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# The Discourses of Epictetus; with the Encheiridion and Fragments/Book 3/Chapter 6

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CHAPTER VI.
miscellaneous.
When some person asked him how it happened that since reason has been more cultivated by the men of the present age, the progress made in former times was greater. In what respect, he answered, has it been more cultivated now, and in what respect was the progress greater then? For in that in which it has now been more cultivated, in that also the progress will now be found. At present it has been cultivated for the purpose of resolving syllogisms, and progress is made. But in former times it was cultivated for the purpose of maintaining the governing faculty in a condition conformable to nature, and progress was made. Do not then mix things which are different, and do not expect, when you are labouring at one thing to make progress in another. But see if any man among us when he is intent upon this, the keeping himself in a state ​conformable to nature and living so always, does not make progress. For you will not find such a man.
The good man is invincible, for he does not enter the contest where he is not stronger. If you (his adversary) want to have his land and all that is on it, take the land; take his slaves, take his magisterial office, take his poor body. But you will not make his desire fail in that which it seeks, nor his aversion fall into that which he would avoid. The only contest into which he enters is that about things which are within the power of his will; how then will he not be invincible?
Some person having asked him what is Common sense, Epictetus replied, As that may be called a certain Common hearing which only distinguishes vocal sounds, and that which distinguishes musical sounds is not Common, but artificial; so there are certain things which men, who are not altogether perverted, see by the common notions which all possess. Such a constitution of the mind is named Common sense.
It is not easy to exhort weak young men ; for neither is it easy to hold (soft) cheese with a hook. But those who have a good natural disposition, even if you try to turn them aside, cling still more to reason. Wherefore Rufus generally attempted to discourage (his pupils), and he used this method as a test of those who had a good natural disposition and those who had not. For it was his habit to say, as a stone, if you cast it upwards, will be brought down to the earth by its own nature, so the man whose mind is naturally good, the more you repel him, the more he turns towards that to which he is naturally inclined.
* ↑ The Greek is κοινος νους, the Communis sensus of the Romans, and our Common sense. Horace (Sat. i. 3, 65) speaks of a man who 'communi sensu plane caret,' one who has not the sense or understanding which is the common property of men.
* ↑ This was a proverb used by Bion, as Diogenes Laertius says. The cheese was new and soft, as the antients used it.
* ↑ Rufus is mentioned i. 1, note 12.
# The Childless Father

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# The Children's Plutarch: Tales of the Greeks

THE
CHILDREN'S PLUTARCH
TALES OF THE GREEKS
BY
F. J. GOULD
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY W. D. HOWELLS
PLUTARCH'S LIVES TOLD IN SIMPLE LANGUAGE WITH A SPECIAL TOPICAL INDEX
ILLUSTRATED BY WALTER CRANE
HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS
NEW YORK AND LONDON
M C M X
Copyright, 1910, by Harper & Brothers
All rights reserved
Published July, 1910. Printed in the United States of America
CONTENTS
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# The Children's Hour

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# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Baillie, Sir George

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​Baillie, Sir George, Bart., eldest son of the late Thomas Baillie, of Toorak, Melbourne, fourth son of Sir William Baillie, 1st Bart., of Polkemmet, Linlithgowshire, by his marriage with Elizabeth, daughter of Captain James Ballingall, R.N., of Melbourne, was born in Victoria on Oct. 20th, 1856. Sir George Baillie, who was educated at the Scotch College, Melbourne, and at Caius College, Cambridge (B.A. 1881), succeeded his uncle, Sir William Baillie, in 1890, the latter dying without issue. Like his father, Sir George is largely interested in squatting pursuits in Australia.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Balfour, Hon. James

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​Balfour, Hon. James, M.L.C., son of John Balfour, a merchant of Leith, was born in 1830 in Edinburgh, and educated at the Edinburgh Academy and the University. After some commercial experience in London, from 1849 to 1852, he went to Melbourne as the representative of Messrs. Matheson, of Lombard Street, to the firm of James Henty & Co. In 1854 he opened a branch house of the latter firm at Geelong. He visited England in 1857-8, resigned his position in Geelong in 1863, and in 1866 entered the Assembly as member for East Bourke. He was for three years one of the Commissioners of Education prior to the organisation of the department under a responsible minister. In 1868 he made another visit to England, prior to which he resigned his seat in the Assembly, and returned to Australia and entered the Legislative Council in 1874, being re-elected for the south-eastern province on Aug. 17th, 1880. He made another trip home in 1878, and on his return established the firm of Balfour, Elliott, & Co., which was made into a limited company in 1887. Mr. Balfour is an old member of the Melbourne Chamber of Commerce, of which he has been President and Vice-President. He acted on the Irrigation and Water Supply, and on the Banking Laws Commissions; is Chairman of the Australian Deposit and Mortgage Bank, Limited, and of the Equitable Assurance Company of the United States, and Vice-Chairman of the Trustees, Executors, and Agency Company, Limited, and is a member of the Council of Ormond College. In 1859 he married Frances Charlotte, eldest daughter of the late Hon. James Henty, M.L.C. Mr. Balfour was a member of the Gillies Government without portfolio from May 1890 till its resignation in November of that year.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Baker, Hon. Ezekiel Alexander

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​Baker, Hon. Ezekiel Alexander, was born in Middlesex, England, in 1823, and emigrated to New South Wales in 1853 as mineralogist to a mining company. In 1870 he was elected to the Legislative Assembly for the Southern Goldfields, and was also a member of the Goldfields Committee. When Mr. Garrett, the Minister of Lands in the Robertson Ministry, resigned his office, in Feb. ​1877, Mr. Baker was appointed to succeed him, but the Government only held office till March. He was appointed Secretary for Mines in the next Robertson Administration, in August of the same year, exchanging that post for the portfolio of Lands in November, and going out of office with his colleagues in December. Mr. Baker was again Minister of Mines in the Parkes Government from Dec. 1878 to August 1881, when he was expelled from the Assembly on a charge of corrupt conduct.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Baker, Hon. Richard Chaffey

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​Baker, Hon. Richard Chaffey, C.M.G., M.L.C., M.A., eldest son of the late John Baker, of Morialta, South Australia, and Isabella (Allan) his wife, was born at North Adelaide in 1841, and educated at Eton, and at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. (Mathematical Tripos) in 1864, and M.A. in 1870. Mr. Baker, who is a member of the legal firm of Baker & Barlow, of Adelaide, became a student at Lincoln's Inn in Jan. 1861, and was called to the bar in June 1864. He entered the Legislative Assembly of South Australia as member for Barossa in 1868, and represented that constituency till 1871. He was Attorney-General in the Ministry of the late Captain Hart from May 1870 to July 1871, when he resigned. He also held office in Mr. Colton's Cabinet as Minister of Justice and Education from June 1884 to June 1886. In the latter year Mr. Baker was sent to England as the representative of the Australian colonies to negotiate with the Imperial Government, in connection with the renewal of the expiring mail contracts. He succeeded in obtaining some important concessions, and was created C.M.G. in 1886, in recognition of his services. Mr. Baker, who has been a member of the Legislative Council since 1877, was elected to act as one of the representatives of South Australia at the Federation Convention in Sydney in March 1891, and distinguished himself by his championship of the state rights of the smaller colonies. He was married at Glenelg, S.A., to Katherine Edith, daughter of Richard Bowen Colley.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Barker, John

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​Barker, John, sometime Clerk of the Parliaments, Victoria, is the eldest son of the late John Barker and Mary Anne, his wife, and was born at Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire. He emigrated to Port Phillip (now Victoria) in 1840, after entering himself for the bar at Lincoln's Inn, and engaged in pastoral pursuits with his brother Edward, afterwards a well-known physician in Melbourne. Revisiting England, he was called to the bar in 1843; and in 1844 married Susanna, daughter of Richard Hodgkinson, of Morton Grange, Nottingham. He returned to Port Phillip in Nov. 1844, accompanied by his brother William (who subsequently practised as a surgeon at Emerald Hill, Melbourne). In the next year he was appointed a magistrate, and in August 1849 was one of the Commissioners under the Disputed Boundaries Act, having the Hamilton district assigned to him. Mr. Barker, who was admitted to the Victorian bar in Nov. 1851, was in October of that year, on the separation of Port Phillip from New South Wales and its formation into the colony of Victoria, appointed Clerk of the Legislative Council then constituted, and ​successfully performed the difficult task of inaugurating its procedure. When responsible government came into operation in 1856, Mr. Barker was offered the choice of the clerkship of the new Upper or Lower Chamber. He accepted the latter, and remained Clerk of the Assembly until April 1882, when he was appointed Clerk of the Legislative Council and Clerk of Parliaments, a post which he resigned in 1891. He died on Nov. 15th of that year.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Bancroft, Joseph

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​Bancroft, Joseph, M.D., M.R.C.S., L.S.A., President of the Medical Board, Queensland, was admitted M.D. of St. Andrews University, M.R.C.S. England, and L.S.A. London in 1859. He practises in Brisbane, and is president of the Medical Board and a member of the Central Board of Health. He has been a trustee of the Queensland Museum since 1876.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Baker, Hon. John

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​Baker, Hon. John, M.L.C., J.P., F.R.G.S., sometime Premier of South Australia, was the eldest son of Richard Chaffey Baker, of Lopen, Somersetshire, and Mary, his wife, daughter of John Anstice, of South Petherton, Somersetshire. He was born at Ilminster, Somerset, England, in Dec 1812. He emigrated to Tasmania in early life, and married on June 7th, 1838, Isabella, second daughter of George Allan, of Allan Vale, Tasmania. In the same year he visited South Australia, where he permanently settled about a year later. Soon after his arrival he concluded an arrangement with the South Australian Company for the importation of ten thousand sheep from Tasmania; and from this time entered largely into pastoral pursuits, and was very successful. Mr. Baker was also concerned in forming a company to import draught horses from England, and bred and trained many successful performers on the turf. He was a director of the Bank of Australasia and of the South Australian Mining Association, and was the first chairman of the Chamber of Commerce on its establishment in 1850. He was also a lieut.-colonel in the South Australian Infantry force, and represented Mount Barker in the mixed Legislative Council from 1851 to 1856. Whilst a member of this body he opposed the abolition of State aid to religion, and supported the proposal for a nominee Upper House—in each case unsuccessfully. When responsible government was inaugurated, in 1857, he was elected to the new Legislative Council, and retained his seat till his death. He was Premier and Chief Secretary for eleven days—viz., from August 21st to Sept. 1st, 1857. The next year he was commissioned by his fellow-colonists to present an address to Her Majesty the Queen on the occasion of the marriage of the Princess Royal, and this he did at a levée at St. James's Palace in March 1859. Shortly afterwards he returned to South Australia, and died at Morialta on May 19th, 1872.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Balfe, John Donellan

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​Balfe, John Donellan, son of James Balfe and Sara Sutherland his wife, daughter of the last Lord Duffus, was born at Sallybrook, Drumcondra, Ireland, in the year 1816. He was educated at Clongoeswood College, near Dublin, conducted by Jesuits, where he received a good classical education. After leaving college he joined the Life Guards, and was stationed at Windsor for two years. He was one of those detailed to escort the Queen on her marriage from Windsor Castle to Buckingham Palace. Mr. Balfe took an active part in the political affairs of Ireland, and became a prominent member of the Repeal Association under O'Connell. He was one of the declaimers at Conciliation Hall, and warmly advocated the redress of Irish grievances. He was also identified with the Irish confederation, but withdrew from the party on finding their schemes were wild and visionary, and could not be attained without a general rising of the peasantry. He was author of a number of letters on the Landlord and Tenant question published in the Dublin Evening Post and signed "An Irish Farmer," and also contributed to a Liverpool journal under the name of "Peter Carroll, Stonemason." In 1850 he married Mary, daughter of Terence O'Reilly of Ballybeg, and shortly afterwards emigrated to Tasmania. Mr. Balfe brought letters of introduction from the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland to Governor Denison, and shortly after his arrival was appointed Assistant Comptroller General of Convicts. After three years he resigned his office, and went to reside on his location at Lisadern, near Port Cygnet, Huon River. He brought himself into notice as the writer of letters signed "Bill Shingle," which called attention to the wants of the Huon district, and also as the author of a series of letters signed "Dion," in opposition ​to the aims of the Anti-Transportation League. On the introduction of responsible government in 1856, he was elected a member of the House of Assembly for the Franklin district. He retained his seat in the Assembly, with the exception of one session, until his death, a period of twenty-four years, representing successively Franklin, South Launceston, and West Hobart. Mr. Balfe's speeches were marked by considerable power of humorous satire, and his ability and force as a debater made him for many years a prominent figure in Tasmanian politics. He was at various periods editor of several Tasmanian newspapers. He died at Hobart on December 13th, 1880. An account of his trial for assaulting Mr. T. G. Gregson was published in Tasmania in 1853.
# The Czechoslovak Review/Volume 2/Miscellaneous (6)

​Five Czech coal miners in Most, Bohemia, were each sentenced to 18 months at hard labor for refusing to go down the shaft on May 22nd.
Unusually late frosts damaged most seriously this year’s crops in Bohemia. The Prague papers state that frosts came as late as the first days of June. In Germany which lies north of Bohemia the damage was even more severe.
Among the resolutins adopted by the annual convention of the American Federation of Labor at St. Paul was one declaring unconditionally for Czechoslovak independence. The resolution was introduced at the request of Typographical Union No. 330, composed of Bohemian typesetters.
German newspapers published a fairly accurate report of the triumphant reception of Professor Masaryk in Chicago. According to them he was welcomed by 250,000 of his countrymen. This report was copied by the Bohemian papers, and while no comment was possible owing to the censorship, one can easily imagine the feelings of elation and the eager gossip with which the report of Masaryk’s royal welcome must have been received in the streets and coffeehouses of Prague.
There is no such thing, there has never been any such thing as Austrian culture. What there was, and still remains of culture properly so-called in Austria, is not Austrian, but Latin or Slavonic, and therefore friendly, and certain to make common cause with us as soon as it has been freed from the grip of the dynastic constabulary of the Hapsburgs.
—M. A . Gerothwohl in the Fortnightly Review.
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# The Czechoslovak Review/Volume 2/Notice

​Readers who have not yet sent in their subscription to the second volume of the Review are requested to do so during this month. The names of those who fail to renew will not go on the July mailing list.
If you have renewed your subscrition, the wrapper will show the new date of expiration.
# The Czechoslovak Review/Volume 2/Miscellaneous (7)

​The question now before the Allies is, shall we join with our Ally Bohemia in aiding Russia in Siberia, or shall we stand off and see the Bolsheviki arm German and Russian prisoners, sweep the Czechoslovaks out of Siberia and turn Russia over to Germany?—Washington Post.
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# The Czechoslovak Review/Volume 2/Miscellaneous (8)

Los Angeles, Calif.
I am feeling very fortunate just now because I have been able to arrange for a Czechoslovak exhibit at the Public Library of Los Angeles. In gathering together the material and in arranging it I have had the hearty co-operation of the members of the National Alliance here and also of the Slovak League. The exhibit is not large but it is naturally exciting much attention and enlightenment on the part of the public.
CLARA WOSTROWSKY WINLOW,
# The Czechoslovak Review/Volume 2/Number 1

January, 1918
PUBLISHED MONTHLY CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
“No lapse of time, no defeat of hopes, seems sufficient to reconcile the Czechs of Bohemia to incorporation with Austria.”
Woodrow Wilson.
10 Cents a Copy.
One Dollar per Year.
Entered as second class matter April 30, 1917, at the Post Office of Chicago, Ill., under Act of Congress of March 3, 1879.
# The Czechoslovak Review/Volume 2/New York World on Charles Pergler

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NEW YORK WORLD ON CHARLES PERGLER.
It has long since become impracticable to keep track of all that is being written about the Czechoslovaks in the American press. We can only attempt now and then to reprint something that may be of special interest to our readers.
The New York World of September 1st has the story of Charles Pergler, written in a bright, clever manner, characteristic of the author, Rowland Thomas. Mr. Pergler is well known to the readers of the Bohemian Review, being the most prominent American worker in the cause of the Czechoslovak independence. It is hardly necessary to reproduce his biography here. We shall only quote a few particularly witty paragraphs.
"The correspondents down in Washington, and the newspaper and magazine men who are on various service with the Committee on Public Information, get excited when they talk about Charles Pergler. They try to impress it on you that this young country lawyer from some place or other in Iowa, who in less than two years has made himself recognized as the storm center and dynamo of the Czechoslovak activities in the United States—who, without previous training or experience finds himself the diplomatic and political and financial representative here of a budding nation of a dozen millions of people—who is working with all the cool foresight of a statesman and the shrewd practicality of a trust builder and the ardor of a prophet to erect in Central Europe a non-Teutonic state which shall end forever the dreams of dominance of Junkers and Hohenzollerns and Hapsburgs—and all this after finding himself, only a score of years ago, the orphaned son of a poor Bohemian immigrant in the stockyards end of Chicago—those correspondents, to take another toe-hold for this sentence, will tell yu that this man is one of the Miracle Men of the War.
Before they are done talking about him, you will get excited yourself.
But does Charles Pergler himself get excited about it? He does not. At least, he did not when I accused him to his face. He just let loose a silent, crooked smile of infinite amusement.
That smile is characteristic and extremely attractive. Everything else about him is very straightforward—gaze, speech, thought, hearing—straight as shooting ought to be. But when he is amused, the left half of his mouth quirks at one elevation and the right half at another.,
So his smile is crooked and attractive. It is as if he saw the ludicrousness of events from two different angles at the same time, and responded doubly and simultaneously. He is like the youngster who sits through two runs of the film. He gets two amusements for only one price of admission. . . .
“And you”, I asked, “what is your ambition?”
“To get back to my office and perhaps, some day, work up my way to a seat in Iowa’s highest court.”
“Rather that than have a share in constructing the new Bohemia?”
Charles Pergler smiles his crooked smile.
“There are plenty of Bohemians to do that work,” he said. “I am an American.”