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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

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THE FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE, OR GENERAL AND COMPLETE LIBRARY. FOR NOVEMBER 1794. Article 1
1st EPISTLE OF ST. PETER, 17th VERSE. Article 3
MASONIC PRECEPTS: Article 6
MEMOIRS OF THE FREEMASONS AT NAPLES. Article 11
BRIEF HISTORY OF THE RELIGIOUS AND MILITARY ORDER OF THE KNIGHTS TEMPLARS OF ST. JOHN OF JERUSALEM. Article 15
MR. TASKER'S LETTERS Article 21
Untitled Article 23
TIPPING BROWN, M. D. Article 24
TO THE EDITOR OF THE FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE. Article 26
EXAMPLES OF THE VIOLENCE WITH WHICH THE LEARNED HAVE CONTENDED ABOUT TRIFLES. FROM D'lSRAELI'S "CURIOSITIES OF LITERATURE." VOL. II. Article 28
EARLY THEATRICAL MYSTERIES. Article 30
MAGICAL SUPERSTITION. Article 31
DETACHED THOUGHTS, Article 32
ON DESPAIR. Article 33
ON MILITARY DISCIPLINE. Article 34
ON WISDOM. Article 35
A CURE FOR THE BITE OF A VIPER. Article 35
ON THE COMPARATIVE MORALITY OF THE ANCIENTS AND MODERNS. Article 36
ON THE TREATMENT OF ANIMALS. Article 39
ON THE VARIETY OF CONJECTURES CONCERNING THE APPEARANCE AND DEPARTURE OF SWALLOWS. Article 42
AUTHENTIC AND INTERESTING NARRATIVE OF THE ADVENTURES OF THE MUTINEERS Article 44
ANECDOTES OF CHAPELAIN, A GREAT MISER. Article 51
POETRY. Article 52
WHISKY: AN IRISH BACCHANALIAN SONG. Article 53
CONTEMPLATING THE PERIOD OF ALL HUMAN GLORY, AMONG THE TOMBS IN WESTMINSTER-ABBEY. Article 55
ODE TO FEMALE FRIENDSHIP. Article 56
STRICTURES ON PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS. Article 57
PROLOGUE TO EMILIA GALOTTI. Article 59
EPILOGUE. Article 59
MONTHLY CHRONICLE. Article 62
LIST OF GENTLEMEN NOMINATED AS SHERIFFS FOR 1795. Article 67
COUNTRY NEWS. Article 68
PROMOTIONS. Article 70
Untitled Article 70
Untitled Article 70
BANKRUPTS. Article 71
Untitled Article 72
LONDON : Article 72
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS TO CORRESPONDENTS. Article 73
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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

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