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On The Comparative Morality Of The Ancients And Moderns.
by forcing the practice of obscenities under the cover of mystery , must have tinctured with impure notions the best-disposed minds , and have depraved the moral conduct in almost every situation ; where a popular reli g ion enjoys the practice of vice , the vulgar must be necessarily vicious ; and , for the philosophers , could the } 7 dissipate from their bosoms the early and familiar prejudices of the only religion which they knew ? No schoolboyI supposeneeds be informed ,
, , that the wise and virtuous Socrates ( for such hath he been called ) was weak enough to sacrifice a cock to iEsculapius . The influence of polite literature on the morals is certainly visible in every community , and the sages and poets of Athens were generally her best moral men . These , however , were comparatively few . The great body of the people was a contaminated mass .
Polished as Athens is said to have been , she was very deficient in that pure refinement which includes chastity and delicac } ' . There is one circumstance sufficiently proves it . Her courtezans were her only women of education . They were absolutely the only women who were easily approachable by the other sex , who appeared at public places , who adorned and enlivened society by their polite
address and sparkling conversation , who presided over the fashions and influenced the manners . With such our Socrates himself conversed . With such only he could relax the stem features of philosophy . He had his sweet Xantippe , indeed , at home , ' but , affable as she was , I am rather inclined to think that he had no great disrelish to an evening lounge with Thais , though the conversation of the latter might be disadvantageously opposed to that of his soft
insinuating consort!—The virtuous women of Athens , in truth , were so miserably degraded , that they were rendered incapable of the sweet communion of soul with soul . Uneducated , grossly ignorant , shut up from society , they were treated as slaves , and expected to perform the meanest offices . They had no room to exert their native sensibility ; they had no ideas to communicate ; and if they hadthere
, was no congenial bosom near to cherish or enliven sentiment b y friendly approbation and sympathetic affection ! From this situation of the Athenian women we can form no very exalted idea of Athens itself . It is an undoubted fact , that the domestic circle in which the feminine virtues diffuse their sweetness , is the finest nursery of national morality . T . R ,
On The Treatment Of Animals.
ON THE TREATMENT OF ANIMALS .
AMONG other parts of the inspired writings which have been noticed by disputants and sceptics , is that which declares man ' s dominion over the brute creation . They consider the authority weak , as only delivered hy one man to another , and apprehend that Moses might conceive it necessary to give the Israelites such an idea for their
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
On The Comparative Morality Of The Ancients And Moderns.
by forcing the practice of obscenities under the cover of mystery , must have tinctured with impure notions the best-disposed minds , and have depraved the moral conduct in almost every situation ; where a popular reli g ion enjoys the practice of vice , the vulgar must be necessarily vicious ; and , for the philosophers , could the } 7 dissipate from their bosoms the early and familiar prejudices of the only religion which they knew ? No schoolboyI supposeneeds be informed ,
, , that the wise and virtuous Socrates ( for such hath he been called ) was weak enough to sacrifice a cock to iEsculapius . The influence of polite literature on the morals is certainly visible in every community , and the sages and poets of Athens were generally her best moral men . These , however , were comparatively few . The great body of the people was a contaminated mass .
Polished as Athens is said to have been , she was very deficient in that pure refinement which includes chastity and delicac } ' . There is one circumstance sufficiently proves it . Her courtezans were her only women of education . They were absolutely the only women who were easily approachable by the other sex , who appeared at public places , who adorned and enlivened society by their polite
address and sparkling conversation , who presided over the fashions and influenced the manners . With such our Socrates himself conversed . With such only he could relax the stem features of philosophy . He had his sweet Xantippe , indeed , at home , ' but , affable as she was , I am rather inclined to think that he had no great disrelish to an evening lounge with Thais , though the conversation of the latter might be disadvantageously opposed to that of his soft
insinuating consort!—The virtuous women of Athens , in truth , were so miserably degraded , that they were rendered incapable of the sweet communion of soul with soul . Uneducated , grossly ignorant , shut up from society , they were treated as slaves , and expected to perform the meanest offices . They had no room to exert their native sensibility ; they had no ideas to communicate ; and if they hadthere
, was no congenial bosom near to cherish or enliven sentiment b y friendly approbation and sympathetic affection ! From this situation of the Athenian women we can form no very exalted idea of Athens itself . It is an undoubted fact , that the domestic circle in which the feminine virtues diffuse their sweetness , is the finest nursery of national morality . T . R ,
On The Treatment Of Animals.
ON THE TREATMENT OF ANIMALS .
AMONG other parts of the inspired writings which have been noticed by disputants and sceptics , is that which declares man ' s dominion over the brute creation . They consider the authority weak , as only delivered hy one man to another , and apprehend that Moses might conceive it necessary to give the Israelites such an idea for their