Morality of the Greek and lioman Fhiiosophers. oGo 



Experiments which 1 made upon the Carthagena bark, 

 of rather better quaHty than the market generally affords, 

 yielded about one-twelfth, less quinine than the Calisaya ar- 

 rolenda. 



REMARK. 



When the Calisaya bark was first introduced here, it was con- 

 sidered an inferior article, the decision being grounded upon 

 Its external characters, and would not bring its cost in South 

 America; but such is the deception of external appearances, 

 that when submitted to the infallible test of experiment, it 

 was proved to be the best. Specimens of the Calisaya and 

 Loxa barks m- j be procured from Charles Marshall, jun. 

 druggist, of this city. 



G. W. C. 



INTELLIGENCE AND MISCELLANIES. 



I. FOREIG.V. 



■f'creign Literature and Science; extracted anil traualaicJ by ProC. GRisco:jr 



1. Morality of the Greek and Roman Philosophers. — A 

 Latin Discourse obtained the prize in the Academy of 

 Ley den in 1823, on the question, Whether and to what extent 

 the philosophers (Greek and Roman) founded m'^rality upon 

 the existence and attributes of the Divinity? Leyden, 1824. 

 pp. 137. 4to. 



The author dftermined to consult, in his researches, no 

 other than the writers of antiquity, and to cite them only in 

 their original texts. The following is the result of his inves- 

 tigations The ancient Greek poets are not always explicit 

 on the relation between God and man ; and the whole of them 

 wandered in the darkness of polytheism. Nevertheless, they 

 taught the existence of God, and even of an original or su- 

 preme deity— the chastisement of vice, and the recompense 



