...PRESS. Set up, and published May, 1M8. ETHICS "EXCEPT the blind forces of nature," said Sir Henry Maine, "nothing moves in this world which is not Greek in its origin." And if we ask why this is so, the response comes that the Greek discovered the business of man to be...

...small people it was given to institute the principle of progress. That people was the Greeks. Save the blind forces of nature, nothing moves in this world which is not Greek in its origin." This sounds at first like offensive exaggeration. What can it mean ? It does not mean that the Greeks...

...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. > THE FIRST MODERN UNIVERSITY* WE are very prone to think that our universities represent...

...and not backwards or downwards, of destruction tending to construction. That people was the Greek. Except the blind forces of Nature nothing moves in this world which is not Greek in its origin." Listen to what Shelley says in the Preface to his ' Hellas ': "We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature,...

...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. THE FIRST MODERN UNIVERSITY* WE are very prone to think that our universities represent...

...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. THE FIRST MODERN UNIVERSITY* WE are very prone to think that our universities represent...

...historian of Roman law, was certainly overstating the result of his study of facts when he wrote : " Except the blind forces of Nature, nothing moves in this world which is not Greek." Surely he, of all men, should have been the last to overlook the importance of those elements and factors...

...aim and destiny. INTELLIGENCE AND MORALS1 XCEPT the blind forces of nature," said Sir Henry Maine, " nothing moves in this world which is not Greek in its origin." And if we ask why this is so, the response comes that the Greek discovered the business of man to be...

...Hellenic thought and expression and those of the modern period. Sir Henry Maine's sweeping assertion that, except the blind forces of nature, nothing moves in this world which is not Greek in its origin, would not have received Arnold's assent; for he deplored the prevalence of the Hebraic spirit. In so...

...an sehr vielen Stellen; wir nennen nur ganz beispielsweise S. 235, 287f., 322f., 360f.).—HSMaine: „Except the blind forces of Nature, nothing moves in this world which is not Greek in its origin" (wir entnehmen das Wort Th. Gomperz' „Griechischen Denkern", wo es als Motto verwendet ist; die Quelle...