The innocents abroad; . gain and reveal themselves to our curious eyes—Plato, Aristotle, Demosthenes, Socrates, Phocion, Pytha-goras, Euclid, Pindar, Xenophon, Herodotus, Praxiteles andPhidias, Zeuxis the painter. What a constellation of cele-brated names ! But more than all, I wished that old Diogenes,groping so patiently with his lantern, searching so zealouslyfor one solitary honest man in all the world, might meanderalong and stumble on our j)arty. I ought not to say it, maybe, but still I suppose he would have put out his light. We left the Parthenon to keep its watch over old Athens, asi
The innocents abroad; . gain and reveal themselves to our curious eyes—Plato, Aristotle, Demosthenes, Socrates, Phocion, Pytha-goras, Euclid, Pindar, Xenophon, Herodotus, Praxiteles andPhidias, Zeuxis the painter. What a constellation of cele-brated names ! But more than all, I wished that old Diogenes,groping so patiently with his lantern, searching so zealouslyfor one solitary honest man in all the world, might meanderalong and stumble on our j)arty. I ought not to say it, maybe, but still I suppose he would have put out his light. We left the Parthenon to keep its watch over old Athens, asit had kept it for twenty-three hundred years, and went andstood outside the walls of the citadel. In the distance was theancient, but still almost perfect Temple of Theseus, and closeby, looking to the west, was the Bema, from whence Demos-thenes thundered his philippics and fired the wavering patri-otism of his countrymen. To the right was Mars Hill, wherethe Areopagus sat in ancient times, and where St. Paul defined. ST. PAULS CEITICISM. 349 Ills position, and below was the market-place where he dis-puted dailj with the gossip-loving Athenians. We climbedthe stone steps St. Paul ascended, and stood in the square-cutplace he stood in, and tried to recollect the Bible account ofthe matter—but for certain reasons, I could not recall thewords. I have found them since : Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was stirred in him,when he saw the city wholly given up to idolatry. Therefore disputed he in the synagogue with the Jews, and with the devoutpersons, and in the market daily with them that met with him. And they took him and brought him unto Areopagus, saying. May we knowwhat this new doctrine whereof thou speakest is ? Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars hill, and said, Te men of Athens, I per-ceive that in all things ye are too superstitious; For as I passed by and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this in-scription : To THE Unknown God. Whom,
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