Looking round us at this hour, more than four-and-twenty centuries after the establishment of the constitution we have just surveyed,--in the labours of the student--in the dreams of the poet--in the aspirations of the artist--in the philosophy of the legislator--we yet behold the imperishable blessings we derive from the liberties of Athens and the institutions of Solon.

The life of Athens became extinct, but her soul transfused itself, immortal and immortalizing, through the world.
XVII.

The penal code of Solon was founded on principles wholly opposite to those of Draco.

The scale of punishment was moderate, though sufficiently severe.

One distinction will suffice to give us an adequate notion of its gradations.