"Wore  IriBLruclorB  in  our  day  to  recommend  an  imitation  of  this  exam-
ple of"  the  Athenian  orator,  it  would  be  considered  as  ttoitnriyfit  folly.  II
the  rtadeot  of  Divinity  were  told  to  copy  Butler's  Analogy,  iho  student  of
Law,  Illarlvshme'H  Comm6atart&,  thfl  Student  of  Belles  UetfrQS,  htmesor
n,  and  the  student  of  Philosophy,  Paley  or  Locke,  it  would  be  pro-
mmm  nJ  nn  unpardonable  waste  orcimc,  and  a  very  unintelligible  mode  of
improvement"

Undoubtedly  it  would,  and  by  no  man  sooner  than  Demos-
thenes himself,  if  he  had  the  good  fortune  to  live  agnin  "in
our  day."  But  what  earthly  analogy  is  there  between  the  two
cases?  In  that  of  the  Greek  orator,  we  see  a  young  man  pre-
paring himself  for  the  very  hazardous  career  of  a  public  speaker,
in  such  an  assembly  as  we  have  already  described — the  shrewd,
sagaejpn&i  cavilling  hypercritical,  but  most  polished  nod  musi-
cal Athenian  Demus— by  endeavouring  to  acquire  a  perfect  com-
maud  of  his  language — the  great  instrument  by  which  be  was
lo  accomplish  every  thing,  in  order  to  effect  this,  he  not  only
attended  tin- schools  of  ls&us  and  Plato,  but  he  did  what  was
still  better;  lie  selected  the  model  which  he  thought  most  per-
md  traced  its  lineaments  over  and  over  again,  until  he  ac-
quired, or  rather  surpassed,  if  possible,  the  excellencies  of  his
great  master.  Besides,  Mr,  Grimke  does  not  seem  to  be  aware
that  \\\o  Greek  language,  admirable  as  it  was  in  itself— vast  and
various  as  its  powers  had  appeared  in  the  older  poets-  and
much  as  bad  been  done  for  its  prose  by  Plato,  Isocrates,  and
O&ers,  [ka<l  not.  yet  attained  to  its  utmost  perfection —at  least,
f<H  the  purposes  of  popular  declamation:  and  thai  it  was  actu-
ally reserved  fur  Demosthenes,  by  lhe.se  very  studies  which
would,  it  seeme,  be  looked  upon  as  "downright  folly'1  in  ow
day,  to  give  it  iis  lasi  finishing— to  impart  to  it,

lit..-  nil]  mounding  ttoe.
