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Show Prince of Pessimists. The "Weeping Philosopher" was Heraclltus, a Greek sage and naturalist, natural-ist, who lived In Ephesus about 500 B. C. He was so called because of his solemn bearing, the gloomy views he took of human life, and his frequent fre-quent lament over the folly of mankind. man-kind. "The Laughing Philosopher" was a name given to the Greek sage, Dem-ocrltus Dem-ocrltus of Ahdera, In Thrace,- who lived between 400 and 357 B. C, because be-cause of his satire at the expense of the human race. He showed much flippancy flip-pancy in discussing human life and viewed with supreme contempt the aspirations of man. This ancient philosopher advanced the theory of the formation of the universe by atoms In motion, which was later developed by Epicurus and Lucretius. |