The North-Eastern Weekly Gazette. — 1883-12-29 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

SOCRATES.  (SELECTED.)  iinected with a great man's g. The scholar, the philo, the statesman, the warrior eculiar attractions. In a stircrates united the qualities of .rning of the scholar, the prom of the philosopher, the enlion of the poet, the sagacity and the stratagem and valour It is a remarkable fact that men are great in all things. Lazing, searching, and miscelfor knowledge of all sorts. tins is supplied by numerous ?. Such was the genius of the iocrates.  ind seventy years before the )crates was born of indifferent vas brought up to his fathees tatuary. History mentions )ught by his hand, represent. This pursuit, however, he soon tidy of natural philosophy, in apid progress; but, finding it unsatisfactory that he could sin principles upon such a ions, he turned his thoughts stare of man, and; by diving passions and affections, ento cultivate the heart than rather to regulate the manners ) wit.  ke the rest of his countrymen, tie; he fought with boldness ind when his party was at last it is said of him he did not A measured the ground by :onrage two of his friends and aon and Alcibiades, owed the heir lives. But the character trs more conspicuous and dig. sopher and moralist than as a w to the genius of Socrates s,demy than on the field of nour the sage more than the and doctrines were one convirtue. He was himself the :hat he taught. As to his way was very just, and yet unegan by doubting and asking he sought rather to receive uction, and from the answers irally be made his inferences deniable. By this means he im of dictating, and left to leasure of convincing himself. ions might be most generally ,9„6 always to be found, frely hour the Academy, Lyceum, rainasia, punctually attending •day, the hour of full assembly, ;, without the affectation of ionvivial entertainments of his panying them in the delightful ned the banks of the Ilyssus. Le is no security against malice iry man who dares think for regard to the prevailing notion chose influence is important, s dangerous position. Socrates Atheism, and condemned to , preserved the picture of end. It is touching, melan,ml unaffected; an extraorndeur and sweetness over it slow, but not the deep, dark a twilight tinged with the Aing day. Socrates is in morning of his last day. The hemlock must be taken, for seus, until whose return no executed, is riding upon the a port, its stern crowned with , once of festival and sacrifice. gate of the prison the disciare waiting—a melancholy owful faces, and with heavy while they wait, the magisag Socrates from his bonds. knitted. There are gathered arnful, but not despondent, exh ings of their guide. Socrates it in his bed ; there is a cold, nit the place ; but, notwithis mixed with musical cone the aged man—for he is and ten—stroking the limb :have galled, and in his quiet, dling how the painful have pleasurable emotions, while— tier sons the farewell ray r murder'd sage's latest day. Sol pauses on the hilt ; or of parting lingers still. he bids them bring the poison, s.unted gaze receives the fatal  I minuteness Plato describes all le sudden burst of sorrow; the to and fro in the cell; how when grow heavy he laid himself the numbing potion acted and d and grew cold; the command, Fisted by the Platonist into a ical meaning; the sacrifice to Crito asked, " Hast thou no and the quiet sorrow of what his he made no reply, but after ort time still he moved, and the I, and his eyes grew fixed ; and it, and closed his eyes and  heart grew cold, and the bright red ; but the character of e one of the most glorious olden past. _  'nese brad been accomplished, ng anticipation of an unknown conjectures of the world to man died, lavishing his wisdom g truth that death is only r immortality.  -Jolin Morgan, West End, ;ham, via Darlington.  )F