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923 The Saturday Analyst and Leader. [No...
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923 The Saturday Analyst And Leader. [No...
923 The Saturday Analyst and Leader . [ Nov . 10 , I 860
We Of The Upper Class Are Patronizing. B...
We of the upper class are patronizing . But He earns nothing by philosophising . Protagoras and G-orgias , they if any , Know by the teaching-trade to make a penny , And many a penny too . Gorgias insisting ' Existence none and substance none s existing ,- ' It sounds like lying , if by plain names we call things : The other says ] k [ an is the measure of all things ; ' This has more likelihood , I know- not whether ' Tis true-of all things ; but-when I cut leather Marked by my thumb , disputer ' s doubts I toss over j Appeal to fact must silence a philosopher . But , true or false , no matter ; all is ended . About a doctrine , if the pay is splendid : Of dialectic proof or phrase ' syntactical Talk not tome : I am for something practical . What reasonings , an argument to help , aid Better than showing that the teacher ' s well paid ? But Socrates , his best friends cannot deny it , Knows nothing-, ' that he owns , and nothing by it Gains he . That care for making wealth should quit he , Sets tip a bad example through the city . It youth misleads . Soon awful mischief , spring up , If youth we cease in virtuous-ways to bring up . And what ' s a virtuous way for youthful training If we stop up all ways of money-gaining ? Let things go On thus ; it ; will be the plan poon For some mere carpenter ' s or working-man ' s son To go about , and to the poor be telling Mischief . A teacher who has not a dwelling Fixed , and stored with wealth in bags and boxes , Worse fed than raVensj . ahd worst lodged than foxes , Is dangerous . The social ordinances That help the state ' s and private men ' s finances Will such men change ? In vain have ancient sages Laboured to fix for all succeeding ages What ' s good , and right , and orderly if , turning Upside down the world , what cost in learning Much thought to wise-antiqiiity to make put , ¦ They , as a bag of jumbled rubbish , shake out . For all these considerations Anutos thinks it his duty to call Socrates to account , and takes * a solemn oath , which the author couches in , lyric verses . Mrs . Anutos approves of her husband ' s sublime resolution , and this she does for her son ' s sake . '¦; . '¦ " Oh , that it . may be but a mother ' a fancies ! But much are my misgivings lest our darling Has caught that fellow ' s spirit ; not the snarling , Too sweet his temper is for that ; but questions . Just like the silly and profane suggestions Of Socrates ,, our boy begins to ask me When he comes in from sehooL I feel " t task mo To silence him , and let him not know 'tis wicked To talk so . I could think not how he picked Up the strange words he uses , till I watched him , And , just as he had hid himself , I snatched him From a sly corner , where his funny vanity Was hearkening to Socrates ' profanity . c Ah ! now , ' said I , ' I see , my pretty roamcr , Whence come the jests at what you learn from Homer . ' Twould be certain death , fond love / 1 toll it thee , Should that dear child grow up to idfidelity . " The gushing tears wiped Anutos . " The dikasts Shall hear , " he said « ' how this vile scoffer thick casts Freetliibking e ' en in children ' s cai * g . Our families Are all alike endangered till some trommel is For such audacity devised . The pleading Shall show how ho can answer such proceedings . " Praise from , the lips he loved protested , " Never In any undertaking ' s one so clever As you , dear ! In ray oap 'twill bo a feather , Checking ill-naturpd folk who whisper , « Leather , ' At my uppearanco made in good society , That you support the gods against ipipiot v ; Envy itself must own '( is not concealed h ' That you ' * rcapoctable , ' aa I ' . gentooV dear . " Forthwith learned counsel are retained , and Soorutos appears in the King Arohon ' s poroh to answer tho ohargo . The an-aignment proceeds in due form , ' ¦ ' Modern instanoos" aro then introduced in illustration ; evon I ' yrskino and Eldon take rank with Lukon and Moletos . With tho fate of tho son . of Mr . and Mrs . Anutos history has xnado us sufficiently aociuaintod . Instances , such as this , Mr . Hambleton thinks made philosophy oautious , and introduced in times tho necessity for Esotorio and Exoteric teaching j tho philosopher , thus armed with equivocation , as with a wizard spell , may osoapo tho heirilook-juioo ! what elso beside , the poet nogloots to Bny . It is ovident ho tirofors plain t-poaking . Honoo oxolaims ho—Oh ! tnlco thino high-appointed place , * EYeo-thought I Bo guidei ? of our race j But show to oaoli exalted eoul Prepared for him tho homloclc-bowl Who dares , from eoot nnd party froo , To live , ami own no guido but thoe , Not all of tho book , howovor , is couooived in tho spirit of scornful sport ; there is Bomotiinos pathos in . the satire , tmd earnestness in tho wit . Tho poof a purpose throughout is uovioua . Ho regards it as an " additional stigma to affix on . inwtal , political , and national subjugation , that Athenian ¦ piety oom 14 flat survive Athenian freedom . " He tronte this
argument in prose and verse . Occasionally he links together the past and the present ; and for Athens we might read London or Paris . This picture of " Political Degradation" is elaborately painted , full of character . Rascality in place , respectability in money power , and genius and virtue existing but as splendid indiscretions in an artificial and selfish state of society , compose the moving diorama . It is thus , in fine , he depicts the management of Time ' s theatre , and exemplifies his parsimony : — " The world ' s a stage , " whereon by ways Of craft Time oft has passed The old for modern use ; Old scenes , old speeches , and old plays , Among new actors east , As new to reproduce .-Time , thrifty manage ^ sustains His drama ' s fame from age to age . By reproducing on his stage Old plays , he reputation gains , With smallest cost of author ' s pains , Eor novelty ; and dares engage New actors whose new names presage Tho public favour won ; while reign 8 Fashion , capricious arbitress , AViiosG words with Ignorance avail " VVhat new to call , and stamp success Due to inventive worth on tale Decked with new scenery , new diess , To hide , a repetition stak \ Subsequently Paul preaching at Athens presents ^ him with a striking scene , and the poet rises with the occasion . The progress of the Platonic philosophy is also celebrated . And then , by a leap , the dreamer comes to modern Greece , with " Otho and order " as the products of red-tapeism , and the bits of Momus' Nvitticisms . The following lyric is in a higher strain :- — " Two bright islet-studded seas - Gleaming through a haze of glory ! W " aft ye not oh every . breeze Names the deathless Muse decrees To live in old heroic story ? His who scaped tho Minotaur ? See his sail from Xexos scudding ! Argo bears her freight afar , Heroes panoplied for war Where Phasis realms of wealth in Hooding . Fixed for fah- 'haired Leto ^ s throw , . ' ..... JDelos twin-born Gods is heltering ; Scarce the babes their mother know , Clangs the fatal silver bow , And Putho in his gore is weltering . Seas ! to me murmur songs Heard in all your bursting surges : Charmed sense the sound prolongs , Kindling life in shadowy throngs Which Fancy , child of Memory , urges . " We cannot , however , understand in what the Coleridgcana have displeased our clerical satirist . We suspect that onr poet's education has been chiefly classical , and that he knows little , perhaps next to nothing , of the Teutonic Muse , whether in poetry or philosophy . That would certainly explain a certain amount of prejudice and error . Let the indignant bard take comfort . Amid all manner ot seeming reproductions , the world has nevertheless progressed .
Weymoutii And London.* Geological Ssivan...
WEYMOUTII AND LONDON . * GEOLOGICAL ssivans arc tho most industrious of their race , and have more opportunitcs for applyingtheir diligence than others . The earth is everywhere , and subject to investigation —but no where is more fruitful in information than in Woymouth and its nc-ighbptirhood . Numberless inquiries have questioned its soil , and obtained answer . Mr . Damon , a practical geologist , has compiled a Nummary of these ; and olso others relating to tho Island of Portland mid tlio neighbourhood . This book is amply illustrated with maps uncl matesand bus all the of being useful to the learner .
, appearance Tho . entire bay of Woymouth , it is supposed , has been < oniie ( M » y tho action of the sea on thcyiolding strata which may once have nliwi that areiv . Aa tho land rose slowly out of the sou it becumu exposed to tho violent agitation of tho waves nnd currents oJ tho ocean , which in phiccs may have removed each stratum us it roue to tlio surface ; while in others tornporary . lakes wore formed , tho waters of which would ovontually find for thovnwlvos an outlet . I no lurrowod surfuco of tho qhalk in the nortlvoast of Weymouth iiffrotw with this supposition ; while on tho west , tho oxtensivo vulloys 01 Burton , Uridport , Chideoelc , und ( Yarmouth , all terminate at
tho sea . . J .. The Isloof Portland Mr . Damon points to iih tho most interesting geologicul feature on this part of tho const . There wiiMagulttr uniformity in the elevation of the Portland bods in Homo districts . as if tho agency which raised the Islo of Portlund , acted / vntli n Himilar force oyor i \ larger area . Tho etratu aro soldom honz-oiusu ; but at Portland , nnd in some counties , dip slightly tp tho south . A summary like this cunnot need an apology » its utility i" ^> brief a form will not bo doubted , Tho publishers nim , indood , Ihih boon utility—an aim and an dnd also which wo recognise in ^ n »»
• Handbook To The Qenlow <Lt Weiimouth A...
• Handbook to the Qenlow < lT Weiimouth and the tilawl < if Portland , ' » Uh ^ ' ^ the A ' atural UltKoru ( fie \ Coait ami A ' atynhtuwfiood , » y Kobort Pamoi" . AopomiwiUoil' by » i iniip ot Ilio aiotrlot , ( joologlortl booUoiw , nlut , ps of lojnlin . omw views , tturtnun > orous dthor Hlustratl 9 n » .-- « P . tatmnfori 1 . Slam / ord ' a A « w Lonaon GuUio , wtih-M <* n < i , « -V 4 D , Stumfori ^
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Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 10, 1860, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_10111860/page/8/
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