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immoderate lust of power the other by teaching 

 to despise this and all similar gratifications. When 

 the one set out on his eastern expedition, the 

 triumphs of which terminated in the course of ten 

 years by his premature death, the other quitted the 

 capital of Macedon, and returned to his beloved 

 Athens, where he spent the remainder of his life 

 (about thirteen years), instructing his disciples, and 

 cultivating, with unabated diligence, the various 

 branches of learning. It has been said that he ac- 

 companied the conqueror in his Asiatic wars ; that 

 he travelled with him over all Persia as far as the 

 land of the Brahmins (India), where he wrote a 

 work on the laws and institutions of two hundred 

 and fifty -five cities ; but this journey is a pure fabri- 

 cation, and we therefore dismiss it without further 

 comment. One circumstance may here be mentioned, 

 as it is the only one that seems to have occasioned 

 any suspicion or dislike between them. On leaving i 

 Alexander, Aristotle, preferring a life of study and 

 retirement, recommended, as a person worthy of ac- 

 companying him in his Persian expedition, his own 

 disciple and nephew Callisthenes, (son of Hero,) a 

 learned man, but of a morose unaccommodating 

 temper, unguarded in his speech, and obstinately 

 attached to the old system of republicanism which 

 Philip had overturned in Greece. His kinsman was 

 aware of his faults, and having observed the unsea- 

 sonable freedom with which he spoke to the king, 

 lie admonished him in a verse of Homer, " that his 



