tailieunhanh - The Legacy of GREECE

In spite of many differences, no age has had closer affinities with Ancient Greece than our own; none has based its deeper life so largely on ideals which the Greeks brought into the world. History does not repeat itself. Yet, if the twentieth century searched through the past for its nearest spiritual kin, it is in the fifth and following centuries before | The Legacy of GREECE Essays by Gilbert Murray W. R. Inge J. BURNET Sir T. L. Heath D Arcy W. Thompson Charles Singer R. W. Livingston a. Toynbee a. E. Zimmern PERCY Gardner Sir Reginald Blomfield Edited by R. W. LIVINGSTONE OXFORD AT THE CLARENDON PRESS PRINTED IN ENGLAND AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS OXFORD BY JOHN JOHNSON PRINTER TO THE UNIVERSITY Transcriber s Note Short fragments of Greek text have a thin dotted blue underline. The transliterated version appears in a transient pop-up box when the mouse hovers over the words. Longer Greek phrases and poems are followed by the transliterated version in braces. In spite of many differences no age has had closer affinities with Ancient Greece than our own none has based its deeper life so largely on ideals which the Greeks brought into the world. History does not repeat itself. Yet if the twentieth century searched through the past for its nearest spiritual kin it is in the fifth and following centuries before Christ that they would be found. Again and again as we study Greek thought and literature behind the veil woven by time and distance the face that meets us is our own younger with fewer lines and wrinkles on its features and with more definite and deliberate purpose in its eyes. For these reasons we are to-day in a position as no other age has been to understand Ancient Greece to learn the lessons it teaches and in studying the ideals and fortunes of men with whom we have so much in common to gain a fuller power of understanding and estimating our own. This book the first of its kind in English aims at giving some idea of what the world owes to Greece in various realms of the spirit and the intellect and of what it can still learn from her. The Editor. October 1921. ix CONTENTS PAGE THE VALUE OF GREECE TO THE FUTURE OF THE WORLD. By Gilbert Murray . Regius Professor of Greek in the University of Oxford . RELIGION. By W. R. Inge . Dean of St. Paul s25 . PHILOSOPHY. By J. Burnett . Professor of Greek in