. St. Nicholas [serial]. SIR EDWIN LANDSEER S PAINTING, DIOGENES AND ALEXANDER. courtesy, and plain-spoken even to would say that he was coarse-grained bynature; but he showed signs of tenderness, andeven refinement, which proved that the grainwas not entirely coarse, and which make uswonder at an age that could produce two menso wise and yet so different as Diogenes, the two make, answer twenty ? For you neithergive with reference to what you are asked for,nor do you answer with reference to the questionput. (Nevertheless, he kept all the figs!) Indeed, pride shone through Diogen
. St. Nicholas [serial]. SIR EDWIN LANDSEER S PAINTING, DIOGENES AND ALEXANDER. courtesy, and plain-spoken even to would say that he was coarse-grained bynature; but he showed signs of tenderness, andeven refinement, which proved that the grainwas not entirely coarse, and which make uswonder at an age that could produce two menso wise and yet so different as Diogenes, the two make, answer twenty ? For you neithergive with reference to what you are asked for,nor do you answer with reference to the questionput. (Nevertheless, he kept all the figs!) Indeed, pride shone through Diogenes rags,and once gave Plato a capital chance for sharp-tongued critic went uninvited one 43° AN OLD-TIME PHILOSOPHER. [Mar. day to Platos house when guests were there,and with dusty feet rudely strode up and downover the rich carpets, saying, Thus do I. \M.) Ills LANTERN. (FRO: trample on the pride of Plato. With quiteas much pride yourself, Diogenes, repliedPlato, undisturbed by the others insolence. Diogenes certainly was rude—unpardonablyrude ; and for this reason, in part, his real mer-its have been dimmed. Perhaps, on the whole, it is more charitable toDiogenes to regard such speeches as a merebit of ill humor. Other sayings are on recordshowing that he had milder moods and a naturekindly at heart, as when he said, One shouldhold out his hand to a friend without closing the fingers, emphasizing the importance offrankness and honesty. To his stern old master, Antisthenes, he be-haved with the kind-ness of a son. In hisyouth Diogenes be-came the disciple ofAntisthenes, who wasthen a celebratedteacher. When he firstapplied, however, hewas refused admittanceto the house. But Di-ogenes was not to beput off, and was so per-sistent that the teachereven struck him withhis staff and bade himbe gone. The would-be pupil, withou
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