...places of Europe for old manuscripts of the classic writers. 12 " If it be true [as has been asserted] that except the blind forces of nature nothing moves in this world which is not Greek in its origin, we are justified in regarding the point of contact between the Greek teacher Chrysoloras and his Florentine...

...Whatever was not Greek was barbarian. "Except," wrote Sir Henry Maine, in a moment of rare enthusiasm, "except the blind forces of nature, nothing moves in this world which is not Greek in its origin." Such was substantially Mr. Arnold's creed, though as his father's son he recognised that Hebraism entered...

...(as Sir Henry Maine puts it in his Rede Lecture, 1875) the faculty of progress which the East lacks. "Except the blind forces of nature, nothing moves in this world which is not Greek in origin." We can only indicate the line of thought, adding that Greece also lacked what the Semitic...

...one small people .... it was given to create the principle of Progress. That people was the Greek. Except the blind forces of Nature, nothing moves in this world which is not Greek in its origin. Sir Henry Sumner Maine. • •»»•II, (iriMhuehe Denker. I. j. Aufl. Einleitung, lle Anfänge deckt...

...ferment spreading from that source has vitalized all the great progressive nations of mankind " ; and " except the blind forces of Nature, nothing moves in this world which is not Greek in its origin." It is interesting also to notice that Macaulay's famous fancy of some future traveler finding only...

...one small people * * * * it was given to create the principle of Progress. That people was the Qreek. Except the blind forces of Nature, nothing moves in this world which is not Qreek in its origin. if I may so call our literature or art, has the Greek influence been a living...

...state of neglect and in advanced stages of decay. Sometimes ' " If it be true [as has been asserted] that except the blind forces of nature nothing moves in this world which is not Greek in its origin, we are justified in regarding the point of contact between the Greek teacher Chrysoloras and his Florentine...

...Maranatha is a Greek adjective qualifying the Greek substantive Anathema. When Sir Henry Maine said that " except the blind forces of Nature, nothing...moves in this world which is not Greek in its origin," he is thought to have forgotten the Christian religion. But he might have replied, if the objection...

...Maranatha is a Greek adjective qualifying the Greek substantive Anathema. When Sir Henry Maine said that " except the blind forces of Nature, nothing...moves in this world which is not Greek in its origin," he is thought to have forgotten the Christian religion. But he might have replied, if the objection...

...represents the principle of appreciation. One may not go so far as does Sir Henry Sumner Maine, in saying that " except the blind forces of nature, nothing...moves in this world which is not Greek in its origin. ' ' 1 But one can without exaggeration say that the literary and aesthetic worth of modern civilization...