...handsbreadth of territory, 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.' Such sentiments have little weight or meaning for the world in which we move ; but for this Society...

...follows : " A writer no less sober in his philosophy than eloquent in his language has lately asserted that, ' except the blind forces of nature, nothing...moves in this world which is not Greek in its origin.' "—Revival of Learning, p. 112. The passage quoted is better evidence, certainly, of the writer's...

...of the moral law. Sir Henry Sumner Maine, in speaking of the Hellenic origin of progress, says : " Except the blind forces of Nature, nothing moves in this world which is not Greek in its origin." * If we consider all forms of action not due to reflection and choice as springing * Village Communities...

...been implanted from outside? If it bo an exaggeration at all, it is a splendid one of Sir Henry Maine, that, except the blind forces of nature, nothing moves in this world which is not Greek in its origin. How then is it to bo expected that contact merely political between countries separated by half the,...

...Sir Henry Maine, who was certainly not an impulsive enthusiast, may have gone too far when he wrote that, ' except the blind forces of nature, nothing...moves in this world which is not Greek in its origin.' But it is a hoary platitude that a fewgreat masters of language and of life have uttered in imperishable...

...true, as a writer no less sober in his philosophy than eloquent in his language has lately 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...

...country for any of the other splendid manifestations of its genins. Sir Heury Maine writes : — " Except the blind forces of nature, nothing moves in this world which is not Greek in its origin." Agnin, Ernest Kenan, in that most charming of his works, Souvenirs d' Enfanct et de Jenqesse, says...

...mathematical knowledge, in a word, her intellectual life. — RAWLINSON, Ancient Monarchies, Vol. III., p. 76. Except the blind forces of Nature, nothing moves in this world which is not Greek in its origin. — HENRY SUMNER MAINE. And what in restless seeming balanceth Do ye make steady with enduring thoughts....

...Sir Henry Maine, who was certainly not an impulsive enthusiast, may have gone too fat when he wrote that, ' except the blind forces of nature, nothing...moves in this world which is not Greek in its origin.' But it is a hoary platitude that a few great masters of language and of life have uttered in imperishable...

...came afterwards in Literature and Art. For seven centuries Greek was unknown, and when we consider that "except the blind forces of Nature, nothing moves in this world which is not Greek in its origin," we justly turn with grateful interest to that period which followed upon Dante, whose apostle Petrarch,...