By nature men are nearly alike; by practice they get to be wide apart.
—Confucius.
Confucius, the head of Chinese religious and social philosophy, was born about 551 B.C., and died 478 B.C. He wrote: “Analects,” etc., and is credited with having compiled the “Ancient Poems.” His last work is called “Annals of Lee” or “Spring and Autumn.”
Much knowledge of things divine escapes us through want of faith.
—Heraclitus.
Heraclitus, a renowned Greek philosopher, born in Ephesus, about 535 B.C., died about 475 B.C.
Time as he grows old teaches many lessons.
“Prometheus,” 981,—Æschylus.
Æschylus, the greatest of the Greek dramatists, was born at Eleusis, Attica, 525 B.C., and died at Gela, Sicily, 456 B.C. Of his numerous works only seven tragedies remain, “The Suppliants,” “The Persians,” “The Seven Against Thebes,” “Prometheus Bound,” “Agamemnon,” “Choephori,” and “Eumenides.”
He is gifted with genius who knoweth much by natural talent.