The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1906-08-14

figures of buIIs-the animals beng
equal III form to the best breeds Of
today ON one cup they are being
led 10 the sacrifice, ana on the other
they are bound at the altar
Besides original statues Of renown
aud tine casss Of those which have
been removed. there are many speci-
mems 81 ancient pottery by which one
can trace the rise in artistic taste and
skill. Some of the earliest statues
IN stone ana clay bear striking re
semhianee to those of Egypt.
Second only i'm interest to the
Acropoli3 is Mars hin. a rocky sum
mil tWo-thirds Of the height Of the
Acropolia. Here the ancient court OF
tho Areopagus, composed Of the most
eminent of the AthenianS. held IT'S
sessions. Here under the dome Of
the Sky most important cases were
tried and life ana death hung upon
the decree Of the court. Here, also,
Paul's great speech to the men of
Athens" was delivered, his text be
ing found in the altar erected to the
unknown sod"
Only d little distance from Mars
hill is the stone platform from which
the orators Of Greece addressed the
people. \ level. shelf-like space was
formed near the top Of the hill where
here the citizens listened while the
greatest OF all the public speakers
poured forth his eIoquence. 1t was
worth q trip to Athens to view this
spot where Demosthenes delivered
the oratiOn on the Crown and the
Phillippics which have been the pat
tern set before the student for 2,200
years. In the marshalling of facts, in
the grouping of arguments in the use
OF inVecuVe, ana III the arranging OF
climaXcs, he is still the teacher. Some
one has drawn Il distinction between
cicero and DemostheneS, saying that
when the former spoke the people
said. 'HoW well Cicero speaks
while, when Demosthcnes spoke, they
said, Let us go against PhilIip.' De
mosthenes' style was more convinc-
ing than ornate; his purpose was to
,aroUse. not merely to please, and
from the accounts that have come
down 10 us his delivery was suited
to his language. He. in fact, gave to
action the highest place among the
requisites OF effective speech. We re-
called this saying of DemOsthenes
when We listened to the excited tones
and watched the gesticulations Of the
boatmen who thronged about our
ship in the harbor of Piracus. The
physician who came aboard to exam
inc the passengers gave US even q
though his gestures were more forci-
bic than graceful, possibly because
he addressed himself to the captain
Of the snip instead of to the multi
tude.
ON the shore of the Aegean sea, be-
tween Athens and the harbor, at a
place where Demosthenes may have
tested his voice against the tumuit of
the waves, | gathered some pebbles.
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Identical ones used by him to over
come the impediment in his speech.
but they are at least a reminder Of
the toilsome struggle through which
he passed before his name was known
10 fame.
1t was q Disappointment to find 50
little to mark the site Of the academy
where Socrates ana Plato met their
disciples. These philosophers have
made such an impression upon the
thought of the world that | had hoped
to find some spot clearly identified
as the place where they taught. An
old house stands now on q treeless
tract over which they are said to have
walked in their daily discussions but
>thc grounds, although no wall inclosea
them. 1T is much easier To picture
Demosthenes speaking from the ros-
trum, which still remains. than to
imagine Socrates propounding here
his questions ana celebrating the
method of reasoning to which his
name has been given.
There is an old cemetery within the
limits of the present city where re-
cent excavation has brought to light
numerous tombs ornamentel with
sculpture. Some OF the groups of
statuary and urns have been left
where they We're found, While others
have been given place in the
museum. These are additional proof
of the number of those who handled
the chiSel in the days of Phidias
No spot j.. Identified with Herodo-
tus. the Father of History. or with
Thucydides who, With Herodotus. has
been the instructor of later chronf-
clers Except the remains Of the
theaters there is nothing to recall the
tragedies of Euripides. Aeschylus and
Sophocles. or the comedies of Aristo-
phanes; and no place is pointed out
as the site of the studio of Parasius
or ZueXis. though the lessons which
they taught the WO~ld have not been
forgotten. While the guide does not
pretend to know the house in which
Homer lived or where he wrote his
Geathless songs. the traveller who
passes through the Hellespont can
see the plains of Inflated Troy. and
during his stay in Greece his memory
runs over the heroes Of the Had and
the OdeSsy.
There are no physical evidences OF
| the life work of Lycurgus and SoIon
yet the laws which they promulgated
are the heritage Of mankind. SalamiS
remains, and if the naval battle which
fhemistocles won had had no other