. Pottery and porcelain, from early times down to the Philadelphia exhibition of 1876 . Fig. ^i.—Etruscan Vase. adoni and glorify it, the Greek man may be said—using our expressiveAmerican phrase—to liave had a good time!—as good as he hasbeen able yet to see in the long history of the race. Knowing as much as we do of the life of the Greek man and the XAXTIPPE AXD SOCHATES. 61. Fig. 53.—Etruscan Vase. Greek woman, need we be surprised tliat the rather sharp-temperedXantippe, wife of that deliglitful vagabond and philosopher, Socrates—he who puzzled the too conscious sophists and pleased the s
. Pottery and porcelain, from early times down to the Philadelphia exhibition of 1876 . Fig. ^i.—Etruscan Vase. adoni and glorify it, the Greek man may be said—using our expressiveAmerican phrase—to liave had a good time!—as good as he hasbeen able yet to see in the long history of the race. Knowing as much as we do of the life of the Greek man and the XAXTIPPE AXD SOCHATES. 61. Fig. 53.—Etruscan Vase. Greek woman, need we be surprised tliat the rather sharp-temperedXantippe, wife of that deliglitful vagabond and philosopher, Socrates—he who puzzled the too conscious sophists and pleased the simpler peo-ple, who loved the true and hated the false; he who lived for wisdomand not for power; who cared much for mind and less for mone}^;who basked in the sunshine of the porticoes and pined in the shadowsof his own house—need we be surprised that this wife of his wasdriven to go forth at times to seek her vagrant lord in the throng ofthe market-place or the excitements of the Academy, and to lead himthence to the place of his wife and children? Need we be surprisedthat her speech was then unmelodious, unconjugal, and that she becamea sport and by-word lor the wicked Avits of that brilliant city ? But with his faults Socrates had the great virtues of serenity andpatience, always in the married man, at least. If the vases had only preserved for u
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