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suits. Cato/ on the other hand, who repre- 

 sented a more effeminate and scheming race, 

 advised the purchase of a country home from 

 a good farmer and judicious house-builder, so 

 that the buyer might be sure of nice culture 

 and equipments,— possibly at a bargain. It 

 illustrates, I think, rather finely, an essential 

 difference between the two races and ages : — 

 the Greek, earnest to make his own brain tell, 

 and the Latin, eager to make as much as he 

 could out of the brains of other people. 



I must say that I like the Greek view best. 

 I never knew of an enthusiast in any pur- 

 suit — whether grape-growing, or literature, 

 or ballooning, or politics,— who did not find 

 his chiefest pleasure in forecasting successes, 

 not yet made, but only dimly conceived of, and 

 ardently struggled for. The more enthusi- 

 asm, the more evidence, I should say, in a gen- 

 eral way, of incompletion and apparent confu- 

 sion. 



Show me a cultivator whose vines are well 

 trained by plumb and line, whose trees are 

 every one planted mathematically in quincunx 



1 1 shall make no apology for the introduction of these 

 two heathen names, since both authors have written cap- 

 itally well on subjects connected with husbandry and ru- 

 ral life. 



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