SOCRATES, S5 



How often are tliey deceived who are deeply interested for us, that 

 we may injure ourselves. When we look at the ancient discipline in 

 these heathen schools, how ardently science was pursued and what was 

 effected, it appears that we live in a degenerate age, falling as we do in 

 many respects so much below those, whose advantages were far inferior 

 to ours. 



Before being received, pupils, were examined and their physiognomy- 

 inspected; afterwards a probation of three years ensued, during which 

 time strict supervision was exercised, particularly were they scrutinized 

 in regard to vanity. After this, a full admission took place. Five years 

 were spent in the silent reception of instruction, afterwards they entered 

 into full communion with the teacher. Moral purity was considered in- 

 dispensable, histruction without tliis, would pervert and corrupt; it 

 would be like pouring clear water into a well filled with mud. For 

 philosophy, there must be a preparation as there is of cloth for dyino-, 

 and above every thing else was it esteemed necessary that the two fun- 

 damental vices should be eradicated, viz. intemperance and avarice. 



Judging this system in its principles, it certainly deserves our highest 

 approbation, testing it by its results our verdict will be no less favorable. 

 On the one hand, it was well calculated to develope the entire man, both 

 intellectually and physically, and furnishes many of the best principles 

 of modern systems of education, on the other, the experiment was in a 

 high degree successful. 



It is a matter of notoriety that the happiest consequences flowed from 

 this school of instruction. Unrivalled in his theoretic views in ancient 

 times, the system of Pythagoras produced men whose i-eputation will 

 never perish. 



Our attention will next be directed to the Athenians and having con- 

 tributed something towards an estimate of their educational views and 

 processes, our remarks will end. 



SOCRATES. 



Sapiens, qui sibi imperiosus, 

 Qucm ncque pauperies, ncquc mors., neque vincuJa tcrrenl. 



The only amaranthine flower on earth 

 Is virtue, the only lasting treasure truth. 



Few subjects possess so much interest for contemplation as the lives 

 nf tlie truly great in past ages. And among the noble examples of mor- 

 al purity and dignity the Pagan world has produced, the greatest and 



