What Have the Greeks Done for Modern Civilisation?

· 1919

SANCTÆ MEMORIÆ UXORIS CARISSIMÆ CUJUS DULCI CONSORTIO INGENII SUI PRIMITIAS ABHINC JAM ANNOS XL DEDICAVIT NUNC SERUM LABOREM CONSECRAT AUCTOR These lectures, delivered in Boston at the invitation of the Curator of the Lowell Institute, in December and January, 1908-9, are now published owing to many requests both from those that heard them and from those that did not. They are an attempt to cover the whole field of Greek influence, not only in the various arts in which such influence is generally realised, but also in those departments of thinking in which moderns arrogate to themselves an unquestioned superiority. Yet it will be found, even in the following necessarily brief and popular sk…

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