Category: Philosophy & Ethics
Reader, in imagination go backward with me more than 20 centuries. Enter with me the magnificent and imposing Temple of Fortuna, in old Præneste. We are within the portico of that stately hemicycle. Far above is the marble dome, and about us cluster the snowy columns. As it is...
For ages, mankind were believers in magic. One of the phases was Exorcism, or a pretended exercise of supernatural power, through certain words of magic import. “Healing words,”...
2. CHAPTER II.In mediæval romance the Alchemist is a familiar figure--with flowing robe and skull-cap, in the midst of crucibles and alembics. This period of the world did not present a featu...
3. CHAPTER III.On one occasion, an aged scholar soliloquized as follows: “Homer was at the same time beggar and poet: his mouth more often filled with verses than with bread. Plautus turned a...
5. CHAPTER V.Expressive was the coronation ceremony in the ancient Dukedom of Carinthia. The ducal candidate, in a peasant’s garb, and with head proudly erect, walked towards the marble thro...
1. CHAPTER I.Reader, in imagination go backward with me more than 20 centuries. Enter with me the magnificent and imposing Temple of Fortuna, in old Præneste. We are within the portico of th...