...calculus of probability during the centuries immediately preceding the period now under discussion. "Except the blind forces of Nature, nothing moves in this world which is not Greek in its origin." 1 To Aristotle, then, we must look for the first systematic account of the part played in the universe...

...Journal of Religion; The Personalist; The Dial. CHAPTER IX GREEK PHILOSOPHY PRICE TO PLATO "Except for the blind forces of nature, nothing moves in this world •which is not Greek in its origin." — Sir Henry Vane. 1. The Greek Environment. The saying just quoted expresses without much exaggeration...

...they attract, the chainless mind of man ? They might remark perhaps, as at least another has remarked, that except the blind forces of nature nothing moves in this world which is not Greek in its origin ; that a few great masters of language and of life have uttered in imperishable words truths which...

...reasonably definite. Our main ideas, our philosophy, and our science derive from classical antiquity for " except the blind forces of nature, nothing moves in this world which is not Greek in its origin." Our art is part of the general European culture. The vast bulk of our literature is the same. Our faith...

...laying of the foundations of modern science and the cultivation of the scientific attitude of mind. 'Except the blind forces of nature nothing moves in this world which is not Greek in its origin,' says Sir Henry Sumner Maine. And Poincaire, one of the most accomplished scientific men of our time,...

..."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." " A privileged people," " prodigal sons," " children of the gods " ; so Caro-Delvaille speaks of the...

...they attract, the chainless mind of man ? They might remark perhaps, as at least another has remarked, that except the blind forces of nature nothing moves in this world which is not Greek in its origin ; that a few great masters of language and of life have uttered in imperishable words truths which...

...Continent, are indebted directly and indirectly to Greece and Rome. If it be true that " Except for the blind forces of nature, nothing moves in this world which is not Greek in its origin," it is also true that Rome interpreted the architecture of Greece in such a way as to make it suitable...

...the Ten Commandments came from the Holy Land; how near Sir Henry Maine was right when he declared, " Except the blind forces of Nature, nothing moves in this world which was not Greek in its origin." We aimed to show what cultured contributions were made by Rome; the Teutonic...

..." 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." His interest in Greek thought and philosophy steadily increased, and at the last he was honored by...