...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,...

...infinite as regards their power." An earnest advocate for the Greek (Sir Henry S umner Maine) says, "Except the blind forces of nature, nothing moves in this world which is not Greek in its origin." "What is every modern language but a trumpet to sound to the ends of the earth the fame of the one...

...To one small people ... it was given to create the principle pi 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 MA1NE. GREEK THINKERS. INTRODUCTION. ALL beginnings are obscure, whether owing...

...writer no less sober in his philosophy than eloquent in his language has lately asserted that, 1except the blind forces of nature, nothing moves in this world which is not Greek in its origin.." — Rental of Learning, p. 112. The passage quoted is better evidence, certainly, of the writer's eloquence...

...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...

...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." MAINE. Quoted in Greek Thinkers by Gomperz. From the lifeless background of an unprogressive world...

...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...

...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." MAINE. Quoted in Greek Thinkers by Gomperz. From the lifeless background of an unprogressive world...