600 THE MOUNTAIN. 



and so is revealed the perfection of this beautiful myth. The 

 " sacrifices of Poseidon were the bridled horse, wild boars, 

 and rams, white and black bulls." Antaeus, the son of Posei- 

 don, we thus discover, also represents the side of spirit, (the 

 soul,) as from his mother, the earth, he represents matter, 

 (the body,) and thus represents thee, "oh rich and varied 

 man 1" What have we, then, on the side of spirit, from this 

 son of the earth what has the fable to say on the influences 

 from above ? 



Physicians and philosophers, physiologists and moralists, 

 have, from the most ancient times, been earnest and eloquent 

 in announcing virtue and happiness inseparable, vice and 

 misery constant companions; "golden rules of health," 

 temperance and rectitude; mode of attaining a long life, 

 exercise or work, moderation in all the appetites, and a life 

 in conformity to both man's higher and lower nature. All 

 this is simple as the air we breathe ; simple as the water 

 we drink ; simple as the sleep that bathes us in its life- 

 renewing trance. Charming is the discovery of the unity 

 of thought, the oneness of conviction on this subject, all ad- 

 justed by the finest spiritual gravitation ; and Moses and Hip- 

 pocrates, Socrates and Sydenham, Plato and Hunter, Bacon 

 and Boerhaave, Cornaro and Hufeland, shout the same song, 

 that physical regeneration is only possible through tem- 

 perance and virtue, that absolute rectitude is a certain and 

 invaluable preventive of disease, and that man's life may be 

 much sounder, happier, and longer. Witness their recorded 

 words, many of them embalmed in everlasting sweetness.* 



derstanding truth ; this illumination is from the light of heaven, 

 which is from the Lord, which light is no other than the divine truth. 

 A.C. 5668. 



* Especially is the crowing of the juvenile chanticleer, Ludovico Cor- 

 naro, at 100 years, beautiful, brave, and refreshing. He was a Vene- 

 tian of a patrician family, which gave the republic three doges, besides 

 some females, poetical and learned. He was a dissipated man till he 

 was 40 years old, and, from some accounts, lived to be 104, others 

 giving only 90 years for his life. When near 100, Cornaro composed 

 his celebrated song to sobriety, or a treatise on the "sure and certain 



