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THE GREEK PHILOSOPHY.421eastern side, and on the model of that of Plato.Attached to this museum were a portico, a hallwith seats, one seat especially for the lecturingfessor, a garden, and a walk, together witha residence,appropriated to theteacher and the rocess of instruction.75 WhAristotle died in the year 322 B.C., his friendTheophrastus presided over his school uringe and thirty years, and the line continued on.We learn that there were periodical meetings, convivialand conversational, among the members bothof the Academic and Peripatetic schools, and lawsfor their regulation established by Xenocrates andAristotle. It was in the shady walks of his gardenthat this great philosopher taught by word of mouththe choicer circle of his disciles: for the moregeneral hearers he gave lectures sitting.76 Hisinstructions were divided into two classes, thosewhich he gave on rhetoric, the art of discussion,knowledge of civil matters, and suchlike, whichwere exoteric, and those which touched the finerand more subtle *points of philosophy, which weretermed acroatic, as addressed to the ears.77 Again,his dialogues he called "public" or " issued" discourses,things made over 4 to the general public, indistinction from what was not so disclosed, but reservedfor the philosopher's own meditation, to besubsequently communicated either by oral lecture75 Grote, Plato, i. p. 138. 76 Ueberweg, i. p. 140, from Diogenes.77 Aulus Gellius, N. A. xx. 5, quoted by Ueberweg.