HYPATIA, New Foes with an Old Face

Download or read book HYPATIA, New Foes with an Old Face written by Charles Kingsley and published by . This book was released on 2014-01-31 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is printed with LARGE fonts for your convenience.Enjoy your reading."She sighed. 'How do you know that they have not come to you, as Critias and Alcibiades did to Socrates, to learn a merely political and mundane virtue? Strange! that men should be content to grovel, and be men, when they might rise to the rank of gods! Ah, my father! That is my bitterest grief! to see those who have been pretending in the morning lecture-room to worship every word of mine as an oracle, lounging in the afternoon round Pelagia's litter; and then at night--for I know that they do it--the dice, and the wine, and worse. That Pallas herself should be conquered every day by Venus Pandemos! That Pelagia should have more power than I! Not that such a creature as that disturbs me: no created thing, I hope, can move my equanimity; but if I could stoop to hate--I should hate her--hate her.'"