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An
ORATION
Mr. President, and
Gentlemen of the Society,
If when you speak the truth, you say you
lie, you lie; but you say you lie when you
speak the truth--therefore, in speaking the truth,
you lie.
Upon this, Chrysippus wrote six volumes, and
Philetas, by the close application he bestowed up-
on it, died of the consumption.
In modern ages we hear of a man who spent
eight years in rearing a breed of naked sheep; in
extracting sunbeams from cucmbers, and in mak-
ing a marble pincushion.
Others have spent year after year in Hercule-
an labors; and it is now confidently asserted that
they can enumerate with mathmatical certainty
every muscle of a flea; while their wonder-doing
bretheren have discovered an unerring rule, by
which they can ascertain the quantity of blood in
every animalcule in the universe.
MANY, with the wonderful sagacity, have disputed
about the existance of matter, until alas! there
was none to be found. Some have wandered about
in metaphysical darkness until they have lost