Chapter 12

[167-4] God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.

COWLEY: _The Garden, Essay v._

God made the country, and man made the town.

COWPER: _The Task, book i. line 749._

Divina natura dedit agros, ars humana aedificavit urbes (Divine Nature gave the fields, human art built the cities).--VARRO: _De Re Rustica, iii. 1._

[168-1] The vicissitude of things.--STERNE: _Sermon xvi._ GIFFORD: _Contemplation._

[168-2] A wise man is strong; yea, a man of knowledge increaseth strength.--_Proverbs xxiv. 5._

Knowledge is more than equivalent to force.--JOHNSON: _Rasselas, chap. xiii._

[168-3] The bee enclosed and through the amber shown, Seems buried in the juice which was his own.

MARTIAL: _book iv. 32, vi. 15_ (Hay's translation).

I saw a flie within a beade Of amber cleanly buried.

HERRICK: _On a Fly buried in Amber._

Pretty! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, or straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms.

POPE: _Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot, line 169._

[169-1] As in the little, so in the great world, reason will tell you that old age or antiquity is to be accounted by the farther distance from the beginning and the nearer approach to the end,--the times wherein we now live being in propriety of speech the most ancient since the world's creation.--GEORGE HAKEWILL: _An Apologie or Declaration of the Power and Providence of God in the Government of the World. London, 1627._

For as old age is that period of life most remote from infancy, who does not see that old age in this universal man ought not to be sought in the times nearest his birth, but in those most remote from it?--PASCAL: _Preface to the Treatise on Vacuum._

It is worthy of remark that a thought which is often quoted from Francis Bacon occurs in [Giordano] Bruno's "Cena di Cenere," published in 1584: I mean the notion that the later times are more aged than the earlier.--WHEWELL: _Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences, vol. ii. p. 198. London, 1847._

We are Ancients of the earth, And in the morning of the times.

TENNYSON: _The Day Dream._ (_L' Envoi._)

[169-2] The sun, though it passes through dirty places, yet remains as pure as before.--_Advancement of Learning_ (ed. Dewey).

The sun, too, shines into cesspools and is not polluted.--DIOGENES LAERTIUS: _Lib. vi. sect. 63._

Spiritalis enim virtus sacramenti ita est ut lux: etsi per immundos transeat, non inquinatur (The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light: although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted).--SAINT AUGUSTINE: _Works, vol. iii., In Johannis Evang. cap. i. tr. v. sect. 15._

The sun shineth upon the dunghill, and is not corrupted.--LYLY: _Euphues, The Anatomy of Wit_ (Arber's reprint), _p. 43._

The sun reflecting upon the mud of strands and shores is unpolluted in his beam.--TAYLOR: _Holy Living, chap. i. p. 3._

Truth is as impossible to be soiled by any outward touch as the sunbeam.--MILTON: _The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce._

[170-1] Cleanliness is indeed next to godliness.--JOHN WESLEY (quoted): _Journal, Feb. 12, 1772._

According to Dr. A. S. Bettelheim, rabbi, this is found in the Hebrew fathers. He cites Phinehas ben Yair, as follows: "The doctrines of religion are resolved into carefulness; carefulness into vigorousness; vigorousness into guiltlessness; guiltlessness into abstemiousness; abstemiousness into cleanliness; cleanliness into godliness,"--literally, next to godliness.

[170-2] Whose life is a bubble, and in length a span.--BROWNE: _Pastoral ii._

Our life is but a span.--_New England Primer._

[170-3] This line frequently occurs in almost exactly the same shape among the minor poems of the time: "Not to be born, or, being born, to die."--DRUMMOND: _Poems, p. 44._ BISHOP KING: _Poems, etc._ (1657), _p. 145._

[170-4] Tall men are like houses of four stories, wherein commonly the uppermost room is worst furnished.--HOWELL (quoted): _Letter i. book i. sect. ii._ (_1621._)

Often the cockloft is empty in those whom Nature hath built many stories high.--FULLER: _Andronicus, sect. vi. par. 18, 1._

Such as take lodgings in a head That 's to be let unfurnished.

BUTLER: _Hudibras, part i. canto i. line 161._

[171-1] The custom is not altogether obsolete in the U. S. A.

[171-2] Is not old wine wholesomest, old pippins toothsomest, old wood burns brightest, old linen wash whitest? Old soldiers, sweetheart, are surest, and old lovers are soundest.--WEBSTER: _Westward Hoe, act ii. sc. 2._

Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes; they were easiest for his feet.--SELDEN: _Table Talk. Friends._

Old wood to burn! Old wine to drink! Old friends to trust! Old authors to read!--Alonso of Aragon was wont to say in commendation of age, that age appeared to be best in these four things.--MELCHIOR: _Floresta Espanola de Apothegmas o sentencias, etc., ii. 1, 20._

What find you better or more honourable than age? Take the preheminence of it in everything,--in an old friend, in old wine, in an old pedigree.--SHAKERLEY MARMION (1602-1639): _The Antiquary._

I love everything that 's old,--old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.--GOLDSMITH: _She Stoops to Conquer,