Did lose his luster: I did hear him groan:
Ay, and that tongue of his that bade the Romans
Mark him and write his speeches in their books,
Alas, it cried, "Give me some drink, Titinius,"
As a sick girl. Ye gods, it doth amaze me
A man of such a feeble temper should

So get the start of the majestic world
And bear the palm alone...

Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world
Like a Colossus, and we petty men

Walk under his huge legs and peep about

To find ourselves dishonorable graves.

Men at some time are masters of their fates:

The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,

But in ourselves, that we are underlings.

Brutus and Cæsar: what should be in that "Cæsar"?
Why should that name be sounded more than yours?
Write them together, yours is as fair a name;

Sound them, it doth become the mouth as well;

Weigh them, it is as heavy; conjure with 'em,
Brutus will start a spirit as soon as Cæsar.
Now, in the names of all the gods at once,

Upon what meat doth this our Cæsar feed,
That he is grown so great? Age, thou art shamed!
Rome, thou hast lost the breed of noble bloods!
When went there by an age, since the great flood,
But it was famed with more than with one man?

When could they say till now, that talked of Rome,
That her wide walls encompassed but one man?

Now is it Rome indeed and room enough,

When there is in it but one only man.

O, you and I have heard our fathers say,

There was a Brutus once, that would have brooked
The eternal devil to keep his state in Rome
As easily as a king.

chafing with lashing the shore as if angry. hearts of controversy: hearts ready to fight against the strength of the river. — arrive: arrive at. In Shakespeare's time the preposition was frequently omitted, as "depart the city." - Ene'as: the son of Anchises. At the burning of Troy Æneas carried off his father upon his shoulders. See the selection, "The Flight of Æneas," Book Six, page 183.—from their color fly: become white. The allusion is to cowardly soldiers fleeing from their colors. — his luster its luster. The neuter possessive pronoun was rarely used in Shakespeare's day. temper: temperament. a Colossus: the Colossus at Rhodes was one of the seven wonders of the world. The story is that the entrance of the harbor of Rhodes was spanned by this huge brass statue, over one hundred feet in height. Hence our word colossal, meaning of great size.— dishonorable lacking honor, unnoticed. our stars: the Romans believed that the stars seen in the sky at the time of a man's birth decided what his destiny was to be. -underlings: inferiors. conjure with 'em ancient conjurers pretended to raise the dead by uttering certain names, name to conjure with.”—the great flood: Greek mythology has a story similar to that of the Hebrew Scriptures. Deucalion was a king in whose reign occurred a great flood, sent to punish men for their impiety. - Rome : pronounced room until within a hundred years. There was a Brutus once : Junius Brutus, the first Roman consul, from whom this Brutus claimed descent. - brooked: tolerated, endured. This comes from an old AngloSaxon word meaning also to digest, which is akin to the evident meaning here, to stomach.

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THE EDUCATION OF THE PEOPLE

WENDELL PHILLIPS

WENDELL PHILLIPS (1811-1884) was a New England reformer and He was famous for his hatred of any kind of oppression, and for his courage in expressing his convictions.

orator.

This address was delivered in Boston on March 10, 1859.

There was a time when it seemed almost providential that our race should have the keen edge of money-loving. We were to conquer the continent. God set us to subdue the wilderness. That function could be discharged only under the keen stimulus of a love of pecuniary and 10 material gain. God gave it to us for that purpose. I never blushed for the Yankee's love for the "Almighty Dollar"; it was no fault in the age of it.

But now, we may say, we have built our London and our Paris, we have finished our Rome and our Vienna, and 15 the time has come to crowd them with art, to flush them

with the hues of painting and fill them with museums of science, and all to create and feed a keen appetite for intellectual culture and progress among the people.

In our libraries, books wear out in using; and no com20 plaint is made anywhere of want of popular interest in any scientific collection. You know not how the taste grows by the feeding. We sometimes forget how the sight of these stores unfolds a taste which the man himself never

dreamed that he possessed. He gazes, and lo! he too is a thinker and a student, instead of a half-wakened brute, born only, as the Roman says, "to consume the fruits of the earth." He no longer merely digs or cumbers the ground, or hangs a dead weight on some braver soul. 5 He thinks-and his spreading pinion lifts his fellows.

The name of Dr. Bowditch, a man eminent in every good work, gives me an illustration pertinent to the occasion. His father was a poor boy, one of those whose early privations and need after-time gathers up with loving and 10 grateful admiration.

It chanced that one of the privateers of Essex County brought in as a prize the extensive library of Dr. Kirwan,

a scientific man. It was given to the public by the generosity of the merchants of Salem, and so became 15 open to young Bowditch. He was left to avail himself at will of this magazine of science. The boy grew into a man; wife and children were about him, and moderate wealth was in his hands.

Laplace published his sublime work, which it is said 201 only twenty men in the world can read. With patient toil, with a brain which that early devotion had made strong, Bowditch mastered its contents and was the first among the twenty to open that great commentary on the works of God to every man who reads the English language, by 25 translating it into our tongue and supplying with adroit and skillful industry the steps by which the humblest

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student in mathematics may follow the giant strides of Laplace.

The expense of publishing a work which so few would buy would take half of his fortune. That life had in part 5 educated, perhaps, his wife to the same high-souled determination which animated him. He said to her, "Shall we give our wealth to this service for posterity? shall we give it to our boys, or spend it in the pleasures of life?" "Publish," was the wife's reply.

He consecrated half his fortune to the service of the future, and left to his children only an education and example. They stand now around us, eminent in every profession, and equally eminent for the same enthusiastic devotion and the same liberality in every good cause. How 15 proud might the state be if, by opening similar libraries and museums, she educated a community of Bowditches, fathers of such children in the generations to come!

Abridged.

the "Almighty Dollar": Washington Irving speaks of "the Almighty Dollar, that great object of universal devotion throughout our land." the Roman: Horace I, 2, 27. - Dr. Bowditch: a famous mathematician. He was born in Salem in 1773, and died in Boston in 1838.- privateers : private vessels sent out in war time against the enemy. The ship here spoken of was the "Pilgrim." In 1781 the books were made the foundation of the Philosophical Library of Salem. - magazine: a place in which supplies are stored. — Laplace: one of the greatest scientists of any age or country. He was the son of a poor French farmer, but worked his way to the front rank as a mathematician and an astronomer. He was a contemporary of Napoleon and had his own dreams of political greatness, but his fame rests entirely upon his scientific work.