Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1892-08-15
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hts Death mt rorty-eight Prevented Tim
from Testing ~ for seventy Years.
Sir William Jones, the friend of
DR.. Franklin and of all other good
men, lived only to be forty-eight
years old. But he had constructed
system which he called his "Andro-
meter" by which the life of a man
up to seventy years was carefully
mapped out with a view to his best
education and practical virtues.
Thus from one year old up to ten
the child was to attend to speaking
and pronunciation, spelling, reading
and repeating the grammar of his
own tongue, morals and religion,
natural history with experiments,
dancing, music and drawing. Be
tween ten and fifteen he was to
learn the history of his own country,
Latin and Greek. French and Italian
German in IVA not being regarded
as important. AT fifteen he was to
make translations, write compost
tions in prose and verse, etc., and
from that age up TO twenty was to
study rhetoric and law. history and
mathematics, with logic and decla-
nation thrown in.
From twenty to twenty-five the
andrometer man was to study phi
losophy and politics, ancient oratory,
etc., and at twenty-five begin travels
and cultivate conversation. At thir-
ty he was to enter public life, having
previously made speeches, studied
state affairs and advanced in history,
law and eloquence. Il am fully con-
vinced," he wrote, at tho age of
thirty four, to Lord Althorpe, that
an Englishman's real Importance in
his country will always be in a COM
pound ratio of his virtue, his knowl-
edge and his eloquence, without all of
which qualities little real utility can
result from either of them apart"
He also thought that "a virtuous
and knowing man, who has no nat
ural impediment, may by habit ac-
quire perfect eloquence. Lord Gran
by, however (the famous 'markis'D !,
twill never be eloquent until he is
less modest" And then, in 1777,
while Chatham, Fox and Burke were
all in parliament, Jones grieves that
our senate is dwindled into school
of rhetoric, where men rise to dis
play their abilities rather than to de-
liberate, and wish to be admired
without hoping to convince"
But to go on with our andrometer
At thirtyfve the civil knowledge
is to be mature" and the "elo-
quence perfect" from that age to
forty-five national rights" are de-
Tended, 'the learned protected, the
virtuous assisted, science improved,
fine arts patronized and laws enacted
and supported The andrometer
man, having done all this, at forty
five attends to 1.-The government and
his family education of his children,
firmness as patriot and virtue as @
citizen" the last eliminating at fifty
years. Between fifty and fifty five
he is to compose historical, orator
ical, philosophical political and math-
ematical works, and from fifty-five
to sixty continue former pursuits, y
At sixty he would begin to enjoy
the fruits Of his labors-''a glorious
retirement, an amiable family, uni
versal respect and consciousness of q
virtuous lifc."
| Sir William Jones himself never
got into parliament, nor did he at
tain the fifty years, dying in India
at the age of forty-eight in 1794
But he was vigilant as a magistrate
firm as a patriot and virtuous as 6
citizen, and he composed most of the
works he mentioned. Indeed, ''beine
made perfect in short time, he full
filled long time" He was moi
without the Englishman's desire fol
money, and said by the time he was
twenty-eight he hoped to be worth
EGO, 900 by the practice of the law
He had accumulated much more
than this at forty-eight, besides 6
great deal of renown. But / do moi
see any pounds, shillings or pence il
the andrometer. Boston Advertiser