WISDOM PERSECUTED 
 
 
stages of his wooing of Madame Win- 
throp. One extract must suffice. 
   "I think i repeated again that I would go 
 home and bewail my rashness in making more 
 haste than good speed. I would endeavor to 
 contain myself and not go, on to solicit her to do 
 that which she could not consent to. Took 
 leave of her. As came down the steps, she bid 
 me have a care. Treated me courteously. Told 
 her she had entered the fourth year of her 
 widowhood. I had given her the newsletter 
 before. I did not bid her draw off her glove as 
 sometime I had done. Her dress was not so 
 clean as sometime it had been. Jehovah jireh!" 
 -Sewall Papers (173-). 
 
   Wisdom (Honor paid to). 
   ANACHARSIS went from Scythia to Athens 
 to see Solon.-i2lian, De Varia Historia, v. 
   APOLLONIOS TYANXUS (Cappadocia) trav- 
 elled through Scythia and into India as 
 far as the river Phison to see Hierarchus. 
 -Philostr~qtos, Life of Apollonios. 
   BEN JONSON, in 1619, travelled on foot 
from London to Scotland merely to see 
W. Drummond, the Scotch poet, whose 
genius he admired. 
  Livy went from the confines of Spain 
to Rome to hold converse with the learned 
men of that city.-.Pliny the Younger, 
Epistle, iii. 2. 
  PLATO travelled from Athens to Egypt 
to see the wise men or magi, and to visit 
Archytas of Tarentum, inventor of several 
automatons, as the flying pigeon, and of 
numerous mechanical instruments, as the 
screw and crane. 
  PYTHAGORAS went from Italy to Egypt 
to visit the vaticinators of Memphis.- 
Porphyry, Lý1' of Pythagoras. 
  SHEBA (The queen of) went from "the 
uttermost parts of the earth" to hear and 
see Solomon, whose wisdom and greatness 
had reached her ear. 
 
  Wisdom Persecuted. 
  ANAXAGORAS of Clazominva held opinions 
 
 
in natural science so far in advance of 
his age that he was accused of impiety, 
cast into prison, and condemned to death. 
It was with great difficulty that Pericles 
got the sentence commuted to fine and 
banishment. 
   AvERuois, the Arabian philosopher, was 
 denounced as a heretic, and degraded, in 
 the twelfth Christian century (died 1226). 
   BACON (Friar) was excommunicated and 
 imprisoned for diabolical knowledge, chief- 
 ly on account of his chemical researches 
 (1214-1294). 
   BRUNO (Giordano) was burnt alive for 
 maintaining that matter is the mother of 
 all things (1550-1600). 
   CROSSE    (Andrew), electrician, was 
 shunned as a profane man, because he 
 asserted that certain minute animals of 
 the genus Acarus had been developed by 
 him out of inorganic elements (1784- 
 1855). 
   DEE (Dr. John) had his house broken 
 into by a mob, and all his valuable library, 
 museum, and mathematical instruments 
 destroyed, because he was so wise that 
 "he must have been allied with the devil" 
 (1527-1608). 
 FEARGiL. (See " Virgilius.") 
 GALILEO was imprisoned by the Inquisi- 
 tion for daring to believe that the earth 
 moved round the sun and not the sun 
 round the earth. In order to get his lib- 
 erty, he was obliged to "abjure the her- 
 esy ;" but as the door closed he muttered, 
 E pur si muove (" But it does move, 
 though "), 1564-1642). 
 GERBERT, who introduced algebra into 
 Christendom, was accused of dealing in 
 the black arts, and was shunned as a "son 
 of Belial." 
 GROSTmD or GROSSETESTE, bishop of 
 Lincoln, author of some two hundred 
works, was accused of dealing in the black 
arts, and the pope wrote a letter to Henry 
 
 
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