The Archive · 1905

INSPIRING PHILOSOPHY

There is x passage in Marcus Aurelius that used to puzzle mo until I hit upon the solution, A footnote says the meaning is obscure. Myself, I had gathered this before Iread the foot-note, What it is all about I defy any human being to explain. 'The majority of students incline to the latter theory, though a minority maintain th 'a' meaning, if only it red. My own-conviction his life Marcus Aurelius lad a real good.time. He came home feeling pleased with himself wi quite why. 'I will write it down," he said to himself, "now, while it is fresh in my mind." It seemed to him the most wonderful thing that anybody had ever said. Maybe he shed a tear or two, thivking of all the good he.was doing. and later on went suddenly to sleep, In the morning he had forgotten' all about it, and by accident it got mixed up with the {ed without permission.

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