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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 
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 Callisthencs, (son of Hero,) a 
learned man, but of a morose unaccommodating 
temper, unguarded in his speech, and obstinately 
attached to tho 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, 
be admonished him in a verse of Homer, “ that his 
