A Tendency To Exaggeration Was

The Greek Temple Is The Creation, Par Excellence, Of Mind And Spirit In Equilibrium.

A Word Is No Light Matter. Words Have With Truth Been Called Fossil Poetry, Each, That Is, A Symbol Of A Creative Thought.

Ages Of Faith And Of Unbelief Are Always Said To Mark The Course Of History.

In Every Civilization, Life Grows Easier. Men Grow Lazier In Consequence. We Have A Picture Of What Happened To The Individual Greek. (i Cannot Look At History, Or At Any Human Action, Except As I Look At The Individual.) The Greeks Had Good Food, Good Witty Talk, Pleasant Dinner Parties; And They Were Content. When The Individual Man Had Reached That Condition In Athens, When The Thought Not Of Giving To The State But Of What The State Could Give To Him, Athens' Freedom Was Doomed.

To Rejoice In Life, To Find The World Beautiful ... Was A Mark Of The Greek Spirit.