...physical, is inapplicable to profit and cultivation a little way below the surface. And again : — This is philosophy, to make remote things tangible,...common, and to leave the least necessary for the last. Truth is not reasonably the main and ultimate object of philosophy ; philosophy should seek truth merely...

...century been making upon the Greek ; and declares ihat he recognizes no higher aim in a philosopher than to make remote things tangible ; common things extensively...common ; and to leave the least necessary for the last. But he is little likely to force unanimity on this point ; and, as long as disagreement exists, there...

...century been making upon the Greek ; and declares that he recognises no higher aim in a philosopher than to make remote things* tangible; common things extensively...common; and to leave the least necessary for the last. But he is little likely to force unanimity on this point ; and, as long as disagreement exists, there...

...century been making upon the Greek ; and declares that he recognizes no higher aim in a philosopher than to make remote things tangible ; common things extensively...common ; and to leave the least necessary for the last. But he is little likely to force unanimity on this point ; and, as long as disagreement exists, there...

...withhold them hereafter from wondering and staring. This isphilosophy : to make remote things tangible, useful things extensively common, and to leave the least necessary for the last.' Such may be Mr. Landor's view of the objects of philosophy. Such, assuredly, was not Plato's. Plato...

...perspicacity that free-will itself is nothing else than a part and effluence of necessity. If everything proceeds from some other thing, every impulse from...A bladder swells out more with wind than with oil. PLATO. I would not neglect politics nor morals, nor indeed even manners: these however are mutable...

...rest. PLATO. Every impulse from some other (I must so take it) under God, or the first cause. DIOGENES. which you labor. The intellectual world, like the...shell sounds little, but shows by that little what is witliin. A bladder swells out more with wind than with oil. PLATO. I would not neglect politics nor...

...— Instead of saying things to make people stare and wonder, say what will withold thorn horraftrr from wondering and staring. This is philosophy : to...for the last. I have always a suspicion of sonorous sentence». — Landor. A NORMAN STORY. NOT many evenings ago, when the south-west wind had cooled...

...patronage, not the advancement of letters, nor the honor they confer on the cultivator or the country. PLATO. It happens that we do not see the stars at...A bladder swells out more with wind than with oil. A bell warbles the more mellifluously in the air when the sound of the stroke is over, and when another...

...Diogenes in motion all the same. " Keep always to the point, or with an eye upon it," he retorts ; " and instead of saying things to make people stare...common, and to leave the least necessary for the last." Of the sayings having personal reference, some may be even the more interesting and better worth quoting...