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Article ON PUBLIC INGRATITUDE TO GREAT CHARACTERS. ← Page 6 of 6 Article ORIGINAL LETTER OF THE ASTRONOMER GALILEO. Page 1 of 3 →
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On Public Ingratitude To Great Characters.
too , they may be admonished not to' confide much in popular favour , nor to make that the sole rule of their measures . The love of virtue for virtue ' s sake , ar . d zeal for public welfare on disinterested principles , will in themselves bestow a glorious reward , in the exalted consciousness of endeavours for real excellence . Whoever labours to attain this reward is the true patriot . Consnlque 11011 unius anni ,
Sett quoties bc-a'Ai atque fidus Judex honeMum pralulit iitili , et * Rejecit alto dona nocentium Vultu . ' O . S . T .
Original Letter Of The Astronomer Galileo.
ORIGINAL LETTER OF THE ASTRONOMER GALILEO .
[ WRITTEN SHORTLY AFTER HIS CONFINEMENT ON ACCOUNT OF ins PHILOSOPHICAL TF . SETS . ] * \ TO \ J well know , most excellent father Vincenzo , that my life has i hitherto been subject to a variety of accidents and misfortunes , w hich , nothing but the patience of a philosopher could regard with
indifference , considering them as the necessary effects of those strange revolutions , to which the world we inhabit is liable . Men , endued with the like nature with ourselves , frequently requite our endeavours to be of service to them , with ingratitude , rapine , and false accusations ; and all these have happened to me in the course of iny life . This hint may be sufficientwithout my enlarging on the
, subject of the crime laid to my charge , of which I feel conscious of beiiigperfectlyinnoce . it . You require of me , in your last , the particulars of what has happened to me in Rome . The tribunal , by which I have been judged nothing less than an heretic , for having been a reasonable being , engages much of my attention . Who knows but I may be reduced , by the injuries I have suffered from
these men , to change my profession of a philosopher for that of the historian of the inquisition ? They have at last prevailed so far as to compel me to become ignorant and foolish , or at least to pretend to be so . My dear father Vincenzo , I am not averse from committing to paper my sentiments on the subject of your inquiry , provided proper precautions can be taken that this letter may reach you safely .
This must suffice , as I do not feel inclined to write a book-on my trial and the inquisition , because by no means intended by nature for a divine , or the author of a criminal journal . 'I had , from an early period of my life , had it in contemplation to publish a dialogue on the Ptolemaic and Copernican systems , on which subject , from the time I first went as lecturer to Padua , I had made continual p hilosophical observations , principally induced by the idea I entertained of being able to explain the flux and reflux of the
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On Public Ingratitude To Great Characters.
too , they may be admonished not to' confide much in popular favour , nor to make that the sole rule of their measures . The love of virtue for virtue ' s sake , ar . d zeal for public welfare on disinterested principles , will in themselves bestow a glorious reward , in the exalted consciousness of endeavours for real excellence . Whoever labours to attain this reward is the true patriot . Consnlque 11011 unius anni ,
Sett quoties bc-a'Ai atque fidus Judex honeMum pralulit iitili , et * Rejecit alto dona nocentium Vultu . ' O . S . T .
Original Letter Of The Astronomer Galileo.
ORIGINAL LETTER OF THE ASTRONOMER GALILEO .
[ WRITTEN SHORTLY AFTER HIS CONFINEMENT ON ACCOUNT OF ins PHILOSOPHICAL TF . SETS . ] * \ TO \ J well know , most excellent father Vincenzo , that my life has i hitherto been subject to a variety of accidents and misfortunes , w hich , nothing but the patience of a philosopher could regard with
indifference , considering them as the necessary effects of those strange revolutions , to which the world we inhabit is liable . Men , endued with the like nature with ourselves , frequently requite our endeavours to be of service to them , with ingratitude , rapine , and false accusations ; and all these have happened to me in the course of iny life . This hint may be sufficientwithout my enlarging on the
, subject of the crime laid to my charge , of which I feel conscious of beiiigperfectlyinnoce . it . You require of me , in your last , the particulars of what has happened to me in Rome . The tribunal , by which I have been judged nothing less than an heretic , for having been a reasonable being , engages much of my attention . Who knows but I may be reduced , by the injuries I have suffered from
these men , to change my profession of a philosopher for that of the historian of the inquisition ? They have at last prevailed so far as to compel me to become ignorant and foolish , or at least to pretend to be so . My dear father Vincenzo , I am not averse from committing to paper my sentiments on the subject of your inquiry , provided proper precautions can be taken that this letter may reach you safely .
This must suffice , as I do not feel inclined to write a book-on my trial and the inquisition , because by no means intended by nature for a divine , or the author of a criminal journal . 'I had , from an early period of my life , had it in contemplation to publish a dialogue on the Ptolemaic and Copernican systems , on which subject , from the time I first went as lecturer to Padua , I had made continual p hilosophical observations , principally induced by the idea I entertained of being able to explain the flux and reflux of the