 | Roy Balmer Liddy - 1914 - 156 páginas
...that the Greeks were the first to devote themselves to these studies. Sir Henry Sumner Maine has said, "Except the blind forces of Nature, nothing moves in this world which is not Greek in its origin," but such a statement, even if it were intended so, cannot be accepted literally. To the Greeks the... | |
 | Sir William Osler - 1914 - 494 páginas
...To 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 ita origin." MAINE. Quoted in Greek Thinkers by Gomperz. From the lifeless background of an unprogressive... | |
 | Paul Elmer More - 1915 - 266 páginas
...words often quoted, " 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." That is a hard saying, but scarcely exaggerated. Examine the records of our art and our science, our... | |
 | Norman Foerster - 1915 - 406 páginas
...Sumner Maine (1822-1888), an eminent jurist and writer. ciple 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." That is a hard saying, but scarcely exaggerated. Examine the records of our art and our science, our... | |
 | Paul Elmer More - 1915 - 266 páginas
...words often quoted, " 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." That is a hard saying, but scarcely exaggerated. Examine the records of our art and our science, our... | |
 | Paul Elmer More - 1915 - 272 páginas
...words often quoted, " 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." That is a hard saying, but scarcely exaggerated. Examine the records of our art and our science, our... | |
 | 1917 - 688 páginas
...Thinkers: "To 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." The more one studies and thinks with this text in mind the greater the marvel grows, for the Greek... | |
 | William Thompson Sedgwick, Harry Walter Tyler - 1917 - 784 páginas
...historical writer of the early world. — Breasted. CHAPTER III THE BEGINNINGS OF SCIENCE IN GREECE Except the blind forces of Nature nothing moves in this world which is not Greek in its origin. — Sir Henry Sumner Maine. A spirit breathed of old on Greece and gave birth to poets and thinkers.... | |
 | Joseph Kinmont Hart - 1918 - 440 páginas
...through this "escape" of the Greeks from the fixed conditions of life. For this reason it has been said that "except the blind forces of nature, nothing moves in this world which is not Greek in its origin." The Folkways of Old Greece. — We have already seen that all customs and habits change imperceptibly.... | |
 | Joseph Kinmont Hart - 1918 - 440 páginas
...through this "escape" of the Greeks from the fixed conditions of life. For this reason it has been said that "except the blind forces of nature, nothing moves in this world which is not Greek in its origin." The Folkways of Old Greece.— We have already seen that all customs and habits change imperceptibly.... | |
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That people was the Greek. Except the blind forces of Nature, nothing moves in this world which is not Greek in its origin. 
