Substance and Show; and Other Lectures
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ISBN13: 9781150597916
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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1877. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... III. SOCBATES. THE subject of my discourse is Socrates. Though his name is familiar to human lips as the representative of the highest spirit of duty, yet little is generally known of his life and character. His spiritual physiognomy is not clearly seen amid the cloudy sanctity which envelops him in the reverential regard of men. It is known or believed that he was a preacher of pure morals, and a man of invincible purity of life, -- a light walking in darkness, -- perhaps the clearest light that brightened -the ante-Christian years; still the man is but feebly perceived by most of those who revere him as an ethical teacher. Socrates was born in Athens in the year 468 B.C., twelve years after the battle of Salamis. His parents were poor, his father an ordinary sculptor named Sophroniscus. Nothing more than the common training of an Athenian lad was given to him in early life. This, however, was not all his education. We must not forget that his years fell in the period when the intellect of his countrymen was in the very bloom of its first enthusiasm, and rejoiced in the fulness of creative life; for it was when the tragedies of DEGREESEschylus and Sophocles were frightening and fascinating their first auditors, and the chisel of Phidias cut the white rock from Pentelicus as though it were snow, and Pericles was fashioning the Athenian will to his purposes by his eloquence. Athens, through its arts, was fast becoming a sort of play-ground of Apollo, and Socrates, amid the general worship of beauty, was apprenticed as a sculptor. We know nothing of him except that he worked at his profession till he was about thirty-five, when we find that he deliberately threw down his tools, and determined to be the moral schoolmaster of the most intellectual city of the world. So
| ISBN-13 | 9781150597916 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1150597917 |
| Weight | 0.68 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.47 In |
| List Price | $19.66 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 204 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-12-01 |
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