The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1889-03-05

Wnlcn the Ellnu Is hSSOCldICu may DC
shattered by overstraining, and what
has been the best may be corrupted
into the worst. A wonderful genius
may degenerate into an idiot. An
amusing instance Is given by the old
philosopher Seneca, the master, and
afterward the victim, OF Emperor
Nero. He tells us how, ON one &C.
casion. poet wrote long poem.
which he read before distinguished
audience 1t was received with great
applause, but suddenly, TO the aston
ishment of the audience, and TO the
subsequence CONSERVATION OF the
author, man started up and accused
the poor poet of plagiarism, inasmuch
as he had some time before written the
piece which had been greeted with
such well-deserved applause. This
claim was Indignantly denied. till, in
proof of his assertion, the claimant
recited the whole poem by heart, word
for word. without hesitation, and de-
fed the poet 10 do the same. Tins he
was not prepared To do, and the audi
ence decided that the one who knew
-, -, -. -, ut boro hon the
- tin no f,anl,Iv declared that
he had never heard the poem before,
but had learned it by heart while the
noCt read IS. ~ the honOrS were
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= 80. t.... .. "a, sccre witbcut
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,bo .,..n. tint not = VOID of i, escaDed
Tho tou-city of his memory.
Si,. Ropia,ni, Rrodie in his most in
| ,eras,inm ..PsvcboIooicaI Inquiries. -
cites the instance OF the celebrated
Jaspit Suoraz who i said 10 have
known the whole of the works of st.
| AuUustinr bv heart. These consist of
eleven large folio volumes. How far
this i literally true can never be
nroven but Il i stated in the life pre-
fixed 10 his works that If any one ever
misouoted 81. Augustine on any sub
iect OF his writings. Suarez would at
once correct the quotation. and give it
with perfect literal accuracy. The
great thinker Pascal Is said never to
have forgotten any thing lie had ever
known or read. and the same is told of
Hugo. Grotius. Liebritz and Euler.
Both knew the whole of Virgirs
..Fneidr by heart. And we have all
read how the Athenian ThemistOcles
knew the name OF every one of the
twenty thousand citizens of Athens.
The great critic. Joseph Scaliger, is
oroporrcsd nv Sir William Hamilton
10 he the most learned man the world
has ever seen. His knowledge was
certainly DrodiciOus. He used to say
To himself that he had bad memory,
but a rood "Reminiscences: he could
not learn nv heart as fast "a he could
wish. hut when he once knew thing
no co,Id .lw.vs recall II Yet this
GOOD man with his bad memory com.
nl.;ro tbot Il tooly him twantv-one
5ovs 70 learn the whole of Homer by
ihoor,. no had IN devote three months
a. Iaau,,i,~ IN lilo manner the whole
CT, noots and that
- ' ~ 80 Is s,,onandod in GETTING
-, tho rhoIo 81 tho range 81
n;aa,a.Lo~ Andth;s is What ba
lass 90 -, TLo rnoO+ ax.