It is strange how long we have been (forty years
and more) in recognising these simple principles ;
and in Germany, where they were first enunciated,
they are not recognised yet.
CHABACTER OF DEMADES.
(fBOM NIEBT7HB*S LECTVBE8.)
39.
'< T) Y his wit and his talent, and more especially
by his gift as an improvisatore, he rose so
high that he exercised a great influence upon the
people, and sometimes was more popular even than
Demosthenes. With a shamelessness amoimting to
honesty, he bluntly told the people everything he
felt, and what all the populace felt with him.
When hearing such a man, the populace felt at
their ease: he gave them the feeling that they
might be wicked without being disgraced, and this
excites with such people a feeling of gratitude.
