MEMOIR OP ARISTOTLE. 39 



tural love of military glory which afterwards carried 

 him over the finest regions of the East, and taught 

 oim to weep for want of more worlds to conquer.* 

 But the bard of Troy was not his only companion 

 in these foreign expeditions. Plutarch says, that as 

 he could find no books in the upper provinces of Asia, 

 he wrote to Harpalus, and obtained most of the trage- 

 dies of Euripides, Sophocles, and ^Escliylus, with the 

 Dithyrambics of Telestus and Philoxenus. The same^ 

 author alleges that Aristotle taught him the art of 

 medicine, a study with which he was not only ex- 

 ceedingly delighted in theory, but which he prac- 

 tised with considerable success among his friends. 



That ethics and politics formed a prominent and 

 most important ingredient in the education of the 

 juvenile prince, is obvious from the writings which 

 the Stagirite devoted to the subject. He addressed 

 to his pupil, long after this period, a Treatise on Go- 

 vernment, instructing him how to reign, and exhort^ 

 ing him to adjust the measure of his authority to the 

 particular characters, habits, and modes of thinking, 

 of the various classes of his subjects, according to a 

 maxim which he frequently inculcated, that different 

 nations require different modes of administration. 

 In his treatise on politics, he has carefully delineated 

 the plan of education best adapted to persons of the 



* Plutarch says, that as soon as Alexander landed in Asia, 

 he visited Ilium, and offered libations to the Trojan heroes. 

 He anointed the pillar on the tomb of Achilles with oil, 

 and ran round it naked, after which he put a crown upon 

 it, exclaiming how happy that hero was in having a Hornet 

 to record his praise* 



