All persons had plenty of opportunities of knowing him, as they had of knowing the Bible without knowing Hebrew. Socrates was born about 470 b. c. , and died about 400 years before Christ. He was a practical philosopher and a moral missionary. As to his method of living, how he made his bread, there was little known. It might be said that he lived in a very mean and shabby way ; yet he was respected by the Athenians. He was a married man, and learned philosophy in the most prac tical way perhaps — by keeping his temper, and living in the same house with a wife who could not keep her temper ; and which was about the best way of studying philosophy.— (Great laughter.) He was a subtle logician and a great humourist, and, as the reviewers said of him (Pro fessor Blackie), a most incorrigible talker. —(Great laughter.) The learned gentle man next proceeded to speak of the doc trine of Socrates, who, he said, had to contend against physical science and Soph ism. Socrates professed moral science, which was very important for the present age, whatever Thomas Buckle and Ro bertjLowe might say to the contrary. — (Great laughter.) If some of our poli ticians had had a little more moral philo sophy than they had, the people would have had a very different kind of Reform Bill to what they had recently. — (Laughter.) He (Professor Blackie) called the ballet- boxes bribes for sneaking and for cowardice. — Laughter.) But he would let that pass.— (Renewed laughter.) The thing was done, and it would do no harm. It was a mere device to please those fellows who were always seeking for something more — anything to prove that they were not Tories — (Great laughter.) There could be no doubt, he thought, that moral philosophy was the soul of all law and of all philosophy. Sophists were the class of men with whom Socrates had to battle, and with whom he did battle and spent his whole life in an tagonism to them. 