THE GIRDLE OF APHRODITE THE ARTS IN GREECE THE LETTERS OF ALCIPHRON (_May, 1923_) THE LOVER’S HANDBOOK (_in preparation_) There is a question sometimes put to scholars, a doubt often latent in scholars’ minds—How was it that Greek civilisation, with all its high ideals and achievements, fell so easily before what seems at first sight an altogether inferior culture? The difficulty is not solved by a reference to military resources or administrative skill, for moral strength is the only thing that matters in history, and a nation has never yet succeeded merely by pure intellect or by brute force. The fact is—and it is as well to state it plainly—that the Greek world perished from one main cau…
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