Salad for the solitary and the social: . he average of their race with intellectualstrength; as in the case of Grotius, who, on being asked forhis dying admonition, exclaimed, Be serious!^ All his vastlearning did not allow him to think lightly of the paramountclaims of those things which make for our eternal peace. SirWilliam Jones, one of the most brilliant geniuses that everlived, affords similar evidence of the right estimate of humanlearning, compared with the more important concerns of thefuture world. It matters not, says Johnson, how a mandies, but how he lives. And even sceptical Rous
Salad for the solitary and the social: . he average of their race with intellectualstrength; as in the case of Grotius, who, on being asked forhis dying admonition, exclaimed, Be serious!^ All his vastlearning did not allow him to think lightly of the paramountclaims of those things which make for our eternal peace. SirWilliam Jones, one of the most brilliant geniuses that everlived, affords similar evidence of the right estimate of humanlearning, compared with the more important concerns of thefuture world. It matters not, says Johnson, how a mandies, but how he lives. And even sceptical Rousseau observes: The great error is, placing such an estimate on this life, asif our being depended on it, and we were nothing after attach ourselves but slightly to human affairs, is the bestmethod of learning to die. When Garrick showed Dr. John-son his fine house and gardens, at Hampton Court, instead ofhis replying in the language of fiattery, he exclaimed, Ah!David, David, these are the things which make a
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