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Show L " ALL ABOUT THE PHILOSOPHER Short Essay Evidently Written by One Familiar With This Species of Animal. A philosopher is a man, and rarely a womaa, who, having nothing to do and being glad of it, puts in his time explaining the reason that other people peo-ple should have for doing things. Philosophers are no popular because, be-cause, in the first place, most men are too busy to listen to them, and, in the second place, they are satisfied with Jheir own reason for doing things. Nevertheless, philosophers are wont to gravitate toward comfortable stoves In corner groceries, where men of varying leisures straggle in and towards to-wards comfortable chairs in universities universi-ties where helpless youth are compelled com-pelled to listen as a part of an awful punishment called a curriculum. Whenever a philosopher "becomes famous, fa-mous, it always turns out that he is not a philosopher at all, hut a scientist. scient-ist. Simon pure philosophers never give information, because nothing less than explaining the unknowable will Batisfy them. One philosopher will never agree with another philosopher If he can possibly help it. Life. |