Marius the Epicurean — volume 1
Marius the Epicurean — volume 1
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And the old Greek who more than any other was now giving form to histhoughts was a very hard master. From Epicurus, from the thunder andlightning of Lucretius--like thunder and lightning some distance off, one might recline to enjoy, in a garden of roses--he had gone back to[128] the writer who was in a certain sense the teacher of both, Heraclitus of Ionia. His difficult book "Concerning Nature" was eventhen rare, for people had long since satisfied themselves by thequotation of certain brilli...ant, isolated, oracles only, out of what wasat best a taxing kind of lore. But the difficulty of the early Greekprose did but spur the curiosity of Marius; the writer, the superiorclearness of whose intellectual view had so sequestered him from othermen, who had had so little joy of that superiority, being avowedlyexacting as to the amount of devout attention he required from thestudent. "The many, " he said, always thus emphasising the differencebetween the many and the few, are "like people heavy with wine, " "ledby children, " "knowing not whither they go;" and yet, "much learningdoth not make wise;" and again, "the ass, after all, would have histhistles rather than fine gold.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
And the old Greek who more than any other was now giving form to histhoughts was a very hard master. From Epicurus, from the thunder andlightning of Lucretius--like thunder and lightning some distance off, one might recline to enjoy, in a garden of roses--he had gone back to[128] the writer who was in a certain sense the teacher of both, Heraclitus of Ionia. His difficult book "Concerning Nature" was eventhen rare, for people had long since satisfied themselves by thequotation of certain brilli...ant, isolated, oracles only, out of what wasat best a taxing kind of lore. But the difficulty of the early Greekprose did but spur the curiosity of Marius; the writer, the superiorclearness of whose intellectual view had so sequestered him from othermen, who had had so little joy of that superiority, being avowedlyexacting as to the amount of devout attention he required from thestudent. "The many, " he said, always thus emphasising the differencebetween the many and the few, are "like people heavy with wine, " "ledby children, " "knowing not whither they go;" and yet, "much learningdoth not make wise;" and again, "the ass, after all, would have histhistles rather than fine gold.
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