave, learned philosopher and historiographer, Plutarch of Chaeronea.

We are taken through the academy at Lagado and are shown a typical philosopher: "He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put in vials, hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw, inclement summers.

And in our own country, such abuses have grown so rank, as to lead a distinguished eye-witnessno less a philosopher and statesman than Thomas Jeffersonto say, that they had armed against us every attribute of the Almighty.

Yet, as has been hinted, the very simplicity of it puzzles the ordinary man, and not only puzzles the philosopher but exasperates him.

Aristotle had already been commented upon by Arabian scholars in Spain,among whom Averroes, a physician and mathematician of Cordova, was the most distinguished,who regarded the Greek philosopher as the founder of scientific knowledge.

Athens in the days of Pericles had but thirty thousand people and few mechanical inventions; but she produced philosophers, poets and artists, whose work after more than twenty centuries still remain the despair of the would-be imitators.

I hear certain philosophers who answer me that all this discourse on the art that shines in the universe is but a continued sophism.

I have seen many a philosopher whose world is large enough for only one person.

But it can hardly be called a false notion, because no man ever thought it, nor can it be derived from the philosophers; for, without pretending to guess what philosophers he may mean, it is very safe to affirm, that no philosopher ever said it.

Take counsel from the example of Socrates, who has been set up as a beacon for all coming time to warn philosophers from the fatal rock of matrimony.

In attempting to clear up the real nature of the evidence of mathematical and physical truths, the System of Logic met the intuitive philosophers on ground on which they had previously been deemed unassailable; and gave its own explanation, from experience and association, of that peculiar character of what are called necessary truths, which is adduced as proof that their evidence must come from a deeper source than experience.

And then some go on,men who think themselves philosophers, but are noneto say things concerning God of which I shall say nothing here, lest I put into your minds foolish thoughts, which had best be kept out of them.

[Footnote 1: Against the Berkeleyan denial of abstract notions the popular philosopher, Joh. Jak.

But the faith of the Fathers could bring philosophers to the foot of the Cross.

For in these matters we must not believe the many, who say that free persons only ought to be educated, but we should rather believe the philosophers who say that the educated only are free.

Custom, replied the philosopher, is no trifle.

Whatever may have been the nice peculiarities in the delicate mechanism of Forester's ear, and of the nerves connected with it, compared with that of Marco's, by which the same sound produced a sensation of pleasure in one ear, while it gave only pain in the other, it would require a very profound philosopher to explain.

It is all well enough"due to decency," in factto wear "mourning," and now and then look grave; but "this idea of closing your house," observed our philosopher, "and silencing your piano, and abstaining from your customary amusements and habits for months [only think of it!], because some one has departed from misery to happiness, is not alone supremely ridiculous

He returned to Rome after the suicide of Nero, and lived in great distinction and respect, so that he was allowed to remain in the city when the Emperor Vespasian banished all the other philosophers of any eminence.

As personality in the abstract fascinates a philosopher by its mystery, so a personality of uncommon purity, intensity, and completeness fascinates all men, and thus, perhaps, is explained the high estimation in which Horner was held.

To speak at this rate is building castles in the air, and imposing vain imaginations on the belief of others; for who has told these philosophers that the mass of matter has ever the same motion in its totality?

In the hero he pictured a philosopher, young and gifted as himself; in the heroine, his idea of a perfect woman.

Yet always they excel your philosophers, insomuch as they accept the transcendental as really transcendental and do not profess to instruct the Almighty in it; and chiefly, perhaps, they excel your philosophers by opposing a creativeness, potential at any rate, against a certain and foredoomed barrenness.

I have played the experimental philosopher on it, that's certain.

Instead of leaving me the good philosopher volunteered to keep on with me to the river, and when we reached the river, proposed to remain with me until the boat arrived, and then proposed to cross the river with me.