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CHAPTER
XI. page 8
Quinctilian advised his pupils to avoid all sterile amusements,
which, he said, were only the resource of the ignorant.
In after-times men of merit, such as John Huss and Cardinal
Cajetan, bewailed both the time lost in the most innocent games,
and the disastrous passions which are thereby excited. Montaigne
calls chess a stupid and childish game. `I hate and shun it,' he
says, `because it occupies one too seriously; I am ashamed of
giving it the attention which would be sufficient for some useful
purpose.' King James I., the British Solomon, forbade chess to
his son, in the famous book of royal instruction which he wrote
for him.
As to the plea of `filling up time,' Addison has made some very
pertinent observations:--`Whether any kind of gaming has ever
thus much to say for itself, I shall not determine; but I think
it is very wonderful to see persons of the best sense passing
away a dozen hours together in shuffling and dividing a pack of
cards, with no other conversation but what is made up of a
few game-phrases, and no other ideas but those of black or red
spots ranged together in different figures. Would not a man
laugh to hear any one of his species complaining that life is
short?'
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