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gest results. Cato,* on the other hand, who rep- 

 resented 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 pursuit, whether 

 grape-growing, or literature, or ballooning, or poli- 

 tics, who did not find his chiefest pleasure in fore- 

 casting successes, not yet made, but only dimly con- 

 ceived of, and ardently struggled for. The more 

 enthusiasm, the more evidence, I should say, in a 

 general way, of incompletion and apparent confusion. 



Show me a cultivator whose vines are well 

 trained by plumb and line, whose trees are every one 

 planted mathematically in quincunx order, whose 

 dwarfs are all clipped and braced after the best pyra- 

 midal pattern, and I feel somehow that he is a fash- 

 ionist, that he reposes upon certain formulas beyond 



* I shall make no apology for the introduction of these two 

 heathen names, since both authors have written capitally well on 

 subjects connected with husbandry and rural life. 



