the equinox he knows as little -

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Geneva watchbut
he fails of the skill to tell the hour by the sun. A Green-
wich nautical almanac he hasand so being sure of the
information when he wants itthe man in the street does
not know a star in the sky. The solstice he does not ob-
serve; the equinox he knows as little; and the whole bright
calendar of the year is without a dial in his mind. His
note-books impair his memory; his libraries overload his
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wit; the insurance-office increases the number of acci-
dents; and it may be a question whether machinery does
not encumber; whether we have not lost by refinement
some energyby a Christianity entrenched in establish-
ments and forms some vigor of wild virtue. For every Stoic
was a Stoic; but in Christendom where is the Christian?
There is no more deviation in the moral standard than
in the standard of height or bulk. No greater men are now
than ever were. A singular equality may be observed be-
t [link widoczny dla zalogowanych][link widoczny dla zalogowanych]n the great men of the first and of the last ages; nor
can all the scienceartreligionand philosophy of the
nineteenth century avail to educate greater men than
Plutarch��s heroesthree or four and twenty centuries ago.
Not in time is the race progressive. PhocionSocrates
Anaxagorayilai:
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