Storia do Mogor 85.3

85.3

'Mulla Ji! Master Doctor! The first object of a king or a prince of this world who has sons ought to be to seek out a nurse of good constitution without disease, who, giving the child to suck, should strengthen its feeble limbs. The child, sharing with her milk its nurse's health, will acquire, following the royal expectations, the vigour necessary for a good ruler of the people. But here the anxieties of a king are not at an end; on the contrary, if he has great trouble in choosing a wet-nurse, he must be still more careful in choosing an instructor to teach the young prince, for as the health of the child depends upon the milk, so upon good teaching depends the life of the mind, a thing more to be desired than bodily existence. This is the reason why all emperors, kings, and princes of intelligence have always done their best to obtain good teachers for their sons, knowing well, as they do, that for want of such spiritual milk the son will not retain the paternal qualities, nor be so successful as hoped for by his people. It was thus that Philip, King of Macedonia, urgently entreated the great Aristotle to submit to a life at court and take charge of his son Alexander, who promised to be of good judgment. He so profited by his master's lessons that he ended in being the greatest warrior spoken of in history.